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Film festivals greet spring

Spring is here, and that means the return of three annual film festivals in the country. Green Film Festival, International Women’s Film Festival, and Jeonju International Film Festival are all arr...

Updated : 2013.04.19 20:54

Box Office: A Song for You, Oblivion, Fist of Legend

A Song for You Opened April 18 Comedy. Drama. Music. Directed by Paul Andrew Williams Shy, grumpy pensioner Arthur (Terence Stamp) gets dragged into an unconventional local choir by his cancer pat...

Updated : 2013.04.19 20:44

A beautiful look at a devastated future

Beech (Morgan Freeman, left) gives orders to Kara (Zoe Bell, center) and Sykes (Nikolaj Koster-Waldau) in Oblivion, an original and groundbreaking cinematic event from the visionary director of “TRO...

Updated : 2013.04.19 20:42

Triumph of ‘Jiseul’ continues

After sweeping international film awards and hitting the 100,000-viewer mark last week, director O Muel’s independent film about the 1948 Jeju Massacre continues to attract audiences, earning additi...

Updated : 2013.04.18 09:46

Korean film included in Cannes’ shorts competition lineup

A Korean short film is heading to the upcoming Cannes International Film Festival. Director Moon Byoung-gon’s short “Safe” has been included in the lineup of the competition of short films, to vi...

Updated : 2013.04.17 20:14

Actor Kim Soo-hyun returns to screen as a goofy N.K. spy

The first teaser trailer for the Korean movie “Eunmilhage, Widaehagae (Discreetly, Greatly)" starring Kim Soo-hyun was unveiled on Wednesday. The 30-second trailer showed the hallyu star as a fierc...

Updated : 2013.04.17 17:04

Korea promises better working conditions for film workers

From as early as June, domestic film crews will be able to join social insurance policies, and receive a “standardized” payroll and technical training. Companies that do not abide by the guidelines ...

Updated : 2013.04.16 19:44

Bae Doo-na stars in new film by Wachowski siblings

(Chung Hee-cho/The Korea Herald) South Korean actress Bae Doo-na has joined the cast of Lana and Andy Wachowski’s upcoming sci-fi movie, “Jupiter Ascending.” In an interview with a local magazin...

Updated : 2013.04.16 16:46

Hollywood buys rights to remake ‘New World’

A scene from “New World.” (NEW) Korean gangster film “New World” will have a Hollywood remake, according to the film’s Korean distributor Next Entertainment World. NEW said it recently signed ...

Updated : 2013.04.15 19:48

Police thriller ‘Cold War’ heats up Hong Kong Film Awards

HONG KONG (AFP) ― Police action thriller “Cold War” swept the Hong Kong Film Awards on Saturday, carrying off nine prizes including the best actor gong for veteran star Tony Leung Ka-fai. The fil...

Updated : 2013.04.14 19:34

Box Office: Norigae, Fist of Legend, Broken City

Opening April 18 Drama. Directed by Choi Seung-ho. The beautiful young actress Jung Ji-hae (Min Ji-hyeon) dies and the media rails against the sexual bribery rampant in the entertainment industry. W...

Updated : 2013.04.12 21:36

‘42’ takes on an epic and epochal story and doesn’t blow it

Earnest, righteous, historically accurate and often entertaining, writer-director Brian Helgeland’s “42” is pretty much all you could hope for in a Jackie Robinson film biography. Minus the excit...

Updated : 2013.04.12 21:33

‘Amelie’ actress Tautou to host Cannes opening, closing ceremonies

Audrey Tautou (Yonhap News) PARIS (AFP) ― French actress Audrey Tautou, best known for the 2001 film “Amelie,” will host the opening and closing ceremonies of the Cannes Film Festival next month,...

Updated : 2013.04.10 19:49

Fans get early look at ‘Elysium’ footage

LOS ANGELES (AP) ― The year is 2154, and Earth belongs to the poor. The wealthiest citizens live on “Elysium,’’ an idyllic, disease-free utopia they built in space. On Monday, a few hundred film fan...

Updated : 2013.04.09 19:27

Late-night network shows still a white men’s club

LOS ANGELES (AP) ― The role of female talk show hosts in late-night TV broadcast network history, all 50-plus years of it, can be summed up in two words: Joan Rivers. It takes just another two ―Ars...

Updated : 2013.04.07 19:08