PIPELINE Flows Overseas with 12 Sales Deals

Yoo Ha Heist Film with Seo Inguk Sold to AmericaFollowing its domestic theatrical release in May, the new heist film Pipeline is getting ready to meet international audiences after scoring a raft of distribution deals. Sales agent Finecut announced that the fi...

Director YOO Ha Has a New Project in the PIPELINE

A Dirty Carnival (2006) director YOO Ha is back in the director’s chair for the upcoming crime film Pipeline (literal title), which began filming in late July and will mark his eighth feature-length film. The project will feature young stars such as SEO In-guk...

LEE Na-young Chooses Indie Title for Comeback Role

Actress LEE Na-young is set to return to screens after a six year hiatus as she has signed on to star in the independent title Beautiful Days. The film, which is the fiction feature debut of Jero YUN, will go before cameras in October before finding its way to...

LEE Min-ho’s BOUNTY HUNTERS Targets China Box Office

$17 Million Opening Weekend for Action-Comedy Bounty Hunters, a new Chinese film featuring Korean superstar LEE Min-ho in the lead role, made waves during its debut at the Middle Kingdom box office in early July. Opening on July 1st, the film grossed USD 17.3...

JUNG Woo-sung Joins ZO In-sung on THE KING

THE FACE READER’s HAN Jae-rim Returns to Director’s Chair Top stars JUNG Woo-sung and ZO In-sung are set to appear in new thriller The King, the fourth directorial outing of HAN Jae-rim. The tale will follow a lawyer (ZO In-sung) who uses a colleague and gang...

Stockholm IFF Takes 5 from Korea

Eclectic Korean Fare on Show in Sweden The Stockholm International Film Festival will host five films from Korea when its 26th edition takes place from November 11th to the 22nd. Four feature titles from the Far East filmmaking powerhouse will be found in the...

Korean Quintet among Early Sitges Announcements

THE ROYAL TAILOR to Close New Visions Section The Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia has unveiled part of its lineup for next month’s 48th edition, and among the announcements were five Korean films hailing from the country’s commercial...

GANGNAM BLUES to Release in Japan

>Well-attended Previews in Yokohama Raise Expectations Director YOO Ha's noir Gangnam Blues is set for an October release in Japan. Gangnam Blues hit screens in Korea on January 21st, and has managed 2.19 million admissions since then. Though the scor...

Udine’s Top Award Goes to ODE TO MY FATHER

Majority of Awards Swept Up by Korean Films At the 17th Udine Far East Film Festival, which took place from April 23 until May 2 in Udine, Italy, JK YOUN’s Ode to My Father was awarded the top prize. Staged by the Centro Espressioni Cinematografiche (C.E.C.), ...

17th Far East Film Festival to Screen 10 Korean Films

5 International Premieres in Udine The Far East Film Festival returns in two weeks for its 17th edition and as always a large contingent of Korean films is peppered across the lineup. 10 films from the peninsula will screen this year, among them five internat...