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'Seven Days': Fast and Furious (Source)
Complex thrillers lead the pack in annual film awards (Source)
"Seven Days" to be remade in Hollywood (Source)
The dark side of the script (Source)
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Synopsis
PARK Young-sun, a college professor, meets In-jeong, one of the prettiest students in his class, by chance at an audition for a big musical project. A reckless womanizer, he asks In-jeong to take a ride with him. They drive to a riverside and he attempts to become intimate. However, to his surprise, In-jeong declines his advances, and runs away. While waiting for her to return, Young-sun encounters a group of cruel and brutal youths who may have killed In-jeong.
International Film Festivals
Grand Prizewinner of KOFIC Script Contest 2004
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 A slick, Hollywood-style thriller will satisfy Kim Yoon-jin fans
Kyu Hyun Kim (qhyunkim)
A hotshot defense lawyer Yu Ji-yeon (Kim Yoon-jin, TV's "Lost") learns to her horror that someone has kidnapped her daughter. Instead of a ransom, the kidnapper demands that Ji-yeon defend a vicious rapist-murderer to an acquittal at an upcoming trial. She has only seven days to locate her daughter, or, conversely, prove that the prosecuted murderer is innocent.
The only help around is her thuggish cop friend (Park Hee-soon, "Boss X File", "Antarctic Journal"), while a corrupt prosecuting attorney (Jeong Dong-hwan) and the victim's headstrong mother (Kim Mi-sook, "Marathon") stand in her way.
"Seven Days" turned out to be the biggest box office draw in the fourth quarter of 2007 in Korea, enthusiastically embraced by the moviegoers, even though critical reaction was more ambivalent. The film's MTV-on-speed editing style and narrative rhythm received some criticism, but I don't feel like...| More |
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The biggest event in the Korean film industry is back.
On June 27, the 45th Daejong Film Awards will take place at COEX, southern Seoul. This year one of the Korean films under the spotlight is "The Chaser", a film about a serial murderer.
The film drew audiences of more than 5 million, and as of April it is the most successful Korean film of 2008, according to the Korean Film Council.
"Forever the Moment" trailed behind "The Chaser" with over 4 million viewers.
"The Chaser" currently is nominated in 11 categories, hoping to win the hearts of film critics as well.
This year thrillers are garnering the most interest in Chungmuro, Korea's Hollywood.
Currently the top three films on the most nominated lists are from this genre.
"Seven Days", a thriller about a child who gets kidnapped, is second in the number of nominations.
The film is nominated in all 10 categories. "Shadows in the Palace", a thriller that takes place within the palace of the Joseon Dynasty, is n...| More |
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Korean distributor Prime Entertainment has sold remake rights to the new suspense thriller Seven Days to Hollywood company Summit Entertainment.
The film, directed by WON Sin-yeon ("The Wig" ("Scary Hair"), "A Bloody Aria"), is about a successful defense attorney (played by well-known actress KIM Yoon-jin) whose daughter is kidnapped. In place of a ransom, the kidnappers demand that she prove the innocence of a man convicted of murdering a college student.
The film was released in Korea on November 14.
The remake, which is scheduled to start shooting in 2008, will be executive produced by Lee Seo-yeol and Sin Sang-han of Prime Entertainment, together with Vincent Maraval and Agnes Mentre of French sales company Wild Bunch. Worldwide rights to the remake excluding North America and Asia will also be handled by Wild Bunch.
Summit Entertainment's President of Production Erik Feig said, "'Seven Days' begins with one of the strongest premises we have seen and keeps you on th...| More |
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 Director Won Sin-yeon, 38, is back with the thriller "Seven Days". The story is about coldhearted female lawyer and mother Ji-yeon (played by "Lost" star Kim Yoon-jin) who is trying to get a murderer on death row acquited within seven days in order to rescue her abducted daughter.
Won took over the project after another writer-director backed out. He immediately saw the potential of the script and got the movie into production. But filming proved to be a challenge.
"I was short on production costs", Won said. "We had to take a lot of shortcuts".
A stuntman and martial arts director for almost 10 years, Won used more artistic means to compensate for the lack of expensive action sequences that the film demanded.
This meant finding different ways to encapsulate the action. In the original scripts, one chase scene required 100 cars in 12 lanes of traffic. That wasn't feasible, so the camera units just shot live street scenes and used that footage instead.
"There are no strict rules...| More |
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 By Lee Hyo-won
Staff Reporter
Actress Kim Yoon-jin's latest battle onscreen is not surviving the aftermath of a plane crash but negotiating the safe return of her kidnapped daughter. The star of "Lost" returns to Korean cinema for the first time in two years through "Seven Days" as a hotshot lawyer who must pay a dear price for her child's life.
Director Won Sin-yeon ("A Bloody Aria", 2004) offers an emotionally charged, action-packed thriller where Kim stars as a mysterious attorney whose life takes a frightening turn when a man abducts her daughter. The kidnapper offers a deal: to clear all charges of first-degree murder against a suspect in just seven days or else the child's life is at stake. This is mission impossible, even for someone who has never lost a case.
"I hadn't received such a well-constructed screenplay in a long time", Kim said about seeing the script for the first time. "It was hard for me as an actress in Korea to come across such a complicated female char...| More |
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