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Bewitching Attraction (2006) - 여교수의 은밀한 매력 (Yeo-gyo-soo-eui Eul-mil-han Mae-ryeok)

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Bewitching Attraction (여교수의 은밀한 매력 - 2006)

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MK Picture (MK 픽쳐스)

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Kim Kyeong-hoon (김경훈)
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Lee Jeon-ho (이전호)
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105 min

35mm

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US$ 2.1M

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Release date in South Korea : 2006/03/16

South Korea Box Office
Source : www.cine21.com & www.kobis.or.kr

As of 2006.03.26 : 536,785 admissions (total)

As of 2006.03.19 : 335,578 admissions (total)

Synopsis

The lovely and promiscuous textile professor Eun-sook has all the male professors wrapped around her finger. It also helps that she's slept with most of them. Eun-sook is also a member of the environmental awareness group. When the popular comic book artist Suk-gyu joins the group, he attracts the jealousy of Mr. YOO, one of other members who fears that he will steal Eun-sook from him, even though Eun-sook does not return his intense love.
It turns out that Eun-sook and Suk-gyu attended the same junior high school where they share a secret and tragic history. Back then, Eun-sook was sly with sexuality and was Suk-gyu's older brother's girlfriend. But after Eun-sook decides to sleep with Suk-gyu as well, the older brother's best friend dies in an accident. As the jealous MR.YOO starts to snoop around Eun-sook and Suk-gyu's past, will their secret be kept, and will they get together again?

Grand Prizewinner of KOFIC Script Contest 2003
KOFIC Production Support for Art Films 2004

Source http://www.koreanfilm.or.kr

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Soo: Hard-hitting film by CHOI Yang-il (SAI Yoichi)

2007/03/13 | Source | Permalink |

Korean-Japanese director CHOI Yang-il, known in Japan as SAI Yoichi, is in town with his first film made entirely in Korea with a Korean cast. "Soo", is a hard-boiled revenge-thriller about a man, Tae-su, who witnesses the killing of his identical twin brother Tae-jin. Recovering from the trauma, he sets out to cold-bloodedly avenge his brother's murder in a grisly, exacting fashion.

Actor JI Jin-Hee ("Bewitching Attraction", 2006) in his first action picture, takes up the challenge of playing both roles as the twin brothers. Also starring are KANG Seong-yeon ("The King and the Clown", 2005) MOON Seong-geun ("Princess Aurora", 2005, "Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors" 2000), LEE KI-young ("Marathon", 2005) and OH Man-seok ("A Cruel Attendance", 2006).

Veteran director CHOI is internationally known for the films he has made in Japan, including 2004's "Blood and Bones", based on a Korean epic novel, and starring KITANO Takeshi. After it's premiere at the Pusan Internation...| More

How to Spot the Real Crowd-Pleaser Movies

2007/02/06 | Source | Permalink |

Lee Joon-ik's "Radio Star" has earned average ratings of 9.22 out of 10 in a poll of 7,749 Netizens by the portal site Naver late last month, easily topping the popularity chart among those who watched the film. According to the Korean Film Council, "Radio Star" drew 150,684 viewers on the first weekend of its release on Sept. 28, but that was just around 10 percent of the total number of viewers, which surged exponentially over the weeks: a textbook example of word of mouth making a movie's success.

By contrast, "Bewitching Attraction" released on March 16 last year and starring Ji Jin-hee and Moon So-ri drew a total of 588,467 viewers, but 60 percent or 280,141 of them saw it on the first weekend. Most people who went to see the movie were misled by a provocative poster that has been slammed as close to false advertising. Some 2,438 Netizens gave the movie a dismal average rating of 3.05, placing it 673rd out of 676. Before release, the average rating had been 6.54.

To gauge th...| More

Korean film industry has lost some sparkle

2006/12/29 | Source | Permalink |

The Korean film industry seemed to be in full bloom in 2006 with hits such as "The Host" and "The Royal Jester (formerly "The King and the Clown")" attracting more than 10 million customers at the box office.

A total of 108 domestic films, including this week's "My Wife is a Gangster 3", have opened in theaters nationwide. The number has skyrocketed since 2005's 83 films and is the biggest number of films made since 1990. And in 2007 over 60 percent of the films shown here were Korean made.
Even with these record-breaking numbers, the reality in Chungmuro (the area where Korean film production companies have been concentrated, to such an extent that the word is now synonymous with the phrase "Korean film industry") is very different. Although there have been more movies, they have made less profit than in previous years. In short ― the industry is not making enough money.

Return on Investment is minus 30 percent
Based on theater profits alone, the return on investment thi...| More

Actress, Director to Wed on Christmas Eve

2006/12/01 | Source | Permalink |

Actress Moon So-ri (32) and director Jang Joon-hwan (36) will be taking their vows at a Christmas eve ceremony next month. According to Star News, the two families have concluded formal introductions and will hold the ceremony at an undisclosed location in Gyeonggi Province. The two are both alums of Sungkyunkwan University. Fate brought them together for a music video in 2003 that Jang was directing and Moon starred in. They have been dating seriously for the last year. The two kept their wedding plans secret even from close acquaintances. It is understood that the ceremony will be a quiet one, with just 20-30 family members in attendance.

Debuting in 1999 in "Peppermint Candy", Moon subsequently appeared in "Oasis", "A Good Lawyer's Wife" and "Bewitching Attraction" and picked up the Best Actress award from the Stockholm International Film Festival and the Grand Bell Film Awards. For "Oasis" she also won the Marcello Mastroianni Award as best newcomer at the 2002 Venice Film Fest...| More

KOFIC awards marketing support for arthouse/digital films

2006/11/29 | Source | Permalink |

The Korean Film Council has announced the recipients of the second phase of its 2006 Marketing Support for Arthouse and Digital Films fund. The fund provides financial support to arthouse works or digital features to promote diversity on the nation's screens and to help such films compete in a marketplace with increasingly stringent commercial demands.

In the case of arthouse films, 50 million won (~$54,000) will be provided to pay for advertising and other kinds of marketing costs, including the cost of striking prints for release. In Korea's competitive distribution environment, low-budget works face a particularly difficult struggle in getting noticed by viewers, and so this fund is intended to provide assistance in this area. A total of 11 features were submitted for consideration

In the case of feature-length digital films, 25 million won (~$27,000) will be provided towards the rental of a DLP digital projector, so that such works can be screened in their original format. In...| More