First Featured Exhibition at the Cultural Contents Gallery Draws over 7,000 Visitors in the First Two Weeks
The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the Korea Creative Content Agency (KOCCA President & CEO Lee Jae-woong) are jointly hosting the Memories of Bungeoppang, a 3D Animation Miniature Exhibition, at the Cultural Contents Gallery on the 1st floor of the KOCCA building in Sangam-dong, Mapo-gu.
Since the exhibition opened on October 5, a daily average of 500+ visitors has enjoyed t...
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"
D-War" director
Shim Hyung-rae's is busy again working on some largely diverse projects. Despite the controversy surrounding his monstrously successful but critically lampooned monster move "
D-War", he is back working on no less than three projects. . Like "
D-War", new film "Condor" is a CG heavy flick with a demo trailer already released. Secondly comes "The Last Godfather", a comic take o...
MoreIran's major annual film event, the 27th Fajr International Film Festival (FIFF), held in Tehran, will showcase a retrospective of contemporary Korean films. 13 features produced from the years 2000 through 2008 will screen in the Persian capital, January 30 to February 10, 2009.
Along with the retrospective,
Jeon Soo-il's "
With a Girl of Black Soil" (2007) was selected in the line-up of the Asian Cinema competition secti...
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The producers of "
D-War", a fantasy blockbuster that topped South Korea's box office in 2007, have broken a distribution contract with a local investor and should return its money, a court said Monday.
The Seoul Central District Court ruled against Younggu Art Entertainment, run by movie director and comedian
Shim Hyung-rae, saying it signed double contracts for
D-War's distribution at home and abroad in 2006 and should now pay back 500 million won ($352,112), according to Yonhap News.
The plaintiff, whose name was withheld, signed a 720 million won contract with Younggu Art for exclusive rights to distribute the movie to theaters and TV stations and for home video in and outside the country on behalf of the producers.
The investor provided a first tranche of 50...
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The fight and race over what is believed to be a valuable map - titled "
The Good, the Bad, the Weird" (Joheun Nom, Nappeun Nom, Isanghan Nom) - entered cinemas with its guns drawn and left its competition behind in clouds of gunfire. The kimchi western dug up treasure when it surpassed the 2 million landmark in its opening weekend. Its distributor CJ Entertainment announced on Monday morning a total of 2,186 million viewers since its release on Thursday July 17.
Director
Kim Ji-woon's US$ 17 M star vehicle (...
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