Korean student sex comedy "Sex is Zero" will be remade by the studio Poststar2Finish in the U.S.; Popstar2Finish is known for its television series CSI. The two parties are still negotiating about the sales terms of the remake rights. Besides the sale of the remake rights, Doosaboo Film announced that
Yoon Je-kyoon's "Sex is Zero" will also be screened in the U.S.
"Sex is Zero" was one of the box office hits from 2002. The film revolves around a group of university students and their dealings with sex and relationships. ...
MoreSex comedy is not a familiar genre with Korean audiences, many of whom regard themselves as somewhat conservative, or deadly super-duper conservative. But "Sex is Zero", released in 2002, changed that conventional wisdom.
The toilet-humor-filled sex-or-die comedy pulled in a respectable 4.2 million viewers in 2002 and even ranked fourth at the box-office for the year. Since then, a handful of imitations have come out, but none of them have hit a jackpot -- yet.
All of this has apparently encouraged the production house which made the original "Sex is Zero" to forge ahead with a sequel. The logic, of course, is that people remembering the unabashed sex comedy will return to the theater, and, for the filmmakers of "
Sex Is Zero 2", there seems to be nothing wrong with repeating the same formula -- plot, characters, sex-oriented scenes, and all that -- as long as a minimum box-office return is guaranteed.
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Im Chang-jeong who starred in "Sex is Zero" (2002) which portrayed sexual issues of college students will also star in "
Sex Is Zero 2" to be directed by
Yoon Tae-yoon.
According to the production company,
Im Chang-jeong who played an innocent student in the first film will play a role as the president of the campus K-1 club.
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