| Korean Remake A Better Tomorrow invited to Venice (Source) |
2010/08/27 |
"The Invincible", Korea's remake of John Woo's quintessential gangster drama 'A Better Tomorow' has been invited for a special out-of-competition screening at the 2010 Venice Film Festival. Directed by SONG Hae-seong ("Failan", "Our Happy Time") and starring four major male stars, the film will be released in Korea on September 16.
The original 1986 production set the bench mark for Hong Kong noir style films and helped break Hong Kong films into the international arena. In addition, Hong Kong films are thought to have directly inspired Korean films such as "Shiri" (1999) the North Korean spy gangster thriller which itself spawned a whole succession of films. Remaking A Better Tomorow then takes the Korean film industry in a full circle. There is so much confidence in the project that even the director of the original Hong Kong film, John Woo, is a producer on the Korean remake.
It has been said of the original A Better Tomorow that it changed the Hong Kong film industry fore... |More
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| Kim Ah-joong tapped as heroine in U.S.-China film (Source) |
2010/08/23 |
Actress Kim Ah-joong [Heren]
Korean actress Kim Ah-joong has been cast as the heroine of a 20 billion won U.S.-China joint production, according to her agency Trophy Entertainment.
Trophy announced through a press release on Saturday that the 27-year-old actress will star in sports adventure film "Amazing" about developing an Internet virtual-reality basketball game##.
Kim, playing the role of the female lead who dreams to become the world's best Internet game developer, will play the love interest of Chinese actor Huang Xiaoming of series "The Return of the Condor Heroes" who will take on the chief technology officer of the world's top Internet game develo... |More
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| [ChanMi's drama news] Kim Jeong-eun prepares to rock (Source) |
2010/07/15 |
In the drama "I Am Legend", Kim Jeong-eun will play Jeon Seol-hee, the singer ##of the 'Comeback Madonna Band'.
She has been practicing singing 8 hours a day.
Her trainer is the same one who trained Kim Ah-joong for "200 Pounds Beauty".
She is very devoted to doing her best to portray her character. ... |More
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| Actress Kim Ah-joong's Book Used For University (Source) |
2010/07/05 |
Kim Ah-joong can add another job title to her name as a book that she had written hand in hand with a guidance professor was selected by the nation's top university, Seoul National University, to be used as part of the media studies curriculum.
An official from Korea University explained that the actress had written the book titled, "Emotional Communication" with Professor Kim Seong-sook. In fact, the book will be used at Korea University as well under the head of professor Kim Gwang-soo and other related officials with pop culture. Copies of the book have already been printed and will be used for the focused demographics of Korea University students.
The star of popular movie "200 Pounds Beauty" is currently a student enrolled in the Media Graduate program at Korea University. She's currently working on her thesis. ... |More
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| Hyeon Bin film sells to the UK at France (Source) |
2010/05/19 |
Korean actors Hyeon Bin (left) and Joo Jin-mo
Korean film "The Battle of Yellow Sea", starring heartthrob Hyeon Bin, has been sold to the United Kingdom on the eve of the ongoing Cannes Film Market in France.
"The Battle of Yellow Sea", directed by famed film director Kwak Gyeong-taek, was sold to Showbox for the U.K. at the market held concurrently with the Cannes Film Festival, reported film magazine Screen International on Tuesday##.
Joo Jin-mo also stars in the film, a 3D action drama based on the true story of the Second Battle of Yeonpyeong which occurred in June 2002, when a North Korean patrol boat crossed the sea boundary line and engaged in a mari... |More
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