A Bloody Aria (2006) - 구타유발자들 (Goo-ta-yoo-bal-ja-deul)

2007/11/15 | Source | Permalink |  Digg |  del.icio.us | Stumble It! | Share this news

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...

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2007/11/14 | Source | Permalink |  Digg |  del.icio.us | Stumble It! | Share this news

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...

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2007/10/30 | Source | Permalink |  Digg |  del.icio.us | Stumble It! | Share this news

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...

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2007/05/01 | Source | Permalink |  Digg |  del.icio.us | Stumble It! | Share this news

Kim Seon-ah, who gained top star status after the success of the drama "My Lovely Sam Soon", has confirmed to appear in the movie "Girl Scouts" (by director Kim Sang Man).

After "My Lovely Sam Soon" ("My Name is Kim Sam-soon"), Kim Seon-ah said that she had agreed to appear in "Thursday's Child" last May. But even after the filming started last September, due to the change of directors and production problems, her agency had cancelled her contract with the movie. "Thursday's Child" is directed by director Won Sin-yeon of the movie "A Bloody Aria", and the movie was changed to "Seven Days" with a change in the theme. This movie had also casted Kim Yoon-jin and Kim Mi-sook.

Meanwhile, "Girl Scouts" is a movie with a comic touch and is a criminal drama. When the head of a credit union disappears with millions of dollars of the credit union's money, four women create a team called "Bong Chon Girl Scouts Troop #3" to recover the stolen money and chaos ensues.

This movie was based o...

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2007/04/05 | Source | Permalink |  Digg |  del.icio.us | Stumble It! | Share this news

The Korean actress Kim Yoon-jin is enjoying a wave of international media attention. The leading entertainment magazine Variety gave prominent exposure to Kim landing a starring role in a Korean movie.

Kim is shooting third season of the hit series "Lost" in Hawaii, after becoming a star in the series, which was broadcast in 210 countries.

Kim Yoon-jin has been cast in the crime thriller "Seven Days", to be directed by Won Sin-yeon, who directed last year's "A Bloody Aria". In the film, Kim will portray a successful lawyer who, in order to save her daughter, is pressured into defending a man who faces the death penalty, it said.

MovieWeb also featured the news, as did the Hawaii Honolulu daily. The Associated Press and Shiny Media in the U.K. also carried articles about her. ...

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