| Kim Tae-hee, Lee Joon-ki to star in film "Grand Prix" (Source) |
2010/03/15 |
Korean actress Kim Tae-hee [Asia Economic Daily]
Top Korean actors Lee Jun-ki and Kim Tae-hee are set to star in a new film titled "Grand Prix", according to their agencies JG Company and Luah Entertainment on Monday.
Both agencies reported that the two stars have been cast for the lead roles and are waiting to sign the final contract for the film.
Veteran Korean actors Park Geun-hyeong and Ko Doo-sim are reportedly in talks to play supporting roles.##
"Prix", a sequel to the 2006 film "Lump Sugar" starring Korean actress Im Soo-jeong, is a story about horse racing.
The pic will be helmed by Yang Yoon-ho, who previously directed "Libera Me" (2000), "Fighter in the Wind... |More
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| [ChanMi's movie news] Kim Tae-hee in a film with Lee Joon-ki (Source) |
2010/03/14 |
Kim Tae-hee is costarring with Lee Joon-ki!
The new film, "Grand Prix" is bringing Kim as the new female main character.
This film is going to be about horse racing!
The scenario will also show love and friendship in this film as a sequel to "Lump Sugar" in 2006. This melodramatic film will start filming this month.
It is anticipated to be released this than##ksgiving season! ... |More
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| Singer Kim Ji-hyeon, visits screen in seven years after "Summer Time" (Source) |
2008/03/27 |
Kim Ji-hyeon, who used to be in the group Roo'ra, will visit the screen.
Juggling her solo singing career, acting, and personal business, she has finished filming independent film "Purple Rain".
Director Jang Dong-hyeon, who was the assistant director for "My Wife is a Gangster 2" and "Gohae", is directing "Purple Rain", the story of Yong-dae, a director of erotic videos, and Young-hee, a worker at a bar. The main characters are Choi Hak-rak, who has shown his acting in "Raybang" and "Lump Sugar", and Choi Eun-joo, who starred in "My Wife is a Gangster" and "The First Amendment". Kim Ji-hyeon plays the wife of Yong-dae.
More than anything else, the actors and staff were captivated by the perfect scenario and participated for no pay.
Those from the producing company said, "The actors including Kim Ji-hyeon saw the script and decided to participate with no salary out of their pure hearts rather than commercial profit".
Mid-last month, they finished filming the last scene w... |More
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| A girl needs heartbreak to be a woman (Source) |
2007/10/10 |
Perhaps Im Soo-jeong has bid farewell to her girl years. It's a disappointment, but the 27-year-old actress has made her choice. Now in her late 20s, she is only doing what is natural.
"Happiness" is a film about a young woman who falls in love with a bad boy (Hwang Jeong-min) she meets in a rural nursing home. It's a coming-of-age ritual for Im. In the movie one of her lines is, "I am older than I look".
"After starring in a movie about love between adults, rather than between teenagers", Im said, "I feel like I've grown up, like I've married someone".
With a baby face on a petite frame, Im has always taken the roles of precocious girls who suffer early tragedies.
In the hit KBS drama "Sorry, I Love You", she fell in love with an adoptee; in the film "Ing", she was a terminally ill high school girl who accepted her imminent death with grace.
But Im has never been an object of sexual desire for older men. Some of her characters even had the power to heal, such as the 30-kilog... |More
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| France Buys Korean Film "The Restless" (Source) |
2007/03/27 |
CJ Entertainment said Tuesday that it sold film "The Restless" to France at the 1st Asian Film Award recently held in Hong Kong.
A company staffer said that European nations tend to see fantasy movies like "The Restless" as works depicting typical Asian sentiment.
The film distributor also sold the joint Korean-Japanese film "Virgin Snow" to Vietnam, Malaysia and Thailand, "The Chief and The Governor" to Thailand, "My Tutor Friend Lesson II" to Malaysia, "The Wig" ("Scary Hair") to Latin America, and "My Scary Girl" and "Lump Sugar" to Taiwan.... |More
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