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South Korean Box Office in 2011
2012/01/14, Source,
Korean cinema expert Darcy Paquet looks back at the results of 2011's box office with some unexpected hits and misses, the rise of independent features, and how audiences confirmed they value story over spectacle.
Although the number crunchers in Hollywood estimate that US theatrical admissions sank to their lowest level since 1995, things were not so gloomy in Korea. With an estimated 160 million tickets sold (more precise figures will become available at a later date), it appears that Korea has approached or broken the modern-day record for admissions. In 2010, total admissions stopped at 146.8 million. In monetary terms, 2011 was certainly the best year ever, given the 3D surcharge and rising average ticket prices. Americans may be growing tired of the theatrical movie-going experience, but young Koreans still crowd the multiplexes,...More
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Korean Films at the 59th Cannes Film Festival
2006/05/09, Source,
Yoon Jong-bin
The Unforgiven in Un Certain Regard
First-time feature director Yoon Jong-bin makes his international,...More
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The 40th PESARO International Film Festival to hold Korean film director Jang Sun-woo's retrospective
2005/06/02, Source,
Following the Lotterdam Film Festival, the Netherlands, in 1997 and The Sanfransico Asian Film Festival, the U.S., the 40th PESARO International Film Festival, scheduled to be held from June 25 through July 3 in Italy, holds Korean film director,...More
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Parody gone wrong in 'Match Girl'
2004/10/08, Source,
They say that the secret of producing a commercially, not to mention artistically, successful parody film is to use the sillier aspects of your target genre as a source of creative inspiration to write a screenplay chock-o-block full of in-jokes, references and send-ups of the cliches.
Fortunately,...More
