| Movies to Watch in 2010 (Source) |
2009/12/07 |
The film industry is already preparing for next year. Many renowned filmmakers have returned to Korea to produce movies about war and sequels to hit movies.
Director Im Kwon-taek will produce his 101st movie "Scooping Up The Moonlight". Directors Kim Tae-yong and Im Sang-soo will produce remakes of "Late Autumn" by Lee Man-hee and "The Housemaid" of Kim Ki-young, respectively. Films about war will also be introduced to mark the 60th anniversary of the Korean War.
◇The return of maestros
"Scooping Up The Moonlight", which will be produced under the auspices of the Jeonju City government, is Im Kwon-taek's first film to be shot with digital cameras. It is a story about seventh-grade public servant Jong-ho, who wants to become a fifth-grade official. To achieve his dream, he takes charge of the traditional Korean paper "hanji" at the municipal government and becomes completely mesmerized by it. Jong-ho is played by actor Park Joong-hoon, who will appear in a Lim productio... |More
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| PPP Awards Announced (Source) |
2009/10/22 |
The Pusan International Film Festival's Pusan Promotion Plan (PPP) – an Asian feature project financing platform – announced the winners of various awards handed-out to six of the 30 projects pitched during the event. PPP ran Oct 11 – 14 during the festival and its attendant Asian Film Market.
The top winner was Decadent Sisters, a new project by Japanese director-producer AOYAMA Shinji (Eureka, Sad Vacation). It won the Pusan Award of US $20,000 presented by Busan Metropolitan City.
A Korean project was also a big winner with director HAN Jae-rim ("The Rules of Dating", "The Show Must Go On") collecting the Kodak Award of $17,000 – a prize committed to a Korean PPP project.
The CJ Entertainment award of $10,000 went to Indian director Pan Nalin for his project Slightly Sane. The Lotte Award which selects a Korean project at PPP, chose "Villain and Widow" by SON Jae-gon for a prize of $8,000.
The Wooridul Award of $8,000 went to New Policemen Stories by YANG Jin, ... |More
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| HAN Jae-rim's Super-Hero Project Unveils at Pusan (Source) |
2009/08/31 |
Director HAN Jae-rim will reveal his third feature film project "Trace" – a US $7.7 million superhero blockbuster – at the Asian Film Market's PPP, a major project market that takes place during the Pusan Int'l Film Festival in October.
Based on a web-based comic series by the same title, Trace is the story of Yoon-sung, a young man who wakes up with supernatural powers after days in a coma after an assault that takes his father's life. When the assault remains unsolved due to an apathetic police, Yoon-sung takes matters into his own hands. He discovers that another man with superpowers, Hee-sup, was involved and that he wants Yoon-sung dead.
The project is to be produced by Syd Lim and SEO Woo-sik of Barunson Film Division. The company has produced such major titles as KIM Ji-woon's "The Good, The Bad, The Weird" and BONG Joon-ho's "Mother - 2009". "Trace" is being billed as Korea's first superhero blockbuster.
HAN debuted in 2005 with "The Rules of Dating", a caus... |More
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| [ChanMi's movie news] Kang Hye-jeong returns through new film (Source) |
2009/03/28 |
 Actress Kang Hye-jeong's unique character is back!
She is like a cameleon able to perfectly act different characters; as a sad and cynical beauty in "Old Boy", loveable Yeo-il in "Welcome to Dongmakgol", powerful and bold art student in "Rules of Dating", " and the innocent and pure girl in "Herb". She has been all these with different colors of attrativeness.
She will be in a new film, "Why Did You Come to My House - Movie" costarring wiht Park Hee-soon, and Seung Ri. Her role is of Lee Soo-kang who is unique and in her own bubble with a un-namable new fashion sense.
Lee Soo-kang character is contagious!##
You will fall in love with her peculiar acts of saying "I'm Back" barging into a home s... |More
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