| Choi Min-soo to Co-Star With De Niro (Source) |
2008/03/18 |
By Cathy Rose A. Garcia
Staff Reporter
Korean actor Choi Min-soo will co-star alongside Hollywood stars Robert De Niro and Andy Garcia in the up-coming film "Street of Dreams", Yonhap news reported Tuesday.
"Street of Dreams" is a 40 billion won co-production between US-based FR Productions, Korea's Hyun Jin Cinema and Japan's Wides Japan. It will be produced by Fred Roos, whose credits include "The Godfather: Part II" and "The Godfather: Part III".
Hyun Jin Cinema has produced Korean films such as "Holiday" and "My Wife is a Gangster 3".
"Street of Dreams" is based on the true story of Montana Joe, a legendary Japanese-American gangster in the 1940s. In the film, Choi will play the role of Montana's Korean friend, Eddie. This will be Choi's first Hollywood film, having appeared in several Korean films such as "Holiday" and "Sword in the Moon".
FR Productions said De Niro has been cast as an Italian mafia leader. De Niro, who has won two Academy Awards, is known for mem... |More
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| 'Old Boy's cinema value continues (Source) |
2005/03/10 |
As The Oporto International Film Festival, Portugal which lowered the curtain recently, selects Korean cinema 'Old Boy' as the most excellent work award etc. in its 'critic week' section, this cinema's value is being assessed once more.
A total of 10 Korean cinemas including 'Sword in the Moon' were screened at this year's Oporto Film Festival.
'Old Boy' is started with a story that Oh Dae-su is kidnapped and held in a private housing cell for fifteen years.
Upon his release, he is given one task by his captor: to find out the reasons why. With a decade and a half of built up aggression and burning curiosity, Oh Dae-su searches for the answers that robbed him of his life.
The Oporto International Film Festival is held annually in February and goes now to its 25th edition. The first edition of FANTASPORTO, as the festival is usually known, was held in 1981 and was non-competitive.
All the following editions included a Competitive Section. The Oporto Festival was founded... |More
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| Horror film 'Into the mirror': invitation to the 23rd Fajr International Film Festival (Source) |
2005/01/25 |
As director Kim Seong-ho's horror film 'Into the mirror' is invited to the 23rd Fajr International Film Festival to be opened on Jan. 31 in Teheran, Iran, interest in Korean films in the Middel East countries is expected.
Movie 'Into the mirror' is screened in the 'Spiritual Cinema', a competition part to which a total of 13 films are invited.
Into the Mirror, supported by the New Directors in Focus program at the Pusan Film Festival in its early development stage, is an intriguing debut film by Kim Seong-ho, a former architect whose deft manipulation of the spatial and optic dimensions of the film results in its unique and memorable look and atmosphere, overlaid with a layer of modernist austerity.
Yoo Ji-tae (Old Boy, Attack the Gas Station!) plays U Young-min, a cop-turned-security chief at a department store, investigating a series of inexplicable suicides.
Young-min, unable to look into a mirror since he had mistakenly caused his partner's death, becomes convinced ... |More
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| The 25th Oporto International Film Festival invites a total of 10 Korean films (Source) |
2005/01/09 |
'Oseam' by director Seong Baek-yeob and 'My dolling' by director Jeong Yong-ki were selected as additional invitation films of The 25th Oporto International Film Festival to be held in Oporto, Portugal, from Feb. 21 through Mar. 6.
Accordingly, Korean films to be screened for this Film Festival have totaled 10 films including 'Old Boy', 'Natural City', 'Wonderful Days', 'Sword In the Moon', 'Bunshinsaba Ouiju Board', 'Fighter In the Wind' and so forth.
Based on a fairytale by Jung Chae-bong, 'Oseam' tells the story of two orphaned siblings.
Gami is a young blind girl who has had to take on a mother-figure for her 5 year old brother, Gilson. An intelligent and highly observant boy who has very much become the eyes for his sister, but to say he's hyperactive would be an understatement.
With nowhere to go and winter coming they stumble upon two monks who take them to their temple to stay. Gami takes to the life with her normal serene manner, but the peaceful temple is in for... |More
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| The 25th Oporto International Film Festival invites 8 Korean movies in large numbers (Source) |
2004/12/21 |
The 25th Oporto International Film Festival to be held from Feb. 21 through Mar. 6, 2005 in Oporto, Portugal, has invited in large numbers 8 Korean movies such as 'Fighter in the Wind', 'Natural City', 'The Sword in the Moon', and 'A Vital Activity' etc.
Besides, 'Bunshinsaba', 'Wonderful Days', and 'Old boy' etc. are invited to this International Film Festival.
The Oporto International Film Festival, now going to its 25th edition, specialises in fantasy and science-fiction films in its Official Competitive section.
This Festival also includes the 15th New Directors Week with an Official Competition and a Retrospective section. The Festival runs now in 5 theatres (2,600 seats altogether ) and screens nearly new 200 feature films each year.
The press coverage of the Festival is made by all the most important Portuguese newspapers, radio stations and television networks and by foreign specialised press. This allows press dossiers of about 5000 clippings every year and represe... |More
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