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2005/11/16 | Source | Permalink |  Digg |  del.icio.us | Stumble It! | Share this news

MK Pictures, one of Korea's leading production companies that was formed from the merger of KangJeGyu Films, Myung Film and manufacturing company Buffalo Seshin in 2004, has announced that it will open a distribution arm.

Beginning with romantic comedy When Romance Meets Destiny on November 23, the company plans to release a total of 10 films in 2006 and 12 in 2007, including both Korean and imported titles. The company is in the process of securing a $23m film investment fund that will be used to produce up to six titles of its own per year, and it will also distribute titles from other companies.

MK Pictures also operates an international sales arm which is active in promoting and selling Korean films to foreign territories.

To date this year, MK Pictures has produced the films Wet Dreams 2, The President's Last Bang, and Little Brother, and upcoming titles include When Romance Meets Destiny, comedy Bewitching Attraction, and action noir Bloody Tie. ...

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2005/08/03 | Source | Permalink |  Digg |  del.icio.us | Stumble It! | Share this news

From Ashes of Korean Film Festival, Competitor Is Born
By Mark Russel

With Hollywood action films dominating screens all over the world each summer, most fans of art-house cinema would be happy to have an alternative to blockbusters.

Last week, South Korea had two art film festivals running during the same 10-day period, but thanks to a collision of art and politics, this didn't make anyone happy.

When Hong Gun Pyo, the mayor of Puchon, dismissed Kim Hong Joon, the director of the much-loved Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival, known as PiFan, in late December, he probably expected a few angry letters to newspapers, maybe a petition or two; within a few months, all would be forgotten. Instead, Mr. Kim fought back.

He and his programmers created the Real Fantastic Film Festival, known as RealFanta, and scheduled it in Seoul for mid-July, the same period as PiFan in Puchon. Mr. Kim was supported by the Korean Motion Pictures Producers' Association, which helped en...

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2005/06/23 | Source | Permalink |  Digg |  del.icio.us | Stumble It! | Share this news

Korea will see two competing fantasy film festivals next month, each presumably more fantastic than the other, after a spat with management drove the original organizer of one of them away. The Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival (PiFan) will last for 10 days from July 14 to July 23, but the Real Fantastic Film Festival will threaten its supremacy from Seoul.

The story goes back to the end of December last year, when Kim hong-joon, then executive director of PiFan who had more than two years remaining in his contract, was fired because the mayor of Puchon (also spelled as Bucheon) city felt Kim could not concentrate on the festival while keeping his job as dean of the School of Film, TV, and Multimedia at the Korean National University of Arts.

But movie circles were unconvinced by the mayor's reasoning, since Kim had played a key role in taking PiFan to where it is now, working as program director since its birth in 1997. Numerous movie organizations such as KAFAI, th...

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2005/02/16 | Source | Permalink |  Digg |  del.icio.us | Stumble It! | Share this news

February 16, 2005 ㅡ "I'm not insecure about the way I look anymore. I learned that there are many ways other than just being pretty to reach your dream", said Park Seul-gi, 18, who recently became a "star" following failure after failure because of her "ordinary" appearance.
Ms. Park's oddyssey began in her first year of middle school in Gangwon province when she took a bus to Seoul during each vacation. In one hand, she had money that she had saved over the entire semester and in the other the address of a celebrity management company. Her dream was to become a famous singer ― she was already known as a great singer in her hometown.
But reality let her down ― large entertainment companies did not seem interested in real talent, just in pretty faces.
In auditions, three competitors would show their ability in front of the judges at the same time and invariably the judges would opt for pretty faces, saying the performers would "only" have to be trained to sing we...

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2005/01/13 | Source | Permalink |  Digg |  del.icio.us | Stumble It! | Share this news

It is an unwritten rule that sequels rarely outperform their originals in the movie industry. Higher expectations - and a slightly skeptical attitude - may explain why sequels are often synonymous with flops (I've seen it all in the original, so what else can you do with this sequel?).
"Wet Dreams 2", which opens today nationwide, falls into the sorry category. But before brushing it aside quickly, it is worth pondering what this supposedly "provocative sex comedy" is about and what issues, if any, it puts forward.

Directed by Jeong Cho-sin, the film revolves around sexual fantasy and episodes played out by 17-year-old high school girls. The background is set in 1991, Chung said in a post-premier news conference, suggesting that girls might sport a whiff of innocence.

Our "innocent" heroine Oh Sung-eun (Kang Eun-bi) and her close friends Bang Sue-yeon (Jeon Hye-bin) and Kim Mi-sook (Park Seul-gi) are hanging around together, dreaming about their Prince Charmings.

The dr...

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