All South Korea articles – Page 42
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NewsKorean film industry votes 'no' to lifting Busan boycott
“Intense discussions” have led to a split vote, meaning the boycott of the festival will continue.
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News'The Wailing' wins top awards at BIFAN
Na Hong Jin’s fantasy horror took the best film prize and audience award.
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NewsSK Global, Korea's CJ team on 'Super Fan'
The US and Korean companies will co-finance and co-produce the feature about a Korean follower of a US baseball team.
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FeaturesBIFAN makes a splash
Celebrating its 20th anniversary, Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival (July 21-31) has a new festival director and an expanded industry event. Jean Noh reports.
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NewsBIFAN reveals Malaysia spotlight, attendees
The genre event will host a five-strong line-up of Malaysian projects; Ivanhoe, Huayi, Blumhouse, CJ among BIFAN attendees.
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NewsWell Go USA Entertainment boards 'Train To Busan'
The distributor has pounced on North American rights to Yeon Sang-ho’s zombie apocalypse thriller that played at Midnight Screenings in Cannes.
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NewsBusan festival head confident of avoiding boycott
Chairman nominee Kim Dong-ho has told Screen he believes the festival will avoid the boycott.
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FeaturesCannes Q&A: Na Hong Jin, 'The Wailing'
Director Na Hong Jin talks to Screen about his Out of Competition Cannes 2016 title.
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NewsMirovision reveals Lee Jung-seob biopic
The Whistleblower director Yim Soon-rye will helm the forthcoming film about the celebrated painter.
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FeaturesCannes: Park Chan-wook talks 'The Handmaiden'
The new film from Cannes favourite Park Chan-wook is an adaptation of Sarah Waters’ Victorian era-set lesbian crime novel Fingersmith, transplanted to 1930s Japan.
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NewsS Korea's Showbox hails 'Taxi Driver'
EXCLUSIVE: Song Kang-ho to star in story of a Korean taxi driver who accompanies a German journalist reporting on the 1980 Gwangju Massacre.
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NewsMirovision picks up 'Era' fantasy animation trilogy
EXCLUSIVE: Sales company picks up films from Korean animation studio Meditation With A Pencil.
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NewsFinecut inks 'The World Of Us' deals
EXCLUSIVE: Sales outfit also closes deals for Fatal Intuition and Love Guide For Dumpees.
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News'Handmaiden' heads to Benelux with Cineart
EXCLUSIVE: Distribution outfit has picked up Park Chan-Wook’s latest, which is in Competition at Cannes.
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NewsFinecut inks 'The Wailing' deals
Out of Competition Cannes title goes to France, French-speaking Benelux and Switzerland.
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NewsKim Dong-ho to become BIFF chairman
The announcement comes following news last week that former director Lee Yong-kwan had been indicted on embezzlement charges.
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NewsIsrael's 'Sand Storm' wins at Jeonju festival
The 17th Jeonju International Film Festival (JIFF) saw its Grand Prize in the International Competition go to Elite Zexer’s Israeli film Sand Storm today (May 5).
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NewsKorea's CJ buys Turkey’s largest film chain
Mars, which operates the Cinemaximum brand, has 710 screens across the country
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NewsJeonju to open with Chet Baker drama 'Born To Be Blue'
The independent and alternative cinema showcase (Apr 28 - May 7) will have the world premiere of Choi Seung-ho’s controversial Spy Nation.
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NewsKorean industry threaten Busan boycott
Committee of nine major film organisations has issued a set of demands to ensure the festival’s independence.