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July 4, 2006 Film director Park Chan-wook has been named a juror for the 63rd Venice Film Festival slated for August 30 through September 9. Other jurors include Spanish film director Juan Jose Bigas Luna, Portuguese producer Paolo Paulo Blanco, American film director/scriptwriter Cameron Crowe, Russian actress Chulpan Khamatova and Italian film director/actor Michele Placido. Headed by actress Catherine Deneuve, who was appointed last month, the jury will choose the winners of…... see more
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July 4, 2006 Actress Yoon Son-ha, 31, who currently resides in Japan, will marry an entrepreneur five years her senior in September. Yoon's agency, Star J Entertainment, said June 4 that the actress's wedding will take place on September 16 at the Hotel Shilla Seoul. Yoon met her fiance, Shin Jae-hyun, who runs his own business in Seoul, in March. The actress will hold a news…... see more
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July 4, 2006 The leading Korean director Park Chan-wook has been asked to sit on the jury of the 63rd Venice Film Festival on Aug. 30-Sept.9 to judge films in the international competition. The organizing committee also asked Spanish director Juan José Bigas Luna, Portuguese producer Paulo Branco, American director and screenwriter Cameron Crowe, Russian actor Chulpan Khamatova and the Italian actor and director Michele Placido to sit on the jury. The…... see more
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July 4, 2006 Director Kwak Jae-yong's hit film "My Sassy Girl" will be made into a TV series in China. Korea, China and Japan will have their hand in producing the drama. With production cost of 36 billion won, the drama will begin filming in early September and will air in China next year. The Korean game maker Game Jedi is also planning to make the movie into an…... see more
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July 4, 2006 By Chung Ah-young Staff Reporter Korean screenwriter and director Park Chan-wook is to join the 63rd Venice International Film Festival jury in Italy from August 30 to Sept. 9. Aside from Park, others included in the jury announced yesterday by the festival's board of directors are Spanish director and screenwriter Juan Jose Bigas Luna, Portuguese producer Paulo Branco, American director, producer and screenwriter Cameron Crowe,…... see more
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July 3, 2006 Korean actress Kim Yoon-jin, currently shooting in the United States, will be a guest on the late night talk show "Late Show with David Letterman" this coming 11th. Although Michelle Wie, Korean-American golfer from Hawaii, made an appearance on the Late Show in August of 2005, Ms. Kim would be the first Korean actress to appear on Letterman. The "Late Show with David Letterman" has received…... see more
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July 3, 2006 The all-time leader for ticket sales in the history of Korean film, "The King and The Clown", has failed to make it past the censor in China. The film failed to pass the censors at the state Administration of Radio, Film and Television due to the fact that it deals with a love affair between two men, an insider with music and film distributor Face said Monday. ... see more
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July 3, 2006 The 10th Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival or PiFan will be held from June 13 through 22 in Bucheon, as the town in Gyeonggi Province is also spelled. The festival will show some 150 features and 100 shorts from 35 countries. The opening film is "The Ghost Theater" directed by Jeon Gye-soo. A fantasy musical about ghosts who travel in real and surreal worlds, it was picked for its…... see more
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July 3, 2006 Director Bong Joon-ho's latest feature "The Host" is scheduled to open on 250 screens in Japan on September 2nd. The film was pre-sold to Happinet Pictures in Japan for US$4.7 million at the Hong Kong film market in March. Happinet bought the film without previewing any footage that had been shot, seeing only the script and some character drawings. Happinet has continuously bought or invested in Korean films, including…... see more
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July 3, 2006 Debut director Jo Chang-ho received the Best Young Director award for "The Peter Pan Formula" at the 27th Durban International Film Festival, which ran June 14th -27th in South Africa. The film's main actor On Joo-wan also won a Best Performance award by an actor in a leading role for his sensitive portrayal of a teenage-boy's growing pains. Jo's "The Peter Pan Formula" participated in the festival's main competition…... see more
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July 3, 2006 The controversial reduction of South Korea's screen quota system goes into effect Saturday July 1st, halving the mandatory days for the screening of domestic movies in theaters from 146 to 73. The quota had been a sticking-point in concluding a Free Trade Agreement with the United States. Opposition from the local film industry has been fierce even since the government announced the decision back in January. The quota reduction…... see more
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July 3, 2006 Two Korean animations are awarded from 2006 Annecy International Animation Festival (as Annecy Festival) which held at Annecy Bonlieu, France from June 5th to 9th. This issue makes us to feel the boosting Korea animation's standing ahead. As final selections that total 279 animated projects were advanced, France animation (Renaissance) won the grand prize, and 21 animations are crowned with glory to win a prize. For the Korea…... see more
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July 3, 2006 The Korean film "My Sassy Girl" will be dramatized in China. Korean production company K1 said Saturday that it will turn the Korean film into a drama in China in cooperation with the Shanghai Film Academy. The shooting will commence in September and the drama will air in 2007. K1 added that Korea, Japan and China will participate in the dramatization of the…... see more
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July 3, 2006 Actress Kim Yoon-jin will become the first Korean star to appear on "The Late Show with David Letterman" on CBS TV, the most popular night-time talk show aired across the U.S. Previously, in August last year, Korean-American golf prodigy Michelle Wie appeared on the program. Kim's manager, Park Jeong-hyeok, said Monday that the talk show production team invited her to the show through her U.S. agency…... see more
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July 3, 2006 No one could have imagined that this young and willowy actor had it inside him. To begin with, Jo In-seong, 25, has such a "pretty" face that a gangster was the last role one could match him up with. But watching him spitting out swear words with his eyes burning with anger in "A Dirty Carnival", it becomes obvious that the role of Byeong-du was made just for Jo.... see more
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July 3, 2006 While brutality is a dangerous subject in reality, it makes an excellent theme for a movie. A cruel gangster movie, for example, gives one the strange satisfaction of watching someone being stabbed to death, but at the same time, puts one at ease from knowing that he or she is safely away from the violence onscreen. By taking a "stab" at the tangle of voyeurism and fear, poet-turned-director "Yoo…... see more
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July 3, 2006 By Kim Tae-jong Staff Reporter Offering a wide mix of unusual and bizarre movies, the Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival (PiFan) will kick off on July 13. Will the festival be able to successfully celebrate its 10th edition and settle a two-year-long problem? "We've made every possible effort to normalize the festival", Lee Jang-ho, new festival director of PiFan, said on June…... see more
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July 2, 2006 "X-Men", "Spiderman", "Fantastic Four", and now "Superman Returns". In recent years, movie theaters have been awash with adaptations of comic book superheroes. The recently released "Aeon Flux", by contrast, was based on a cartoon created and directed by Peter Chung, a 45-year-old Korean-American. Set in 2415, "Aeon Flux" tells the story of a resistance fighter, played in the movie by Charlize Theron, battling an authoritarian government. The original cartoon's sleek and…... see more
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July 2, 2006 By Kim Tae-jong Staff Reporter A strange, radical local animation film "Aachi And Ssipak" finally opened in theaters last Thursday, portraying a hilarious world fueled by human feces. It took eight years to produce. "Of course, there are some flaws and some parts that we think we could've made better in the animation", said animation producer Kim Seon-koo. "But most of all, we are so…... see more
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July 1, 2006 It has already been eight years since Diana Son's play "Stop Kiss" became one of the longest-running non-musicals in the history of public theater. Korean-American dramatist Ms. Son has debuted a new play entitled "Satellites" on June 18th that has grabbed attention from audiences at the same theater in Manhattan. "Satellites" received high praises in an article in the New York Times on June 20th noting…... see more
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