LEE Byung-hun, PARK Seo-jun and PARK Bo-young will be joining forces for the upcoming disaster thriller Concrete Utopia (working title), as confirmed by Lotte Entertainment. UM Tae-hwa, the director of VANISHING TIME: A BOY WHO RETURNED (2016), will helm the project. UM’s new film will chronicle the lives of survivors in a city that has been destroyed by a major earthquake.LEE Byung-hunwill play Y...
A Dirty Carnival (2006) director YOO Ha is back in the director’s chair for the upcoming crime film Pipeline (literal title), which began filming in late July and will mark his eighth feature-length film. The project will feature young stars such as SEO In-guk and LEE Soo-hyuk. SEO will play a drilling expert who teams up with the heir of a large company, who has a plan to steal oil from an underg...
Young star KIM Young-kwang has landed his next leading role in the spy action film Mission Possible(working title), which will mark the debut of director KIM Hyeong-ju. The actor is on board to play Woo Soo-han, the leader of a special forces team that gets swept up in a dangerous operation along with the Chinese national security agent Yoo Da-hee. KIM rose to prominence in film viewers’ eyes last...
With temperatures starting to drop, local theaters also experienced a slowdown in sales but business remained brisk with 2.36 million tickets sold over the past weekend. It was particularly good news for local titles, who snatched up 70% of those sales. Coming in at a surprise number one was the new occult horror Metamorphosis from director KIM Hong-sun with a rare leading role for BAE Sung-woo, c...
Despite a major new local release hoping to drum up sales, the pre-Chuseok weekend was a quiet one at the big office with a third-week release topping the charts and sales dipping again to 1.34 million admissions. The local industry rallied to 47% but still fell short of Hollywood’s 51% market share. After climbing to the first rank last weekend, the sleeper hit Searching defied the odds to hang o...
In the absence of major new titles, as multiplexes brace for an onslaught of traffic during the Chuseok holiday frame later this month, business slowed once more to 1.54 million sales over the past weekend. 64% of those went to Hollywood titles while the local market lost its advantage and claimed just 34% of market share, though that figure will quickly turn around later this week with major new ...