The 58th Grand Bell Awards was held in Seoul on the afternoon on December 9. Director Park Chanwook's Decision to Leave was honored with the Best Picture Award. At the awards ceremony, Decision to Leave, The Roundup, and Life is Beautiful won 3 awards, respectively, while Hansan: Rising Dragon, Perhaps Love, and The Girl on a Bulldozer won 2 awards, respectively.Director Park Chanwook, who cou...
The 43rd Blue Dragon Film Awards was held at KBS Hall in Yeouido Seoul on November 25. The Blue Dragon Film Awards is one of the top 3 Korean film awards, along with the Grand Bell Awards and Baeksang Arts Awards.Decision to Leave, which was nominated in 13 categories, won 6 awards, including Best Picture, Best Director (Park Chanwook), Best Actress (Tang Wei), Best Actor (Park Haeil), Best Screen...
The New York Asian Film Festival 2022,’ which opened on July 15, will hold a ‘Korean Movie Special Exhibition,’ where you can meet 14 Korean films. This special exhibition, co-hosted by the Korean Cultural Center in New York with the New York Asian Film Foundation and Film at Lincoln Center, is sponsored by the Korea Foundation for International Cultural Exchange (KOFICE) and the Korean Film Counc...
For the first, since the Chuseok holidays in late September, local films captured a majority share of the market, accounting for 56% of all tickets sold. Overall admissions saw a nominal rise to 809,000 sales compared to the previous weekend.The high concept action-thriller Spiritwalker with Yoon Kyesang topped the box office during its debut, with 249,000 seats (USD 2.16 million) filled over the ...
With no major Hollywood titles launched over the past few weeks, the market contracted just over 10%, with 792,000 sales recorded over the weekend. However, this left the door open for a new homegrown title to top the box office, the first domestic title to do so since September, which pushed the local market share up to 39%.The romantic comedy Perhaps Love with Ryu Seungryong and Oh Nara, the dir...
Marvel’s THE ETERNALS Repeats at the Top of the Box OfficeAfter benefitting from a major boost last week with both a new Marvel tentpole in the marketplace and major ease in theater restrictions, the Korean box office slowed 30% this week but remains at a healthy level. 911,000 tickets were sold this weekend with just 16% of those for local titles, despite the launch of the first homegrown commerc...
Awards and Invitation
Udine Far East Film Festival (2022) - Competition Section
New York Asian Film Festival (2022) - Crowd Pleasers
New York Asian Film Festival (2022) - Uncaged Award for Best Feature Film Competition
- Audience Award