SEOUL, Feb. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Bong Joon-ho’s sensational black comedy “Parasite,” nominated in six categories, including best picture, at the upcoming Oscars, has been invited to 57 film festivals and award events across the world, and collected 55 trophies, its production company CJ ENM said Friday. In May last year, the film about class [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Bong Joon-ho’s sensational thriller “Parasite” will be made into a TV series on U.S. premium cable channel HBO, the film’s production house said Friday. “Director Bong and Adam McKay will participate in the project as executive producers, with HBO,” said an official from the film’s investor-distributor CJ ENM. The [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean director Bong Joon-ho of “Parasite” might be the busiest man in the ongoing U.S. winter awards season, hoisting numerous trophies and delivering acceptance speeches onstage. As the director has been increasingly doing media interviews and making it onto talk shows, moreover, the person next to the eclectic [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Bong Joon ho’s “Parasite” has made history again. The class satire was named best foreign language film at this year’s Golden Globes Awards ceremony on Sunday (U.S. time), becoming the first South Korean movie ever to receive a prize from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, which organizes the annual [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Following the previous globally acclaimed film “Snowpiercer,” director Bong Joon-ho’s latest, Cannes-winning “Parasite” is presumed to become his second flick to be dramatized in the United States. Winning the top Palme d’Or prize at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, the film was sold to film distributors in 192 foreign [...]
SEOUL, May 31 (Korea Bizwire) — Bong Joon-ho, director of “Parasite,” which won South Korea’s very first Palme d’Or at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, is also being recognized for signing standard labor contracts with each and every member of the production staff. In the broadcasting industry in South Korea, only a few have signed [...]
CANNES, May 26 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean director Bong Joon-ho grabbed the highest honor at the 72nd Cannes Film Festival on Saturday for his black comedy movie “Parasite.” Bong became the first South Korean director to win the Palme d’Or at Cannes. Before him, Park Chan-wook was awarded the Grand Prix, the second-highest prize [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean director Bong Joon-ho said on Tuesday he wanted to tell the story of an animal that can hold many different meanings to mankind in the Netflix-backed sci-fi film “Okja.” “I wanted to shoot a film about animal which can both be friend or family and food to [...]
SEOUL, May 16 (Korea Bizwire) – “Okja,” South Korean director Bong Joon-ho’s follow-up to smash-hit “Snowpiercer,” will be released in Korean theaters on June 29 for an open run, its American investor and local distributor said on Monday. “Okja will be available on Netflix in 190 countries on June 28 in the U.S., but actually [...]
SEOUL, May 16 (Korea Bizwire) — In his acclaimed sci-fi thriller “Snowpiercer,” Bong Joon-ho offered a dystopian take on the future of human beings devastated by a man-made environmental calamity. Four years later, the Korean director returned with a new film imbued with the same potent message against human hubris, this time through the story [...]