SEOUL, June 6 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korean action comedy film “The Roundup: No Way Out,” starring Ma Dong-seok, topped a cumulative 5 million admissions at the domestic box office on the sixth day of its release Monday, its distributor said. The sequel to “The Roundup” (2022) reached the milestone at 4:40 p.m., according to [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean science-fiction blockbuster “Space Sweepers” will be released on Netflix next month, the U.S. media giant said Wednesday. The film starring Song Joong-ki and Kim Tae-ri will be available to its subscribers in 190 countries on Feb. 5, the company said. Originally set to open in theaters last [...]
LOS ANGELES, Mar. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — “Extreme Job,” the highest-grossing movie of all time in South Korea, has also created a sensation in North American theaters, the film’s local distributor said Wednesday. The Korean cop comedy has posted about US$1.4 million in ticket sales in 15 North American cities, including Los Angeles, New York [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — “Train to Busan,” the Korean zombie thriller that was a commercial and critical success across Asia in 2016, will be remade into virtual reality programs, the movie’s overseas distributor said Tuesday. Contents Panda, the international sales arm of the movie’s investor-distributor Next Entertainment World, said it recently signed a [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — A domestic film depicting the life of a typical father from Korea’s older generation surpassed the 13 million viewer mark at the local box office, just 53 days after its release last year, according to the Korean Film Council (KOFIC). With the milestone, the film “Ode to My Father” [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – The Korean film reporters’ association said Monday that it has chosen “Han Gong-ju,” a film about the life of a high school girl, as the best homegrown picture of 2014. The feature film by director Lee Su-jin was chosen to win Best Picture from the Korea Film Reporters Association, [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – Although ‘Interstellar’ has been seen by 10 million people in South Korea, a small independent documentary about a couple in the last moments of their 76 year marriage, is set to dethrone Christopher Nolan’s 165 million dollar space drama. The small budget documentary with a rather lengthy title – [...]
London, Feb 06, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – Eros International Plc (EROS) (“Eros”), a leading global company in the Indian film entertainment industry announced today that it will release the blockbuster film, English Vinglish, in South Korea on February 6, 2014. Following on the heels of the film’s success in Hong Kong and Germany last year, [...]