SEOUL, Dec. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of admissions to local theaters this year is expected to surpass 200 million for the fourth straight year, a market tracker said Monday. According to the Korean Film Council (KOFIC), both domestic and foreign films have attracted more than 199.31 million viewers this year as of Monday [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s largest multi-screen cinema chain CJ CGV said Friday it will collaborate with a Hollywood studio to co-produce the first English film for providing the ScreenX immersive experience. The company announced that it will work with the American film production company “Let It Play” to make the ScreenX [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – The South Korean crime action film “Master” starring top actors Lee Byung-hun, Kang Dong-won and Kim Woo-bin has been sold to 31 countries before its release, according to its local distributor Friday. The movie’s distribution rights have been sold to companies in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, [...]
BUCHEON, July 22 (Korea Bizwire) – The 20th Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival (BIFAN) kicked off on Thursday, with some of Korea’s top actors and actresses making appearances. Inaugurated in 1997, BIFAN focuses mainly on fantasy, horror, thriller and mystery films from South Korea and overseas. This year’s festival was themed ‘Love, Fantasy, and Adventure’, [...]
SEOUL, June 30 (Korea Bizwire) – U.S. video service provider Netflix Inc. said Thursday that it will include more locally produced content as part of its efforts to tap deeper into the South Korean market. Five months after its global rollout in 130 countries, including South Korea, the video streaming provider with more than 81 [...]
SEOUL, June 13 (Korea Bizwire) – There are four movie character genres that exist in film that have attracted more than 10 million moviegoers in Korea. They are heroes, mentors, tricksters, and heralds. The herald is the one who brings the ‘Call to Adventure’ Image science professor Kim Su-jeong from Kyonggi University revealed the findings after [...]
SEOUL, March 29 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korean TV stations have recently been airing war-related movies on a daily basis. The North Korean central news agency aired a program called ‘Chosun Art Films – from 5 o’clock to 5 o’clock’ on March 28. The 78-minute movie that was produced in 1980 tells the story of the [...]
SEOUL, March 29 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s largest multiplex cinema chain CJ CGV reported attendance numbers topping 10 million at its Chinese theaters in the first quarter of this year, the company said Tuesday. The chain hit the milestone on Saturday, less than three months into the year, the shortest period ever for it to [...]
SEOUL, Jan.29 (Korea Bizwire) – Recent data shows that one out of ten people who visited the movies last year went alone. According to the CGV Research Center’s ‘2015 Movie Industry Settlement’, the share of tickets for one reached 10.1 percent, exceeding 10 percent for the first time. The number of people going to the [...]
SEOUL, Jan.25 (Korea Bizwire) – Although January is usually a busy time at movie theaters, this year is different, and cinema owners are not happy that customers are staying away. Under these circumstances, it was revealed that the Financial Services Commission (FSC), a government organization that issues financial policies and oversees financial institutions, asked finance [...]