SEOUL, June 9 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean filmmaker Bong Joon-ho’s English-debut film “Snowpiercer” will be remade into a TV series in the United States, according to foreign news reports on Thursday. Oscar winning actress Jennifer Connelly has signed on for a role in a one-hour pilot for the U.S. television network TNT’s “Snowpiercer,” Variety [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – The U.S. streaming website Netflix has decided to cover all the expenses of “Okja,” an upcoming film by South Korean director Bong Joon-ho, his production studio said Tuesday. Netflix will invest $50 million in the project, which will be co-produced by Plan B Entertainment, an American film production studio [...]
SEOUL, May 7 (Korea Bizwire) – A South Korean small budget documentary about a couple in their nineties will compete with other documentary films at the Los Angeles Film Festival. According to the festival representatives, the independent film “My Love, Don’t Cross That River” was listed as a competitor in the documentary category. The film [...]
SEOUL, April 24 (Korea Bizwire) — The much-anticipated Hollywood blockbuster “The Avengers: Age of Ultron” has drawn a large attendance of 620,000 on the day of release in South Korea, a market tracker said Friday. A total of 622,210 viewers saw the film on 1,731 screens around the country Thursday, a number which accounts for [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – Korean Actress Ko A-sung, a heroine of Bong Joon-ho’s dystopian sci-fi film “Snowpiercer,” signed an agency contract with a Hollywood talent agency Untitled Entertainment, said her management company 4Doors Entertainment on October 27. Ko’s signing with the Hollywood agency came after The New York Post spotlighted her on the [...]