The Korea Herald

Animated film more than just talk

Mar 18, 2011

Actors love working on animated movies because it’s so easy: Just say a few lines into a microphone and pick up your check. That wasn’t the case with “Mars Needs Moms,” where filmmakers used a proce...
Firth, Kidman to star in Park’s ‘Stoker’

Mar 16, 2011

British actor Colin Firth and Hollywood actress Nicole Kidman will work on South Korean filmmaker Park Chan-wook’s new movie according to news reports. Firth, who recently won the Best Actor Academy...
Director returns with his 101st film

Mar 15, 2011

Im Kwon-taek’s ‘Hanji’ features ‘moon-like’ beauty of traditional Korean mulberry paper After making a series of films that were “replicas of Hollywood films” in the 1960s, director Im Kwon-taek set...
Aliens ― what’s the attraction?

Mar 13, 2011

By Robert W. Butler, McClatchy Newspapers Watch the skies. They’re coming to get us all. “They,” of course, are aliens. Not from South of the Border. From outer space. Hollywood is in the midst o...
Tax credits help Louisiana win ‘Battle: Los Angeles’

Mar 11, 2011

In the upcoming movie “Battle: Los Angeles,” L.A. represents the last stand for humankind in a fight against invading aliens. The action-packed film, however, was mostly shot in the other LA: Louisi...
Box Office

Mar 11, 2011

Red Riding Hood (U.S.) Opening March 17 Fantasy. Horror. Directed by Catherine Hardwicke. Valerie (Amanda Seyfried) is a beautiful young woman torn between two men. She is in love with a brooding o...
‘Red Riding Hood’: From fairy tale to scary tale

Mar 11, 2011

The Little Red Riding Hood of our collective imaginations is usually carrying a basket, but what she’s really got is baggage ― the kind of socio-sexual-psychological baggage that has kept certain fai...
Cine France opens its spring line-up

Mar 8, 2011

To the joy of the many French movie fans in Korea, Cine France announced Tuesday the lineup for the March-April season, which is currently running at Dongsoong Art Center in Dongsung-dong, central Se...
Korean movies top box office charts

Mar 8, 2011

South Korean movies have been dominating the country’s cinemas since the start of this year. The Korean Film Council announced on Monday that 8.48 million people watched Korean films at cinemas in F...
Africa ‘Oscar’ goes to incest movie from Morocco

Mar 7, 2011

OUAGADOUGOU (AFP) ― A Moroccan film about the incestuous rape of a young woman by her father who believes she is demon-possessed scooped the top honors at Africa’s biggest film festival. “Pegase” by...
Box Office

Mar 4, 2011

Hanji (Korea) Opening March 17 Drama. Directed by Im Kwon-taek. Documentary producer Ji-won (Kang Soo-yeon) is making a non-fiction film about hanji, Korea’s traditional handmade paper. While trave...
How director Gore Verbinski wrangled ‘Rango’

Mar 4, 2011

“Animation isn’t a genre” like Westerns, film noir, romance or horror, Gore Verbinski was saying. “It’s just a technique for telling a story.” So when the man behind the hugely popular “Pirates of t...
‘Adjustment Bureau’ aims to be latest hit based on stories of Philip K. Dick

Mar 4, 2011

Philip K. Dick had a flair for spinning science fiction scenarios that were well within the orbit of paranoia. In his novels and short stories, he addressed the tricks of memory and the quirks of rea...
Listen to King George VI’s real speech

Feb 28, 2011

At the Oscars, the night undoubtedly belonged to “The King’s Speech,” which won four Academy Awards, in best picture, director, actor and original screen play. Accepting the award for best original ...
Ashton Kutcher, Sarah Jessica Parker awarded worst actor and actress

Feb 28, 2011

Ashton Kutcher and Sarah Jessica Parker were awarded the worst actor and actress at the Golden Raspberry Awards on Feb. 26, the night before the Oscars, the Telegraph reported Sunday. Ashton Kutch...