South Korea's sensational survival drama "Squid Game" has been nominated in two categories at an annual US awards ceremony for lower-budget indie movies and TV series. According to the nominations of the 2021 Gotham Awards released Thursday (US time), "Squid Game," a Netflix original, was listed in the section of Breakthrough Series – Long Format (over 40 minutes), along with five other TV serie...

Venom: Let There Be Carnage (US) Opened Oct. 13 Action Directed by Andy Serkis Eddie Brock (Tom Hardy) struggles to adjust to life as the host of the alien Venom. One day, serial killer Cletus Kasady (Woody Harrelson) escapes from prison after becoming the host of Carnage, a chaotic spawn of Venom. With Kasady and Carnage on the loose, the city turns to chaos. Stillwater (US) Opened Oct. ...

“I still continue to take kickboxing lessons. Now I can see that I should have been more active and physical in some scenes” Han said. She also felt that the series made her realize that sincerity always pays off. “I had never done an exercise before shooting ‘My Name.’ I had to start from zero. But I suddenly found myself enjoying the heart-thumping action scenes. Because I wholeheartedly took...

Kim was surprised to see fans go wild over actor Han So-hee at the 26th Busan International Film Festival, where the first three episodes of “My Name” were screened before its release on Netflix. “The fans’ love for Han was bigger than I expected. There have been action movies featuring female actors in the past. But I felt that the audiences were mesmerized by the fact that vengeance, a widely ...

"Venom: Let There Be Carnage" has dominated the South Korean box office in its opening weekend, topping 1 million total admissions, box office data showed Monday. The sequel to 2018's "Venom" sold a combined 778,000 tickets over the Friday to Sunday period, bringing its combined total to over 1.1 million since its release last Wednesday, according to data from the Korean Film Council. It is the...

Meanwhile, according to BIFF, only one infection was reported during the 10-day festival, without further transmission. Earlier this week, a staffer from an actor’s agency had tested positive for COVID-19 when returning to Seoul, the BIFF said. ”Especially due to the COVID-19 situation, I know that many people showed concerns about our festival. Fortunately, we overcame the difficulties and reac...

Stillwater (US) Opened Oct. 6 Thriller Directed by Tom McCarthy Bill (Matt Damon) visits France to meet his daughter Allison (Abigail Breslin), who is five years into serving a nine-year prison sentence. She is in prison for killing her roommate and unfaithful lover Lina while attending university in France. When Bill meets his daughter he discovers that she could be innocent and tries to fi...

The director also talked about how he had help from modern technology to re-create the Hong Kong of the past. “I had to film 40 years of Hong Kong from the 1960s to 2000. As you know, changes take place in Hong Kong quickly, so most of the location doesn’t exist anymore. So I thought I need some help from CG. We did some research and tried to re-create all the big signboards that used to exist i...

During the conference, Trinidad also introduced the programs that Korean subscribers would be able to watch. “I think the key differentiating factor for Disney+ will be our world-class content and specifically our six iconic brands. We will have content from Marvel, Star Wars, Pixar, National Geographic, Disney animated studios as well as Star, our latest brand that we are introducing into the m...

"Venom: Let There Be Carnage" has beat the opening day total of "Black Widow," the latest Marvel release, in South Korea, data showed Thursday. The sequel to 2018's "Venom" topped the daily box-office chart by selling 203,263 tickets on the first day of its release Wednesday, according to data from the Korean Film Council (KOFIC). For comparison, "Black Widow," the most-watched foreign film for...

South Korea’s best-known short film festival returns under a new name this year. The 19th Gwanghwamun International Short Film Festival is being held at Cinecube in Jongno-gu, Seoul, from Thursday to Oct. 19. A total of 84 movies from 36 countries will be screened during the festival. Opening the event is Elvira Lind’s “The Letter Room,” about a kindhearted prison officer who is transferred to...

Chon began to be recognized with “Gook,” a film about two Korean American brothers, which won the Next Audience Award at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. He also starred in the film’s protagonist Eli. Chon won the jury award at the 13th Dallas Film Festival for “Ms. Purple,” which also centers on Asian Americans. The film earlier premiered in the US drama competition section at the 2019 Sundance...

According to Kim, the audience will see a new side of him in “Perhaps Love.” “Shooting a romance film was always on my wish list, so I enjoyed every bit of my role as Soon-mo. As Hyun’s close friend, being in a secret relationship with Mi-ae may sound ridiculous at first, but you will understand everything about this relationship between the characters after watching the film,” Kim said. The ...

In addition, Oscar-winning Korean actor Youn Yuh-jung’s films will be screened during the festival’s special focus program organized by Mark Morris, a Korean classic film expert and former lecturer of East Asian culture at the University of Cambridge. He has selected films featuring Youn, including “Fire Woman,” directed by auteur Kim Ki-young, “The Housemaid” directed by Im Sang-soo and “The Bac...

Breakdown into how real-life events in South Korea were depicted in “Squid Game”