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'Super Rich in Korea' will leave viewers appreciating Korea more: producers
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Probe of first lady on Dior bag allegations set to begin
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Top prosecutor pledges 'speedy, strict' probe into first lady's luxury bag allegations
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'Queen of Tears' riding high on Netflix chart
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With Indonesia unable to pay full share, what’s next for KF-21 fighter project?
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[KH Explains] Can tech firms' AI alliances take on Nvidia?
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Speaker floats dual citizenship as solution to falling births
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[Grace Kao, Meera Choi] Has money displaced romance on dates?
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Local filmmakers criticize ‘The Roundup: Punishment’ monopoly of screens
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Police seek arrest warrant for med student who killed girlfriend
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Two genres mix in unique fortuneteller tale
Director Shin Jeong-won returns with comic-horror movie ‘Ghost Sweepers’One of the most anticipated local films this year was finally unveiled on Monday, mixing two seemingly irreconcilable genres for a unique fortuneteller tale featuring malicious ghosts and crime.“Ghost Sweepers” is director Shin Jeong-won’s ambitious project to create another film that belongs to his own, distinctive style, which he calls as the genre of “comic-horror.” The film, a fortuneteller tale taking place in Korea’s r
Sept. 25, 2012
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Kim Ki-duk to close screening of ‘Pieta’ as audience tops 500,000
South Korean director Kim Ki-duk said on Monday he will finish screening his internationally acclaimed film “Pieta” in South Korea by early next month to give more opportunities to other low-budget films as it has already drawn a large audience.“My infinitely dismal film ‘Pieta’ topped the 500,000 mark in audience members last weekend,” Kim said in an open letter sent through the film‘s local promotion company to his fans. “For me, the movie is as successful as a movie that obtained more than 5
Sept. 24, 2012
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‘Bittersweet Life’ set for remake
The Korean thriller, “Bittersweet Life,” which starred iconic actor Lee Byung-hun, is poised to be remade in Hollywood. Writer and director Kim Ji-woon’s 2005 crime thriller was about the turmoil involving family rivalries in the Korean mob.Allen Hughes, producer of the popular Jack the Ripper horror film “From Hell,” which starred Hollywood actors Johnny Depp and Heather Graham, will be in charge of the film’s remake, according to an online news outlet. Huges also directed the post-apocalyptic
Sept. 23, 2012
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Spy (Korea)Opened Sept. 20Drama. Comedy. Action. Directed by Woo Min-ho. Agent Kim (Kim Myeong-min) is a typical family man who lives with his wife and two children, struggling with rising rent and low pay, which he earns from selling illegal Viagra imported from China. But, that is just a camouflage. For 22 years, Kim, a North Korean agent, has lived a double life, disguised as an ordinary man. After 10 years of not hearing from his mother country, brutal agent director Choi (Yoo Hae-jin) finds
Sept. 21, 2012
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‘The Master’: Much ado about not much
The first hour of Paul Thomas Anderson’s “The Master” contains some of the most rapturous filmmaking of the year.The time is post-World War II America. The streets gleam with hope and possibility. Freddie Quell (Joaquin Phoenix), an emotionally disturbed loner who already had trouble fitting in with his fellow sailors in the Navy, has landed a job as a portrait photographer at a swanky department store. The superb cinematographer Mihai Malaimare Jr. (“Tetro,” “Youth Without Youth”) lights the se
Sept. 21, 2012
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Cinema box offices on course for record year
The number of movie tickets sold at domestic theaters is expected to hit a record high this year, thanks to the growing popularity of Korean films.According to the Korean Film Council, 128 million tickets were sold at movie theaters in the first eight months, an increase of 20.2 percent from the same period last year. If the number continues this trend for the rest of the year, the tally for all of 2012 will reach 180 million, a 13 percent increase from 160 million last year, officials said.The
Sept. 20, 2012
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Film festival opens in North Korea
PYONGYANG (AP) ― An international film festival opened Thursday in what may seem the unlikeliest of places: North Korea.Held every two years, the Pyongyang International Film Festival offers North Koreans their only chance to see a wide array of foreign films on the big screen ― from Britain, Germany and elsewhere (but not America). And it’s the only time foreigners are allowed into North Korean theaters to watch movies alongside locals.This year, festivalgoers will get the chance to see two fea
Sept. 20, 2012
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Hollywood stars to descend on San Sebastian film festival
Strong presence of U.S.-made films to bring a touch of glamour to festival of low-budget filmsMADRID (AFP) ― A galaxy of stars including John Travolta and Ewan McGregor will flock to the San Sebastian film festival which gets under way Friday in the northern Spanish coastal city.“This year is a bit special because it is the festival’s 60th anniversary. For this reason we have made a strong bet on major stars who can also bring glamour,” festival director Jose Luis Rebordinos told AFP.The festiva
Sept. 20, 2012
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Kim Ki-duk’s Pieta sees strong overseas sales
South Korean director Kim Ki-duk’s new film “Pieta” has achieved many significant sales deals since its Golden Lion win at the Venice International Film Festival early this month, according to the film‘s sales agency.Pieta’s sales agency Finecut said on Thursday that it signed four deals to distribute the movie to foreign countries after receiving multiple bids for the rights during the recently closed Toronto International Film Festival.The deals are in addition to previously announced sales to
Sept. 20, 2012
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Korean films to be screened in New York art museum
A Korean film festival will open in New York this week to offer insight into contemporary Korean cinema to movie goers in the city, the event’s local sponsors said Tuesday.Twelve select films ranging from works by Korean film pioneer, late director Shin Sang-ok to the latest film by the world-acclaimed director Hong Sang-soo will be screened for the film festival at the Modern Art Museum (MoMA) on Sept. 19-30, Hyundai Card, an affiliate of Hyundai Motor Group, said in a release.Co-hosted by MoMA
Sept. 18, 2012
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Filipino exchange student takes film on poverty to Pyongyang
With a tuft of bushy blond bangs, his slight frame and beaming smile held up designer jeans and a trendy school bag. But Nash Ang’s boyishness belied a cinematic penchant for revealing the grueling poverty in the Philippines.In his hour-long documentary, “Live To Dive” (Lusong), Ang explores how Totoy, 11, and Pirot, 10, eke out a living for their families by diving for scraps of garbage like discarded plastic bottles and bits of metal in the severely polluted waters beside the ramshackle area o
Sept. 18, 2012
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Keira Knightley: ‘I had no life’ besides acting
NEW YORK (AP) ― Keira Knightley seems to be in a good place personally and professionally. She’s engaged to marry musician James Righton and stars in the film adaptation of “Anna Karenina’’ alongside Jude Law.The 27-year-old tells Vogue magazine’s October issue, there was a time when she wasn’t in such a good place.She recalls a time when the fame from such roles as “Bend it like Beckham’’ and the “Pirates of the Caribbean’’ franchise was too intense. She says she “literally had no life outside
Sept. 17, 2012
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Neeson returns with ‘Taken 2’
Irish actor says he likes ‘Oldboy’ and ‘The Chaser’ during his visit to KoreaActor Liam Neeson, famous for his role as the vengeful father in Luc Besson’s 2008 high-grossing film “Taken,” said the thriller has made him an “action figure” in Hollywood, during his first visit to Seoul on Monday. The Irish actor arrived in Korea on Saturday to promote the 2008 movie’s sequel, “Taken 2.”“I seem to be have been re-envisioned as an action figure ever since the first ‘Taken’ came out,” the actor told r
Sept. 17, 2012
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N.K. movie to be screened at Busan festival
A joint North Korean-European movie will be shown in an international movie festival to be held in South Korea next month, the Unification Ministry said Friday.The ministry said it has approved the screening of “Comrade Kim Goes Flying,” a film jointly directed by North Korean, English and Belgian directors, during the Busan International Film Festival, which will kick off on Oct. 4 for a 10-day run. Handling of North Korean publications or other materials is prohibited in the South.“The ministr
Sept. 16, 2012
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Masquerade (Korea)Opened Sept. 13Drama. Directed by Choo Chang-min. In the midst of a gruesome fight over kingship in the Joseon period, fear and wrath drives King Gwanghae (Lee Byung-hun) into a frenzy. He orders his councilor, Heo Gyun (Ryoo Seung-ryong), to find him a double to avoid the constant threat of assassination. Heo Gyun finds Ha-sun (Lee Byung-hun) in a crowd of drunkards at a street market. With the appearance and mind-blowing eloquence of a king, he mimics the gestures of the king
Sept. 14, 2012
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Starlets and causes come and go, but Susan Sarandon endures
Susan Sarandon has always made it look so easy.Generations of actresses launch careers and then flame out. Sarandon, 65, “transitioned” ― from ingenue to leading lady to strong female lead to “cougar” to stellar turns as moms. As others come and go, Sarandon reinvents herself and endures.“It’s just managing to get the part you need when you need it,” she says. “I just survived. I don’t understand how I’ve stuck around, and I have no idea what to say when people ask me how. I’ve made plenty of mi
Sept. 14, 2012
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‘Pieta’ headed to Academy Awards
Director Kim Ki-duk’s Venice International Film Festival prize-winning “Pieta” has been selected as Korea’s entry to the 85th Academy Award’s foreign film section, the Korean Film Council announced on Thursday.A total of five films, including “Taste of Money” by director Im Sang-soo, “In Another Country” by director Hong Sang-soo, “Nameless Gangster” by Yun Jong-bin and “Masquerade” by Choo Chang-min applied to the film council to be considered as Korea’s entry to the Academy Awards. “Pieta” was
Sept. 13, 2012
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Ex-007 Roger Moore 'beaten up by first two wives'
Former James Bond actor Roger Moore has claimed he was a victim of domestic violence during his first two marriages, it emerged on Wednesday.The 84-year-old British star, who first played agent 007 in 1973's "Live and Let Die", said his former wives Doorn Van Steyn and Dorothy Squires subjected him to a string of attacks in both of their doomed marriages.Van Steyn, an ice skater who married Moore
Sept. 13, 2012
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DMZ Docs look at peace, communication
The 4th Korean International Documentary Film Festival to showcase 115 nonfiction films from 36 countriesThe annual Korean International Documentary Film Festival (DMZ Docs) kicks off this month, featuring a total of 115 nonfiction films from 36 countries.Celebrating the themes of peace, life and communication, the festival always takes place in Paju, a South Korean border city in Gyeonggi Province. The city is located near the demilitarized zone (DMZ) separating North and South Korea, a line re
Sept. 12, 2012
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Director Cameron’s company files for bankruptcy
PORT ST. LUCIE, Florida (AP) ― The digital production company founded by “Titanic’’ director James Cameron has filed for bankruptcy protection in the U.S. and Canada and reached a deal to sell its operating business to a private investment firm for $15 million.Digital Domain Media Group Inc., best known for its work on “Titanic,’’ filed in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware, along with a Canadian court, the company said Tuesday.The sale agreement with Searchlight Capital Part
Sept. 12, 2012