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Vol. 124 | 21. Jun. 2016

History of Korean Films at US Box Office

by Pierce Conran / Jun 16, 2016

Changing Landscape of Distributors and Demographics Korean cinema entered a new era of prosperity in the late 1990s and it didn’t take long for the rest of the world to take notice. While international film festivals got the jump on the industry’s renaissance, around the dawn of the new millennium distributors also got into the fray as K…



JEONG Ha-dam of WILD FLOWERS and STEEL FLOWER	The Boys Who Cried Wolf	No. 3
“I don’t want to act a character that I do not fully understand” Wild …	Director KIM Jin-hwang Release Date Jun 02, 2016	Director SONG Neung-han Release Date Aug 20, 1997

KAFA to Hold a Special Event to Celebrate the 10th Anniversary of Its Feature Film Directing Program

by HA Jung-min / Jun 21, 2016

“KAFA: Ten-year-old Story”, LEE Je-hoon and KIM Go-eun Appointed as Honorary Ambassadors

Korean Academy of Film Arts (KAFA) is holding a special event in September to celebrate the 10th anniversary of its feature film directing program, called “KAFA: Ten-year-old Story…

			More Territories Call Out to THE WAILING by Pierce Conran / Jun 20, 2016 NA Hong-jin’s Cannes Horror-Thriller Sells for FINECUT				TRAIN TO BUSAN Books Ride to North America by Pierce Conran / Jun 20, 2016 Well Go USA Doubles Up on Korean Cannes Pickups after THE WAILING
			PARK Chan-wook Publishes THE HANDMAIDEN Photo Book by HA Jung-min / Jun 20, 2016 More than 110 photos that PARK Took at Film Location				KIM Jee-woon’s THE AGE OF SHADOWS Books September … by Pierce Conran / Jun 17, 2016 Period Action-Thriller with SONG Kang-ho Out in Time for Chuseok
			Filming for SPECIAL CITIZEN with CHOI Min-shik Get… by Pierce Conran / Jun 17, 2016 Mayoral Drama Co-Stars KWAK Do-won				CJ Hatches China Remakes for VETERAN, SALUT D’AMOU… by Pierce Conran / Jun 17, 2016 Korea-China Co-Productions Expected in Theaters 2017
			JK YOUN Signs on to Korea-China Co-Production by Pierce Conran / Jun 16, 2016 Dexter, Wanda Join Forces for KUNG FU ROBOT				Hyun-bin Signs Up for KKUN by Pierce Conran / Jun 16, 2016 Con Artist Thriller to Co-Star YOO Ji-tae
			LEE Byung-hun to Receive Star Asia Award at NYAFF by Pierce Conran / Jun 22, 2016 11 Korean Films Head to New York				NIFFF to Close with PARK Chan-wook’s THE HANDMAIDE… by Pierce Conran / Jun 22, 2016 SEOUL STATION and THE PRIESTS also Invited to Neuchatel

THE JUNGLE BOOK Swings onto the Top

by Pierce Conran / Jun 15, 2016

Busy Frame at Korean Box Office

The back and forth tussle between local and foreign fare continues at the Korean box office as a large amount of new Hollywood tentpoles swung the market share back in their favor with US releases accounting for 73% of the marketplace during a very busy frame. Overall business rose more than 60% week on week, reaching 2.81 million admissions. Open…

	The Jungle Book W : $4,713,458 \| 619,170 Adms T : $12,766,148 \| 1,706,142 Adms.
	Proof of Innocence W : $3,096,165 \| 429,488 Adms T : $3,807,954 \| 537,875 Adms.
	1 The Conjuring 2 W : $3,061,227 \| 420,143 Adms T : $8,833,419 \| 1,247,480 Adms.
	1 The Handmaiden W : $2,117,007 \| 284,676 Adms T : $26,522,212 \| 3,711,447 Adms.
	3 Warcraft W : $1,523,885 \| 193,593 Adms T : $7,943,710 \| 1,044,767 Adms.