Japanese filmmaker Junji Sakamoto to receive the Screen International Star Asia Lifetime Achievement Award.
The New York Asian Film Festival (Nyaff) has revealed the features that will compete for its Uncaged Award and announced that Japanese filmmaker Junji Sakamoto will receive the Screen International Star Asia Lifetime Achievement Award.
The nine-strong competition for best feature film at the festival, running July 14-30, will include the world premieres of Hong Kong horror Back Home and Chinese films Flaming Cloud and Redemption With Life.
Back Home is a suspense horror that marks the feature directorial debut of Nate Ki and stars Anson...
The New York Asian Film Festival (Nyaff) has revealed the features that will compete for its Uncaged Award and announced that Japanese filmmaker Junji Sakamoto will receive the Screen International Star Asia Lifetime Achievement Award.
The nine-strong competition for best feature film at the festival, running July 14-30, will include the world premieres of Hong Kong horror Back Home and Chinese films Flaming Cloud and Redemption With Life.
Back Home is a suspense horror that marks the feature directorial debut of Nate Ki and stars Anson...
- 6/23/2023
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
Seoul-based sales outfit Finecut has inked a batch of deals for the most recent films from South Korea’s most prolific auteur, Hong Sangsoo. Hong’s latest, In Our Day, which will premiere as the closing title of Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight section on May 25, has sold to France (Capricci), Spain (L’Atalante Cinema) and Greece (Ama Films). The film follows a woman in her 40s, temporarily living at the home of a friend, and a man in his 70s living alone, who both have visitors with serious questions to ask.
Hong’s second most recent feature, In Water, which premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival in February, also has done brisk business at Cannes’ Marche du Film. The movie has sold to France (Arizona Films Distribution), Spain (L’Atalante Cinema) and Taiwan (Cola Films), following its earlier sale to The Cinema Guild for North America.
Finecut has also closed...
Hong’s second most recent feature, In Water, which premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival in February, also has done brisk business at Cannes’ Marche du Film. The movie has sold to France (Arizona Films Distribution), Spain (L’Atalante Cinema) and Taiwan (Cola Films), following its earlier sale to The Cinema Guild for North America.
Finecut has also closed...
- 5/23/2023
- by Patrick Brzeski
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Seoul-based sales agent Finecut has sold Hong Sangsoo’s In Our Day to France’s Capricci, Spain’s L’Atalante Cinema and Ama Films for Greece.
The film, which premieres in Directors Fortnight on May 25, follow a woman in her 40s, temporarily living at the home of a friend, and a man in his 70s living alone, who both have visitors with serious questions to ask.
Hong’s previous film, In Water, which premiered at this year’s Berlin Film Festival, is also selling to multiple territories, including France (Arizona Films Distribution), Spain (L’Atalante Cinema) and Taiwan (Cola Films). The film previously sold to The Cinema Guild for North America.
Finecut has also done brisk business on three titles from young female directors – July Jung’s Next Sohee, Lee Sol-hui’s Greenhouse and Lee Ji-eun’s The Hill of Secrets.
Next Sohee, which premiered in Cannes Critics Week last year,...
The film, which premieres in Directors Fortnight on May 25, follow a woman in her 40s, temporarily living at the home of a friend, and a man in his 70s living alone, who both have visitors with serious questions to ask.
Hong’s previous film, In Water, which premiered at this year’s Berlin Film Festival, is also selling to multiple territories, including France (Arizona Films Distribution), Spain (L’Atalante Cinema) and Taiwan (Cola Films). The film previously sold to The Cinema Guild for North America.
Finecut has also done brisk business on three titles from young female directors – July Jung’s Next Sohee, Lee Sol-hui’s Greenhouse and Lee Ji-eun’s The Hill of Secrets.
Next Sohee, which premiered in Cannes Critics Week last year,...
- 5/22/2023
- by Liz Shackleton
- Deadline Film + TV
Further sales made of Hong’s Berlinale title ‘in water’ and others.
South Korea’s Finecut has closed deals on several titles led by auteur Hong Sangsoo’s In Our Day, which is set to close Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes, and his recent Berlinale title in water.
In Our Day sold to France (Capricci), Spain (L’Atalante Cinema) and Greece (Ama Films) ahead of its premiere on May 25. The feature follows an actress and old poet who each host a visitor and dodge questions posed by their guests using food, drink and games.
The prolific filmmaker’s first feature of this year was in water,...
South Korea’s Finecut has closed deals on several titles led by auteur Hong Sangsoo’s In Our Day, which is set to close Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes, and his recent Berlinale title in water.
In Our Day sold to France (Capricci), Spain (L’Atalante Cinema) and Greece (Ama Films) ahead of its premiere on May 25. The feature follows an actress and old poet who each host a visitor and dodge questions posed by their guests using food, drink and games.
The prolific filmmaker’s first feature of this year was in water,...
- 5/22/2023
- by Jean Noh
- ScreenDaily
“In Our Day,” the film by South Korean auteur Hong Sang-soo which closes the Directors’ Fortnight section of the Cannes film festival, has seen distributors in multiple territories move early to strike rights deals.
French rights were picked up by Capricci), Spanish rights by L’Atalante Cinema and Greek rights by Ama Films. The film has its official premiere on May 25.
Seoul-based Finecut has long been the sales agent for Hong’s plentiful output. In addition to the deals on “In Our Day,” Finecut signed agreements with L’Atalante, with France’s Ariona Films and Taiwan’s Cola Films for “In Water,” Hong’s first film of 2023 which premiered in the Encounters section in Berlin in February. The film was previously sold to Cinema Guild for North America.
Finecut continues to do business on “Next Sohee,” the Jung July film which played at Cannes last year as the closing film of the Critics’Week section.
French rights were picked up by Capricci), Spanish rights by L’Atalante Cinema and Greek rights by Ama Films. The film has its official premiere on May 25.
Seoul-based Finecut has long been the sales agent for Hong’s plentiful output. In addition to the deals on “In Our Day,” Finecut signed agreements with L’Atalante, with France’s Ariona Films and Taiwan’s Cola Films for “In Water,” Hong’s first film of 2023 which premiered in the Encounters section in Berlin in February. The film was previously sold to Cinema Guild for North America.
Finecut continues to do business on “Next Sohee,” the Jung July film which played at Cannes last year as the closing film of the Critics’Week section.
- 5/21/2023
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Alia Bhatt was seen seated next to K-pop singer Iu aka Lee Ji-eun at the Gucci Cruise event in Seoul. The Gangubai Kathiawadi star travelled to Seoul earlier this week to attend the special event.
Alia, who was announced as the brand ambassador of Gucci last week, made her way to the event wearing an all-black outfit with a pair of high-heels. She was seen carrying a transparent bag.
While she posed solo at the event, at teh Gucci Cruise show, she was seated beside the Hotel del Luna star.
A video from inside the event surfaced online, showing Celebrity singer and Alia Bhatt paying attention to the show. For the event, Iu was seen wearing cream outfit.
Alia bhatt sits with korean pop star iu at gucci cruise 2024 Iu...
Alia, who was announced as the brand ambassador of Gucci last week, made her way to the event wearing an all-black outfit with a pair of high-heels. She was seen carrying a transparent bag.
While she posed solo at the event, at teh Gucci Cruise show, she was seated beside the Hotel del Luna star.
A video from inside the event surfaced online, showing Celebrity singer and Alia Bhatt paying attention to the show. For the event, Iu was seen wearing cream outfit.
Alia bhatt sits with korean pop star iu at gucci cruise 2024 Iu...
- 5/17/2023
- by Shweta Ghadashi
- GlamSham
The last time Lee Byeong-heon made a film, he subverted all expectations with “Extreme Job”, a release that juggernauted its way to box office success, becoming the second most successful Korean film of all time at the box office. As a result, his followup to the police action/comedy feature has been anticipated by audiences for a while. That followup is “Dream” a production that saw delays due to the pandemic both in its production and release but is finally gearing up to come to theatres.
Synopsis
You are hopeless, helpless and homeless? No, you are Not!
A top football player Hong-dae gets involved in an assault case and winds up being appointed as the coach for the national football team. This team will compete in the ‘Homeless World Cup'. A documentary producer So-min films their story while Hong-dae struggles to coach the homeless because of his misconceptions about them.
Synopsis
You are hopeless, helpless and homeless? No, you are Not!
A top football player Hong-dae gets involved in an assault case and winds up being appointed as the coach for the national football team. This team will compete in the ‘Homeless World Cup'. A documentary producer So-min films their story while Hong-dae struggles to coach the homeless because of his misconceptions about them.
- 3/28/2023
- by Rhythm Zaveri
- AsianMoviePulse
(Welcome to Under the Radar, a column where we spotlight specific movies, shows, trends, performances, or scenes that caught our eye and deserved more attention ... but otherwise flew under the radar. In this edition: "Return to Seoul" makes its case for Best Actress, "Broker" offers some perspective, and "All That Breathes" reminds us never to underestimate the narrative power of documentaries.)
As much as some may roll their eyes at the pomp and circumstance of awards season, the end of February and the beginning of Oscars March Madness makes it feel even sillier for cynics to pretend like the Academy Awards and other buzzy awards shows don't really matter. All throughout the last month, nine of the 10 Best Picture nominees were playing in theaters nationwide, giving audiences a chance to experience the highlights of 2022's cinematic "canon" for themselves. And you know what? It paid off.
Far too many movies...
As much as some may roll their eyes at the pomp and circumstance of awards season, the end of February and the beginning of Oscars March Madness makes it feel even sillier for cynics to pretend like the Academy Awards and other buzzy awards shows don't really matter. All throughout the last month, nine of the 10 Best Picture nominees were playing in theaters nationwide, giving audiences a chance to experience the highlights of 2022's cinematic "canon" for themselves. And you know what? It paid off.
Far too many movies...
- 3/3/2023
- by Jeremy Mathai
- Slash Film
Sports films are back in demand in Korea, with Shin Yeon-shick’s “One Win”, Lee Byeong-heon’s follow-up to his massively successful “Extreme Job”, “Dream”, starring Park Seo-joon and Lee Ji-eun and the upcoming “Count” starring Jin Sun-kyu being but three titles coming soon in the genre. Yet another name that can be added to the list is “Rebound” by Jang Hang-jun, which takes on the popular sport of basketball.
Synopsis
Joong-Ang High School was once renowned for its high ranked basketball team, but as the years pass and victories grow fewer, the school’s social worker Kang Yang-hyeon who was a former minor league baseball player, becomes the head coach. Left over talent refuses to play under an inexperienced coach, leaving Coach Kang to pull together a ragtag team of sports misfits. The team is pushed to their limits, but one final obstacle threatens to destroy what little hope was left,...
Synopsis
Joong-Ang High School was once renowned for its high ranked basketball team, but as the years pass and victories grow fewer, the school’s social worker Kang Yang-hyeon who was a former minor league baseball player, becomes the head coach. Left over talent refuses to play under an inexperienced coach, leaving Coach Kang to pull together a ragtag team of sports misfits. The team is pushed to their limits, but one final obstacle threatens to destroy what little hope was left,...
- 3/3/2023
- by Rhythm Zaveri
- AsianMoviePulse
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