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During usually quiet weekend, movies see bump in ticket sales
In the final weekend of 2018, “Aquaman” still led the pack at the box office, but other films like “Mary Poppins Returns,” “The Mule” and “Second Act” enjoyed post-holiday bumps too, even amid an onslaught of new Christmas offerings like “Vice,” “Hol…
Jan 01,2019
Lee Sun-kyun is more than romantic: Heartthrob plays a North Korean doctor in new action film ‘Take Point’
This year was a turning point for actor Lee Sun-kyun. He took on two important roles: one in the tvN series “My Mister” and another in the film “Take Point,” which was released last Wednesday. Neither one of them is a romance. Lee, usually known f…
Dec 31,2018
Hit anime ‘Mirai’ is coming to Korea
“Mirai” is a coming-of-age Japanese anime film that shows time travel through the eyes of a young boy named Kun, who has a newborn sister named Mirai. The film has gained international acclaim and is set to hit theaters in Korea on Jan. 16. Di…
Dec 28,2018
This year’s trends in Korean film: Women, word-of-mouth define 2018 at the cinema
The growing prevalence of movie streaming giants like Netflix is worrying many cinema chains, but these new filmmaking giants actually had a limited impact on Korean cinema this year. Local cinemas sold more than 200 million tickets this year fo…
Dec 26,2018
2018.12.26 Now Playing
Bumblebee (12) Action, Sci-fi/ 114 / English / Dec. 25 A prequel to 2007’s “Transformers,” “Bumblebee” is the sixth installment in the live-action “Transformers” film series. Set in 1987, the movie begins on the Autobots’ home planet of …
Dec 26,2018
Yoon Kye-sang hopes to highlight forgotten history: In his latest film, the actor plays a scholar working on a hangul dictionary
As far as many people are concerned, Yoon Kye-sang has long been a popular star at the center of the public eye. The 41-year-old shot to stardom as a member of the popular first-generation K-pop group g.o.d, which debuted in 1991 and is behind hi…
Dec 22,2018
When a good guy goes bad: In “The Drug King,” Song Kang-ho plays a smuggler who becomes a kingpin
While there have been several Korean films over the years that indirectly deal with drugs, like the 2006 noir action title “Bloody Tie” - a story about a drug dealer and a hard-nosed cop trying to arrest him - the topic remains a taboo theme to featu…
Dec 20,2018
‘Take Point’ offers new perspective on action
Actor Ha Jung-woo has again teamed up with “The Terror, Live” (2013) director Kim Byung-woo for the upcoming action movie “Take Point.” After being worked on for the past five years, the movie will finally get a theatrical release later this month…
Dec 20,2018
[N.American Box Office] ‘Spider-Verse’ swings into action, while ‘Mortal Engines’ tanks
LOS ANGELES - “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” swung to the top of the domestic box office in its first weekend in theaters, proving that there is widespread audience interest in big screen animated versions of Marvel’s marquee superheroes. T…
Dec 18,2018
[Korean Box Office] ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ shoots back up to the top: Korea is now the film’s highest grossing market after North America
Over a relatively quiet box office weekend, the sensation that is “Bohemian Rhapsody” continued to rock. In its seventh weekend, the movie, about the popular British rock band Queen and its lead singer Freddie Mercury, climbed back up the box of…
Dec 18,2018
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