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Showing posts with label blockbuster. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 4, 2015

News: Record Sales & Slim Profits for Korean Film Industry in 2014

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By Pierce Conran South Korea's film industry topped the two trillion won mark for the first time in 2014, reaching 2.03 trillion...
Thursday, January 8, 2015

Review: ODE TO MY FATHER Puts Blockbuster Spin On Melodrama

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By Pierce Conran Family takes centre stage in Ode to My Father , a new Korean melodrama that is every bit as bombastic as this year...
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Friday, October 10, 2014

Busan 2014 Review: The Beauty Of THE FATAL ENCOUNTER Is Only Skin Deep

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Part of MKC's coverage of the 19th Busan International Film Festival By Pierce Conran Following a slow few months, commercial...
Friday, March 7, 2014

News: SNOWPIERCER Alert! Mark Your Calendars for June 27th

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By Pierce Conran Snowpiercer is finally getting a stateside release. The internet is saying June 27th but CJ Entertainment is tellin...
Friday, February 7, 2014

Berlinale 2014 Review: Bong Joon-ho's SNOWPIERCER Delivers the Goods

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Part of MKC's coverage of the 64th Berlin International Film Festival. By Pierce Conran Cinema is a medium of motion and if ...
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Monday, August 12, 2013

Korean Box Office: Another Huge Weekend for Snowpiercer and The Terror Live

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Following last weekend's record breaking 4.5 million admissions bonanza, business quelled somewhat over the past frame. However, at 3...
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Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Review: Bong Joon-ho's Snowpiercer Delivers the Goods

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Cinema is a medium of motion and if anyone understands this, it appears to be Bong Joon-ho, whose visionary new work is a demented and s...
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Monday, July 15, 2013

Korean Box Office: Pacific Rim Cashes in on Korea's Robot-philia

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Business was a healthy 2.62 million admissions (in line with last year) over the frame as two big releases duked it out for the top spot....
Friday, April 26, 2013

UDINE 2013: The Thieves (도둑들, 2012)

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Part of MKC's coverage of the 15th Udine Far East Film Festival. The most anticipated Korean film of the year, with its dazzling ...
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Wednesday, August 22, 2012

KOFFIA 2012: War of the Arrows (최종병기 활, Choi-jong-byeong-gi Hwal) 2011

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Part of  MKC's coverage  of the 3rd Korean Film Festival in Australia (previously published). It’s about time I threw my hat into...

R2B: Return to Base (R2B: 리턴투베이스) 2012

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Following the disastrous performance of CJ’s high profile releases last year, such as Sector 7 and My Way , the assumption was that the ...
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Monday, August 20, 2012

The Thieves (도둑들, Dodookdeul) 2012

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The most anticipated Korean film of the year, with its dazzling cast and international locations, opened late last month and has since ...
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Friday, June 29, 2012

NYAFF 2012: War of the Arrows (최종병기 활, Choi-jong-byeong-gi Hwal) 2011

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Part of  MKC's coverage  of the 11th New York Asian Film Festival. It’s about time I threw my hat into the ring and chimed in on ...
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Thursday, November 10, 2011

Sector 7 (7-gwang-goo) 2011

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Straight off the bat I can say that the most anticipated Korean blockbuster of 2011, aside from Christmas’ war epic My Way from Jang Je-gyu...
Saturday, June 18, 2011

Typhoon (Tae-poong) 2005

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Kwak Kyung-taek’s Typhoon was a major blockbuster that hit South Korean screens in the winter of 2005 and wound up with an impressive 4 mil...