By Pierce Conran After helming a low-key music drama ( The Beat Goes On ) and a romantic comedy ( Whatcha Wearin'? ), director Byun...

Every Friday I appear on a segment called Reel Talk for Arirang TV on the 2 o'clock news, mostly covering Korean cinema. There'...

By Pierce Conran In an unusual move, Paramount announced earlier this month that their summer tentpole Terminator: Genisys would not b...

In its first four days, 20, Once Again! , the Chinese version of Korean hit  Miss Granny , topped China's box office with $19.9 milli...

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

Korean cinema has gotten very good at staging impressive onscreen spectacle in recent years. Though $10 million budgets used to be a rare...

It was only last summer that Korea released its first film featuring a deadly disease when Deranged became a big hit in June. Coming fro...

Not a huge news week, the main item being that Snow Piercer is finally underway but some interesting features and tidbits nonetheless, incl...

I started the weekly Korean Cinema News feature at the beginning of April of this year and over the past nine months it has become more comp...

The big news in Korea this week is the death of the leader of the North, Kim Jong-il.  Given that he was a known cinephile I have included a...