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Complete coverage of the 13th annual Pusan International Film Festival beginning Oct. 2.
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Netflix and LG Electronics said Sunday that LG will soon introduce TV sets that can screen Netflix movies directly from the Web without an external box.
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A Korean remake, the latest from Chinese director Zhang Yuan and an animated tale from the Czech Republic are among the 36 selections for the next CineMart.
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Universal Music Korea has tapped Beom-Joon "BJ" Yang as its new managing director. He takes the reins on Jan. 1 from interim managing director Phil Murphy, who oversaw the company's rise in the last six months to No. 1 in physical sales of international music.
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South Korea's Constitutional Court ruled last week that the Korea Broadcast Advertising Corp.'s monopoly on ad brokering for leading broadcaster KBS and other terrestrial stations is unconstitutional.
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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has struck a deal to release Sony titles on DVD and Blu-ray under the label United Entertainment Korea.
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SEOUL -- South Korean prosecutors on Wednesday demanded a popular actress who tried to overturn the country's law that criminalizes adultery be thrown in jail for a year and a half for having an affair, local media reported.
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With the world economy in crisis, international treaties and co-productions are transforming the global film sector.
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LOS ANGELES -- "I Am Legend" co-scribe Mark Protosevich is in early talks to pen the remake of "Old Boy" that boxoffice king and "Legend" star Will Smith is developing with director Steven Spielberg.
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SANTA MONICA -- International market trends to emerge at last week's AFM included a shift by several Asian companies toward international production and a continued drive by U.S. players to seek out exotic financing.
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SEOUL -- Warners is withdrawing from the local video and DVD market as of next month. Warner Home Video Korea was the last surviving studio out of six Hollywood majors in the Korean home entertainment unit.
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LOS ANGELES -- The number of buyers attending the American Film Market fell 6% this year -- to 1,527 from 1,628 -- with the biggest drop in attendance among North American buyers.
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HONG KONG -- Sony Pictures Entertainment Networks Asia on Wednesday announced a deal with Korea Telecom's IPTV platform Mega TV to distribute its AXN and Animax Korea channels from Nov. 17.
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LOS ANGELES -- Lifetime Networks is getting its game on in South Korea. The company has acquired Seoul-based casual gaming upstart Roiworld.com and will open a studio there.
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SANTA MONICA -- Korea's CJ Entertainment said Sunday that it had presold its two biggest tentpoles for 2009, with Park Chan-wook's "Thirst" preselling to Palisades Tartan for the U.K. and Bong Joon-ho's "Mother" going to Diaphana for France.
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SANTA MONICA -- Steven Spielberg's camp confirmed that his DreamWorks Pictures is working on a deal to secure the U.S. remake rights to Korean director Park Chan-woo's hit "Old Boy."
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The Hollywood Reporter's Asia editor Jonathan Landreth catches up with Lee to see how he's handling his reign as Hollywood's "Remake King."
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SEOUL - Studio 2.0, a South Korean film production and sales company is seeing brisk business at the American Film Market in Los Angeles. On Thursday it sold a five-title bundle to Thailand’s Rose.
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SANTA MONICA -- Korean companies were in good stead to withstand the slow flow of foot traffic at the AFM on Wednesday, unveiling two major deals with Japanese companies.
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SANTA MONICA -- Myriad Pictures is boarding South Korea's first English-language 3-D animated feature, "Dino Mom." The Santa Monica-based company will partially finance "Dino" and handle world sales, beginning at the AFM.
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SEOUL -- South Korean production company Mirovision is teaming up with M Production to bring writer-director Lee Myung-se's samurai action movie "Youth Is Reckless" to the big screen.
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SEOUL -- Saturday's kickoff of the second annual Pink Film Festival marked another step in the gradual erosion of two long-held Korean taboos. Before the late 1990s, neither erotic films nor films from Japan were shown in Korean cinemas.
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SEOUL -- With its once-thriving film industry in the midst of a slowdown, South Korea is launching a fund it hopes will keep the downturn a short-term affair.
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AMSTERDAM -- Fiber-optic cable has become the biggest single broadband technology in Korea and Japan, which lead the world in the proportion of households connected to the Internet with super-fast links.
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TORONTO -- Upstart Canadian distributor Evokative Films has picked up the Canadian rights to Korean director Ryoo Seung-wan's "Crying Fist" from M-Line Distribution.
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SEOUL -- The dispute over free speech on the Web in South Korea is heating up as a government that once promoted "Internet democracy" debates passage of a law that could tighten controls on Web users.
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