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If Parasite‘s stunning wins at the Oscars has you craving more horror out of South Korea, you’ll definitely want to check out the trailer for The Closet, embedded at the top of the article. The film, written and directed by […]

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‘Tis the season for the “mystery thriller” in South Korea: thriller films with a creepy atmosphere to them or out-and-out horror thrillers. After “The Closet” and “Call” this month, March will see the release of debutante director Son Won-pyung’s “Intruder”.

Synopsis

Seo-jin is a popular architect. He suffers from a trauma when his younger sister Yoo-jin went missing years ago when he was a child. 25 years after her disappearance, Yoo-jin comes back to her family. Seo-jin feels something is not right with Yoo-jin.

“Intruder” stars Song Ji-hyo (“Unstoppable“) as Yoo-jin and Kim Moo-yeol as her brother Seo-jin. Providing the two support are veteran actors Ye Soo-jung (“Herstory”) and Choi Sang-hoon.

South Korea celebrated the centennial of the country’s cinema in style. “Parasite” became the first film to win the coveted Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival as well as the first film to be nominated for and win a Golden Globe award after being nominated for both Best Director and Best Foreign Language Film, eventually being awarded the Best Foreign Language Film of the year. Commercially as well, Korean films enjoyed a successful year, with both “Extreme Job” and “Exit” benefiting from a strong word of mouth to secure their places among the highest grossing Korean films of all time at the domestic box office. Simultaneously, independent cinema also flourished last year, with several smaller films winning big at various international film festivals around the globe, sending hopeful signs for the country’s independent cinema.

Naturally, expectations are high from what Korean cinema has to offer this year.

South Korean production giants Cj Entertainment had quite a successful 2019. Beginning the year with “Extreme Job”, which benefitted from such a strong word-of-mouth that it went on two become the second most successful Korean film of all time at the domestic box office, their hit record continued later in the year with the record-breaking “Parasite” and furthered their commercial success for the year with the disaster comedy “Exit”. Their last film of the year, “Ashfall”, is still running successfully in the cinemas when promotions have already started for their next release and it looks as though they will be beginning 2020 as they ended 2019: with a film starring Ha Jung-woo.

Synopsis

After his daughter disappears without a trace in the new home, a mysterious man who claims to know secrets approaches the desperate man who searches for his daughter.

Fresh from trying to save Korea from a volcanic eruption in...

NEW YORK -- Bend It Like Beckham helmer Gurinder Chadha will direct a remake of Francis Veber's French-language comedy The Closet (Le Placard) for Miramax Films and producer Lorne Michaels. Closet follows a bland accountant, on the verge of being fired, whose next-door neighbor devises a plan that may enable him to keep his job if he can successfully convince his boss that he is gay. Miramax released the original Veber version, which starred Daniel Auteuil and Gerard Depardieu, in 2001. Paul Mayeda Berges will adapt the screenplay with Chadha. Michaels will produce, with Jill Messick executive producing.

NEW YORK -- Bend It Like Beckham helmer Gurinder Chadha will direct a remake of Francis Veber's French-language comedy The Closet (Le Placard) for Miramax Films and producer Lorne Michaels. Closet follows a bland accountant, on the verge of being fired, whose next-door neighbor devises a plan that may enable him to keep his job if he can successfully convince his boss that he is gay. Miramax released the original Veber version, which starred Daniel Auteuil and Gerard Depardieu, in 2001. Paul Mayeda Berges will adapt the screenplay with Chadha. Michaels will produce, with Jill Messick executive producing.

PARIS -- Co-producers Gaumont and French production company LGM said Wednesday that Gerard Depardieu and Daniel Auteuil will be pitted against each other as rival policemen battling to get the same girl and the same job in 36, a thriller by French director Olivier Marchal. The two French stars will be teaming up for the second time, following their 2001 comedy Le Placard (The Closet), with shooting scheduled for February in France. The film, called 36 to signify the address of Paris' police headquarters at 36 Quai des Orfevres, is Marchal's second. Like his first film, Gangsters, 36 will explore the confrontation between two powerful policemen who are forced to resolve their conflicts within the boundaries of their profession. "The story is about two people with a great depth to their personalities, and, like the French classic The Count of Monte Cristo, it has grandeur, decadence and vengeance woven into the plot," said Cyril Colbeau-Justin, head of LGM, which also produced Gangsters. "This is more than mere suspense," he added. Gaumont, which will co-produce and finance the film, declined comment on the picture's budget, which according to French film weekly Ecran Total will be €13.5 million ($15.4 million). The film is due to be released by the end of 2004.

PARIS -- Gaumont posted a €9.3 million ($9.2 million) net loss in the first half of 2002, compared with a profit of €62.9 million for the same period in 2001, according to results released Tuesday. Revenue was down more than 46% to €33.8 million ($33.3 million), compared with €62.3 million. Gaumont attributed the difference to the success of last year's Les Visiteurs en Amerique and The Closet, which racked up more than 5 million admissions. Their best offering in the beginning of this year, The Raid, sold only 1.4 million tickets. Gaumont also cited investments that will not mature until 2003 or 2004 for its sub-par showing. Total capital for the group rose to €146.6 million ($144.4 million), with total debts at €30.9 million ($30.4 million).