Happy New Year 2008
from Everything Lee Byung Hun, soompi.com
Archive for December, 2007
31
Dec
07
A New Day
30
Dec
07
Calendar for 2008
Gist provided by ylin-EverythingLBH, soompi.com
김용호기자 yhkim@newsis.com
Source of article» news.empas.com
This article is about 2008 photo calendars of Korean stars which are very popular in Japan.
Lee Byung Hun’s which were made of natural, “unplanned” photographs were very impressive, those by Won Bin were taken in Thailand and Choi Ji Woo had hers taken in Paris, which has the theme of “travelling alone”.
All three Korean celebrities shared a similar Japanese publisher in handling their official calendars for fans worldwide.
29
Dec
07
Stop! GBW is coming!
Dec 26, 2007
“Stop, Jeon Do-yeon!” the male actors are coming back to screen in 2008
Article translated by www.hancinema.net
There had been true ‘Woman’s power’ in Korean cinema this year. The ‘Cannes Lady’, Jeon Do-yeon, who is sweeping through all year-end film awards, is the 2007’s queens of the Queen without any further questions. From “200 Pounds Beauty”’s ‘ Cinderella ‘ Kim Ah-joong; ‘Shadows in the Palace”’s heroin Park Jin-hee and the returned world star Kim Yoon-jin in “Seven Days”; Kim Hye-soo, who never stops being one character in films such as “The War Of Flower”, “A Good Day to Have an Affair”, “Shim’s Family” and “Eleventh Mom”; Kim Tae-hee in “Venus and Mars”, who tries to take off her angelic image built from various commercial films; to the newbie Han Ye-seul with her debut film, “Miss Gold Digger”. Countless beautiful female actors made their own characteristic appeals and produced good results in both local and international arena.
On upcoming New Year, the top male actors are returning to screen, already heating up the atmosphere. First of all, the two most popular Hallyu stars, Song Seung-heon and kwon Sang-woo’s new film, ‘Destiny’ is to be released early next year. ‘Destiny’ is Song Seung-heon’s coming back to the screen after completion of his military service. It’s an action noir based on four friend’s friendship, loyalty and betrayal. ‘Destiny’ is the second film of Director Kim Hae-gon, who wrote the scenario of “Failan” and directed “The Unbearable Lightness of Dating”. In addition to these two top stars, other casts include Ji Seong, Kim In-kwon and Park Han-byeol.
There is no other film which has greater naming value than “The Good, the Bad and the Weird” with the ‘Big 3′, Song Kang-ho, Lee Byeong-Heon and Jeong Woo-seong. The film is set in the Manchuria Plain in tumultuous 1930s where the three men are chasing and being chased by each other. It is directed by Director Kim Ji-woon, who is well-known for his previous films including “A Tale of Two Sisters” and “A Bittersweet Life”. Already the movie fans are excited by the Korean style Western movie produced by these four men.
Director, Kwak Gyeong-taek, who made a comeback with his latest film “a LOVE”, is preparing for his next film”, Eye for an eye”. Han Seok-Kyu plays the role of animal-instincted police while Cha Seung-won plays a bold thief who is daring enough to steal before one’s eye.
One top of this, the ‘pretty boy’ Jo In-Seong, and Joo Jin-mo’s new film ‘Ssanghwa Store’ by Director Yoo Ha is also on 2008’s waiting list. The excitement is building up largely due to the fact that these two handsome actors are in a homosexual relationship in the film.
Moreover, it’s interesting to see the transformation of the ‘cool guys’ into ‘villains’. First time ever in his acting career, Kwan Sang-woo play the villain who betrays his friend; while Lee Byeong-Heon plays as a hired murderer, ‘the Bad’; and Cha Seung-won as a cold-hearted criminal. They are determined to give a double pleasure to the movie fans through their new transformation.
Original Korean article at news.naver.com
26
Dec
07
2008 movie treats
Source: update 1 update 2 update 3
Thanks to Hyc-EverythingLBH, soompi.com for the gist; image from donga.com
The gist of the 3 news articles is mainly about Korean movies to be released in 2008.
2008 K-movies would be concentrating on male actors, unlike 2007 K-movies which concentrated more on the actresses.
It also mentions about the villain transformation of actors like Lee Byung Hun in ‘The Good, The Bad, The Weird’ and Kwon Sang Woo in ‘Fate/Destiny’.
It is expected that 2008 released movies would give a new turning point for Korean movie industry in domestic and foreign market, which is said to be weakening recently.
24
Dec
07
Christmas 2007
Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays
from Everything Lee Byung Hun, soompi.com
22
Dec
07
Parii PhotoBook update
Highlight provided by ylin-EverythingLBH
パリイ月と日 special edition イ・ビョンホン最新写真集―a monochromeman in a monochromecity (単行本)
by 鋤田 正義 (著)
Price: ￥2,625 (Tax Included)
Product Details
Publisher: 角川SSコミュニケーションズ (2007/12/13)
ISBN-10: 4827530793
ISBN-13: 978-4827530797
Release Date: 2007/12/13
Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 7.2 x 0.8 inches
Now available at » www.amazon.co.jp
19
Dec
07
Storm Shadow is here!
More at beyondhollywood.com thanks to jhing at EverythingLBH-soompi.com for the highlight
Byung-Hun Lee is Storm Shadow, Rachel Nichols is Scarlett in G.I. Joe
Speaking of intriguing casting announcements. It’s been confirmed by IESB that South Korean movie star Byung-Hun Lee (”A Bittersweet Life” and the upcoming Josh Hartnett movie “I Come with the Rain”) will be playing none other than the ninja Storm Shadow in the upcoming live-action G.I. Joe movie! This means Byung-Hun Lee will be going up against Ray Park as Snake Eyes.
19
Dec
07
Paramount Casting GI JOE
Source: www.iesb.net
Asian movie star, Byung-Hun Lee, has been cast as Storm Shadow in Paramount Pictures’ GI JOE. He will be playing a character with a dark and complex history who is one of the most popular and enigmatic characters of the GI JOE universe. According to GI JOE lore, Storm Shadow was trained by the same Ninja master as Snake Eyes, a member of the elite GI JOE team, but now fights against him.
16
Dec
07
Reel list
FILMOGRAPHY
All movies produced in Korea unless stated otherwise
The Good, The Bad & The Weird (2008)
» Official website » Cine21 » soompi fan club » soompi thread
I Come With The Rain (2008, US-French collaboration)
» Official website » Cine21 » soompi fan club » soompi thread
HERO (2007, Japanese-cameo)
» Official website » Cine21 » soompi thread
Once in a Summer (2006)
» Official website » Cine21 » soompi thread
A Bittersweet Life (2005)
» Official website » Cine21 » soompi fan club » soompi thread
Everybody Has Secrets (2004)
» Official website » Cine21 » soompi thread
Three, Monster aka Three, Extremes – CUT (2004, Korea-Japan-HongKong horror compilation)
» Official website » Cine21 » soompi thread
Addiction aka The Poisoning (2002)
» Cine21 » soompi thread
My Beautiful Girl, Ma-ri (2002, animation)
» Official website » Cine21
Bungee Jumping of Their Own (2000)
» Official website » Cine21 » soompi thread
Joint Security Area – JSA (2000)
» Official website » Cine21 » soompi thread
Extras (1998)
» Cine21
Harmonium in My Memory (1998)
» Cine21 » soompi thread
Elegy of the Earth aka Lament (1997)
» Cine21
Kill the Love (1996)
» Cine21
Who Makes Me Crazy (1995)
» Cine21
Runaway (1995)
» Cine21
Armageddon (1995, animation)
» Cine21
Info from Cine21, compiled by Everything Lee Byung Hun-soompi.com
11
Dec
07
On the radio
Info & gist provided by ylin-EverythingLBH, soompi.com
Original source at www.tfm.co.jp1 » www.tfm.co.jp2
秋元康のMature style 20:00-20:55 » Tokyo FM 80.00MHz, 16 Dec 2007
独占！イ・ビョンホン×秋元康！
韓国を代表するスーパースター、イ・ビョンホンがついに登場！
気になる次回の作品、今だから語ることのできるアリーナツアーの裏話、
そしてイ・ビョンホンが初めて語る「大人の女性」とは？
日本中を魅了したあのキラースマイルに秋元康が迫ります。
★ここでしか手に入れることができない
直筆サイン入りイ・ビョンホン2008カレンダーをプレゼント
Exclusively – Lee Byung Hun x Yasushi Akimoto.
South Korean superstar Lee Byung Hun finally appear.
He will be talking about his next work, inside story of the Arena Tour and for the first time “Matured Woman”.
Yasushi Akimoto approaches the killer smile that enchanted Japan.
Also giving away – autographed Lee Byung Hun 2008 calendars.
January 11
GBW stage-greet gif from GBW-cafe.daum
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