[Lost Planet] New colonies

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XBox360 LOST PLANET Colonies

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[GBW] Lucky draw to a Cannes screening

Thanks to Janice Chan at EverythingLBH, soompi.com for the translated gist via Baidu.com from article at kr.news.yahoo.com

 

A lucky draw entry is being conducted from April 28 to May 9 in Korea for fans & public to attend the 61st Cannes Film Festival with the GBW team. The final draw will be held on May 13 and the lucky winner will receive a round trip air ticket, one week hotel accomodation & GBW screening at Cannes.

 

Latest individual THE BAD poster, thanks to baidu.com

[Cannes] GBW world premiere

Korean Films to See at Cannes  

By Lee Hyo-won (The Korea Times)
Staff Reporter

1. “The Good, the Bad, the Weird” by Kim Ji-woon.
2. “The Chaser” by Na Hong-jin.
3. “Stop” by Park Jae-wook.
4. “The Housemaid” (1960) by Kim Ki-young. / Courtesy of Korean Film Council

The world’s premier film event, Festival de Cannes, will open for the 61st time May 14-25 in the southern French port city.

While there are no Korean entrees this year in the main competition section, five films ― including the world premiere of the anticipated blockbuster “The Good, the Bad, the Weird” ― will shine in other sections of the festival.”The Good, the Bad, the Weird,” directed by Kim Ji-woon, will be shown in the Out of Competition section. This “oriental Western” features exciting horseback races and train rides in vast Mongolian plains.

It stars three of the hottest Korean actors ― hallyu star Lee Byung-hun (TV soap “All In”), heartbreaker Jung Woo-sung (“Daisy”) and bona fide actor Song Kang-ho (“Secret Sunshine”).

The film will receive its own gala event, complete with a red carpet event. It is anticipated to be a big highlight along with the premiere of films like Woody Allen’s “Vicky Christina Barcelona” and Steven Spielberg’s “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.”

Song will return to the red carpet after last year’s feted “Secret Sunshine” while Lee comes back for the first time in three years since “Bittersweet Life.” It will be a first for Jung.

 

Na Hong-jin’s “The Chaser,” is another movie that will be screened in the Out of Competition section. Directed by newcomer Na Hong-jin, the suspenseful serial murder story stars actor Ha Jung-woo, whom Martin Scorcese had once complimented as “having as much potential as Leonardo Dicaprio.”

In the section Un Certain Regard, showcasing the latest notable works in world cinema, festival goers can see “Tokyo!” It’s a joint project by Korea’s director Bong Joon-ho (“The Host”) and France’s Michel Gondry (‘Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind”) and Leos Carax (“Boy Meets Girl”).

Up and coming Korean talent can also be seen at Cannes. Park Jae-wook will compete in Cinefondation, the competition section for students. Park is a senior at the Korean Academy of Film Arts, and presents “Stop,” a short animation film.

[Cannes] A World Invite

Thanks to the excellent highlight by LBH.SG for the article at martiniboys.com

Screening Out of Competition

The Good, The Bad, And The Weird

The latest movie by Kim Jee-Woon (the Korean mastermind behind the creepy A Tale Of Two Sisters and the action packed A Bittersweet Life) is some sort of bizarre Asian homage to the spaghetti western. The film is about a bounty hunter, a hitman, and a thief finding a mysterious map that entangles them in an adventure involving the Japanese army and Russian bandits. Based on Jee-Woon’s previous work, this movie should be violent, bizarre, and relentlessly entertaining. It should earn a cult following based on the title alone. By Phil Brown

Source: www.koreanfilm.or.kr
5 Korean films invited to the Cannes including “The Good, the Bad, and the Weird”, “The Chaser” and “Tokyo!”

This year, Korean genre films of a new aesthetic achievements were invited to the 61st Cannes Festival. Films invited last year to the competition section, Lee Chang-dong’s “Secret Sunshine” and Kim Ki-duk’s “Breath”, displayed what Korea’s auteuristic films are really about. This year, films like “The Good, the Bad, and the Weird” invited to the Out of Competition section and “The Chaser” which is to be screened for Midnight Screenings, will vividly reveal the level Korean genre films have reached so far.

[Korea Herald updated] Broadening his acting career overseas

– an updated version of the Korea Herald article posted previously. Please refer the paragraph in bold –

April 25, 2008

Lee Byung-hun broadening his acting career overseas

When he was interviewed by The Korea Herald in November 2006, Lee Byung-hun expressed some doubts about whether he could make it in Hollywood.

His skepticism, which partly reflected his measured approach in entering the world’s biggest entertainment market, seems fairly overdone. A string of news items about his Hollywood stint keep coming in, and his acting career is going at a fast clip.

In mid-March, Lee completed his first day of shooting as Storm Shadow in Paramount Pictures’ action adventure “G.I. Joe,” to be released in October August 2008. This week, a couple of photographs have been made public on the Web so that people can see him as one of the most popular characters in the G.I. Joe franchise. Clad in white, Lee seems primed to play a dark, complex character trained by a ninja master.

“G.I. Joe” will mark Lee’s full-fledged foray into Hollywood, a crucial development in what has already been a colorful career. Popular in Korea and Japan, Lee has long prepared to broaden his acting range and his fame. To that end, he is said to have made a serious effort to improve English proficiency.

Lee is also expected to enhance his stature at film festivals this year.

He starred in director Kim Ji-woon’s latest feature, “The Good, The Bad, The Weird,” and also performed in the Vietnamese filmmaker Anh Hung Tran’s “I Come with the Rain.”

“The Good, The Bad, The Weird,” set in Manchuria, features a bandit, a train robber, and a bounty hunter, and, with its big-name casting and a sizable budget, it is considered one of the country’s biggest film projects this year.

Local media reported yesterday that “The Good, The Bad, The Weird” has been invited to the noncompetition section of the Cannes film festival, which begins May 14. Cannes organizers held a press conference in Paris, finalizing the list of four films, including director Kim’s feature, in the noncompetition category and 19 movies that will compete for the Golden Palm award.

“I Come with the Rain,” also speculated to have a chance to join Cannes, is a multinational project in which Lee has reunited with the Japanese star Takuya Kimura. Last year, Lee played a Korean chief of detectives in “Hero,” whose central character is a quirky Japanese prosecutor played by Kimura.

On the domestic front, Lee has signed a contract with Taewon Entertainment and Kang Je-kyu Film to co-produce and star in “IRIS,” a whopping $22 million Korean TV series. Leading producer Lee Hyung-min will take charge of the expensive project, and the shooting is scheduled to begin later this year.

By Yang Sung-jin (insight@heraldm.com)

http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/

[Korea Herald] Lee broadens acting career

A long-awaited article from the Korea Herald, image from empas.com

Lee broadens acting career

When he was interviewed by The Korea Herald in November 2006, Lee Byung-hun expressed some doubts about whether he could make it in Hollywood. (Nov 2006 – Eyes on Hollywood)

His skepticism, which partly reflected his measured approach in entering the world’s biggest entertainment market, seems fairly overdone. A string of news items about his Hollywood stint keep coming in, and his acting career is going at a fast clip.

In mid-March, Lee completed his first day of shooting as Storm Shadow in Paramount Pictures’ action adventure “G.I. Joe,” to be released in October August 2008. This week, a couple of photographs have been made public on the Web so that people can see him as one of the most popular characters in the G.I. Joe franchise. Clad in white, Lee seems primed to play a dark, complex character trained by a ninja master.

“G.I. Joe” will mark Lee’s full-fledged foray into Hollywood, a crucial development in what has already been a colorful career. Popular in Korea and Japan, Lee has long prepared to broaden his acting range and his fame. To that end, he is said to have made a serious effort to improve English proficiency.

Lee is also expected to enhance his stature at film festivals this year.

He starred in director Kim Ji-woon’s latest feature, “The Good, The Bad, The Weird,” and also performed in the Vietnamese filmmaker Anh Hung Tran’s “I Come with the Rain.” Local media reported that both films have a chance to be part of the Cannes film festival, which begins on May 14.  (Latest update, only GBW will be shown at the upcoming 61st Cannes Film Festival)

“The Good, The Bad, The Weird,” set in Manchuria, features a bandit, a train robber, and a bounty hunter, and, thanks to the big-name casting and a sizable production budget, it is considered one of the country’s biggest film projects this year. Since it is still in post-production, however, it remains uncertain whether it will be invited to Cannes.

“I Come with the Rain,” is a multinational project in which Lee has reunited with the Japanese star Takuya Kimura. Last year, Lee played a Korean chief of detectives in “Hero,” whose central character is a quirky Japanese prosecutor played by Kimura.

[GBW] Summer Posters!

Thanks to the highlight by ylin at EverythingLBH-soompi.com and dailyseop.com

 THE BAD

[CANNES] GBW Screening & The Chaser, too

Cannes Film Festival 2008 Line-Up Unveiled

Unveiling the line-up for the 61st edition of the world’s biggest film festival, which runs from May 14-25, organizers said there was a feeling that “a new cycle was beginning” after the widely hailed success of last year’s event.

 “It won’t have escaped you that the selection process was long, complicated and quite difficult,” Thierry Fremaux, the festival’s head, told a news conference that was delayed from an originally scheduled date last week. (credits filmofilia.com)

Official website http://www.festival-cannes.fr/en.html

IN COMPETITION
“24 City,” China, Jia Zhangke
“Adoration,” Canada, Atom Egoyan
“Changeling,” U.S., Clint Eastwood
“Che,” Spain, Steven Soderbergh
“Un Conte de noel,” France, Arnaud Desplechin
“Daydreams,” Turkey, Nuri Bilge Ceylan
“Delta,” Hungary, Kornel Mundruczo
“Il Divo,” Paolo Sorrentino, Italy
“Gomorra,” Italy, Matteo Garrone
“La Frontiere de l’aube,” France, Philippe Garrel
“Leonera,” Argentina, Pablo Trapero
“Linha de Passe,” Brazil, Walter Salles, Daniela Thomas
“La mujer sin cabeza,” Argentina, Lucrecia Martel
“My Magic,” Singapore, Eric Khoo
“The Palermo Shooting,” Germany, Wim Wenders
“Serbis,” Philippines, Brillante Mendoza
“The Silence of Lorna,” Belgium, Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne
“Synecdoche, New York,” U.S., Charlie Kaufman
“Waltz With Bashir,” Israel, Ari Folman

OUT OF COMPETITION
“Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull,” U.S., Steven Spielberg
“Kung Fu Panda,” U.S., Mark Osborne, John Stevenson

“The Good, the Bad, the Weird,” South Korea, Kim Jee-woon
“Vicky Cristina Barcelona,” U.S., Spain, Woody Allen

MIDNIGHT SCREENINGS
“Maradona,” Spain-France, Emir Kusturica
“Surveillance,” U.S., Jennifer Lynch

[ICWTR] Byunghun Shines Through

Translated gist provided by Hyc at EverythingLBH, soompi.com from article at chosunonline.com

Lee Byung Hun “Power” stays on in Hollywood

Recently the preview trailer of French American collaboration movie ‘I Come With the Rain’ that is directed by Tran Anh Hung was opened to the public. The “Power” of Lee Byung Hun is still alive and strong as expected.

Lee Byung Hun performs a Hong Kong gang boss in the movie ICWTR. He is praised for his unique acting skill in the scene which shows him smoking a cigarette. It is said be a shining performance.

Lee Byung Hun is currently filming Hollywood action feature, the “GI Joe” in the United States. In the second half of this year he will be filming Korean drama IRIS.

[GI JOE] Our Storm Shadow arrives!

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