The Korean remake of the Hollywood hit "The Intern" (2015) debuted at No. 1 on the weekend box-office chart in South Korea, snapping a weekslong chart-topping run by Christopher Nolan's epic "The Odyssey," data showed Monday. The Korean film, which opened Wednesday, added 275,186 admissions over the weekend, bringing its total admissions to 403,906 as of Sunday, according to the data released by the Korean Film Council, which compiles admissions from Friday through Sunday for its weekend chart.

Alfonso Cuaron is coming to Korea for the first time as a guest of the 31st Busan International Film Festival next month, organizers announced Friday. Cuaron will attend the opening ceremony and give a master class on his filmmaking, according to the festival. The Mexican filmmaker has won the Academy Award for best director twice, for "Gravity" (2013) and "Roma" (2018). A special IMAX screening of "Gravity" is also on the program. Cuaron will be joined by his son and frequent collaborator, Jona

"The Intern" (South Korea) Opened Sept. 17 Comedy/Drama Directed by Kim Do-young A retiree (Choi Min-sik) signs on as a senior intern at a startup led by a young CEO (Han So-hee) in this Korean remake of the 2015 Hollywood film. "Oasis: Don't Look Back in Anger" (UK) Opened Sept. 9 Documentary/Music Directed by Will Lovelace and Dylan Southern A chronicle of Oasis's 2025 reunion tour, featuring Liam and Noel Gallagher's first joint interview in over 15 years. "The Drama" (US) Opened Sept. 9 Roma

"The more I made films, the more I realized how hard it is to truly connect with another person," Lee Chang-dong said as he accepted the TIFF Ebert Director Award in Toronto, in remarks from the ceremony revealed by Netflix on Wednesday. "In an age when AI is taking the place of people, and people themselves seem to be losing their sense of self, I believe cinema still needs to talk about the people we can't quite reach. 'Possible Love' was a small attempt at that." The 72-year-old auteur had ju

Na Hong-jin's part go-for-broke blockbuster, part screwball farce alien epic "Hope" pulled in nearly $5 million in its first week at North American theaters, the film's Korean distributor Plus M Entertainment said Tuesday, in what amounts to a respectable start for a Korean-language release on a limited run in the region. The 156-minute creature feature debuted Sept. 9 to a $1.1 million opening day and went on to collect another $3.3 million over the weekend, cracking the box office top 10 along

Picture a newspaperman in a movies set in the 1970s -- what probably comes to mind is a rumpled shirt, a few days' stubble and a cigarette burning down in an ashtray on a cluttered desk. In "The Assassin(s)," Lee Min-ho is anything but. In director Hur Jin-ho's newsroom thriller based on real events, the K-drama superstar plays a rookie reporter who comes to the job with a trust-fund pedigree and movie-star looks. His Young-il is the youngest brother in a chaebol family who joined the fictional

"Possible Love," which took home the Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival on Saturday, was not exactly seen as an awards favorite going into the competition. Lee Chang-dong's first film in eight years featured four of Korea's biggest stars, Jeon Do-yeon, Sul Kyung-gu, Zo In-sung and Cho Yeo-jeong, but much of the talk at home ahead of the festival had less to do with the film than where it was coming from. Netflix bankrolled the film, making for an offbeat pairing between an

“Woman Unknown,” a drama about Denmark in the aftermath of the Nazi occupation directed by May el-Toukhy, won the prestigious Golden Lion at the 83rd Venice Film Festival on Saturday. The Maggie Gyllenhaal -led jury announced the winners, which included a best actor prize for John Malkovich for his performance in the dark CIA comedy “Wild Horse Nine.” Malkovich was not in attendance at the ceremony, but he sent a video message, explaining that he is shooting in Montreal. “I am humbled to be chos

South Korean auteur Lee Chang-dong's latest feature, "Possible Love," won the Silver Lion Gand Jury Prize at the prestigious Venice International Film Festival, in another accolade for Korean cinema. The film, starring Jeon Do-yeon, Sul Kyung-gu, Zo In-sung and Cho Yeo-jeong, received the prize at the closing ceremony of the 83rd edition of the Italian film festival held in Venice on Saturday (local time). It is the first Korean film to win a prize at the Venice film fest since Kim Ki-duk clinch

"Oasis: Don't Look Back in Anger" (UK) Opened Sept. 9 Documentary/Music Directed by Will Lovelace and Dylan Southern A chronicle of Oasis's 2025 reunion tour, featuring Liam and Noel Gallagher's first joint interview in over 15 years. "The Drama" (US) Opened Sept. 9 Romance/Drama Directed by Kristoffer Borgli An engaged couple (Zendaya and Robert Pattinson) see their relationship unravel after one makes a shocking confession a week before the wedding. "Obsession" (US) Opened Sept. 2 Horror Direc

Don't let the title fool you: "The Assassin(s)" is no hitman picture. Director Hur Jin-ho's latest is the first Korean film set in the country's authoritarian past that puts the reporters who risked their lives going after the truth front and center. What you get is a well-made journalism procedural based on the 1974 shooting that killed then-first lady Yuk Young-soo, one that has every chance of joining the ranks of recent politically forthright period hits like "1987" and "12.12: The Day." Tha

Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” has become the second film this year — and the 10th foreign film in Korean box-office history — to draw more than 10 million moviegoers. Now its blockbuster momentum is spilling into bookstores, reviving interest in one of literature’s oldest epics. Books related to “The Odyssey” sold nearly 31 times as many copies last month as they did a year earlier, according to Kyobo Book Centre, one of the country’s largest bookstore chains. Sales of books with “Odyssey” i

Nancy Meyers' 2015 "The Intern" was never a sophisticated film, and it never intended to be one. Its pleasures were of the most soothing kind, set in a Brooklyn startup where a frazzled young CEO finds the answer to her problems in the seen-it-all wisdom of a 70-year-old intern. The Korean remake, out Sept. 16, brings that comfort to the Chuseok holiday stretch, when families flock to multiplexes wanting nothing more than a good time. What the remake can't carry over is, of course, De Niro and H

When Lee Chang-dong's "Possible Love" made its world premiere in the main competition at the Venice Film Festival Sunday, the reaction was swift. After the credits rolled at the Sala Grande, a standing ovation reportedly lasted for over six minutes before staff had to clear the theater for the next screening. More impressive were the reviews that came out the same day, which were nearly uniform in their praise. The film, Lee's first since "Burning" in 2018 and his seventh in three decades, was a

Christopher Nolan's adventure-packed epic "The Odyssey" reigned atop the weekend box office chart for the fifth straight week as it exceeded 10 million admissions, data showed Monday. The film added 698,395 admissions over the weekend, bringing its total admissions to 10,027,997 as of Sunday, according to the data released by the Korean Film Council, which compiles admissions from Friday through Sunday for its weekend chart. Based on Homer's epic poem "The Odyssey," the film follows the perilous