Korean Box Office: RUNNING MAN Quick Off the Mark

Korean Box Office: RUNNING MAN Quick Off the Mark


Korean Box Office: RUNNING MAN Quick Off the Mark

Posted: 08 Apr 2013 03:00 AM PDT

Business remained on par with last year in the slow spring season as theaters sold just over 1.6 million tickets. With only one significant foreign film making an impact at the Korean box office, the local market share stood at 60%, half of which came from the frame's big new release.  Title Release Date Market Share Weekend Total Screens 1 Running Man 13/04/04 30.90% 501,908 575,444 567 2 G.I. Joe: Retaliation (us) 13/03/28 30.50% 464,617 1,570,042 604 3 Very Ordinary Couple 13/03/21 13.40% 206,164 1,653,496 373 4 My Paparotti 13/03/14 8.60% 146,450 1,588,385 329 5 New World 13/03/21 4.10% 62,591 4,630,101 229 6 Miracle in Cell No.7 13/01/23 1.60% 27,817 12,782,890 126 7 The Host (us) 13/04/04 1.50% 25,629 34,828 244 8 Hope Springs (us)...

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Learning from the Masters of Cinema: Claude Chabrol's LE BEAU SERGE and LES COUSINS

Posted: 08 Apr 2013 02:00 AM PDT

Welcome to a new regular feature looking at the new releases from Eureka Entertainment's Masters of Cinema series. It will publish on release day, whenever a new title (or titles) hits the shelves, taking in the film(s) in question and the package as a whole.For many, Jean Luc Godard and Francois Truffaut are widely held to be the pioneers of the French New Wave (or Nouvelle Vague) movement. It was Claude Chabrol, however, who is credited with kick-starting this ambitious and groundbreaking filmmaking coup, with his 1958 debut Le beau Serge paving the way for such classics as Le Quatre Cent Coups, A Bout de Souffle and his own follow-up, Les Cousins. Chabrol started out, as was the case for Godard, Truffaut, Jacques Rivette and almost...

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Hollywood Beat: The Grouch-ification of Harrison Ford

Posted: 07 Apr 2013 02:00 PM PDT

When did Harrison Ford get so grouchy? The trailer for 42, Brian Helgeland's bio-pic that opens on Friday, April 12, reveals Ford as the growling, threatening Branch Rickey, the real-life Brooklyn Dodgers baseball executive who picked Jackie Robinson as the player to break the sport's color barrier in the late 1940s. The anger that apparently streaks through Ford's performance is not unique to his latest film; indeed, it's a personality trait abundantly evident in his three most recent roles. But it's also a tendency that has marked the work of the actor, now aged 70, for four decades, and seems to indicate that he has no interest in aging gracefully as he slopes toward the end of his career. And it could point the way...

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Derek Cianfrance Talks True Violence, Ryan Gosling's Dreams, and THE PLACE BEYOND THE PINES

Posted: 07 Apr 2013 11:00 AM PDT

I first had the pleasure of meeting Derek Cianfrance at Sundance 2010, where he premiered his feature debut Blue Valentine, a heart-wrenching and poignant look at the beginning and end of love featuring milestone performances by Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams. A casual conversation about the film at a Park City-area Starbucks (yes, the one where Tarantino infamously punched a paparazzi) turned into an hour-long discussion as emotionally raw as its subject matter. Now Cianfrance returns with The Place Beyond the Pines, a triptych saga finely woven with themes of regret, redemption, and the choices we make echoing through generations. The film also rejoins Cianfrance and Gosling, a pair of cinematic twins in director/actor form if ever there were a duo. Cianfrance and I also...

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IFFLA 2013 Preview: India In The Spotlight Again!

Posted: 07 Apr 2013 10:00 AM PDT

The Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles is nearly upon us with an April 9th opening looming, so we thought we'd give you a little preview of the awesome films coming to the City of Angels. Unfortunately, I won't be in Los Angeles to cover the festival first hand, but I will be presenting a few new reviews for the festival as the week wears on. In the meantime, I've prepared a small list of features that are definitely worth checking out, including links to Twitch reviews from festivals past.Gangs of WasseypurIFFLA's opening night gala screening is Anurag Kashyap's crime epic Gangs of Wasseypur, which will be shown over two nights. We've written plenty about the film here, but I decided to add a little...

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Review: ORPHAN BLACK S1E02, INSTINCT (Or, The Conspiracy Widens)

Posted: 07 Apr 2013 08:00 AM PDT

While it is true enough to say that the second episode of fledgling BBC America hit Orphan Black is somewhat calmer than the hyperkinetic pilot it is important to note that 'calmer' is an entirely relative term. And in the world of Orphan Black 'calmer' entails an episode kicking off our leading character Sarah (Tatiana Maslany) frantically driving a car owned by the dead Beth (also Tatiana Maslany) out of harm's way while taking gunfire and talking on the phone with Alison (also Tatiana Maslany) with the recently deceased Katja (also Tatiana Maslany) slumped across the back seat with her blood and brains spattered all over the interior of the vehicle due to the aforementioned gunfire. For those keeping score that's two dead Maslanys and...

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