April 21st, 2007 by dd
Lee Byung Hun will make a pro bono appearance in ‘Hero,’ a movie starring Kimura Takuya. The drama which will be turned into a movie, will feature the same main characters, and Lee Byung Hun will play a Korean police investigator. He will support Kimura Takuya, who plays a Japanese investigator who came to Korea to investigate a case.
About acting together in a film with Lee Byung Hun, Kimura Takuya expressed his expectations: “I think of it as an honor to work together in this world of movies. Even if the language is different, I want to enjoy the filming as we work for the same goal.”
The “Hero” filming crew will be in Pusan this month to film on location. Presently, Lee Byung Hun, who is in the middle of filming the movie “Good Guy, Bad Guy, and Strange Guy” by director Kim Ji Woon, plans to have two days available to shoot “Hero.” [BroAsia]
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April 5th, 2007 by dd
The stakes are higher, the production budgets are bigger and the competition for movie audiences is more intense. So what’s a studio to do? Get your biggest stars together to share screen time for your biggest hits. If you’re a gambling man, your odds for success have suddenly just increased. It works in the US and now Korea and Hong Kong are looking to replicate that with two new movies….
Lee Byung-hun, Song Kang-ho and Jung Woo-sung, three of Korea’s top gun actors are set to star together in a film tentatively titlted Good Guy, Bad Guy and Weird Guy.
Hong Kong director Peter Chan wrapped shooting on his $40 million epic The Warlords and the war pic, which features three of Asia’s hottest male leads, Andy Lau, Jet Li and Takeshi Kaneshiro, is set for a December 13 release.
The Warlords is the biggest production in China this year, and also features rising mainland actress Xu Jinglei. It is a meaty tale of brotherly betrayal, revenge and murder set in China driven by civil war in 1860 during the Taiping rebellion (1851-64).
And, of course, there was last year’s The Departed which won the Oscar for Best Film and was a remake of Hong Kong’s Infernal Affairs. Hollywood brought out the Big Boys for this one: Jack Nicholson, Leonardo Dicaprio, Matt Damon and Mark Wahlberg to ensure box office and critical success.
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November 21st, 2006 by dd
WERE you in Seoul last year and got a free taxi ride from someone who looked uncannily like Korean actor Lee Byung Hun?
No, you weren’t dreaming.
The 36-year-old hunk actually borrowed a friend’s taxi for a month last year and zipped around town giving free rides, he told a Japanese magazine recently.
He was on a break after completing the filming of his movie, http://people.aol.com/people/gallery/0,26335,1559557_11,00.html, and he wanted to lead an ordinary life for a change.
‘It felt good. I was able to talk to people from all walks of life, and I learnt a lot about the changes in society, which helps in acting.’
Did anyone recognise him? Only one person did, he said, as he usually worked the night shift and wore a cap.
But no matter how far the ride, he never accepted payment because he was not a licensed taxi driver. [Electric]
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November 19th, 2006 by dd
Who is the actor in Chungmuro today who can mobilize the greatest number of fans? And just how many tickets can be sold on the basis of that actor’s name alone? We asked a group of 12 producers and PR execs that know actors’ commercial value best who in Korea can “open” a movie and ranked the top 20 according to the result. It is the fourth survey of its kind and covers any actor who starred in at least one major film. Read the rest of this entry »
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