INTERSTELLAR Finally Crosses 10 Million Admissions The hit documentary My Love, Don’t Cross That River, about an elderly couple who have been married for 76 years, has become the most successful Korean independent film of all time after crossing the three million admissions mark on Christmas Day. The previous record holder was the 2009 documentary Old Partner with 2.93 million admissions, a mark that My Love, Don’t Cross That River eclipsed in only 29 days. Yesterday, the film, which was ranked fourth on the daily chart, added 261,016 viewers to its tally, indicating that it has yet to burn off demand and should continue to perform strongly. Further down the chart, Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar sold 17,474 tickets in tenth place, which was enough to finally bear the sci-fi blockbuster over the ten million admissions milestone after nine weeks in theaters. Interstellar is the third film to cross the threshold this year, the third non-Korean film to do so since records began an

Overall Ticket Sales Exceed 200 Million for 2nd Time Korean films topped 100 million admissions for the third year running on December 23rd, while overall sales exceed 200 million for the second year on the trot. While the figure is expected to climb higher in the coming days with a strong end of year showing for local releases, the mark was reached slower than in 2012 (November 20th) and 2013 (October 5th). Korea’s market share also dipped down to 48.9% as foreign titles exceeded the 100 million mark for the first time on December 6th. Driven by the phenomenal success of period epic Roaring Currents, which far exceeded previous record holders by clinching 17.61 million ticket sales, attendance for local films rebounded in mid-summer following a period of Hollywood dominance. Tinseltown currently holds the second and third spots for the year with Disney’s Frozen (10.3 million viewers) and Christopher Nolan’s sci-fi Interstellar, which is expected to cross the 10 million m

Bong Joon Ho’s Sci-Fi Lands on Numerous Year-End 10- 10s Hot on the heels of its Best Picture and Best Supporting Actress win for Tilda Swinton from the Boston Online Film Critics Awards, Bong Joon Ho’s Snowpiercer is shaping up to be a surprise awards contender with the film landing in numerous top 10 shortlists and critics group awards ballots. To date the sci-fi pic has received seven wins or nomination (with some yet to be decided) from five North American awards groups while five prominent critics have listed the film on their year-end top 10s. Swinton, who plays the memorable Yorkshire-accented Mason in the film, has been drawing particular notice for her role. The Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association nominated her for Best Supporting Actress last week, a prize that eventually went to Boyhood’s Patricia Arquette. Elsewhere, she has been nominated for the 18th Annual Online Film Critics (OFCS) Awards and the 19th Annual Satellite Awards, the winners of which will b

Korean Films at Vietnamese Biannual Event Way Back Home and Broken were invited to the 3rd Hanoi International Film Festival, which close curtains on November 27th. Way Back Home was a part of the competition section while Broken was in the World Cinema program. Hanoi International Film Festival is a biannual event and the only film festival in Vietnam. The Vietnamese government organizes the event and the opening and closing ceremonies are shown on national broadcast on VTV, attracting a lot of attention from the public. Previously in 2012, the 2nd Hanoi International Film Festival invited Korean films Helpless and My Way, in competition and world cinema categories respectively. BANG Eun-jin’s Way Back Home has JEON Do-yeon and KO Su as lead actors. The story is based on a real event where a married woman gets herself in trouble when she gets caught at the Orly Airport in France for smuggling in drugs and is sent to jail in Martinique. Broken stars JUNG Jae-young and LEE Sung-m

LA Mi-ran, KIM Sang-ho, SEO Shin-ae Confirm Roles in MEOT-JIN AK-MONG Director KANG Hyo-jin has cast UHM Jeong-hwa and SONG Seung-heon as a couple in Meot-jin Ak-mong. Due to a mistake from the heavens, Yeon-woo, who used to be a successful lawyer is reborn as a housewife upon her death. The accomplished lawyer is played by UHM while her new husband will be SONG. Character actors LA Mi-ran and KIM Sang-ho join in supporting roles while young actress SEO Shin-ae will play the daughter to UHM and SONG. UHM has consistently starred in films for over 10 years andwas cast in notable works such as Marriage is a Crazy Thing (2002) and Singles (2003). In 2012, she ruled the box office with Dancing Queenby bringing inover 4 million admissions,and with her role in Montage last year, she won the Best Actress award from the 50th Daejong Awards (Grand Bell Awards). SONG had an interesting year with a more daring role in Obsessed. He has been getting a lo