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Big Bad 2023: Lee Jeong-Beom’s THE MAN FROM NOWHERE Signals New Action Film Festival Launching In LA Next Month!

The inaugural Big Bad Film Fest is partnering with Secret Movie Club and Well Go USA’s exclusive Asian film streamer, Hi-YAH!, to host a repertory screening of Lee Jeong-beom’s multi-award winning hit 2010 action thriller, The Man From Nowhere. Tickets are now on sale for the August 26 screening as the first of the festival’s ten-title presentation to be announced, with the remaining line-up set to go live in the next few weeks. Produced by Opus Pictures, Lee’s third film pairs him with lead actor Won Bin (Guns And Talks, Mother) and then-burgeoning screen talent Kim Sae-ron (A Brand New Life). Bin plays Tae-Sik, a reclusive widower whose newfound friendship with a neglected young girl named So-mi, finds him thrust into the seedy underworld when she is suddenly kidnapped by a vicious gang. Hell-bent on justice after being framed for a crime he didn’t commit, Tae-sik treads into a dark […]

TAEGUKGI: BROTHERHOOD OF WAR Gets A Theatrical 4K Re-Release Next Week

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Moviegoers in South Korea are welcome to reignite theater fervor once more now that Content Zone are taking the reins for as many as forty films from the 1980s through the early 2000s, to lend a 4K re-rendering for the big screen. The latest includes Shiri helmer Kang Je-gyu’s harrowing war epic, Taegukgi: The Brotherhood of War, released initially in 2004 to box office fruition and landing multiple nominations and wins from several festivals that year. From the director of Shiri comes the epic tale of two brothers. Jin-tae, a shoemaker, has worked tirelessly to provide money for the younger Jin-seok to go to college. But each of their hopes and dreams are shattered when both are forced to join the army against their will. Torn away from home and family, Jin-tae vows to protect Jin-seok despite the dangers and the cost. In the searing crucible of battle, fate intervenes, […]

South Korean Smash Hit, THE MAN FROM NOWHERE, Nabs ‘John Wick’ Franchise Screenwriter For Remake

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Screenwriter Derek Kolstad‘s name has been recurring news for some of the best reasons in the past few years – one of which lists his recent work on the upcoming third chapter of the John Wick franchise from Lionsgate. As of Thursday, you can now tack on a remake of Lee Jeong-beom’s The Man From Nowhere as among the lot with word from Deadline that Kolstad is penning the script following the studio’s attachment in 2016. Lee’s film became an explosive South Korean hit that won multiple awards next to it’s critical acclaim and preceding its five-week sustenance at the No.1 spot whilst earning $42 million dollars. Featuring slick action sequences by Park Jung-ryul (Inside Men, Typhoon), actor Won Bin led the film alongside young actress Kim Sae-Ron for the riveting story of a reclusive pawnshop keeper and former assassin who, in the wake of a police investigation into his […]

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New Line Lines Up To Remake THE MAN FROM NOWHERE

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It was director Lee Jeong-Beom whose 2010 actioner, The Man From Nowhere became a fireball of a hit among moviegoers in Korea, holding the number one spot for five weeks. There’s no mistaking why though, taking nods from films like Pierre Morel’s Taken (2009) and Tony Scott’s Man On Fire (2004) with a formula that provided the necessary means for some of the most terrific and gripping performances ever seen in an action thriller of this caliber. Actor Won Bin led the film alongside young actress Kim Sae-Ron for the riveting story of a reclusive pawnshop keeper and former assassin who, in the wake of a police investigation into his past, turns to his old skillset when his junkie neighbor’s daughter is kidnapped by gangsters looking for stolen drugs. Slick action sequences by Park Jung-ryul (Inside Men, Typhoon), stellar scoring and substantive drama with Kim as the absolute heart and […]