Posts Tagged ‘Lee Jung-jae’
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Teaser builds anticipation for crime thriller New World
If dark crime thrillers are your thing (and Chungmuro certainly has a way of churning them out), heads up for another entry in the genre with New World getting ready for its big premiere. The movie opens next month and has just released a trailer to whet our appetites, which has set a record that... More »
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Kim Soo-hyun piggybacks The Thieves’ 10 millionth moviegoer
Ha, this is what you get when you make a public wager, your film blows up into a huge box office success, and then you have to do as you jokingly promised you would. In Kim Soo-hyun’s case, he’d made a declaration last month at the film’s red carpet event that if The Thieves broke... More »
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The Thieves breaks more records, climbs all-time charts
Turns out if you cast enough bandits in your movie, they’ll run away with the bank. New summer heist movie The Thieves has reported numbers for its second weekend, breaking another set of box office records in Korea. In Week 2 the film has sold nearly 7 million tickets — 6,884,220 admissions in total by... More »
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Lee Jung-jae and Kim Hye-soo, costars again?
Well when you’ve got a good thing going I guess no one wants to see it end. Recent box office hit The Thieves costars Kim Hye-soo and Lee Jung-jae look like they’re headed for film number two as a combo pack, this time in the Joseon-era historical epic The Face Reader. Tags: Jo Jung-seok, Kim... More »
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The Thieves sets new box office record
So, apparently summer + blockbuster + multiple A-list stars + caper + action = hit movie. WHO KNEW? The Thieves opened on Thursday, July 25, and quickly racked up the ticket admittances, setting a new all-time box office record: its 436,628 ticket sales in Day 1 is the top Korean film opening ever, solidly taking... More »
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Lee Jung-jae, Kim Hye-soo as Thieves in Vogue
*Sizzle.* Well, this is one way to stir interest in caper film The Thieves, which headlines the two stars pictured here in this Vogue Korea photo shoot, Lee Jung-jae and Kim Hye-soo, whose concept of the day is “dangerous partners.” I’ll say. In the diamond-heist movie featuring a team of ten professional thieves, Lee Jung-jae... More »
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The Thieves releases introductory trailer
Here’s the trailer for The Thieves, which may be the movie I’m most looking forward to right now, because despite its less-than-original plot (a diamond heist that’s basically Ocean’s Eleven in Macau), it’s got a killer cast, a skilled director (Jeon Woo Chi, Tazza), and looks snazzy and fun to boot. I’ll never assume a... More »
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The Thieves sells abroad, prepares for the big swindle
I feel like I’ve been waiting forever for the stylish caper movie The Thieves to come out, so I’m just about bouncing in my seat to see the new posters and stills from the upcoming movie about a diamond heist set in a Macau casino. The grand-scale theft is the work of ten professionals, led... More »
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Noir thriller A New World courts megastar trio
Choi Min-shik (Oldboy) Hwang Jung-min (The Unjust) AND Lee Jung-jae (The Housemaid) in one movie? I always thought that if you put that many stars together, a movie would spontaneously combust. But apparently, this is the reigning trend in Chungmuro — put ‘em all together, whether lawyers, thieves, or spies. The trio of A-listers are... More »
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Lee Jung-jae and Kim Hyun-joong to headline Speed?
Upcoming car racing drama Speed (I know, I know. I’m not in charge of the titles.) has lined up quite the interesting double-male-lead lineup, having secured Lee Jung-jae who’s been attached to the project for some time, and is now awaiting final decision from singer-actor Kim Hyun-joong (Playful Kiss), who is reportedly considering the role... More »
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