lhynne Posted October 3, 2012 Share Posted October 3, 2012 id="articleHeaderPanel" style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 30px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 32px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "Well Go USA Acquires Korean Blockbuster 'The Thieves'Well Go USA has acquired U.S. distribution rights to Dong-hoo Choi's heist film "The Thieves," which opened in Korea over the summer and became the highest-grossing film in the country's history. Its North American theatrical release will be Oct. 12. "The Thieves," which screened at the Toronto International Film Festival, features some of Korea's biggest stars, including Jung Jae-Lee and Hyse-su Kim, as five elite thieves working together to steal the Tear of the Sun, a massive diamond worth 20 million dollars locked inside a casino vault. The team must break into the vault and steal the diamond without attracting the attention of the police while internal betrayal and mischief threatens the operation.“After we saw the film at the Festival we knew it would be a perfect addition to our fall slate,” said Well Go USA president Doris Pfardrescher. “Dong-hoo Choi is a rare talent and his filmmaking style is a perfect fit for North American audiences.”Pfardrescher negotiated the deal with Judy Ahn of Showbox/Mediaplex Inc.Well Go USA specializes in bringing independent Asian cinema to North America, and it has released the war drama "The Front Line" and the Oscar-nominated short "Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale." Well Go recently acquired the Chinese remake of "Dangerous Liaisons" at Toronto. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lhynne Posted October 3, 2012 Share Posted October 3, 2012 Old Photos of Soo hyun from MBoat Entertainment Group Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lhynne Posted October 3, 2012 Share Posted October 3, 2012 This scene was when Ryu han took a 180 turn from an idiot to a guy with a mission... he cut his hair and used the suit he wore when he first came into the villageSexy right? Now we know why Soo hyun had to work out for the movie heheThe scene where he save the little boy from a bad guy... he disguised himself like this and was found by his neighbors looking like this and had to play an idiot ones again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lhynne Posted October 3, 2012 Share Posted October 3, 2012 Found this one from my other photobucket...Would it be nice to see Soo hyun like this in the movie :\"> Yoon Yoo ran and Ryu hanThe halmoniThe pesky kidsand the thugI hope Soo hyun will be okay filming this scenes haha... he's probably hurt all over Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lhynne Posted October 3, 2012 Share Posted October 3, 2012 [25/11/2011] 32th Blue Dragon Film Awards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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willenette Posted October 3, 2012 Share Posted October 3, 2012 October 3, 2012 ‘The Thieves’ steals Korean box office recordDirector Choe Dong-hoon’s box office smash hit “The Thieves” has now become the top-selling Korean movie of all time. As of Tuesday, the movie featuring a star-studded cast set a box office record for Korean films by drawing in 13,020,393 movie goers to the theaters, stealing the top spot from director Bong Joon-ho’s 2006 sci-fi thriller “The Host.” Official box office figures showed that the movie has earned approximately 93.6 billion won ($84 million), surpassing the previous admissions leader “The Host,” which earned about 78.5 billion won.The film’s domestic success and strong box office numbers have received widespread international attention as well. “The Thieves,” set in Macau, was released on 32 screens in Hong Kong last month, making it the second-largest Hong Kong release for a Korean film following “Haeundae,” which was released on 36 screens. The distribution rights to the film were sold all over Asia including Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei, Indonesia, Taiwan, China, Thailand and Vietnam. The movie also premiered in North America at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival. “The Thieves” is an action-packed heist film about a team of Korean and Chinese thieves plotting to steal the “Tear of the Sun,” a $20 million diamond necklace that is kept guarded in a casino safe in Macau. It features some of Korea’s top actors and actresses such as Kim Yoon-seok, Kim Hye-soo, Kim Soo-hyun, Giana Jun and many others.James Cameron’s Hollywood blockbuster “Avatar,” which attracted 13.6 million locals, still sits at the top in the country’s all-time box office sales that include non-domestic films. By Julie Jackson (juliejackson@heraldcorp.com)credit : Korea Herald Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khemkhemm Posted October 3, 2012 Share Posted October 3, 2012 Wowww... His new movie, there are so many funny scenes and some sexy scenes.... Really want to see some BTS scenes already Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swingbaby Posted October 3, 2012 Author Share Posted October 3, 2012 I was waiting this engsub Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khemkhemm Posted October 3, 2012 Share Posted October 3, 2012 swingbaby said: I was waiting this engsub Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lhynne Posted October 3, 2012 Share Posted October 3, 2012 The Thieves' Cast Reunion in Busan Film FestivalRelated article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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lhynne Posted October 4, 2012 Share Posted October 4, 2012 @jasmine27... Soo hyun will attend BIFF on October 7 together with the other Thieves Cast and Psy will performed during the event... it's going to be a star studded event with other celebrities going there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willenette Posted October 4, 2012 Share Posted October 4, 2012 lhynne said: @jasmine27... Soo hyun will attend BIFF on October 7 together with the other Thieves Cast and Psy will performed during the event... it's going to be a star studded event with other celebrities going there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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lhynne Posted October 4, 2012 Share Posted October 4, 2012 @jasmine27... I hope not.. I don't want Soo hyun to shoot another movie just yet... I badly want him in a drama so I hope he scriptwriter would take his time to write the script if ever it will materialize hehe@willenette... Waiting for the The thieves to be released online is a torture. I envy the guys who had watched it... my patience is running thin but I can't do anything but wait for it so I could finally watch it... I know it's gonna be worth the wait Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest jasmine27 Posted October 4, 2012 Share Posted October 4, 2012 I want Soo HYun to do another drama too. an action packed thriller would be nice or he could do another sageuk... But I doubt if he'll do another sageuk too soon after TMETS. It's sort of hard to top TMETS... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lhynne Posted October 4, 2012 Share Posted October 4, 2012 jasmine27 said: I want Soo HYun to do another drama too. an action packed thriller would be nice or he could do another sageuk... But I doubt if he'll do another sageuk too soon after TMETS. It's sort of hard to top TMETS... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willenette Posted October 4, 2012 Share Posted October 4, 2012 [Entertainment News Station] "The Thieves" caught in issue for summing up audience There is an issue about the new record made by "The Thieves". Show Box revealed on the 2nd, "In the company standards, the movie went over 13,020,393 and beat "The Host" of 13,019,740 in 2006". However, according to the Korean Films Commission, "The Thieves" gathered a number of 12,973,390 until the 2nd. If this is true, "The Thieves" hasn't jumped over "The Host" yet. This means Show Box has included the numbers from the theaters that haven't signed in with the KFC. KFC claims, "99.9% of all theaters in Korea have been signed in with KFC from the year 2012 onwards". Considering that the theaters not included are very low, the issue with "The Thieves" can only be brought up. It has also bought unfavorable claims that it takes over more than 100 theaters during the week when there is not many audiences. Source : movie.daum.net/movieI... ( Korean )Translation : Hancinema Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lhynne Posted October 4, 2012 Share Posted October 4, 2012 Wow... that's a huge descrepancy from the figures for ticket sales... hope they can clarify all this so nothing would misunderstood Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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