[Movie 2008] The Good, The Bad, The Weird 좋은 놈, 나쁜 놈, 이상한 놈

[rubie]

Sunday, 27 January 2008

A couple of GBW-related updates today. Anyone with gist to share? MERCI!

송승헌, 권상우 ‘숙명’으로 2008년을 책임진다!

2008년도 남자스타가 주도하는 가장 기대되는 영화!

차영환 기자 / 2008-01-27 10:23:03

The movies highlighted (L to R):

"The Good, The Bad, The Weird" - Song Kang Ho, Lee Byung Hun, Jung Woo Sung

"Shingijeon" - Jung Jae Young, Ahn Sung Ki, Huh Jun Ho

“Sukmyeong” (Destiny) - Song Seung Hun, Kwon Sang Woo, Ji Sung

“Nuneneun Nun, Ieneun I” (Eye for an Eye, Tooth for a Tooth) - Han Suk Kyu, Cha Seung Won

Source of Article http://www.cnbnews.com/category/read.html?bcode=28921

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Is there some kind of comparison between Russell Crowe and LBH? :blush:

Russell Crowe was in '3:10 to Yuma' (2007) which seemed like a cowboy movie.. perhaps, similar (?) to GBW..

웨스턴 영화들 부활한다

[뉴스엔 2008-01-27 09:05:09]

[뉴스엔 홍정원 기자]

Source: http://news.empas.com/show.tsp/cp_nn/20080...%E7%B8%B6%0B%7D

[Guest Hyc]

Source: http://www.cine21.com/Article/article_view...rticle_id=49999

Briefly translated by Hyc

Hope there is no mistake.

Just the gist on GBW

2008.01.28

Director Kim Jee Woon’s “The Good, The Bad and The Weird” photography has ended on 24th January at the film set in Kyouki-expressway (KYONGIDO, PAJU). It was 9 months since the day which the filming began in April last year. It's expected to open in the season of the summer holidays. This western style movie that is starred by Song Gang Ho, Lee Byung Hun and Jung Woo-Sung also aims at advancement to Cannes Film Festival.

cine21.com

[rubie]

January 28, 2008

Major Korean Films Offered With English Subtitles

By Lee Hyo-won

Staff Reporter

"The Good, The Bad, The Weird"

CGV Yongsan in central Seoul will devote a screen to the exclusive showing of popular domestic movies with English-language subtitles, an unprecedented move by a movie theater.

"It's to serve the many foreigners in Korea who want to watch Korean films. They won't have to wait for DVDs with English-language subtitles anymore," Chong Choe from CJ Entermatinment's International Strategy team told The Korea Times.

The country's largest motion picture studio, CJ Entertainment and multiplex theater giant CGV have teamed up for this long-term project, and will begin with "A Man Who Was Superman," starring high-profile actors Jeon Ji-hyeon ("My Sassy Girl's" Gianna Jeon) and Hwang Jung-min ("Happiness"). Coming to CGV Yongsan Jan. 31, it will have regular showings for the entire duration of the film's run in Korea.

For the time being, there will be seven showings per day through Feb. 4. "That's a lot of showings, and we plan to maintain this for the entire duration of 'A Man Who Was Superman.' This shows how committed we are," said Choe.

"This is just the beginning, not just a one-time deal," he said. The entertainment giants will select movies with mass appeal to show at the exclusive screen throughout the year.

Following "A Man Who Was Superman," this year's line-up include the retro film "Modern Boy," starring Kim Hye-soo and Park Hae-il, due for release in April; "The Good, The Bad, The Weird," with superstar trio Lee Byung-hun, Song Kang-ho and Jung Woo-sung in June; and the historical epic drama "The Divine Weapon" and director Park Chan-wook's upcoming (unnamed) film project later on in the year.

The Yongsan chain will be a pilot program for English-language subtitle project. "We'll have to see how this goes," sad Choe, when asked about the possibility of offering such services at CGV theaters in other parts of the country.

Until now, small independent movie theaters have offered a handful of homegrown works with English-language subtitles, such as the critically acclaimed indie flick "In Between Days" by Kim So-yong last fall.

Large multiplex theaters serve as barometers of the popularity of films, and even highly anticipated works disappear in less than a week if they fail to attract large audiences. To devote an entire screen is significant, especially given that the Yongsan chain is a major location among the CGV chain. Building such a framework is only possible if there is a demand.

It signals the increasing recognition of Korean films' international appeal. By releasing a Korean film subtitled in English, the film is no longer limited to the local market, and may even speed up exports of Korean films to other countries. Entertainment giant CJ seems to have recognized this and taken action, and if other companies follow suit it will considerably affect the Korean film industry and its globalization.

For the time being, expatriates in Seoul may now expand their movie-going habits to include not just Hollywood blockbusters but local films as well.

CGV Yongsan is connected to Yongsan station on subway line 1 and near exit 4 of Sinyongsan station on line 4.

Credits: hyowlee@koreatimes.co.kr

http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/art/2.../141_18052.html

[rubie]

January 30, 2008

Epic Chinese Films Will Come Onscreen

By Lee Hyo-won

Staff Reporter

The big-budget war movie "Assembly" by Feng Xiaogang will be released here in March

Moviegoers can look forward to action-packed epic films from China ― but forget about martial arts warriors flying through the air with long swords. Two celebrated directors from the Chinese-speaking world present ambitious film projects that break conventions: "The Warlords" ("Myeongjang" in Korean) by Peter Chan and "Assembly" ("Jipgyeolho" in Korean) by Feng Xiaogang.

Coming to theaters Jan. 31 is the highly anticipated period piece "The Warlords," co-produced by Hong Kong and China. Set during the late 19th century Qing Dynasty, the movie seems to signal a sharp turn away from Peter Chan's romantic turf (pan-Asian hits like "Tian mi mi," 1996).

"The movie has the looks of a big budget action movie, but like my previous works, it is essentially marked by strong characters and drama," the director said in a statement.

What sets the movie apart is its departure from typical Chinese-language films filled with fantastic, sky-soaring martial arts heroes in the style of Zhang Yimou's works. While martial art is integral to "The Warlords," the screen is stripped of highly stylistic action sequence and is filled with gritty, bitter realities of war. To create the large-scale battle scenes, the makers employed some 150 thousand extras and 280 cameras.

"The Warlords" is the talk of the town as it stars not just one ― but three ― Asian superstars: Andy Lau, Jet Li and Takeshi Kaneshiro, who all have a large fan base here. They appear as three sworn brothers whose relationship goes sour in the midst of warfare and political intrigue.

Unlike a lot of epic films, the characters can't be clearly labeled as good or evil. The three main characters are realistic sketches of the human condition as they are constantly torn between virtue and sin.

Chan visited Korea earlier this month and stopped by the set of Kim Ji-woon's "The Good, The Bad, The Weird," which, like "The Warlords," is filmed in China and stars three big actors. Chan and Kim became buddies when they met for the 2002 Korea-Hong Kong-Thailand joint-produced omnibus film "Three." The two talked about the difficulties of working under harsh weather conditions as well as how wonderful it was to work with talented actors.

Simultaneously released in parts of Asia last December (except Korea and Japan), "The Warlords" was an instant box office hit in China, drawing 22 million yuan (43 billion won) on the first day. This is striking considering the relatively expensive price of movie tickets there and the presence of a large black market of pirated DVDs. Opening in time for Seollal here, it is expected to draw large audiences.

Another big project moviegoers can expect to see is China's first-ever "blockbuster"-scale film, "Assembly," coming to theaters in March. It was the center of media attention as the opening piece at last year's Pusan (Busan) International Film Festival (PIFF).

Martial arts are but non-existent in this movie. Set in 1948, the movie traces the physical and spiritual survival and journey of a soldier amid the war between the Nationalists and Communists. "Assembly" is packed with intense battle sequences but is marked by strong human drama as the main character struggles with inner conflict.

Like Peter Chan, director Feng Xiaogang conquers new territory. For Feng, the action-packed drama marks a departure from his smash comedies like "Dream Factory." Feng also has special relations with Korea, for he turned to the special effects team of the Korean blockbuster "Taegeukgi: Brothers of War."

"I consider 'Taegeukgi' as a great model for our movie," Feng told reporters here last October. His good friend, director Kang Je-gyu, provided his crew for the make-up, computer graphics, artistic direction and sound effects of the movie.

"Assembly" received positive reviews as being a well-made period piece, particularly for realistically depicting the horrors of war without being political. It could be seen as the Asian version of Hollywood flicks like "Saving Private Ryan" ― far from what first comes to mind when one thinks of Chinese action movies.

Both films are in Chinese with Korean subtitles.

Credits: hyowlee@koreatimes.co.kr

http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/art/2.../141_18170.html

[rubie]

Thanks to ylin at EverythingLBH thread for the gist

From the title is says - Lee Byung Hun and Jung Woo Sung - The most Anticipated combination for year 2008.

Seems like it was a survey conducted over the net and a total of 2972 people have participated in this survey, 47.4 percent of the netizens have chosen "The Good, the Bad and The Weird".

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정우성-이병헌, 2008년 가장 기대되는 콤비!

[EPG 2008-01-31 10:20:30]

2008년 가장 기대되는 한국 배우들을 뽑는 설문에서 <좋은 놈, 나쁜 놈, 이상한 놈>의 정우성과 이병헌이 압도적인 지지로 1위를 차지했다.

온라인 예매 사이트 맥스무비에서 실시한 영화 <3:10(쓰리텐) 투 유마>에서 뜨거운 대결을 펼치는 러셀 크로우와 크리스찬 베일의 만남처럼 2008년 가장 기대되는 한국 배우를 고르는 설문을 한 결과, <좋은 놈, 나쁜 놈, 이상한 놈>(이하<놈, 놈, 놈>)의 정우성과 이병헌 콤비가 송승헌&권상우, 한석규&차승원 등의 막강한 남자 배우들을 제치고 압도적인 지지로 1위를 거머쥐었다.

총 2972명이 참여한 이 설문에서 과반 수에 가까운 47.4%의 네티즌들이 <놈, 놈, 놈>의 정우성, 이병헌을 선택했고 2위에는 <더 게임>의 변희봉과 신하균, <추격자>의 김윤석과 하정우 콤비가 그 뒤를 바짝 추격하고 있다.

[이피지 스타채널 황인혜 기자(messiah222@epg.co.kr)]

ⓔ세상 연예소식 중심 EPG 스타채널(www.epg.co.kr) | 무단전재 및 재배포 금지

Source: http://news.empas.com/show.tsp/cp_eg/20080...%E7%B8%B6%0B%7D

[Guest Fiona]

The shooing location of GBW.

pls go to : http://www.geocities.co.jp/Hollywood-Theater/4933/n3.html

[rubie]

I've just came across this article on GBW's release. Nothing that we're not aware of.. but better late than never, right. :blush: Currently, lots of excellent new movies are being released for the Lunar NY holidays. So.. it's a blessing, too... that GBW got pushed to a later release but it'll defifintely premiering at Cannes.

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Nov 27, 2007

'Good' release bumped to summer

By Mark Russell

SEOUL -- Kim Jee-woon's Manchurian western "The Good, the Bad and the Weird," perhaps Korea's most anticipated film of 2008, has seen its domestic release pushed back to early summer, The Hollywood Reporter learned over the weekend.

The story of Korean outlaws in 1930s Manchuria, "The Good" had been scheduled to open around Lunar New Year, in early February, but shooting delays to the ambitious project have forced the production company to aim for the lucrative summer season instead.

"Actually, we like it better," said Chi Sang-eun, manager at Cineclick Asia, the movie's international sales company. "We were planning on presenting the movie at Cannes anyway, so now we can try to premiere it there. This is ideal for us."

With director Kim, who directed such critical and commercial successes as "Tale of Two Sisters" and "A Bittersweet Life," and three of Korea's biggest stars -- Lee Byung-hun, Jung Woo-sung and Song Kang-ho -- "The Good" has been closely watched since it was announced in early 2007.

In addition to delays, difficulties on the complicated shoot have caused the budget to rise above its slated $11 million.

Source: The Hollywood Reporter

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/conten...8a6dcf0a6d197de

[rubie]

The shooting location of GBW

http://www.geocities.co.jp/Hollywood-Theater/4933/n3.html

GBW set-location pics credits to www.geocities.co.jp/Hollywood-Theater

[rubie]

February 7, 2008

Suh launches Fine Cut as new indie sales outfit

Written by Patrick Frater

BERLIN -- Suh Young-joo has quit Cineclick Asia, formerly Korea's leading indie sales agent, and will regain her independence with new outfit Fine Cut. Suh was instrumental in discovering and promoting many of the talents, including "Oldboy" helmer Park Chan-wook, Kim Jee-woon and Kim Ki-duk, whose creativity drove Korean cinema to the cutting-edge global position it currently enjoys.

Her new shingle's Berlin slate is bursting with 17 titles, most in post-production, including a handful with serious Cannes potential. These include Siddiq Barmak's "The Opium War," Pablo Trappero's "Lion's Den," festival fave Zhang Lu's "Iri" and stylish actioner "The Chaser."

New company sets out to be sales agent, film investor and will dabble in highly selective acquisitions for the Korean theatrical market. It aims to represent 10 completed films per year.

Suh remains a consultant to Cineclick in the near term and will assist Cineclick's remaining staff at Berlin's European Film Market.

Launch of Fine Cut follows less than a year after Suh sold Cineclick, which she founded six years earlier, to stockmarket-listed mini conglom Fantom Entertainment (Variety.com, March 20, 2007).

That sale was intended to provide Suh with coin to invest in a slate of international indie titles that would counterbalance Cineclick's pic supply from Korea. Arrangement quickly went sour when Fantom's share price plunged and financing for project investment through Cineclick dried up.

"I now aim to discover a new chance of working with various directors, producers and industry people all around the world," Suh said. "That was the driving force behind Cineclick Asia for years, and I want to regain my original motivation."

New company starts life with a six-title output deal with Vantage Holdings, currently Korea's most active movie investor; a two-picture deal with Barunson; as well as a string of single-picture deals with other Korean producers.

New titles on offer include "My Dear Enemy," a drama starring Cannes actress prizewinner Jeon Do-yeon; North-South drama "The Crossing," helmed by Kim Tae-Kyun; and "One Day of Ibrahim," a Kenyan-set road movie by Hong Kong helmer Pang Ho-cheung. Fine Cut also has "Room of Dreams," a sci-fi horror feature that was pitched at last month's CineMart in Rotterdam and has Asian superstars Rinko Kikuchi and Tadanobu Asano in advanced negotiations to star.

Suh has been able to transfer certain titles from Cineclick to Fine Cut, principally those in which she has been an investor, but may lose control of others. These include "The Good, the Bad and the Weird," Kim Jee-woon's Korean Western, which is the highest-profile Korean film of 2008. Pic, which lensed in China, has exceeded its budget. Producer Barunson is seeking additional financing and has brought in CJ Entertainment, but long-term representation of international rights is currently undetermined. Fine Cut is also managing Cineclick's library in the short term.

Source: Variety Asia

http://www.varietyasiaonline.com/content/view/5461/

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February 9, 2008

CJ Entertainment turns double play

By Stuart Kemp

BERLIN -- CJ Entertainment has boarded Park Chan-Wook's latest project, now titled "Thirst," and "The Good, the Bad and the Weird," helmed by Kim Ji-Woon.

In a double whammy for the busy South Korean sales, distribution and financier, CJ Entertainment said Friday that it expects to close deals on both projects for U.S. distribution and is in negotiations "with studios big and small" for "Oldboy" director Park's "Thirst," according to international sales and acquisitions chief Tom Oh.

Oh said "Thirst," budgeted at $7 million, is scheduled to shoot in March and aims to roll out the project in South Korea by the end of this year. It details the story of a priest who turns into a vampire after a failed medical experiment and his battle for survival.

"Thirst" is being produced by Moho Films. Oh said CJ Entertainment is putting up finance in return for worldwide sales rights and South Korean distribution rights.

CJ Entertainment also has snapped up Korean distribution rights to "Weird" and is just starting presales -- excluding a handful of territories, including Japan -- at the European Film Market.

Oh said the Kim-directed project is "one of the biggest budgets for a Korean movie ever" at $17 million. The deal with the filmmakers and CJ was struck early Friday morning, and Oh and his team are hurriedly fixing up meet-and-greets with buyers.

The project started out at rival Korean outfit Cineclick Asia. Oh declined comment on his company's swoop for the title.

Set in Manchuria in the 1930s, "Weird" deals with three Korean men and their entanglement with the Japanese army and Chinese and Russian bandits, according to one Internet site.

Kim has enjoyed success at the boxoffice in Asia with such titles as "The Foul King" (2000), "A Tale of Two Sisters" (2003) and "A Bittersweet Life" (2005).

Source: The Hollywood Reporter

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/conten...db2efe4ef801238

[rubie]

February 8, 2008

Slumping Korean biz in fund freeze

As profits cool, productions look for financing

By PATRICK FRATER

MISSED TARGETS: Kim Jee-woon's highly anticipated

'The Good, the Bad, the Weird' is just one of many films

affected by a recent downturn in the Korean film industry.

HONG KONG -- At the Bucheon festival last summer, filmmakers including "Oldboy" helmer Park Chan-wook sat onstage and reflected on the mass of projects they had been talking up in a docu that lensed in fall 2005 about Korean cinema. By the time the pic was completed, the "Korean Wave" had crashed and the helmers were largely idle.

"Eighteen months ago we were working like crazy, we could scarcely find time for your interviews," helmer Ryu Seung-wan says. "That was then, this is now."

A further nine months on and the Korean industry is buried still deeper in its collective funk. Troubles have little to do with the global credit crunch or fears of a recession, and everything to do with the twist of another roller-coaster cycle in the local industry. Films that were greenlit when the market was rising have spilled much red ink by being released when the market was falling. Only 10 pics, including "May 18" and "200 Pound Beauty," passed the 2 million admissions mark, generally considered the breakeven point for a commercial movie.

Korean B.O. dropped in 2007 for the first time in a decade. Market share for local productions fell. So too did exports. And with profitability plunging, production finance has become much scarcer. Everyone has become much more cautious, say producers, distributors and sales folk alike. Others describe coin as "frozen."

Evidence for this is littered around the scene. Many of the mini-studios, such as MK Pictures or Show East, with combined production, distribution and sales, have drastically scaled back their activities. At the larger end of the scale, Lotte and Mediaplex, two of the integrated film groups belonging to diversified industrial consortia, have cut back their movie production and finance activities.

Midyear 2007, Mediaplex sold off its Megabox cinema chain and saw its Showbox production-distribution unit pull out of the most anticipated film of 2008, Kim Jee-woon's spaghetti Western homage, "The Good, the Bad, the Weird." Meanwhile, the company took a bath with its share of $70 million monster movie "D-War," even though the pic was a $50 million hit.

Venture capital funds, by far the biggest source of production coin for much of the last decade, have also been badly hit. Though their losses are split with a government body, some ceased investing. Others have stopped trying to pick winners from among the industry and instead have become inhouse funds tied to a single shingle.

Worst off have been the production and talent management companies that were listed on the stock exchange: Poibos, K & Entertainment, Nubotek, Popcorn Film and Prime Entertainment. Blamed for talent price inflation and the 2006 production bubble, many of these have retreated from the stock markets as best they can.

But if everyone is hurting, some see a leaner and smarter industry emerging. The buzz is now all about risk-sharing. CJ Entertainment has stopped routinely seeking stakes of up to 30% in the films it picks up for distribution, become more careful about genre and imposed caps on the amount it commits to each picture it produces.

The two biggest hopes are for smarter VC funds and for the telecoms players finally to start delivering on their promises. There is progress in both cases.

On the funds front, Hanhwa quickly used up its $10 million fund operated by its ad agency subsidiary Hancomm, but it is now preparing to launch a $20 million pool in tandem with the Industrial Bank of Korea.

Vantage Holdings has taken advantage of its late entry into the sector to cherry-pick filmmakers and projects. "We got to see every single script on the market," managing director Kim Sunyong says.

Operating two separate funds, with different information technology and cable industry backers, it has set up a dozen production and management companies as partnerships with helmers and also runs a script development unit. And it will apply "slate funding" (aka "portfolio theory") principles by investing in eight to 10 movies a year.

Its first two pictures, released in November and December, disappointed, but company and industry alike have high hopes for "The Chaser," an actioner set for release this month helmed by Na Hong-jin.

This month will also see a better test of what the telcos can do with their deep pockets and the cross-marketing potential that comes in cell phone-crazy Korea. Both SK Telecom and Korea Telecom have backed movie production companies in order to get their hands on content for use by their mobile TV operations (which count more than 8 million subscribers) and on their IPTV platforms -- if and when they are allowed to launch them.

Other producers have given the telcos only a cautious embrace as distribution has been a weak point and the flow of coin to date has been more modest than many expected.

But, proving that there is still some competitive bite in the Korean market, the two are going head-to-head as theatrical distributors. On Jan. 30, SK Telecom finally did what it has been threatening to do for several months, launching its own theatrical distribution unit, CH Entertainment, putting out the hotly anticipated "Once Upon a Time." The very same day Sidus FNH (backed by KT) countered with release of "Radio Days," having made its first theatrical move in December with "Prudent Miss Shin" and its second with hit "Women's Team Handball."

Source: Variety.com

http://www.variety.com/index.asp?layout=fe...res&id=2894

[rubie]

Ack! Now it's a July release.. according to Variety.com

but then.. the writer makes quite a few typos (like messing LBH/JWS' names) as well.. not to mention mixing BSL and Oldboy.. nonono..

So, Variety did have the spot on date for GBW's release..

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February 8, 2008

CJ clocking 'Good' times

Co. picks up 'Good, the Bad and the Weird'

By PATRICK FRATER

CJ Entertainment, Korea's biggest movie company, has made significant advances with two of the largest Korean projects of the year.

Company has grabbed international sales duties on "The Good, the Bad and the Weird," a Korean spaghetti Western by helmer Kim Jee-woon ("A Tale of Two Sisters"). Rights had previously been repped by Cineclick Asia.

"Oldboy" helmer Park Chan-wook and CJ have finally settled on a title and a schedule for his long-awaited vampire film. Pic will now be called "Thirst" and will start a marathon nine-month shoot beginning in March.

Story finds Korea's leading man, Song Kang-ho ("The Host," "Sympathy for Mister Vengeance"), as a much-loved priest who becomes a vampire after a failed medical experiment; he becomes a tortured and depraved soul. Title refers to a craving for sex, blood and love. CJ is pitching the pic as a love story with horror and drama.

"Weird" finally wrapped last week after a troubled shoot in China that took production over schedule and over its $11 million budget. Producer Barunson turned to CJ for fresh coin and local distribution.

Kim is now hurrying to complete the pic, which boasts three of Korea's top actors -- Song, Lee Byung-hun ("Oldboy" "A Bittersweet Life") and Jung Woo-sung ("Musa the Warrior") -- in time for a Cannes screening and a July commercial release.

Former Cineclick topper Suh Young-joo has now struck out on her own with new indie shingle Fine Cut (Variety Berlin Show Daily, Day 1.)

Source: Variety.com

http://www.variety.com/article/VR111798058...ry=kim+jee+woon

[rubie]

Found this at auctions.yahoo.jp, thanks to gorgorlove2008

However, the resized mages from the magazine scans are very blurry

.. but something GBW for now..

[rubie]

Thanks to the highlight at lovelbh.com, gratitude to Angel70 & cacao especially

GBW's nationwide release in Korea will be on the 10th of July 2008..

I was looking all over at Barunson & Cineclick when the main site/distributor for the latest info, etc should be CJ Entertainment. Blurr.. blurr..

Hopefully.. the official website will be coming up soon.

Yupyup.. things are finally moving for GBW!! Cool!

Source: http://www.cjent.co.kr/movie/movie_detail3.asp?movie_no=278

There's also..

Cine 21's GBW page has two new caps from the movie and .. it's The BAD!!! Looks like an off-filming image of LBH at the set.. yay! Pics are finally coming!

Source: http://www.cine21.com/Movies/Mov_Movie/mov...ia&id=21853

[Guest jinjooshii]

oooh this sounds so interesting lee byung hun is such an hottttiee

[rubie]

A bada** GBW clip courtesy Japanese angel-gomata to share with everyone

MBC 231207 GBW clip

sendspace » megaupload

Or simply watch it online here / here ^^

Our thanks to this awesome fan-sharing

[rubie]

Btw.. our posting of the clip at the news blog have been picked up by a German (I think it's German, hope someone can clarify).. movie blog featuring a couple of GBW news. How cool is that! More power, GBW fighting!

http://blog.affenheimtheater.de/2008/02/17...uer-tv-bericht/

http://blog.affenheimtheater.de/2007/10/11...ter-und-bilder/

And.. today, a French movie blog had also picked up the VOD as well. And GBW's release according to http://wildgrounds.com/index.php/2008/02/1...nouvelle-video/ the French release for GBW will be on October 22, 2008. Awesome!

A Japanese friend emailed me the clip during the weekend, which supposedly had been aired on MBC last Dec 23, 2007 but it seems that Twitch, etc (correct me if I'm wrong) had not known/seen it either prior to the sharing.

Anyway.. here's a cool highlight by the Twitchfilm.net. Merci! Similar clip can be watched at the site, too.

Fresh Footage From Kim Ji-Woon’s Korean Western THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE WEIRD

Posted by Todd Brown at 10:19am

It’s over schedule and so badly over budget that it’s had to move to a larger production company to get the funds needed for completion but Kim Ji-Woon’s upcoming Korean western remains very high on our list of anticipated titles around here. Why? As a director Kim - at the controls of A Bittersweet Life, A Tale of Two Sisters and The Foul King - seems simply incapable of making a bad film and when you give someone with his immense visual talents a stellar cast that includes Song Kang-Ho, Lee Byung-Hun and Jung Woo-Sung and it seems like pure gold. Plus, it’s a full on period western. Made by Koreans.

The first footage from the film arrived online a while back thanks to a Korean news broadcast and now a more extensive reel of footage has arrived online via the same means. Yeah. Very, very cool. You’ll find the new clips embedded in the Twitch Player below the break.

Credits (and for clip online): twitchfilm.net

[myownsecretmind]

Thanks, Rubbie for always keep this thread update... I just love all the info you supply...

Yes, GBW fighting!

[rubie]

oooh this sounds so interesting lee byung hun is such an hottttiee

Hi jinjooshii, welcome to GBW!

Yup, the movie sounds and looks interesting. Can't wait for the release.. in 5 months' time!

Arrghh!

Thanks, Rubbie for always keep this thread update... I just love all the info you supply...

Yes, GBW fighting!

Hi myownsecretmind! Thanks so much for the warm words, really appreciate it!

Definitely.. GBW FIGHTING!

All the way!

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3 Awesome Men 1 Lucky Baby!!!