Word: buzzes
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...Most remarkably, Korean cinema is starting to generate buzz?and revenue?overseas. Korean films are attracting growing audiences in cinema-savvy Japan and Hong Kong, as well as in smaller niche markets like Vietnam, where Korean stars are so popular they set fashion trends. Actresses like Lee Yeong Ae and Shim Eun Ha are showing up on the covers of magazines such as Japan's popular weekly Aera. Foreign production houses are signing co-financing deals with Korean partners. Overseas sales, while still small, have tripled in the past three years to more than $7 million. Even Hollywood is paying...
...movies overseas. "We needed to do something besides just make the films," says Chae. "Nobody was doing international sales and promotion." He got the ball rolling by putting filmmakers in touch with buyers abroad whom he had met as a reporter. In the wake of Shiri and the growing buzz over Korean films at international festivals, distributors around Asia started to answer his calls. These days, the distribution channels are firmly in place, starting with Japan, the industry's biggest market. Tokyo-based distributor Cinequanon paid $1 million for Shiri, the first Korean film to open nationwide in Japan, where...
...damns by faint (or no) praise "Hidden Power: Presidential Marriages That Shaped Our Recent History" by journalist Kati Marton, wife of Richard Holbrooke, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations during the Clinton administration (Pantheon; September 21). "Predictable...banal...Marton has delivered crisply written political gossip - those who want buzz will flock to it; those looking for serious history will turn elsewhere. FORECAST: Despite its light quality, or perhaps because of it, this will be talked about everywhere, aided by a 13-city author tour, appearances on 20/20, Charlie Rose and other national media. Its first printing of 100,000 should...
...BIGGEST BUZZ...
...Manser and a friend tried to enter Malaysia from Singapore as part of a plan to buzz the Commonwealth Games, held that year in Kuala Lumpur, with a motorized hang glider. He was recognized at the border and turned back. The two men considered trying to swim across the Johor Straits, says his companion Jacques Christinet, but abandoned the plan when they realized the journey would involve a 25-km swim and passage through a swamp. A subsequent attempt to get into Sarawak by rowing a dingy from an Indonesian island had to be abandoned when Manser's campaign office...