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...industry's biggest market. Tokyo-based distributor Cinequanon paid $1 million for Shiri, the first Korean film to open nationwide in Japan, where it sold 1.2 million tickets and pulled in an impressive $15 million. Now Korean directors hope to continue to cash in on Japan's interest. Friends' heartthrob Jang Dong Gun is filming futuristic spy-action flick 2009 Lost Memories with a Japanese co-star, Toru Nakamura, and three-quarters of the dialogue will be in Japanese. Korean producer Tube Entertainment expects 2009 to earn more in Japan than in Korea...
Korea's No. 1 heartthrob doesn't date. It's not that Jang Dong Gun, 29, lacks opportunities to meet women. Lunching recently at a noodle shop in a trendy part of Seoul, Jang, by his mere presence, sent the women at a nearby table into paroxysms of girlish twittering. Soon, a crowd of girls gathered outside the restaurant window. By the end of the meal there were dozens of women jostling for position outside - his manager had to help him push his way through the throng. This kind of thing sometimes follows Jang when he leaves South Korea...
...time for the pendulum to swing again. Thus Fulltime Killer, with Lau battling Japanese actor-singer-heartthrob Takashi Sorimachi for the title of "gold medalist of assassins." For once, To and Wai have crafted a parable on the danger of liking your job too much. Tok (Lau) believes murder is an art; after a kill he gestures, hand raised like a matador. What's inside that spray of flowers he's carrying? His mini-Uzi. What does he do in the middle of a lunch date? Run outside, don a Bill Clinton mask, and gun down a half-dozen rivals...
...star biopics? Then there's little to change your mind in this one, written by Israel Horovitz and directed by Mark Rydell: celeb struggles to overcome childhood demons, audience struggles to find the remote. It's worth seeing, though, because James Franco uncannily channels the sulky, sexy, short-lived heartthrob. Franco recalls not just Dean's recklessness and (cue E! True Hollywood Story music) his icy relationship with his father (Michael Moriarty), but also the acting craft of a phenom who lived hard and left a good-looking memory...
...producing a Michael Jordan PDA. Zhang, a savvy marketer, was the first Chinese PDA manufacturer to understand the role of whim and fashion in the industry. He turned his product into a household name with the help of a massive television advertising campaign featuring China's debonair movie heartthrob, Pu Quanxin. Zhang has also proved to be a clever distributor. He secretly installs a bar code in each PDA so when his reps visit retail shops, they can detect when distributors poach on one another's territory. But Zhang's magic bullet in the PDA wars is a sleek regulation...