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...uplifting “Song for a Hollywood Road Movie” is title appropriately—a bluesy, evocative song that sounds conjures the best bits of introspective Sheryl Crow. The glowering “Gucci” pays homage to the ominous blues of triphop, while “Getting Out of It” is a jazzy torch song for anyone on the run from a relationship. “Sunday Kickaround” celebrates the relief of a pickup football game as a respite from the demands of life, conveyed through edgy Eastern-flecked music which...
Newest trend: getting married before you’re old enough to drink at your own reception. It seems as if young Hollywood is up in arms to don something borrowed and something blue. Newest casualty: remember little Mark from Home Improvement? Well, he’s now little married Taran Noah Smith, at all of 17 years old to 33-year-old chef/artist Heidi van Pelt. TV’s Dark Angel Jessica Alba, 20, will be trading black for white at her marriage to 33-year-old co-star Michael Weatherly, and with the tragic passing...
...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 attention: studio execs might still have trouble finding Pusan on a map, but distributors like Miramax call Korea regularly now to find out what's coming down the pipeline. Korea doesn't yet have a John Woo or a Chow Yun-fat who can make the crossover to the Hollywood...
...Korea stumbled toward democracy in the '90s, the lid popped off. Talented young directors, many trained overseas, began making powerful films that often shocked audiences with graphic depictions of sex and violence. Technical quality improved steadily and genres multiplied. Shiri, released in 1999, was the breakthrough. Hollywood-style in its pacing and punch, it probed the still-sensitive issue of relations between the two Koreas through the story of a North Korean assassin who falls in love with a South Korean counterintelligence agent. The film sold 5.8 million tickets, shattering the previous record for a locally made movie...
...Little Match Girl and 2009, says Judy Ahn, international sales manager for Tube Entertainment, which is producing both films. Shiri director Kang Je Gyu is setting his sights even higher. There's a hush-hush project in the works, he says, which involves taking his production company to Hollywood to shoot. "We might get a big U.S. star," he says from his trendy office in southern Seoul. "But I can't tell you who." With his studiously casual jeans, spiky tea-colored hair and an e-mail address that starts CEO_Filmdirector@, he is already halfway to Hollywood?attitude-wise...