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New Talent, Feature Animation Offer Recovery Hope During South Korea’s Movie Malaise
Korean film has struggled to emerge from its COVID malaise, but emerging talent, animation and new formats offer recovery hope.
Explanations for the malaise are multiple: A succession of old titles and tired concepts being dribbled onto screens; the loss of key theatrical movies that opted for an outright sale to a streamer; competition for eyeballs from elsewhere in the country’s ferocious video market; and filmmaking talent that has been attracted to the series format by better opportunities and bigger paydays. Still, the South Korean film industry continues to draw benefit from the country’s ability to hatch new stars, especially from K-pop and TV series, and call on world-class established acting talent. Finecut (which handles the Hong Sang-soo oeuvre) recently picked up “Exorcism Chronicles,” an adult-skewing horror thriller, while Barunson E&A is launching sales on “Yumi’s Cells,” a YA-sci-fi fantasy.
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