“In Our Day,” the movie by South Korean auteur Hong Sang-soo which closes the Administrators’ Fortnight part of the Cannes movie competition, has seen distributors in a number of territories transfer early to strike rights offers.
French rights have been picked up by Capricci), Spanish rights by L’Atalante Cinema and Greek rights by Ama Movies. The movie has its official premiere on Might 25.
Seoul-based Finecut has lengthy been the gross sales agent for Hong’s plentiful output. Along with the offers on “In Our Day,” Finecut signed agreements with L’Atalante, with France’s Ariona Movies and Taiwan’s Cola Movies for “In Water,” Hong’s first movie of 2023 which premiered within the Encounters part in Berlin in February. The movie was beforehand offered to Cinema Guild for North America.
Finecut continues to do enterprise on “Nexg Sohee,” the Jung July movie which performed at Cannes final yr because the closing movie of the Critics’Week part. It has not too long ago been licensed to Australia (Particular Broadcasting Service Company), China (Beijing BlueMedia Instances Cultural Improvement) and Spain (La Aventura Cine) along with the earlier offers for France (Arizona Movies Distribution), India (Pictureworks), Japan (Rights Dice), Taiwan (Sky Movies Leisure), and for Switzerland and Liechtenstein to Trigon Movie. Starring Bae Doona and Kim Si-eun, “Subsequent Sohee” has gathered greater than 93,600 admissions since its opening on April 5 in France.
Greenhouse, one other female-directed title, which premiered finally yr’s Busan Worldwide Movie Competition and secured a trio of prizes, has been the topic of a number of rights offers. It was licensed to France’s Artwork Home Movies, Japan’s Mimosa Movies and Taiwan’s AV-JET Worldwide.
“The Hill of Secrets and techniques,” by a 3rd lady director Lee Ji-eun, was licensed to Plaion Photos for Germany, Austria, Alto Adige, Liechtenstein, Luxemburg and Switzerland. The movie had its world premiere in Berlin’s Technology Kplus part. It was beforehand licensed to Edko Movies for Hong Kong and Macau and to AV-JET for Taiwan.
