A homegrown documentary film about an elderly couple has surpassed the 3 million mark in attendance, setting a new record for a local documentary, an official box-office tracker said.“My Love, Don’t Cross That River” had attracted 3,039,536 moviegoers as of Thursday, breaking the previous record of 2.92 million viewers held by “Old Partner” (2009), according to the Korean Film Council.Released on Nov. 27, the film by director Ji Mo-young became the first local indie film to draw 100,000 viewers

As the row over “The Interview,” a U.S. film making fun of North Korea, took a dramatic turn with Sony Pictures’ surprise release of the flick on Christmas Day, South Koreans are growing more curious about what the fuss is all about. Although many South Koreans have been keenly following the controversy, they are blocked from actually viewing it, because Sony decided on a U.S.-only release. Some may be tempted to circumvent this restriction through illegal downloads, as the movie appeared on the

Hollywood space epic “Interstellar” cleared the 10 million viewer mark at the Korean box office on Christmas Day, becoming the third film to achieve the feat this year after Disney animation “Frozen” (10.29 million) and Korean period action flick “Roaring Currents” (17.61 million).Christopher Nolan’s sci-fi film on Thursday joined the 10 million viewership club within 50 days of its release, its distributor Warner Bros. Korea said. Only two other imported films, “Avatar” (13.30 million) and “Fro

Domestic films have sold 100 million tickets in movie theaters this year for the third year running, according to the state-run Korea Film Council. This year, Korean films garnered 100.19 million viewers as of Tuesday, which indicates every Korean has watched an average of two local films on the silver screen in a country of 50 million people. Local films have earned a total of 763.2 billion won ($695.3 million) in box office revenue this year.  People line up at a cinema chain in Yongsan-gu, Se

NEW YORK (AP) ― While Hollywood continued to wrestle with the fallout of the Sony hacking scandal, the weekend box office offered the solace of a moviegoing truism: Hobbits sell. Peter Jackson’s final installment of his six J.R.R. Tolkien adventures, “The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies,” debuted with $56.2 million over the weekend and $90.6 million since opening Wednesday, according to studio estimates Sunday. For an industry reeling from the cancellation of “The Interview” and terrorist

GENEVA (AP) ― Brazilian author Paulo Coelho says the Sony hack threatens us all if society doesn’t enforce important values: our individual and collective freedom of expression and an unwavering refusal to negotiate with anonymous terrorists. The best-selling author said in an interview Friday with The Associated Press that he was prepared to make himself an example ― even if it meant inviting criticism and potential threats ― if Sony Pictures had taken him up on his $100,000 offer for the right

The acting drops away from Bradley Cooper’s performance as “deadliest American sniper” Chris Kyle. Cooper bulked up, kept a pinch between his lower lip and jaw and became a man of few drawled words, the perfect Clint Eastwood hero in Eastwood’s film “American Sniper.”The director, who has seemed distracted if not downright bored with his recent films ― “Jersey Boys” was sort of a post-orangutan low ― returns to form with a clean kill of a movie, an unfussy combat film that only drifts in a third

The Tailors (Korea)Opening Dec. 24Drama. Directed by Lee Won-suk“The Tailors” is the story of two tailors: Jo Dol-seok (Han Suk-kyu), the head of Sanguiwon, the office in charge of royal attire in the Joseon era (1392-1910), and Lee Gong-jin (Gosu), a rebellious, skilled young designer who sets his fashion career in motion by designing the most outrageous and artistic hanbok of the time. When Dol-seok, an orthodox designer, becomes jealous of Gong-jin’s talent, their friendly competition escalat

LOS ANGELES (AP) ― Hollywood loves its overseas villains. Evil forces from Russia, China and North Korea have tirelessly menaced our big-screen heroes in recent years. But, in the wake of the dramatic cancellation of “The Interview,” an entire species of movie baddies might be in danger of extinction. One film already bit the dust. “Pyongyang,” an adaption of a graphic novel set in North Korea, was given the ax Wednesday after distributor Fox abandoned the project and producer New Regency was fo