Confession of murder (Korea)Opened Nov. 8 Thriller. Action. Directed by Jung Byoung-gil. A high-profile serial murder case that claimed the lives of 10 women 15 years ago closes as the statute of limitations expires. For 15 years, Choi Hyung-goo (Jung Jae-young), the detective in charge of the case, has been unable to forget the suspect who left him with a feeling of guilt and an inerasable scar on his face. Two years later, a man named Lee Du-seok (Park Shi-hoo) publishes an autobiography title

Even after all this time, author Stephenie Meyer, the Mormon mother of three who became an overnight literary sensation with the 2005 publication of her young-adult novel “Twilight,” can’t explain the phenomenon that surrounds the grand romance between vampire Edward Cullen and human teenager Bella Swan, characters played on-screen by Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart.“I don’t know what makes people love it, I don’t know what makes people hate it,” said Meyer, seated comfortably in a suite of

Not many would be aware that filmmaker Lee Jun-ik, best known for his 2005 period drama “The King and the Clown,” used to be a copywriter and made movie posters, before making his foray into filmmaking.From the 80s to the 90s, Lee created some 1,000 promotional posters for films. One of them was for director Jeong Ji-young’s 1990 drama “North Korean Partisan in South Korea.” Making posters used to be a lot more complicated than it is now; it required cutting and gluing using scissors and paper.

U.S. actress Kristen Stewart charmed the crowd with a revealing jumpsuit by Zuhair Murad at the “The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn -- Part 2” premiere in London on Wednesday. Kristen Stewart walked the red carpet of the movie at Leicester Square, posing for a photo with Robert Pattinson at one point.The 22-year-old actress flashed plenty of flesh in the sequin and lace outfit, with sheer paneling prevalent on the garment from the hip up.“The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn -- Part 2” marks the fifth

Korean director Yi Seung-jun’s documentary “Planet of Snail” won the top prize at the 6th International Disability Film Festival in Moscow on Monday. The everyday portrayal of a hearing and visually impaired poet and his wife also won the top prize last year at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, the world’s largest documentary film festival. Russian actor and filmmaker Vladimir Menshov, who serves as the head of the jury of the film fest, reportedly praised the film for its a

Producers of the latest James Bond movie “Skyfall” said that they used a 3-D-printed Aston Martin DB5 instead of a real one.Three replica cars, a third of the size of the real car, were created using a 3-D printer to film stunt scenes where the priceless vehicle explodes in flames.The models were made by British film props production firm Propshop Modelmakers Ltd., which used Voxeljet to print the cars.Officials at Propshop and Voxeljet said that it is impossible to distinguish the Aston Martin

British author Helen Fielding says she has started writing a sequel to 1996‘s “Bridget Jones’s Diary” and 1999‘s “Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason.”The books and two film adaptations, starring Renee Zellweger as the titular heroine, were based on a newspaper column Fielding began writing in 1995.“I’m having a lot of fun and it‘s very funny and it’s making me laugh,” Fielding told the BBC about returning to Bridget‘s story.“After the unexpected success when it first came out, I was startled by t

The dress Judy Garland wore in the film “The Wizard of Oz” fetched $480,000 at a Hollywood memorabilia auction in California, officials said.The unnamed buyer bought the dress Saturday at Julien‘s Auctions Beverly Hills Gallery, The Hollywood Reporter said.Garland’s iconic dress was not the only costume sold; the dress Julie Andrews wore in “The Sound of Music” brought $38,400, and a purple skirt worn by Marilyn Monroe during the filming of “River of No Return” sold for $50,000.Other items sold

NEW YORK (AP) ― Nothing is so much of a boys’ club as a James Bond movie. That is, except when Judi Dench is on screen.As MI6 head M, Dench has been the Bond matriarch: the strong-willed, no-nonsense mainstay of feminine authority in a movie franchise that has, more often than not, featured slightly more superficial womanly traits.“Skyfall’’ is Dench’s seventh Bond film, an unimpeachable reign that has encompassed both the Daniel Craig and Pierce Brosnan eras of the British spy. For a number of

Local romance movie "A Werewolf Boy" drew more than 3 million moviegoers last week, a rare feat for its genre, the Korean Film Council said Sunday.The film about a werewolf boy and his love interest who has a lung disease, starring Song Joong-ki and Park Bo-young, was watched by 537,948 audience members on Saturday alone, bringing the total to 3,067,651, according to the council.A daily number of over 500,000 is remarkably high for a movie of any genre shown in November, a slow season for movieg

Suspect X (Korea)Opened Oct. 18Mystery. Thriller. Directed by Bang Eun-jin. Once known to many as a genius, Suk-go (Ryu Seung-bum) now lives as an ordinary high-school math teacher. One day, Suk-go finds out that his neighbor Hwa-sun (Lee Yo-won), who recently moved in next door, killed her husband by accident. Seok-go secretly watches her and makes up a perfect alibi for her. Though the police pick Hwa-sun as the prime suspect, she successfully avoids any doubt even passing the polygraph test.

Five soldiers dressed in camouflage and carrying machine guns took cover behind a stack of wooden pallets.One yelled “incoming” and a few seconds later a large explosion ignited behind them, setting off a ball of flame rising 30 feet high. The soldiers fell to the ground from the force of the blast, a concoction of black powder and gasoline.The scene was one of many pyrotechnic stunts performed last week at the Burbank Fire Department Training Center for a crowd of Southern California firefighte

“Transformers” director Michael Bay says the 41-year-old actor will star in the franchise’s fourth film.Bay called Wahlberg the “perfect guy to re-invigorate the franchise and carry on the Transformers’ legacy” in a post on his blog Thursday. He previously squashed rumors that Wahlberg was joining the film franchise about warring robots.Bay worked with Wahlberg on his upcoming film, “Pain and Gain.”“Transformers 4” is scheduled to be released by Paramount Pictures on June 27, 2014.Bay has said t