With news of Kim Ji-Woon's 좋은 놈, 나쁜 놈, 이상한 놈 (The Good, The Bad, The Weird) going past the 5 million tickets sold and still making its makers nervous (needs at least 7 million to break even, and it's lost its pole position last week already), this could feel like adjustments to a catering report, but not when we're talking of Hong Sang-Soo. His latest 밤과 낮 (Night and Day) had a good festival run, but an almost indecent domestic performance, even considering Hong's past - his most successful film is in the very low six figures. This might have been the spark, then, who made director Hong opt for a ultra-low budget (under 100 Million won), HD base for his next work, tentatively titled 잘 알지도 못하면서 (You Don't Even Know).
Even the cast is made of Hong regulars, who will surely have agreed to work for a no-guarantee clause: we have Eom Ji-Won from 극장전 (Tale of Cinema), Kim Tae-Woo from 해변의 여인 (Woman on the Beach) and 여자는 남자의 미래다 (Woman is the Future of Man), and even Go Hyun-Jung, who will have a cameo in the film. Story tells of film director Gyeong-Nam (Kim), who is invited to Jecheon to take part in the jury of the Jecheon International Music and Film Festival. There he meets programmer Hyeon-Hee (Eom), and later going to Jeju for a lecture, he ends up meeting the wife of one of his colleagues, played by Go Hyun-Jung. Film will shoot in Jecheon until August 15, and then stay in Jeju Island until early September.
Is that about a 100,000?
Yep, more or less.
any idea when 'night and day' will be released on dvd? i know it's been a while that it was running in the theaters in korea.
If it was a major handling it, would be out already, but since it was distributed by Sponge, it might take a while. But I wouldn't worry too much. Will surely pop up sometime in Europe if it doesn't in Korea. Maybe they're waiting on purpose.