Director Yoon Je-gyun will direct the Hollywood K-pop movie ‘K-Pop: Lost in America,’ co-produced by Lee Mi-Kyung, vice chairman of CJ Group, and Linda Obst, producer of ‘Interstellar,’ ‘Sleepless in Seattle’ and ‘Contact.’
‘K-Pop: Lost in America’ depicts what happens when a K-pop boy group, who is about to debut overseas in New York, accidentally goes to Texas two days before their overseas debut and tries to somehow go to New York without money or time.
Director Yoon Je-gun’s JK Film and CJ ENM plan to audition for Korean idols from August to September. In the first round, applications for demo videos containing dance, singing, and acting will be received through the site, and face-to-face auditions will be held. ‘K-Pop: Lost in America’ plans to start pre-production from the second half of this year to release in 2023.
The movie ‘Yacha’ starring actors Seol Kyung-gu and Park Hae-soo will be released worldwide as a Netflix original movie. With this, ‘Yacha’ will be released through Netflix worldwide, except in China, where Netflix is not available, not in theaters. ‘Yacha’ is a spy action film that takes place in Shenyang, China, the biggest battleground for spies, when a person called ‘Yacha’ meets a prosecutor who goes on a separate inspection there. ‘Prison’ is a new film directed by Na Hyun. Seol Kyung-gu, Park Hae-soo, Yang Dong-Geun, EL, Song Jae-rim, and GOT7’s Park Jin-young joined the group, cranked in on December 31, 2019, cranked up on May 27, 2020.
It is said that Showbox originally planned to release ‘Yacha’ in theaters in the second half of 2020. Still, as the release continued to be delayed in the aftermath of Corona 19, they decided to hand over the rights to Netflix after much consideration. Netflix is said to be contemplating the release date of ‘Yacha’ in the second half of this year.
The content dinosaur Disney’s OTT service Disney Plus is scheduled to launch in mid-November in Korea. Bob Chapek, CEO of The Walt Disney Company, said in a conference call for the second quarter of this year (Disney’s third-quarter) on the 12th (local time), “We will expand the service in Japan in October, and in mid-November, we will We will further enter the market,” he said.
In the first half of this year, Disney stopped supplying its content VOD, which was provided to Korean Internet TV (IPTV), and it was predicted that it would enter Korea in the second half of this year. Disney Plus is an OTT service of the content dinosaur Walt Disney Company, with different contents such as Disney, Marvel, Star Wars, and 20th Century Fox.