The Showbox-backed action thriller will world-premiere in the Midnight Screenings section of the Cannes Film Festival on Friday before opening at home in South Korea on May 21.
director Yeon Sang-ho, the company announced Tuesday ahead of the film’s world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival this Friday. The action thriller — Yeon’s return to the zombie genre he helped reinvent globally with 2016’s breakthrough hit— has gone to Well Go USA in North America, StudioCanal in the U.K., Gaga Corporation in Japan, ARP Sélection in France, and Plaion Pictures in Germany and Italy.
Showbox also closed deals for Australia and New Zealand , Latin America , Scandinavia , Spain , the CIS and Baltics , Poland , Turkey , Hong Kong , Taiwan , Indonesia , the Philippines , India , Thailand , Mongolia and broader Southeast Asia . Cannes: Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Comedy Legend and 'Tangles' Star/Producer, Will Guest on THR's 'Awards Chatter' Pod Live From Meta House will screen at the Palais on Friday, May 15 in the Cannes Midnight Screenings section, out of competition.
The slot is a homecoming for Yeon:also debuted in the Midnight strand in 2016, the launch pad for what became the global breakout and made him one of his country’s most prolific directors of screens large and small. ) stars as Se-jeong, a biotechnology professor attending an industry conference when a rapidly mutating virus is released, plunging the venue into chaos as the infected begin to transform and the authorities seal the building.
The ensemble includes Koo Kyo-hwan (Yeon co-wrote the screenplay with frequent collaborator Choi Gyu-seok. The film is produced by Wowpoint and Smilegate in association with Midnight Studio, with Showbox presenting. The reported production budget is roughly $12 million, modest by Hollywood tentpole standards but on the high end for a Korean genre feature.debuted in November 2021 and climbed to the streamer’s global No. 1 spot within a day of launch. He’s released several series and feature projects since.
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