October 22, 2006

CJ Entertainment Upsets London Film-goers

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CJ Entertainment, the largest entertainment company in South Korea, and one of the largest film companies in the country, is being taken to task for bungling the shipment of The King and the Clown to a major film festival in London. Organizers of the London Film Festival had no choice but to cancel two screenings of the Korean blockbuster, which was to have been shown October 19, when it became apparent that the film wouldn’t arrive in time for the event. The distributors initially insisted that the film had been delivered as promised on the evening of the 19th, and blamed festival organizers for the mix-up. But when the Yonhap News Agency reported that the film they had received was a version without subtitles, the subtitled version not arriving until the following day, officials at CJ Entertainment replied that the courier must have misreported the delivery date. The UK’s biggest film festival, The London Film Festival is sponsored by The Times newspaper and the British Film Institute. Running from October 18 thru November 2, and screening 300 films from 60 countries, the festival is in the midst of celebrating its 50th anniversary.

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» Posted by Jon Pais at October 22, 2006 09:12 PM
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Familiar to the frightfest screening earlier this year with Re-Cycle, they received a copy without subtitles also and we ended up with The Ghost of Mae Nak.

» Posted by Raku at October 23, 2006 07:19 AM

Yeah, and The Ghost of Mae Nak was pretty awful.

I can't believe that's getting a DVD release over here.

But yeah, that sucks.

» Posted by Esh at October 23, 2006 11:56 AM

It was bad....but i got to see The Host that night so i was happy.

» Posted by Raku at October 23, 2006 01:42 PM

An unsubbed print of RE-CYCLE? Where'd that even come from? I thought Hong Kong films still went out with Chinese/English subtitles for the most part? Every HK film I've seen in a festival has been presented that way. Even TriStar's TIME AND TIDE US theatrical release was just a HK print, complete with annoying English subtitles for English dialogue.

» Posted by Rhythm-X at October 23, 2006 03:36 PM

The Toronto After Dark print of Re-Cycle had both english and chinese subtitles, although I'm not sure if the film was shown a lot, but the print itself seemed a bit muddy and washed out. Not necessarily what you would expect from the Pang Brothers, so I think it was age over artistic intention.

» Posted by Kurt at October 23, 2006 03:55 PM

Dude, Raku. You clearly just went to the same things as me. I travelled from Cardiff just to watch The Host, but also picked up some tickets to go see Re-Cycle.

Oh well, that's life etc.

» Posted by Esh at October 23, 2006 04:17 PM

Oh no they did NOT do that. These people really want to win an Oscar, don't they?


I'm never going to get to see this on the big screen, I see that coming. >%^S

» Posted by lady_wakasa at October 24, 2006 01:18 AM

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