After opening to $25M in the wake of its historic Palme d’Or win at the Cannes Film Festival in May, Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite has crossed the $50M milestone in its home market. The multi-genre comedy-thriller is the first Korean film ever to scoop the top prize in Cannes and is now the No. 3 movie of the year in Korea…

While Godzilla: King Of The Monsters is expected to dominate the global and international box office this weekend, Bong Joon-ho's Cannes Palme d'Or winner Parasite is coming on strong in its home market. The Thursday Korea opening was a No. 1 $3.93M (including previews), according to local reporting service Kobiz…

NEON has just dated the stateside release for Bong Joon-ho’s Cannes Palme d’Or winner Parasite for October 11 in New York and Los Angeles. The distributor will give the pic a traditional art house theatrical release, positioning Parasite for awards season. It remains TBD if South Korea selects Parasite as their…

With superhero fever cooled down for about a week until Disney/Fox’s Dark Phoenix, the world is primed for a big spectacle, shifting interest to monsters, and Elton John. Legendary builds out of its Japanese-classic beasts inspired franchise with its third installment Godzilla: King of the Monsters in which the green…

Bong Joon-Ho’s multi-genre comedy-thriller Parasite takes aim at a number of themes occurring in our world, from class struggle to global warming. But criticizing North Korea isn’t one of the movie’s dominant motifs according to the director. Parasite follows a struggling family who worm themselves into the good…

The Feature Film Jury of the main competition for the 72nd Cannes International Film Festival has spoken, and in judging the 21 entries eligible for the Palme d’Or and other prizes, they have gone dark, very very dark.  But that isn’t atypical of past Cannes juries, who are notoriously unpredictable (which is why I…

UPDATED: Talk to anyone on the Croisette and they would have bet that this year’s Cannes Palme d’Or belonged to Pedro Almodovar and his latest movie Pain and Glory. Not so, as South Korean director Bong Joon-ho finally got his due in his fifth time at Cannes, winning the Palme d’Or for his thriller Parasite about a…

South Korea's Bong Joon-ho has been a familiar sight in Cannes since 2006, when word of his delirious Han River monster romp The Host swept the Croisette after screening in Directors’ Fortnight. Since then, while his English and dress sense quietly improved, director Bong has always returned with a surprise, making…

Neon has acquired North American rights to Parasite, the new film from Bong Joon-Ho. The drama marks his return to Korean-language movies after Netflix’s Okja last year and 2013’s Snowpiercer. The latter pic was released by Radius, which at the time was run by now-Neon principal Tom Quinn. The deal with CJ…