“Hanazakari no Kimitachihe” had the island’s highest ever audience rating in Taiwan.
Also Taiwanese drama is hitting up Korean fans. The popurity of the Taiwanese soap opera craze comes from online fan clubs.
The one dedicated to Jerry Yen, the star of “Meteor Garden,” has more than 30,000 registered fans.
The fan club of pop group Feilunhai also known as Fahrenheit is also enormous, and Feilunhai members Wu Chun and Jiro Wang play leading roles in “Hanazakari no Kimitachi he.”
It was reported that The number of active fans are more than 7000 korean. Fans are to translate articles about Taiwanese actors and try to see them in person.
Registered fans are exceeds 10,000.

Korean distributor Prime Entertainment has sold remake rights to the new suspense thriller Seven Days to Hollywood company Summit Entertainment.

The film, directed by WON Sin-yeon ("The Wig" ("Scary Hair"), "A Bloody Aria"), is about a successful defense attorney (played by well-known actress KIM Yoon-jin) whose daughter is kidnapped. In place of a ransom, the kidnappers demand that she prove the innocence of a man convicted of murdering a college student.

The film was released in Korea on November 14.

The remake, which is scheduled to start shooting in 2008, will be executive produced by Lee Seo-yeol and Sin Sang-han of Prime Entertainment, together with Vincent Maraval and Agnes Mentre of French sales company Wild Bunch. Worldwide rights to the remake excluding North America and Asia will also be handled by Wild Bunch.

A South Korean thriller movie "Seven Days" will be remade for the U.S. market, the movie's South Korean distributor Prime Entertainment said Tuesday. Summit Entertainment, a U.S. movie production company that has released hit movies in the past, has signed a deal with Prime Entertainment for the rights for "Seven Days." Seven Days is a crime suspense film, directed by Won Shin-yeon. It will be released in South Korea on Wednesday. The movie tells the story of a brilliant woman lawyer with a perfect winning record whose life takes a dramatic turn when her eight-year-old daughter is kidnapped. The abductor says the lawyer has seven days to win an impossible murder case, or she will never see her daughter again. Summit Entertainment plans to begin filming the remake next year on a $30 million budget.

This post was last modified: 11-18-2007 12:13 PM by chachaka.