Neon has acquired the US copyright of Park Chan-wook Action Classic Oldboy , and is scheduled to release in time for the film’s 20 anniversary.
The film starring Choi Min-sik, Yoo Ji-tae and Kang Hye-jung won the grand prize at the
Cannes Film Festival. The film’s lines read: “After being kidnapped and imprisoned for fifteen years, Oh Dae-soo (Choi Min-sik) is released, only to find that he must find his captor within five days.”
Chan-wook wrote the script together with Hwang Jo-woon and Lim Jun-hyung. Old Boy is the second in Park’s Revenge trilogy, sandwiched between Sympathy for Mr. Revenge between) and Nemesis . It has also been adapted into an American remake from filmmaker Spike Lee and starring Josh Brolin.
The anniversary re-release has taken the box office. This summer, ET re-released on its 40 anniversary, and Steven Spielberg Grid’s sibling title Jaws will be released in September via Universal and Amblin, with IMAX and RealD 3D upgrades.
Neon’s upcoming list includes this year’s Palme d’Or at Cannes Triangle of Sorrows 20 from Ruben Östlund and Laura Poitras All the Beauty and Bleeding
heading to the upcoming Toronto International Film Festival.
