Mid-Life Female Friendship Themes Explored in Korea’s ’19 39′ « CB

South Korean indie studio Extra In Group is utilizing Hong Kong FilMart to launch its new characteristic movie challenge “19 39.”

Director Park Jae-ho is setting a fast turnaround for the comedy-drama film which has not but been filmed, however which he plans to launch in summer time this yr.

The story, written by Kim Min-Jung transports 5 39-year-old ladies again to their childhoods, to expertise highschool and old flame. Their glad recollections distinction with current day actuality as ladies on the cusp of center age. The conflict forces them to mirror on the true which means of affection and friendship.

(The same theme is explored in present JTBC-Netflix collection “Thirty 9” with three ladies all age 39 who juggle work, life and relationships. It was additionally beforehand explored in 2011 hit movie “Sunny”.)

Park has set Lee So-yeon (the lead of TV collection “Ms. Montecristo”), Son Yeo-eun (“Loopy Romance”), Jeon Hye-bin (TV’s “One other Miss Oh,” “Fortunate”), Jung Soo-young (“What’s Improper With Secretary Kim,” “Couple or Hassle”) and Oh Seung-eun (“My Boss 1”) because the grownup leads.

The kid actors are: Choi Hye-jin (“Miss & Mrs Cops,” TV’s “Some Air”), Kim Yu-eun (Netflix collection “The College Nurse Recordsdata”), Ko Ju-hee (“Unusual College Tales”) and Kim Yu-jin (“1:11, Time to Go to You”).

The manufacturing, by SG&G Holding and Extra In Group, is poised to price KRW4 billion ($3.2 million) with an extra KRW1 billion ($800,000) earmarked for advertising in Korea.

Headed by T.J. Chung, Extra In has a span of actions that stretch from movie and TV rights gross sales, by IP funding and co-production, and music IP gross sales. Its again catalog additionally packs a rating of films from the primary decade of the Korean movie business revival, together with “Face,” “Afrika” and “Our City.”

This time final yr, Extra In used FilMart to launch its inspirational drama movie “My Pretty Angel.”

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