IM KWON TAEK WILL GET A 100th MOVIE

Korea's grand old man of moviemaking is Im Kwon-Taek, director of CHUNHYANG and CHIWASEON, who has 99 movies under his belt. His hundreth, ONE THOUSAND YEAR CRANE, is about a musician, his half-blind sister, and their dad and its financing recently fell through just days before the shoot was to begin.

Citing the lack of star power, and the failure of his 99th movie, LOW LIFE, the folks with the checks have been wary of putting up the cash for this flick. Finally, however, Kino2, the Centurion Company, and the Korean Film Council have agreed to back the movie and so Im is back in business as of today, it looks like.

I'm glad these folks have stepped up to the plate, since leaving Im Kwon-Taek as the maker of 99 movies (instead of a nice round 100) would eternally drive me bananas in an obsessive compulsive way.