EXCLUSIVE: Gang Dong-Won, the South Korean actor whose credit embrace the Train to Busan sequel Peninsula and most lately the Hirokazu Kore-eda-directed Broker, which premiered in competitors at this yr’s Cannes Film Festival, has signed with Range Media Partners.
He continues to be repped by CAA.
In Kore-eda’s first Korean-language movie, Gang performs one in all a pair of males (his co-star is Parasite‘s Song Kang-ho, who won the Cannes Best Actor prize for the role) who scheme to sell abandoned babies to new families. Things escalate when ahead of their latest attempt, the abandon child’s mom opts to hitch them on their tour.
Deadline’s Todd McCarthy in his overview referred to as the movie “a warm, often funny account of people finding their way through a tricky predicament.” Neon picked up U.S. rights forward of the fest in May; the pic hit South Korean theaters in June.
As for different Gang successes, Peninsula grossed $42 million on the international field workplace in 2020. Other credit embrace the South Korean field workplace biggies A Violent Prosecutor ($66 million available in the market) and Master ($51 million).
The actor, who is also a producer, has gained a number of awards together with two Blue Dragons (Korea’s equal to the Oscars) for Most Popular Star. He was nominated for Best Actor there in 2010 for Secret Reunion.
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