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Korean Cheerleading Drama ‘Victory’ to Get North American Launch


Korean cheerleading film Victory is headed to U.S. cinemas. Forward of its upcoming South Korean launch, the movie was pre-sold by Seoul-based gross sales outfit Finecut to 815 Photos for a North American theatrical run. 

Described as “an uplifting and heartwarming drama centered round a high-school dance duo,” the movie follows the cheerleaders as they encourage an underdog faculty soccer staff and the encircling village on a distant Korean island. Directed by Park Beom-su, identified for Single in Seoul and Purple Carpet, the movie premiered because the opening title on the current New York Asian Movie Pageant, the place considered one of its stars, Lee Hye-ri, was honored with the occasion’s display screen worldwide rising star Asia award.

Finecut additionally has inked offers for the film throughout Asia, together with to Sky Movies Leisure for Taiwan; Lumix Media for Vietnam; PT Prima Cinema Multimedia for Indonesia; Home of M for Thailand; Emphasis Video Leisure for inflight distribution; and by Westec Media Restricted for Cambodia. 

Victory will open in North America on Aug. 16, shortly after its Aug. 14 bow in South Korea. Finecut says the opposite Asia launch dates will probably be unfold out by means of August and September. 

The remainder of the forged contains: Park Se-wan (Life is Lovely) as the opposite member of the dance duo; Cho A-ram (from TV sequence Thank You), as a former member of a cheerleading squad in Seoul who strikes to the village; and Lee Jung Ha (of the Disney+ hit Transferring), enjoying the position of a goalkeeper of the varsity soccer staff that at all times loses.

Produced by Korea’s Annapurna Movies, headed by Lee Anna, the producer behind field workplace hits like Sunny and Scandal Makers, Victory is introduced by Mindmark, a content material IP firm owned by the Shinsegae Group. Mindmark has been concerned as a financier and Korean distributor of native titles like Courageous Citizen, Love Reset and Honey Candy. Its current slate additionally contains Hur Jin-ho’s A Regular Household and Boss.

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