Bae Yong Jun and Son Ye Jin starring in a big blockbuster melodrama with budget of 6 billion
‘A Melodrama in the biggest scale!’
The movie ‘Outing’ (director Huh Jinho, produced by Blue Storm), which has drawn a lot of attention by starring two Korean Wave stars Bae Yong Jun and Son Yejin, will be recorded as a melodramatic movie of biggest scale ever made in Korean movie history.
A source from the movie ‘Outing’ said in the recent interview with Sportstoday, ‘We expect the movie to be made with a budget of 6 billion won including 4 billion of net production cost and marketing expenses. It can exceed it as this is just an estimate.’ Considering that most melodramatic movies cost 2 to 3 billion in Korean movie industry, this ‘Outing’ is indeed of size of a blockbuster. It wasn’t officially written but the movie industry considers ‘Eraser in my head’ (director Lee Jaehan, produced by Cydus Pictures) which opened last fall starring Jung Woosung and Son Ye Jin and drew 2.7 million viewers nationwide, as the biggest melodramatic movie so far. For ‘Eraser in my head’, total production cost was 4.5 billion won including net production cost 3 billion and marketing expense 1.5 billion.
This source, emphasizing on confidence about domestic box office result and further on guaranteed advancement to pan-Asian market including Japan, said ‘This isn’t a simple task. We decided to make this mega-size investment in order to achieve a level of perfection for this movie so that we can present it anywhere with pride.’ ‘Externally’ at least, this movie has the best condition to become a box office hit attracting movie fans throughout Asia including Japan, not only because Korean viewers are already thrilled at return of Huh Jinho, director of ‘Christmas in August’ and ‘Spring days are passing’ but because Yonsama Bae Yong Jun and Son Ye Jin, a Korean Wave star candidate, paired up.
They will make a production announcement for ‘Outing’ somewhere in Seoul around on January 24th to announce an official start. Another source from this movie said, ‘60% of shooting will be done around Samchuk in Kangwon and we are expecting to spend at least 4 months to produce this movie.’
Source: byjtogether 29th December 2004
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