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好莱坞将首次发行全额投资的韩国电影
Korea's Hollywood-invested film to be released for 1st time
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/culture/2013/02/141_131185.html
“韩国迅速成长的电影领域将会成为吸引全球投资的一块磁铁”，根据 桑福德.帕尼奇（Sanford Panitch）20世纪福克斯子公司FIP首席执行员的说法，也表达了他们公司对第一次在本土全额投资计划的前景非常有信心。
福克斯是第一家提供全额融资制作一部韩国电影 《Running Man》的外国企业 。Sanford Panitch 也表明他们作为全球娱乐的巨头已经有了更多韩国制作在计划中。
Panitch 说现在的韩国电影业看来是处于完全复兴的阶段，结合本地电影院接连每月不断创新的观看人次以及越来越多的韩国电影在海外受到了很高的评论和欢迎的时候，这也提供了如福克斯公司难得的特有投资机会。
将要上映的动作片《Running Man》，由申河均饰演的主要角色是因目睹到一位男人的死亡而被诬赖为凶手的人，被逼要展开他的逃亡生活。Panitch 对这里的电影拍摄水准和手法非常讶异。 在紧张刺激的动作之外，也有很全面演出的角色及细腻感人深入的剧情。
“我们对试拍摄在首尔中心发生的有着真实动作的一部影片概念非常深刻,” Panitch 在首尔一间戏院内举办的新闻发布会上如此陈述。
“还有影片以父子关系为感情主轴的故事也很吸引我们。因为这两个原因，所以觉得《Running Man》 这部电影对我们来将会是一个好的开始。
FIP 是一间福克斯成立的全球性制作公司，主要在那些大部分都不是英语片的电影市场参与投资和制作他们的本土电影。这么长久以来FIP 已在超过11个国家融资了50部外语片。
福克斯是其中一间最早在韩国很积极地参与投资的巨型外国娱乐企业。2010年卖座的惊悚电影《黄海》也参与了部份投资。朴赞郁导演的第一部好莱坞影片《Stoker》也是由福克斯发行。
Panitch 透露如果不是一些阻力福克斯更早就已经参与了韩国电影。这都是因为来自一个夹在要保护本土电影市场抵抗外国的竞争及要将它的电影业培育成为一个全球企业的国家。
他也披露“虽然需要了一些时间，最终我们还是拥有了自己的第一部韩国电影。来自韩国电影振兴委员会 (KOFIC) 的支持是我们能在韩国拍摄电影的其中一个非常重要的因素。”
“KOFIC 已以一个奖励支援的计划来证明了对我们的支持。我非常感谢他们不只是这些或是对电影的援助，而是我们之间长久的友好关系让我们能继续在韩国合作拍电影。
《Running Man》 是KOFIC推出奖励支援计划被选定的第一部电影。它是一个希望提升韩国电影财务能力和协助他们寻找一个国际舞台的计划。
“我希望我能完成KOFIC的韩国电影在全球增长的期望，现在这将是一个起步。” Sanford Panitch 如此回答。
一起出席新闻发布会的KOFIC韩国电影振兴委员会委员长金义石告知：“透过和外国投资者一起合作制作，是给韩国电影在全球增长和扩大的很好机会。这电影也提供了5个月的工作机会给430位韩国的电影业人员。” Panitch 也透露他的公司有几个编写韩国电影的计划在进行中，希望能很快的宣布第二部电影。
关于这电影在好莱坞的发行， 他表示, “福克斯作为一个在全球发行电影的企业，我们希望这部电影在韩国原拍摄地，有着相同语言的本土市场获得巨大的成功。 同时，如果在世界其它的地方有上映的机会，我们将会计划争取，不论是美国或是其它区域。
Korea’s fast-growing film sector could soon become a magnet for global investment, according to Sanford Panitch, head of Fox International Productions (FIP), who expressed confidence about the prospects of the firm’s first local project.
Fox is the first foreign company to fully finance the production of a Korean movie, “Running Man.” Panitch says the global entertainment giant has a number of more Korean works in the pipeline.
The Korean movie industry seems to be enjoying a full-blown renaissance at the moment, with local theaters combining for new audience records month after month and an increasing number of Korean films enjoying critical acclaim abroad. This provides a critical investment opportunity for companies like Fox, Panitch said.
Running Man, the soon-to-be-released action film, stars Shin Ha-kyun in the main role, as a man who is wrongfully accused of murder after witnessing a person’s death and is forced into a life on the run. Panitch said he was impressed with the level of filmmaking here _ how the intensity in action is balanced by fully-developed characters and deep-cutting drama.
“We were very impressed with the concept of trying to make a film that would be pushing the action quotient down in a realistic way in Seoul itself,” said Panitch in a news conference held at a theater in Seoul.
“And the father-son story very much appealed to us all as the emotional core to the film. For those two reasons, Running Man felt like a good start for us.”
FIP is a global production company, created by Fox to be more involved in investing and producing local films in markets where a large percentage of films are not in English. FIP has so far financed 50 non-English language films in more than 11 countries.
Fox was the earliest among foreign entertainment giants to actively engage in investment opportunities in Korea. It partially invested in the crime thriller “Hwanghae,” the 2010 mega-hit. Park Chan-wook’s Hollywood debut, “Stoker,” is also distributed by Fox.
Panitch said Fox could have been involved with the Korean film sector earlier had it not been for obstacles, which come in a country that has been stuck between protecting the local movie market from foreign competition and nurturing it into a global industry.
“It's taken some time. Finally we have our first Korean film. One of the great aspects of us making this film in Korea came from the support of Korean Film Council (KOFIC),” he said.
“KOFIK has shown support through an incentive program and I really appreciate not only this and the backing for the film but also the long term relationship which will make us continue to make films in Korea in association with it.”
Running Man was the first film handpicked by KOFIC after the film council introduced an incentive program to boost the financing of Korean films and help them find a global stage.”
“I hope to be able to fulfill KOFIC's hopes for global expansion of Korean films and this will be a beginning of that process,” said Panitch.
“This is a great opportunity for Korean movies to expand in the global network through co-production of films with a foreign investor. It also creates jobs opportunities for about 430 Korean film makers to work for five months,” said KOFIC Chairman Kim Eui-suk, also present at the news conference.
Panitch said his company has a number of Korean film projects in development in its script stages and hopes to be able to announce a second film very soon.
As for the Hollywood distribution of this movie, he said, “For Fox being a worldwide distributor, we want the film to be most successful in Korea where it is set and the language is spoken. At the same time, if we see an opportunity for the film in other parts of the world, we plan to take advantage of that whether it is U.S. audiences or other territories.”
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