{"id":17,"date":"2006-10-09T09:26:03","date_gmt":"2006-10-09T16:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/?p=17"},"modified":"2010-07-22T18:00:45","modified_gmt":"2010-07-22T23:00:45","slug":"more-on-the-host","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/2006\/10\/09\/more-on-the-host\/","title":{"rendered":"More on THE HOST"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From David:<\/p>\n<p>While I was at Vancouver, I didn&#8217;t see <em>Screen International<\/em> for Sept 15, but I&#8217;ve caught up since I got back. <em>SI <\/em>reports extensively on Bong Joon-ho&#8217;s <em>The Host<\/em>. Budgeted at $11 million, it has become the top-grossing Korean film of all time (in unadjusted dollars). It was released in July, and 38 days later it had 12.37 million admissions in its domestic market, beating <em>The King and the Clown<\/em>. The subsequent Asian rollout has yielded a total gross of $77.8 million as of 15 Sept. <em>The Host<\/em> will open in Europe in November, and in the US, distributed by Magnolia, in late January 2007.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Bong was kind enough to give me a CD of the soundtrack, and it&#8217;s a lively and varied score. I recommend it. When we first met in 1995, he told me that <em>Film Art<\/em> was widely pirated in Korea, so at Vancouver I gave him a copy of <em>The Way Hollywood Tells It<\/em>. This is the source of his comments in the inscription: &#8220;To David Bordwell! Thanks for your amazing book! (My legal version copy!) Good luck!&#8221; Maybe some of his luck with <em>The Host<\/em> will rub off on me&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From David: While I was at Vancouver, I didn&#8217;t see Screen International for Sept 15, but I&#8217;ve caught up since I got back. SI reports extensively on Bong Joon-ho&#8217;s The Host. Budgeted at $11 million, it has become the top-grossing Korean film of all time (in unadjusted dollars). It was released in July, and 38 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,26,2,1,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asian-cinema","category-directors-bong-joon-ho","category-film-art","category-film-comments","category-national-cinemas-korea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8966,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions\/8966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbordwell.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}