Sep 2009
Ha revealed that he would shave his head in coming october for Hwang Hae.
Ha revealed that he wanted to make movies someday about lives of Cha Bum-Kun and Nam-June Paek at the private party celebrating Take Off’s 7 million viewers drawing. Cha Boom was a Korean soccer player who played in Germany football league and a first player playing in Europe league. Also, Ha is interested in biography of Korean artist, especially Baek Nam June.
And, he added that he wanted to play character having “job”. He said that he did not play character hired. Even in the “Breakfast at Tiffany” he is filming, he quitted bank, and became umemplyed. He was a prosecutor, a kind of professional in TV drama HIT, but in the movies, he has not got proper jobs.^^;
Sep 10 2009, KOFIC News
Take Off director’s cut in cinemas
Director KIM Yong-hwa will release a newly edited version of the box office smash Take Off on 10 September. The director’s cut will improve the story with newly added scenes. Also, KIM re-edited, and added footage to the Olympic special effect scenes. Take Off director’s cut will only play at cinemas with digital screening rooms. Take Off accumulated 7 million viewers on 7 September since its release on 29 July, and claimed The Good, the Bad, and the Weird’s eleventh place in the most successful Korean films chart.The fictional tale partly based on true events follows an unlikely outfit who aim for the Olympics. The ski jumpers – an uncommon sport in Korea – are hardly professional and have to come from far to realise their objective. HA Jung-woo plays the lead character, an Korean adoptee skier who happens to be in Korea to search for his biological parents. He is reluctant to represent Korea.
Yi Ch’ang-ho (KOFIC)
Ha ranked #2 in Cable TV XTM program ”Men Style Homme” ’s ”10 Best dressed men”. This survey was held by XTM and Esquire(Men Magazine). 100 experts including famous stylists, photographers, designers, and magazine editors participated this. Genter rate was 50:50. But, the view of men and women was very different. Male fashion experts selected Kim Young Kwang(fashion model) as #1, and Ha Jung woo as #2, Lee Jung Jae #3, Jo In Sung #4, and G-Draggon #5. But, female fashion experts selected Cha Seoung Won as #1, Lee Seoung Ki #2, Lee Jung Jae #3, Jung Woo Sung #4, and Danniel Henney #5.
Ha donates his painting to <Junk Art Exhibition> held by Korea Environment & Resources Corporation. He said he donated the painting in order to let people know the importance of better environment and resource-recycling. The title of the painting is “A hand of nature”. It contains dynamic and fresh aspect of nature. We can see it at Mappo resource recycling thema exhibition center from mid September.
Ha won Hot Movie Star Award(Male) in Mnet 20’s Choice 2009.
Sep 2009
Take Off has drawn 7 million viewers.
Aug 24 2009, Korea Herald
Korean sports film draws over 5 million viewers
Ticket sales for the Korean ski jumping film “Take Off (Gukgadaepyo)” topped 5 million over the weekend, becoming the second most-watched local film among this year’s releases, the Korean Film Council said Monday and Yonhap News reported.
Featuring the country’s oft-overlooked national ski jumping team, the film drew more than 5.2 million viewers as of Sunday, its 26th day of screening, the film council said.
“Take Off” is the second movie to surpass the 5-million viewer mark among this year’s domestic releases following “Haeundae,” and continues to top the local box office.
“Haeundae,” a big-budget disaster film directed by Yoon Je-kyoon, has drawn more than 10 million viewers, according to its distributor JK Films, becoming the fifth Korean movie to reach the milestone.
Part non-fiction, “Take Off” spotlights a hodge-podge ski jumping team assembled to support a bid by the Korean city of Muju for the Winter Olympics in 1996. Directed by Kim Yong-hwa, creator of the 2006 box office hit “200 Pound Beauty,” the film stars actor Ha Jeong-woo, who plays a Korean-American adoptee and former U.S. junior alpine skier.
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