Gangnam 1970 Adds Lee Min Ho Scenes and Changes Ending for March Premiere in China

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• Ugh. This is unfortunate.

• Well that sucks, but I'm glad I won't be watching this movie in China or the China version. And with the change in endings, can we assume someone died (Lee?), or is it just more fanservice that they're adding?

• At the end of the day I don't think KRW is sad about this since LMH is global actor, so it is what it is and he also knew that LMH is more famous then any korean celebrity right now before he took the movie.

  • Actually, Kim Rae-won expressed disappointment with the movie somewhat.

    http://kpopbuddy.com/2015/02/01/kim-rae-won-disappointed-with-gangnam-1970/

    • oooh woow didn't know KRW was disappointed.. but yeah His making the best tv-ratings with punch in a long time so congrats to him with that..

      But Lee Min ho is a global actor and the korean industry needs to cut its bullshit and give the man his respect and drop all that senoirity non-sense

    • KRW mentioned that it was a learning experience... I wonder if the lesson he learnt is "Never co-lead with a younger and more popular celeb (doesnt matter if he has less talent)."

  • Exactly ... Lesson learned is don't be lee minho's costar because you will get overshadowed and maybe even cut out so that lee Minho can shine... Just facts

    • This rule should be applied for china export only. SK showbiz is not that blind to know who is who.

    • lol "just facts" more like "just my hatred" showing to make these types of comments insinuating such and such.

    • This delusion. Lee Minho can't act his way out of a paper bag, let alone overshadowing an actor of Kim Rae Won's calibre. The only reason LMH is put at the centre of the promotion is because of his legion of deluded teeny-boopers who eat up anything he makes regardless of the quality.

    • Lily, you're the one who is deluded and close-minded for having the audacity to call someone deluded because they dare liking LMH's performance much more than KRW. What is this KRW's caliber you're speaking of? He isn't all that from this movie. Only nonfans like you can see and judge things of quality, and fangirls can't? Since when is being a LMH fan means she's a deluded teeny-booper who just likes lowly things and can't distinguish quality from random shit? That's whole lots of judgments being passed on. Ignorance much O_o

  • LMH is nowhere to be equal to his seniors to demand such a respect, and he is not a global actor. Yeap, he is famous, COMMERCIALLY.

    "I would rather not be a male god because I want to be a real man.." Sounds like an ad slogan that has nothing to do with the movie or his character itself. China promotion...*sigh*

• BTW these Chinese Posters are simply to much badass.. I also liked the korean one where LMH throws a punch in the middle of a hectic fight

• Wow, that is pure greed.

• I honestly think KRW is a lot hotter than LMH. I still couldn't get over my crush of him from LS IN HARVARD.

  • Punch is my first exposure to KRW and man, I agree with you 1000%. Forget comparing him to LMH, he is a force of nature on his own.

  • I do think KRW is much hotter and I like him more too..

    I won't be surprised if he is disappointed with this because while I get promotions being lopsided (because LMH IS more famous, no denying the fact) but changing the movie is a bit too much. It reflects badly on the the actor himself too. But I'm sure LMH had no say whatsoever, so it's not his fault either...

• I just hope the movie manage to reach its break even point 3 million won which seems unlikely or impossible at this point.hope it is not a flop....

  • .....?

    3 million won? que? It has 2 million plus admissions, if that is what you want to know.

    Shitty way to screw over Kim Rae-won all around, I don't think this system of changing an entire movie for release to a specific territory is going to lead to a better movie but get that China money I guess.

  • Nobody said 3 million is the break even point for this movie (i.e. budget vs revenues). Considering the sale of the film internationally, this film is definitely considered a financial success.
    They just mentioned that generally, 3 million is the ' breaking point' of a film to be considered a blockbuster hit.

    • forger anybody it lee min ho who said bep of the movie is 3 million won or its a flop

  • The breakeven point is supposedly 3m admissions based on production cost of supposedly 10 billion won. There's also promotion & other costs. To be considered as a blockbuster rather than just reasonably successful, maybe at least 5m, just to get into the top 50?

    • Its like rating cable tv dramas and Television network dramas together. 5mio Admission is the normal non-rated numbers for success.

      The record for rated movies is on 4.01mio, so you can't rate a handicapped movie because of censorship as non-censored movie.

    • I don't know what is considered as a normal number for success, rated or non-rated. The 5m number was just to squeeze into the top 50. However, I consider "My Love Don't Cross that River" a phenomenal success even though its box office is only 4.7m (<5m) because its production budget is only 120 million won (US$110,000).

      As for the record of 4.01m, there's several R19 Korean movies with higher box office numbers, including Friend (8.1m), Tazza (6.8m), Ahjussi (6.2m), Chaser (5.0m) etc.

    • You should do your research better. Friend, chaser or ahjussi was never 19rated before they aired on the cinemas. but become later on DVDs.

      The first Tazza was not 19+rated before its cinamatic release but Tazza 2 was.

      Some movies were just never 19+ rated while being on the cinema. I don't know why they didn't got censorship.

    • I did my research very well, thank you. My sources are from KOFIC, IMDB, Daum, Hancinema and Soompi, all of which state that those movies are rated as 19/Over 18.

      Here are some news articles links for you which mention the R19 rating while the movies were airing in Korea:-
      Tazza - "http://www.hancinema.net/-high-rollers-gives-high-thrill-7281.html".
      Chaser - "http://www.hancinema.net/blockbuster-the-chaser-attracts-over-4-million-moviegoers-13015.html".
      Ahjussi-"http://www.koreaherald.comview.php?ud=20100809000714".

      I don't know how or where you did your research but I think you need to find more reliable sources of information.

    • These sources says nothing except they are censored and 19+..

      I'm talking about before airing in the cinemas and I can already tell not many movies get censored but most of them do after there cinema visit...

      I will post an article that says Tazza 2 is the record-holder

    • Many of you should now this as well!!! many gangs, violent or gambling movies gets censored but not all but few of them while airing in the cinema and most of them became 19+ on DVD and BluRay..

      So they are not legit 19+ box office wise..

      Tazza 2 is the record-holder with http://www.kpopherald.com/view.php?ud=201502061750245389131_2

• If the break even point for this movie is 3 million admissions it's not going to make that in Korea. The movie only has 2,081,000 admissions as of today (per Kobiz.com). Admissions have been tumbling quickly. The second weekend admissions fell 45% from the first weekend and this weekend admissions fell 60% from last weekend. As an aside Kim Woo Bin "The Technicians" ended its run in Korea with 2,560,000 admissions. I don't think Gangnam Blue will surpass this number in Korea.

  So I guess it makes sense monetary wise to do all the fan service it can to try to get LMH Chinese fans to see the movie. But what about artistic integrity? *Shrug*. I guess the film will do well in China if LMH fangirls come out in droves to see it.

  I wonder if this happens often with Korean films changing the narrative to appeal to international audiences.

  • Gangnam blues is already a successful movie keep in mind the movie is 19rated which means it lost 70% of its orginal viewers which are teen boys in the age of 13-18 cuz they need IDs to enter the cinema to watch this epic action..

    So its Admission is actully successful and it will surpass KBWs movie which was not 19rated movie still..

    KBWs movie was a flop all in all.. Gangnam Blues is not even 3 weeks on cinemas but will likely gross about 600-800 admissions in the coming 2 weeks.

    • Kim Woo Bin's movie is currently standing at 2.56 million admissions, opening in a VERY crowded and competitive holiday market including major chungmuro films and hollywood blockbusters, with no star power apart from Kim Woo Bin himself, who's never had to be the sole main lead in anything before. And his previous movie Friend 2, which was 19+ rated, had 2.9 million admissions.

      Gangnam 1970 is currently at 2.081 million admissions, and at most will add maybe another 100-170 thousand admissions at their current rates of ticket sales. This estimate of it picking up another 600 thousand admissions in coming weeks is .....optimistic, to put it very kindly. Sandra has the estimate correct, G1970 is not a bigger hit than the Technicians commercially, at least.

    • Friends 2 was not 19rated? you got that wrong and KBW was not the lead either..

      The record for 19rated movies stands at 4.01mio admissions. Gangnam Blues is successful movie considering it was 19rated movie and already has 2.01mio.

      Are you saying its not realistic for gangnam blues to pick 480k admission in the coming 2 weeks?

      KBWs Movie was a Flop just like Koala said it was not 19rated even thou with 2.5admission it was a flop.

    • Friends 2 is a 19rated movie and was a huge success at 2.9 million tickets sold.

      I estimate G70, also a 19rated movie, will end up with around 2.3-2.4 million tickets for its domestic Korean run. It probably has another 3 weeks left in the theaters and will likely be 7-10 in the box office in the remaining time. It will probably make a lot more money in China compared to K-movies in recent years haven't and that will overall make G70s gross pretty solid.

      The Con Artists (The Technicians) actually had a bit more staying power and in the last three weeks brought in enough dough to have the media call it a solid success for Kim Woo Bin's first headlining movie. No need to compare apples to oranges for the two movies.

    • lets be honest for not rated movies to be decent successful they need to atleast hit the 6-7 mio admissions and in that The con artist fails big time.

      Example Kim soo hyuns greatly secretly was considering decent successful. with around 6.96mio admissions non-rated movie.

      on other hand the con artist has no case here.

      Btw I'm really not sure whether the friends 2 got censored before airing in the cinemas. because many of the gang movies got censored after there cinemas visit which means it dosen't directly hit there grossing power.. So Friends were not officially one of these 19rated movies i guess just like the nameless gangster, the new world etc etc all became 19rated after..

      But Tazza 2: the hand of god was infact 19rated before coming to the cinemas.

    • KWB's movie was not a flop. It broke even at 2.4m admissions (total cost of 7 billion won), thus making a slight profit with that extra 160,000 admissions.

      It's unlikely that G1970 will add another 600-800 thousand admissions in the coming 2 weeks because the highly anticipated Detective K will start airing this week, which means G1970 will face a reduction in screens.

      And ultimately, whether a movie is a commercial success or not depends mainly on its production cost versus its revenue. The restricted rating only means that the average revenue per ticket will be higher (since there's no cheaper child/teen tickets), so less tickets to reach the same amount of revenue. For example, Love Forecast broke even at around 1.8m admissions, based on production cost of approx 4 billion won. With a higher production cost of supposedly 10 billion won, G1970 needs to garner a lot more admissions to breakeven.

• Not really going to watch this but they're changing the ending?? I wonder if it'll narratively make sense. Are they changing it to cater to the LMH fanbase?

• Flippin ridiculous