Rom-coms are never big budgeted to begin with but when I saw the poster and first trailer for My Man is Cupid I just felt bad for the cast involved. This looks like a cast off project that leads Jang Dong Yoon, Nana, and Park Ki Woong picked up either to pay the bills or fill time on their open calendar. It was supposed to be released last year in 2022 though with the three years of COVID time did slip by but that it’s airing next month on December 1st on Amazon Prime goes to show it was sold on the cheap just to recoup some budget. The first poster above is so bad even an elementary school student on photoshop would not turn it in for a school assignment. With that said, if the drama is lighthearted and cute it could be worth watching as long as expectations are dialed wayyyyy down.
Preview for My Man is Cupid:
At least its getting released which better than being stuck on the shelf forever. Many big budget dramas with A-list celebs have no buyers. Money Game with RJY, Blood Free with JJH and HHJ, Uncle Samshik which is SKH’s debut drama after 30 years of doing movies, Is It Fate? with KSH, Snow White Must Die with BYH etc. all finished production but nobody wants to buy them. Netflix has hollowed out the industry and ruined production houses by buying out the IP for dirt cheap prices and stealing profits from the Production Houses. This year Studio Dragon almost ended up in red if it wasn’t for My Lovely Liar being sold to local OTT instead of Netflix which pushed up their 3rd quarter profits by almost 50%. MBC is also making more profits by selling Good Day To Be A Dog to local OTT like Viki instead of Netflix, despite the ratings the drama is making money for the channel and production house luckily. Someone needs to put regulations on Netflix otherwise the Kdrama bubble will burst as Production Houses end up going bankrupt. Actors also need to calm down with their over hiked fees. 200 million won an episode is crazy. Even the most “low budget” dramas cost between 8-10 billion won these days because of appearance fees for actors being over inflated.
I wonder why is that the case – there were so many below par dramas this year, the unsold ones must be too expensive since they surely cannot be worse than Kokdu, My Lovely Boxer, Heavenly Idol, Bora! Deborah to name a few (though I enjoyed the last two). OTOH I guess it’s very risky to produce a show (in full) before making sure there’s a buyer.
This this new trend of filming drama before even signing on a distributor is very strange. Why spend all that money if nobody wants the end product. Such a waste of time for everyone involved. I wonder what motivates people to partake in productions like this also. With Netflix dramas at least you know it will eventually release but this is not the same situation. So many dramas just lying around with all the actors still unpaid despite working through hard conditions.
I wonder if korea can introduce limit on actor wage like chinese does
JDY is very busy. He was in Daily Dose of Sunshine on Netflix, this one on Amazon Prime and there will be The Sand Flower on ENA in December.
Good for him! TBH, I feel like he was robbed of rising star status because after Nokdu, he was supposed to star in Joseon Exorcist, and that one had the potential of being a hit… But we all know what happened 🙁
happy to see Park Ki Woong tho. Guy ud such a sweetheart but I don’t even know why he rarely get into any project nowadays
I feel the same! He has the visuals (his face is actually the kind of face that koreans usually like— big eyes, high nose bridge, small face, etc.) and insane acting skills, and so I have no idea why he never blew up. At this point I’m just happy to see him in any role, no matter how small 🙃
PKW’s acting is quite mediocre I’d say. And he’s never been regarded as a great actor. He’s very mid range but I do agree that he should at least be getting roles. Even second leads etc. Some of the newer crop of actors aren’t mediocre – they’re plain terrible and still get lead roles without being idols or have a prior fan base.
girl, we’re in this PKW’s drought together