“Time to Hunt,” the Korean action thriller that had its world premiere last month as a gala screening at the Berlin Film Festival, has given up its theatrical release plans.
Instead, it will be released by streaming giant Netflix in mid-April. The move has not sat easily with Contents Panda, the Korean sales company which had pre-sold the film to more than 30 overseas distributors.
Contents Panda told Variety that it expects to sue production firm Little Big Pictures. The film was directed by Yoon Sung-hyun and tells a revenge tale of four no-hopers in a dystopian near future who pick the wrong target to rob.
It pulls together a cast of rising star youngsters including Lee Je-hoon, Ahn Jae-hong, Choi Woo-shik, Park Jeong-min and Park
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