Ji Chang Wook, Jun Ji Hyun zombie film 'Colony' to screen in PH

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MANILA, Philippines — The next movie by "Train to Busan" director Yeon Sang-ho is ready for its wide release ahead of its world premiere at the 2026 Cannes Film Festival.

"Colony," starring Jun Ji-hyun, Koo Kyo-hwan, Ji Chang-wook, Kim Shin-rok, Shin Hyun-been, and Go Soo, will screen out of competition in the festival's Midnight Screenings section.

The film will then make its Asia debut in Korea on May 21, followed by a global release. Pioneer Films will handle the distribution of "Colony" in the Philippines and will begin local screenings on May 27.

Ji-hyun stars as a biotechnology professor attending a conference, which erupts into chaos due to a rapidly mutating virus.

"The outbreak results in the transformation of infected individuals, prompting authorities to seal off the facility and trap survivors inside with an escalating threat," goes the synopsis for the movie.

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Sang-ho is best known for helming the zombie movie "Train to Busan" and its adjacent films, "Seoul Station" and "Peninsula."

While "Colony" shares a similar premise, it is not connected to any of his past movies, though Sang-ho has cited those projects' strengths as inspiration.

The filmmaker directed Korea's first superhero movie, "Psychokinesis," the sci-flick "Jung_E," last year's "Revelations," and "The Ugly."

He also helmed several episodes of "RedaKai," wrote and directed "Hellbound" and "Parasyte: The Grey," and scripted "The Cursed," "Monstrous," and "The Bequeathed."

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