‘Alienoid’ Beats ‘Minions’ as ‘Thor’ Crumbles at Korea Box Office

The beloved K-Pop group SEVENTEEN is currently touring the world and you can check out their setlist right here!

Decision To Leave has been selected to represent South Korea in the Best International Feature Film category for the upcoming Oscars.Deadline reported that the Korean Film Council announced its pick yesterday (August 11), sharing it took into consideration “workmanship and directing ability, the possibility of box office success in the North American market, and the promotion ability of overseas distributors”. As a result, the council agreed that Decision To Leave was “the most appropriate choice, and we expect the work to be well-received”.Starring South Korean actor Park Hae-il (The King’s Letters) and Chinese star Tang Wei (Long Day’s Journey Into Night), Decision To Leave is a slow-burn mystery romance about a police detective who gets dispatched to a scene of a man’s death.

and SKIMS mogul.Cherri Lee, who was born with the name Hanbyeol, grew up watching Kardashian, 41, and has longed to be like her.“Kim has always been an inspiration to me and she’s the most beautiful woman in the world in my eyes,” Lee gushed to South West News Service recently.Lee had her first surgery when she was 20, doing a procedure to get double eyelids.The now-28-year-old has also went under the knife to get surgeries including three Brazilian butt lifts, two breast augmentations and several facial reconstruction jobs.Her look has evolved so much that many people don’t realize she is Asian, she told SWNS — even some close to her.“I actually look like a completely different person now to before,” she said. “I look Western, and some of my Korean family don’t even recognize me anymore.” The part-time English teacher — who said she has received monetary help and support from her parents — got her first boob job in 2016 in Seoul, South Korea, and now has 34GGG breasts.While Lee is done with her surgeries for the time being, she doesn’t “regret a single procedure and I’d do it all again the same” — adding that her “only regret is why didn’t I do it sooner.”It was after a hard breakup in the early 2010s that she decided to switch up her look.

Park Chan-wook’s crime drama Decision To Leave has been selected by South Korea to represent the country in the Best International Feature category at the 95th Academy Awards.

The Zurich Film Festival (ZFF) has unveiled the seven titles in its Gala Premieres section showcasing auteur features with broad audience appeal and awards season potential.

J-hope spoke to NME backstage at Lollapalooza 2022 and told us how it feels to be the first South Korean artist to headline a major US festival, what it’s like to have fans supporting his first solo album, and what’s next for BTS. Watch our interview with J-hope below.A day before his historical headline set, the BTS rapper told us playing the festival was a “super super meaning moment” but that he also thought doing it as a solo artist was special.“Me being the first South Korean headliner of a major US festival, but also J-hope’s musical journey,” he told NME.

BLACKPINK have announced details of their ‘Born Pink’ world tour, which kicks off later this year.The global run of shows kicks off with two nights in Seoul on October 16 and 17 before heading to North America for a series of concerts.The ‘Born Pink’ world tour will then see Jisoo, Jennie, Rosé and Lisa visit Europe to finish off 2022, with the group also scheduled to play the likes of Australia, Singapore and Thailand in 2023.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief“Emergency Declaration,” a timely Korean-made action thriller, flew to an opening weekend of $6.5 million. But it was old-fashioned naval actioner “Hansan: Rising Dragon” that stayed afloat at the top of the South Korean box office for a second week.“Hansan,” a sequel to a 2014 record breaker, earned $9.18 million from over 1,600 screens, according to data from Kobis, the tracking service operated by the Korean Film Council (Kofic).

Paramount+ is performing “above expectations”  in the UK, Ireland and South Korea, according to Bob Bakish, who forecast a “big year” for Western Europe to come and talked up local language content.

Video content budgets across India, Korea and Southeast Asia climbed 21% to reach $10.4bn in 2021, and are forecast to grow 15% to $12bn in 2022, according to a report from Media Partners Asia (MPA).

Girls’ Generation have unveiled the first music video teaser for their highly anticiapted comeback single, ‘Forever 1’.On August 4 at midnight KST, South Korean music label SM Entertainment shared on its official YouTube channel the first teaser for ‘Forever 1’, the title track off the veteran group’s comeback album of the same name.In the brief visual, the iconic opening notes of the band’s 2007 debut track ‘Into The New World’ play as leader Taeyeon walks on stage and each of the remaining members make appearances in different settings. “Let’s be together forever,” Taeyeon can be heard crooning as the curtain closes on Seohyun.Both ‘Forever 1’ and ‘Into The New World’ were produced by Kenzie, a longtime South Korean producer and songwriter with SM Entertainment.

Brad Pitt made the rare move of talking about one of his children this week when he called his 16-year-old daughter Shiloh 'beautiful' on Monday. And later the 58-year-old Bullet Train star made a comment about one of his other daughters, 17-year-old Zahara, when chatting up Vanity Fair. 'I'm so proud of her,' said the star, who shares six children with ex-wife Angelina Jolie.

EXCLUSIVE: Chase Stokes (Outer Banks) is set to star in the Steve Barnett-directed thriller Valiant One from Monarch Media, which heads into production in Vancouver in September.

Gallery: Congratulations, Mrs. Jennifer Lynn Affleck! These are the relationships that led J. Lo to marrying Ben Affleck. . . (BANG Showbiz)He said her dancing is so good “it brings a tear to the eye, yeah”.

Gallery: Congratulations, Mrs. Jennifer Lynn Affleck! These are the relationships that led J. Lo to marrying Ben Affleck. . . (BANG Showbiz)The 58-year-old actor - who also has Maddox, 20, Pax, 18, Zahara, 17, and Vivienne and Knox, 14, with fellow Oscar winner Angelina - also admitted he would love for his brood to forge their own careers.

Little Women, which is also coming to Netflix, is set to premiere next month.On August 2, South Korean cable network tvN shared the premiere date and first poster for the adaptation, which will star Kim Go-eun (Yumi’s Cells), Nam Ji-hyun (100 Days My Prince) and All Of Us Are Dead breakout star Park Ji-hu.“From the lowest and darkest, to the highest and brightest,” reads a quote in the accompanying Instagram caption.A post shared by tvN 드라마 공식 계정 (@tvn_drama)Little Women will air at 9:10pm KST every Saturday and Sunday night on tvN from September 3, a week later than originally projected. It will also be available on Netflix in selected regions.The upcoming drama follows a trio of sisters, In-ju, In-kyeong and In-hye (played by Kim, Nam and Park respectively) who struggle to survive living in poverty.

Angelina Jolie’s eldest daughter Zahara is staying in the states for college! The Oscar winner revealed on Sunday that her 17 year old will be attending Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia. Angelina Jolie and daughter Zahara meet with lawmakers in Washington, D.C.Sharing a photo of “Zahara with her Spelman sisters,” the proud mom wrote: “Congratulations to all new students starting this year.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefA powerful debut for “Hansan: Rising Dragon,” a locally-made historical action film, lifted the South Korean box office to its second highest weekend of the year and helped July to be the best month of 2022.The film is a prequel to “Roaring Currents” a tale of an heroic 14th century naval admiral that amassed some 17 million admissions in 2014 and is currently the most-watched Korean film of all time.Data from KOBIS, the tracking service operated by the Korean Film Council (Kofic), showed that “Hansan” earned $13.4 million from 1.63 million ticket sales between Friday and Sunday, for a market share of 60%. Over its first five days in theaters, the film amassed $17.9 million from 2.27 million spectators.

Disney+ has unveiled the all-star cast set to feature on upcoming K-drama Big Bet, including Sohn Seok-gu, Lee Dong-hwi and more.Formerly known as King Of Savvy, the new Korean series is set to tell the tale of a man who struggles to achieve his goal of becoming a casino mogul, however is majorly set back after a chain of unfortunate events. The man begins to risk everything he has, including his own life, to get himself back on track.Big Bet will star veteran South Korean actor Choi Min-sik as the series’ leading protagonist, marking his first television role in approximately 26 years since the 1997 show Love and Parting.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefLegal drama “Extraordinary Attorney Woo” is living up to its name following its international success on Netflix.Domestic Korean audiences for the series have spiked, in line with its streaming growth.The drama stars Park Eun Bin as a young female lawyer with Asperger’s syndrome who, thanks to her powerhouse 164 IQ, exceptional memory and creative thinking processes, graduates top of her class. When she joins a major law firm, she uses her particular skills to deliver results that others would not be able to achieve.