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Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefAfter a flurry that lasted only for the duration of the recent Lunar New Year holidays, theatrical box office in South Korea slumped again over the latest weekend. Nationwide, Korean cinemas earned just $3.22 million between Friday and Sunday. That was the lowest scoring weekend so far in 2022 and followed a disappointing holiday period.The Lunar New Year holidays – if measured from the previous Saturday until Wednesday (Jan 29- Feb.

All Of Us Are Dead has helped South Korea set a new record on Netflix in the US.Based on the webtoon Now At Our School by Joo Dong-geun, the series follows a group of high school students who find themselves trapped on campus as a zombie apocalypse spreads like wildfire.After previously topping the charts on Netflix in over 25 countries by January 31, All Of Us Are Dead has now reached the summit of the daily Top 10 list on US Netflix (February 4). As the second non-English-language series to reach that position, the K-drama has helped set a new record for South Korea.Thanks to the success of Squid Game and All Of Us Are Dead, Korea is now the first country to place multiple series not in the English language at the top of the streaming service’s charts, according to Deadline.

Four months ago, Squid Game climbed to No.1 on Netflix’s US daily Top 10 list en route to becoming the streamer’s most watched original series ever. Now another Korean drama, All Of Us Are Dead, has accomplished the feat.

Rihanna and A$AP Rocky sent the internet into frenzy earlier this week when the couple announced they were expecting a baby via a collection of paparazzi photographs. Then on Thursday 3 February, the Anti singer shared several pictures to her Instagram showing off her growing bump.

Adele is facing backlash for a recent Twitter post following the postponement of her Las Vegas residency. In a tweet on Tuesday (1 February), the 33-year-old singer announced she will be performing at the Brit Awards next week.

Seori has performed a live band version of her 2021 single ‘Lovers In The Night’ for Grammy’s Global Spin series.On February 1, the star became the first Korean female artist and the second Korean act, after former iKON member B.I, to be featured on the series. She took to the stage to sing her English-language track ‘Lovers In The Night’ which dropped in early 2021, and had marked her first single with Asian-American label 88rising.Accompanied by a live band at the historical Deoksugung Palace in Seoul, Seori had donned a reinterpreted hanbok (traditional Korean dress) to perform the song in celebration of Seollal, the Korean Lunar New Year.

Adele is facing backlash for a recent Twitter post following the postponement of her Las Vegas residency. In a tweet on Tuesday (1 February), the 33-year-old singer announced she will be performing at the Brit Awards next week.

After being forced to sit out the annually lucrative Chinese New Year period as the Covid crisis was just beginning in 2020, Chinese box office blasted to an all-time high during the comparable 2021 session. This week, the Year of the Tiger will be ushered in beginning February 1 with eight movies poised to potentially set new records. Projections are in the RMB 7B-8B+ range ($1.1B-$1.26B). Last year in the world’s biggest box office market, the week-long holiday reached RMB 7.8B ($1.2B at historical rates).

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief“The Pirates: The Last Royal Treasure” ran off with nearly half the weekend bullion at the South Korea box office. On its heels was political drama-thriller “Kingmaker,” as local titles finally overthrew the long-running “Spider-Man: No Way Home” ahead of a public holiday.Most South Koreans will enjoy two consecutive public holidays on Monday (“Seotdal Geumeum” or New Year’s Eve) and Tuesday (Lunar New Year), meaning that the Friday to Sunday weekend was the first part of a five-day holiday season. The three-day nationwide box office total was $5.58 million.

Inseparable! Kim Kardashian and Pete Davidson were spotted out together once again, this time in matching ensembles! The makeup mogul, 41, and the Saturday Night Live star, 28, enjoyed a sunny outing on Thursday (January 27) as they visited friends in the tony neighborhood of Beverly Hills in Los Angeles. The pair were twinning in all-black ensembles for the visit, as seen in photos here, via the Daily Mail.

Caroline Framke Chief TV CriticSPOILER ALERT: This review includes some spoilers for Netflix’s “All of Us Are Dead,” which premiered Friday, January 28.As the last, desperate teen survivors in “All of Us Are Dead” do their best to stay alive through a zombie apocalypse, hoping beyond hope that adults are coming to rescue them, it takes a full day of horrors to make them realize that they’re on their own. With their high school labeled Ground Zero for the escalating outbreak, the students are left for dead (or, as is the case with zombies, something in between).

Jamie Lang International media group Fremantle has picked up sales rights outside Asia to Korean format “DNA Singer.” The music gameshow was created by specialty firm FormatEast and Kyung Hwangbo for SBS and has not yet gone to air. Family members who are genetically linked with celebrities such as singers and actors perform, while the judges must guess which celebrities they are genetically related to. “Fantastic Family – DNA Singer” launches in Korea next week as Lunar New Year specials on SBS.

Love And Leashes. The trailer opens with Jung Ji-hoo (played by former U-KISS and UNB member Lee Jun-young) on his first day at a new company, where he’s introduced to a colleague who bears a similar sounding name to his, Jung Ji-woo (Girls’ Generation‘s Seohyun).Things quickly spiral after a parcel that was supposedly addressed to Ji-hoo gets delivered to Ji-woo’s desk, who opens it to find a curious spiked collar. Ji-hoo tries to play off as being for his fictional three-year-old poodle, but Ji-woo quickly learns the truth.“Ji-woo, I was wondering… would you be my master?” Ji-hoo asks Ji-woo in a drunken stupor, marking the start of a racy new relationship between the two colleagues.The upcoming Netflix original film Love And Leashes revolves around a pair of co-workers, Ji-woo and Ji-hoo, who enter a contractual S&M relationship. Love And Leashes is based on the Naver webcomic Moral Sense by Gyeowool.The movie will be directed and written by Park Hyeon-jin, and is due out on February 11 exclusively on the streaming platform.

NCT Dream are set to release new music this March, their agency SM Entertainment has confirmed.Earlier today (January 27), No Cut News reported that NCT Dream would be return with new music later this year. SM Entertainment later confirmed the report in a statement to MyDaily, noting that the K-pop boyband are currently working on music.“NCT Dream are preparing a new album aimed for a March release,” said the company, as translated by Soompi.

Pachinko, and also annocuned its release date.Earlier today (January 27), the streaming service released a series of images from the forthcoming TV adaptation of Pachinko, the bestselling novel by Min Jin Lee. The show is slated to premiere on March 25 with three episodes, followed by weekly instalments every Friday  thereafter.The images feature the first glimpses of Minari actress and Academy Award winner Youn Yuh-jung as leading protagonist Sunja.

attacks on the Asian American community – particularly our elders – I think the need for people to acquaint themselves with this culture, this food, this history, is more important than ever,” Ling, 48, told The Post. Premiering Thursday (Jan. 27) on HBO Max, the six-episode show follows journalist/TV host Ling as she journeys to different locations in the US, exploring the history of a different Asian American community there as well as restaurants and local cuisine.

The words and characters of Min Jin Lee’s multigenerational novel Pachinko have come to life in the first look images for Apple TV+’s upcoming drama of the same name.