Busan Film Festival Delays 2 Weeks & Downsizes Significantly; No International Guests Will Be Invited

SAN SEBASTIÁN, Spain -- Georgian writer-director Dea Kulumbegashvili’s first feature film “Beginning” triumphed at Spain’s San Sebastian International Film Festival, scooping up four of its top prizes including best film and best director.The story about a community of Jehovah’s Witnesses in a isolated village in Georgia amid the aftermath of an extremist attack also won best screenplay and best actress for Ia Sukhitashvili in the awards ceremony Saturday night.“Beginning,” a Franco-Georgian

Matt Dillon holds hand with Roberta Mastromichele while attending The Great Fellove premiere during the 2020 San Sebastian International Film Festival held at the Victoria Eugenia Theater on Tuesday evening (September 22) in Spain.

Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticSouth Korean boyband BTS will make nightly appearances in a weeklong series on NBC’s The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, beginning Monday, Sept. 28.The late night show’s “BTS Week” will feature a unique performance each night, including a rendition of their single “Dynamite,” as well as comedy bits with Fallon and a virtual interview.

The London Korean Film Festival (LKFF) is going partially digital for the first time as the U.K. continues to grapple with the ongoing novel coronavirus pandemic.

Will Thorne Staff WriterBTS are about to rock “The Tonight Show” for a whole week straight.The wildly popular Korean pop group has set a weeklong special with Jimmy Fallon’s show, which will see them deliver a different musical performance each night.Fallon will also join the boys throughout the week for comedy bits and a virtual interview. The group’s mini-residence kicks off Sept.

Nancy Tartaglione International Box Office Editor/Senior ContributorEXCLUSIVE: The London Korean Film Festival will celebrate its 15th anniversary from October 29– November 12 in both digital and physical forms. This is the first year the event will offer online screenings available to audiences across the UK, along with a selection of special cinema screenings in London.

Johnny Depp is looking handsome at the 2020 San Sebastian International Film Festival!

BTS have been announced as the next guests to play a selection of songs as part of NPR’s ‘Tiny Desk Concert’ series.NPR announced the performance with a tweet tagging BTS that simply said “It’s happening”.The performance will premiere later today (September 21) at 2pm BST on NPR Music’s YouTube.It’s been a busy year for the K-pop superstars, who recently released their hugely successful English-language single ‘Dynamite‘.The song made the band the first-ever international and Korean group to

Johnny Depp is posing for pictures!

Johnny Depp is feeling the love!

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefThe number of feature film production in South Korea dropped in the first eight months, as the coronavirus disrupted travel, commerce and finance.According to data from the Korean Film Council (KOFIC), the number of films made dropped from 23 between January and August last year, to just 18 in 2020.The country was one of the first to be hit by the virus outbreak, but with the exception of a few notable hot spots, seemed to have good success at quashing the spread

Jamie Lang After successful streaming premieres in Latin America and the U.S.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefThe 25th edition of the Busan International Film Festival will shrink by a third and be presented in a hybrid in-person and offline format, due to the challenges posed by the coronavirus.Running with newly announced dates of Oct.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefAsia’s biggest annual film festival in Busan, South Korea is to be postponed by two weeks due to the ongoing coronavirus outbreak. And organizers warned that the festival could still be canceled outright.At a meeting Friday between the festival’s board of directors and the city authorities, it was decided to shift the event backwards.

Vivienne Chow Bong Joon-ho’s Oscar-winning “Parasite” leads the race of this year’s Asian Film Awards, which will be hosted in his home country South Korea for the first time since the prize ceremony’s inception in 2007. The acclaimed drama picked up 10 nominations, including best film, best director and best screenplay.“Parasite” was closely followed by Wang Xiaoshuai’s drama “So Long, My Son” from mainland China, and Taiwan drama “A Sun” by Chung Mong-hong.

Park Hoon-jung is back with another stylish-looking South Korean blood-and-mob fest, Night in Paradise (Nak-Won-Eui-Barm). The writer-director emerged on the Korean scene after authoring the screenplay of Park Chan-wook’s vendetta hit I Saw the Devil.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefThe South Korean release of a new film about K-pop superstars BTS has been indefinitely delayed, due to the coronavirus pandemic.The documentary film “Break The Silence: The Movie” had been scheduled for a Sept. 10 release in South Korean theaters.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentThe 77th Venice Film Festival kicks off tomorrow, with Cate Blanchett, Tilda Swinton, Matt Dillon, and France’s Ludivine Sagnier among international stars expected on the social-distanced red carpet that will open the first major post coronavirus physical film event packed with plenty of symbolic significance.Just as the release of Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster spy thriller “Tenet” is now considered a post-pandemic turning point for exhibitors, Venice

BTS have become the first international and Korean band to debut at Number One on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.The group were announced as this week’s chart-toppers earlier today (August 31), with their latest single ‘Dynamite’ claiming the top spot.The feat marks BTS’ first Number One on the Hot 100, beating their previous best of Number Four with February 2020’s ‘On’. ‘Dynamite’ sold 265,000 downloads within its first week of release, adding an extra 35,000 in vinyl and cassette versions.