Highway to the Danger Zone! As Top Gun: Maverick continues to top the box office, fans are soaking up all the behind-the-scenes content from the set.
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pic.twitter.com/3F4uIUX2dFGray’s tone at the press conference turned a bit more serious as he discussed the state of cinema and Hollywood and its reliance on turning everything into a franchise. “The whole point should be to inspire creativity. Instead, what we say is, ‘That’s good franchise.’ We used to think of franchises as McDonald’s and Burger King.
Now it’s cinema. And it’s up to artists to talk about what’s wrong, because it’s not coming from anywhere else, I can tell you.”You can find more from the presser here, and you can also read a snippet of Steve Pond’s review of “Armageddon Time” below. Though American and Western audiences may just know Lee Jung-jae as the star of “Squid Game,” he’s one of Korea’s most accomplished and successful actors with a career spanning decades.
And Cannes gave him the opportunity to introduce yet another side of his star power, his directorial debut “Hunt,” a fictional, Korean political thriller that premiered out of competition in a midnight screening on Thursday. Lee told the Associated Press that he’d be interested in working in Hollywood, but the demand for Korean-language properties right now globally is still too great to limit himself.“Working in Hollywood would definitely be a good experience for me,” Lee said in an interview. “If there was a good fit for me, a good character, I’d definitely like to join.
But right now, I feel like global audiences are wanting more Korean content and Korea-made TV shows and films. So I would work in Korea as well very diligently. I might seem a little greedy, but if there was a role for me in Hollywood, I’d definitely like to do that, too.”Lee acknowledged that American audiences might only know him from “Squid Game,” but after becoming the
.Highway to the Danger Zone! As Top Gun: Maverick continues to top the box office, fans are soaking up all the behind-the-scenes content from the set.
the 12-minute standing ovation the Broker cast received at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival.The actress recently appeared on an episode of SBS Power FM’s Cine Town segment, where she spoke about what it was like to be part of the Broker cast at the annual film festival. “It felt so unreal,” Lee, who plays Detective Lee in the film, said of the experience, per SBS News.“I had a feeling that Song Kang-ho [who plays the character Sang-hyeon in Broker] would be named ‘Best Actor’ for his performance, so I kind of looked forward to that,” she added.
Meet the new partner! Chrishell Stause introduced G Flip to her ex-boyfriend Jason Oppenheim at the MTV Movie & TV Awards on June 5, 2022. The Selling Sunset star revealed that they all get along and that she is very grateful for their relationship.
Jay Park, Lee Hi and Jessi are among the South Korean musicians to be confirmed for MIK Festival 2022, which will take place in London later this year.MIK Festival 2022 recently announced its line-up for the second day of the festival, which it has dubbed its “hip-hop day” on July 31. Set to take place at Southwark Park, the festival’s second date will feature Korean-American singer-rappers Jay Park and Jessi, along with singer-songwriters Lee Hi and GRAY.Also new to the line-up are hip-hop trio Epik High, and rappers pH-1, Loco and Dok2.
Clayton Davis We shouldn’t only celebrate AAPI representation in May, as the artistic contributions of our global talents have produced some of the best television and film productions in the last decade. However, as we come to the close of the annual celebration, it’s worth noting the multiple acting contenders that are in the running for Primetime Emmy nominations.Netflix’s “Squid Game” rocked the streaming world, becoming the most-watched series in the platform’s history.
Dancing on Ice winner has opened up about what she earned as a professional skater for the ITV show. Alex Murphy says she earns more working as an influencer on TikTok than she ever did on the ice. Alex joined the ITV skating competition in 2018, competing in three seasons before being let go in 2020.
“War Pony” wins Palm Dog AwardBrit the Silver Poodle, who stars in Riley Keough and Gina Gammell’s indigenous drama “War Pony,” took home the coveted Palm Dog collar, according to the Hollywood Reporter.The Palm Collar is awarded to the best performance by a canine or group of canines during the festival. The award consists of a leather dog collar with the term “PALM DOG.”Steve Pond, in his review of “War Pony” wrote, “Set on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota and co-written, co-produced and starring members of the Native American community, “War Pony” is unhurried, naturalistic and heartbreaking, taking its rhythms from the lives of characters in a situation where the lack of options can lead to desperation or to resignation.
in a tweet. “The film is dazzling, bold and moving. Austin Butler absolutely nails it- all the shades: voice, moves, emotion.
had some bleak words about the state of the movies in the first part of a Cannes symposium about the future of cinema. But in part two of that conversation, the “Nightmare Alley” filmmaker had a much more optimistic message and explained why today’s directors can’t be afraid of how the movies are changing.Speaking on a panel with other directors including Rebecca Zlotowski, Abderrahmane Sissako, Abel Ferrara, Lynne Ramsay, Laurent Cantet, Pawel Pawlikowski, Joachim Lafosse and even a surprise appearance from Nicolas Winding Refn, del Toro explained that as filmmakers, we “can’t be shy about the platforms,” referring to the algorithms and new methods that are dictating the way the movies are being made today.
Diego Boneta has had an incredible year. The Mexican actor is not only starring in Father of the Bride which hits HBO Max on June 16th, the actor, singer, and producer signed an overall deal with Prime Video with his production company Three Amigos. Beginning 2023, Boneta will produce and star in a full slate of shows in development while also creating movies, series, and more.
said Tuesday. “Not just about Roe vs. Wade but about everything else.”Cronenberg’s “Crimes of the Future” depicts a future in which humans have adapted to the point of no longer feeling pain and have embraced wild surgeries with new transformations and mutations to their bodies.
Forbes). “I know we are human beings and that we are very complicated, and the power of art is that it knows no color. Because human beings, when they sit and watch art they want to feel less alone.
A fuming mum has hit back at trolls who have slammed the food she feeds her daughter amid claims it's 'abusive'.
stormed the Cannes red carpet donned in body paint to disrupt the “Three Thousand Years of Longing” premiere, a new protest erupted at the start of the red carpet for competition title “Holy Spider,” in which a group of women held smoke bombs and a massive poster — though this time the demonstration appears to have been pre-planned. The group involved in the demonstration is Les Colleuses, a guerilla feminist movement in France.
“Three Thousand Years of Longing” premiered at Cannes on Friday night has quickly become one of the more talked about films out of the festival thus far. And Miller and his stars Tilda Swinton and Idris Elba in a press conference Saturday encouraged the journalists in the room, as well as Hollywood at large, to continue telling unique, diverse stories.Swinton in particular warned of the danger of only being exposed to one type of story.
CANNES, France -- Lee Jung-jae, the award-winning star of Netflix's “Squid Game,” spent years developing the 1980s-set Korean spy thriller “Hunt” before electing to direct himself. He did it a little reluctantly, without big plans to continue filmmaking. But Lee did have a vision for what it could be — and where it could premiere.“Before deciding to direct, I thought I just wanted to make a very fun film,” Lee says.
think is the finale; in truth, “Hunt” has more endings than “The Return of the King.” It succumbs to silliness sometimes, populated as it is by characters who take a licking and keep on ticking (or take a shooting and keep on tooting). But the real violence takes place in boardrooms and offices where Lee finds enough quiet savagery to make “Squid Game” look like child’s play.
Although a star for nearly 30 years in South Korean films, Lee Jung-Jae recently rocketed to international fame on a whole other level as the star of the television phenomenon, The Squid Game. All of that spotlight will add to interest in Hunt, which he not only stars, produces, co-wrote (with Jo Seung-Hee), but makes his feature film directorial debut, one that just had its World Premiere in the Midnight section of the Cannes Film Festival.
previously asked U.S. President Biden specifically not to sanction Abramovich and that the oligarch had worked to help Ukraine because of his ties to the film industry.Serebrennikov also more broadly advocated against the outright banning of Russian culture as a way to protest the war.