‘Dark And Darker’ lawyer asks Valve to let the game back on Steam amid lawsuit troubles

Jessica Kiang There comes a time in many lives when a kind of matter transference takes place in the relationship between parent and child. Like a sudden change of filter or aspect ratio, we see our mothers and fathers in new ways, realizing they existed before we did, thought thoughts and felt feelings entirely separate from our own. Almost always, it’s a flower of understanding that blossoms just a bit later than we would like and when it does, it asks of us an impossible question: what to do with this new knowledge, this strange flood of retrospective awe? Perhaps, when you’re far on the other side, looking back through the reverse end of time’s telescope, and if you’re Canadian director Anthony Shim, you make a film like “Riceboy Sleeps,” a familiar immigrant song sung in such an elegant, sincere voice that it feels like a whole new arrangement.

, and stopped by Sephora to find a replacement on my way home from work. I figured I'd find something I liked enough and move on with my life, but just as I was about to reach for something random, I spotted the Belif tub and immediately recognized it.

Kai is preparing for mandatory military enrollment.

Starring in the Marvel franchise changed Pom Klementieff’s life.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief After reaching a fresh peak of 4.6 million net new customer additions in the final quarter of 2022, boosted by the FIFA World Cup soccer competition, premium subscription video growth in Southeast Asia slowed sharply in the first three months of 2023. Research from consultancy and advisory firm Media Partners Asia and its consumer use unit AMPD, showed only 300,000 net new subscriptions between January and March in the five principal markets of Southeast Asia – Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore and the Philippines. The study focused on premium VOD streaming and SVoD, while excluding YouTube, TikTok and other social video platforms.

The First Slam Dunk,” an anime sports film that took the Japanese and Korean box office by storm this past winter, the indie animation distributor announced Monday. The film follows Ryota Miyagi, a small but agile point guard for Shohoku High School’s basketball team struggling to live up to the legacy of his older brother, Sota.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief “The Super Mario Bros Movie” and a local sports movie “Dream” gave the South Korean box office some bounce on their first weekend on release. Opening in Korea on Wednesday, some three weeks after the beginning of its international and North American campaigns, “Super Mario” earned $4.67 million between Friday and Sunday, according to data from Kobis, the tracking service operated by the Korean Film Council (Kofic). The film has a cumulative of $5.76 million over its opening five days, plus previews. The film’s weekend numbers are the second highest opening tally recorded by any film this year in Korea. And its weekend score represented a comfortable 40% market share.

Netflix is set to drop new South Korean drama The Good Bad Mother this week – check below for episode details.Written by Bae Se-young and directed by Shim Na-yeon, the new series will follow the journey of cold-hearted attorney Choi Kang-ho (The Glory‘s Lee Do-hyun), who returns to his hometown after a tragic accident. There, he reconnects with his mother Jin Young-soon (played by Ra Mi-ran) and the pair set out to heal their frayed relationship.The Good Bad Mother will premiere on April 26 on the South Korean cable network JTBC, and will also be available to stream on Netflix in selected regions.There will be 14 episodes of the K-drama in total, with new instalments dropping twice a week on Wednesdays and Thursdays for seven weeks until the season finale on Thursday, June 8, 2023.

BLACKPINK member Lisa and Spanish singer Rosalía have been spotted out in Los Angeles.Today (April 21), Rosalía took to Instagram with a series of photos highlighting the pair’s day out at The Broad Museum in downtown Los Angeles.Among the images, Lisa and Rosalía were seen posing in front of Robert Therrien’s Under The Table, Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity Mirror Room and grabbing a bit to eat at a food truck.“Mi amiga es más bonita que un Basquiat,” Rosalía captioned the photos, which means “My friend is prettier than a [Jean-Michel] Basquiat [painting],” as translated by Billboard.A post shared by LA ROSALÍA (@rosalia.vt)Both BLACKPINK and Rosalía had performed on the second day of Coachella weekend one on April 15. They’re set to return to the festival’s second weekend on April 22.During Rosalía’s Coachella set, the Spanish singer brought out her fiancé Rauw Alejandro to perform ‘Beso’ and ‘Vampiros’.

It may have ceded to the BBC, but Elon Musk’s Twitter is back under pressure from the world’s public service broadcasters.

Marta Balaga There was no escaping K-content in Cannes this year, with South Korea delivering well-received Canneseries competition title “Bargain,” MIPTV’s showcase of new formats, all hoping to dethrone “The Masked Singer,” Kortop Media’s “Midnight Horror: Different Nights,” “Pale Moon,” sold by KT Studiogenie and, finally, CJ ENM’s “Island.”  Co-created by Bae Jong and Jang Jeong Do, the show – produced by Studio Dragon and YLAB – is based on a popular comic book, first published in 1997. It has since been turned into webtoons, web novels and dramas, always combining the fantastical with the ordinary. 

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Streaming services Paramount+ and Tving have greenlighted two new jointly-developed Korean TV series. They are the product of an ongoing relationship between parent companies Paramount Global and Korea’s CJ ENM. They are action thriller “A Bloody Lucky Day” and period drama “Queen Woo.” Korean TV content has been a growth vector for international and regional streaming platforms in Asia. Competition for new originals is fierce and expensive, but Korean drama and increasingly, unscripted shows, continues to attract critical and commercial kudos. Paramount+ said that new Korean drama series “Yonder” has been the most-watched international show in the U.S. in its first week of availability (since Aprile 11). Its upcoming Korean series “Bargain” earned the best screenplay award at Canneseries on Wednesday and will upload in summer this year.

The popular K-pop group ASTRO is mourning the loss of one of its members.

MipTV and Mipcom, Cannes two TV trade fairs, announcing final figures of 5,560 participants, including 5,510 on-site delegates.  That said, attendance was sizeably down on pre-pandemic levels – 9,500 attendees in 2019 – with major European drama sales companies literally counting the cost of attendance and exhibition space versus Mip-driven sales. In a fast-evolving TV landscape, the future and identity of MipTV still remains uncertain. 10 takeaways from this year’s edition:

Moonbin, a member of the South Korean boy band Astro, died by suicide today at his residence in the Gangnam district of Seoul. He was 25.

ASTRO has died at the age of 25.The singer was found dead at his home in the Gangnam district of Seoul by his manager today (April 19), according to the Seoul Gangnam Police Station (via Yonhap News, as translated by Korean pop culture website Soompi).“It appears that Moonbin took his own life,” the police said in a statement obtained by the outlet.“We are currently discussing the possibility of an autopsy to determine the precise cause of death.”Moonbin’s passing has since been confirmed by his label Fantagio Music. In a statement on Twitter, the agency said, as translated by Koreaboo: “We would like to apologize for the sad, heart-breaking news.

Queenmaker, has become the platform’s most-watched non-English series this week.This is according to data from Netflix’s official most-watched list, which tracks the platforms most popular content based on a metric it calls “hours viewed”. For the week of April 10 to 16, Queenmaker logged nearly 16million hours viewed.Notably, the figure only accounts for Queenmaker‘s first three days available on the streaming platform, having only premiered on April 13.

BTS member J-Hope is reporting for military duty. The K-pop star shared a selfie showing off his new buzz cut and a message for fans as he began his 18-month mandatory military service in South Korea on Tuesday.

The Good Bad Mother.The Good Bad Mother will follow the journey of cold-hearted attorney Choi Kang-ho (The Glory‘s Lee Do-hyun), who returns to his hometown after a tragic accident. There, he reconnects with his mother Jin Young-soon (played by Ra Mi-ran) and the pair set out to heal their frayed relationship.The new trailer opens by introducing Kang-ho, his two childhood friends, Mi-joo (Ahn Eun-jin) and Sam-sik (Yoo In-soo), and the love triangle between the three.

BLACKPINK and James Corden have teased their upcoming Carpool Karaoke segment.On the night of April 17, Corden posted a video on Instagram where he previewed the Carpool Karaoke segment, which will be featured in the upcoming episode of The Late Late Show With James Corden on Tuesday night (April 18).“So, I’m in the car, and I need someone to help me get to work, but who’s in the area,” Corden says, before panning over to reveal the four members of BLACKPINK in the passenger and back seats.“BLACKPINK in your area,” say the girl group, followed by Corden saying “see you soon”. BLACKPINK’s appearance on The Late Late Show will be part of the show’s final set of 12 episodes, concluding on April 27.A post shared by The Late Late Show (@latelateshow)BLACKPINK first appeared on The Late Late Show With James Corden in 2019, where they performed their single ‘Kill This Love’ and participated in the game show segment Flinch.