EXCLUSIVE: Kellie Madison (Never Back Down: Revolt) has signed on to direct a supernatural action thriller, centered on a geothermic explosion inside the ruins of Pompeii, for Pressman Film.
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Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefDon Lee, who stars as an Asian superhero in Marvel’s “Eternals,” will next be seen at the head of Korean franchise movie “The Roundup.”The film is a sequel to “The Outlaws,” a 2017 crime actioner that took $51 million at the Korean box office.
That performance confirmed Lee’s star status, which had been freshly minted with his role in the previous year’s zombie action sensation “Train to Busan.”Lee, who is alternatively credited as Ma Dong-seok, was born in
.EXCLUSIVE: Kellie Madison (Never Back Down: Revolt) has signed on to direct a supernatural action thriller, centered on a geothermic explosion inside the ruins of Pompeii, for Pressman Film.
Korean actors Park Shin-hye and Choi Tae-joon have announced that they are getting married and that they’re also expecting a baby!
The world ain’t ready for Simu Liu on Saturday Night Live — but thankfully, this week, we got him anyways!
Escape From Mogadishu, Korea’s submission to this year’s International Feature Oscar race, tells the harrowing true story of North and South Koreans caught in the middle of a brutal civil war in Somalia in 1991, and how the divided nation worked together to survive the crisis in a foreign land.
Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterJurnee Smollett has landed the female lead in “The Burial,” a new courtroom drama from Amazon Studios.The “Lovecraft Country” actor will star opposite Jamie Foxx and Tommy Lee Jones in the Maggie Betts-directed project. Based on a true story, the film follows a bankrupt funeral home owner who decides to sue a rival businessman over a handshake deal gone wrong.
Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterJurnee Smollet has landed the female lead in “The Burial,” a new courtroom drama from Amazon Studios.The “Lovecraft Country” actor will star opposite Jamie Foxx and Tommy Lee Jones in the Maggie Betts-directed project. Based on a true story, the film follows a bankrupt funeral home owner who decides to sue a rival businessman over a handshake deal gone wrong.
Matty Lee will be taking part in I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! this year.The talented star, 23, won a gold medal in the Tokyo Games, and he was called up and invited on the hit ITV show shortly after.
Sesame Street’s first Asian American character is set to make her first appearance on the iconic show later this month. Ji-Young, 7, is a Korean American puppet with two main passions - playing her electric guitar and skateboarding.
the show ‘Squid Game’ and film ‘Parasite,’ this really sparked the curiosity and the global audience for Korean culture,” Sun-kyun, 46, told The Post through a translator. “There are many platforms that provide easy access to Korean content, so I think it seems fresh and new to people who haven’t been acquainted with the culture — and we have common grounds despite the differences.
John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent“La Reina del Sur” star Kate del Castillo is set to play the lead in “A Beautiful Lie,” a modern take in Spanish on Leo Tolstoy’s “Anna Karenina.”Del Castillo will also executive produce the series out of her Cholawood Productions label, along with two other forces on the upscale Spanish-language TV scene, premium U.S.
Christopher Vourlias Athens-based Endorphin Film Sales has acquired the rights to “Kick and Scream,” the directorial debut of Croatian actress Nina Violić (“Our Everyday Life,” “The Son”), the company announced this week at the Thessaloniki Film Festival.The film follows the final half-hour of a marriage that is falling apart, shown from the perspectives of the wife, husband, and their 6-year-old child.
EXCLUSIVE: Move over Squid Games, it’s Time To Hunt. In an interesting development, we can reveal that Netflix is remaking its Korean-language movie Time To Hunt, marking the first time the streamer has adapted one of its local-language movies into English. The studio has come full circle, you might say.
Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefThe decision to make a second season of Netflix global hit “Squid Game” is a sound one, according to analysis firm Media Partners Asia which finds that Korean and Thai content have the strongest cross-border travel potential within the Asia-Pacific region.The company’s “Netflix in the Asia Pacific: The Scalability of Local Content” report is based on passive measurement of 30,000 streaming consumers in Australia, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Philippines,
has become a global phenomenon, so it only makes sense that Netflix is looking to keep the series going. Creator Hwang Dong-hyuk says season 2 is all but inevitable.«Season 2, I'm in the middle of brainstorming. Yeah, I mean after this huge success, we've got to do something about season 2,» Hwang shared with ET's Leanne Aguilera on the red carpet at a special screening of in Los Angeles on Monday.
had tweeted: “I am aware of a transphobic post shared by a fellow General Hospital actor. Shame on you.
Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefMarvel movie “Eternals” enjoyed the biggest opening weekend of any film this year in South Korea.
EXCLUSIVE: Playground Entertainment, the company behind Damian Lewis period drama Wolf Hall, is to adapt acclaimed South Korean graphic novel Moms as a television series.
who recently exited his first-look deal at Universal Television’s unscripted studio, added: “Korea had long been an unnoticed market, but over the last few years formats such as ‘The King of Masked Singer’ have been sold all over the world. Many K-pop singers are massively popular around the world, and Korean production companies clearly have the ability to produce high-efficiency programming. I expect this collaboration with Fo to create more hits; and our team here at dI turn is ready.”Park,
The Masked Singer creator Wonwoo Park has signed a first-look development deal with Fox Alternative Entertainment and has set his sights on his first project.