Here's How K-Pop Dominated Twitter in 2019

Amid growing concern across the world over the spread of the coronavirus, many K-pop acts and related entities are canceling or postponing shows in Southeast Asia and taking precautions to protect concertgoers in the region.

This comes a year after the allegations first came to light in a sexual abuse scandal that rocked South Korea's entertainment industry. Seungri has denied all allegations.

There’s a new popular boy band in the Japanese music scene, and they’re already dominating: SixTONES, a team hailing from J-pop talent agency Johnny & Associates, released their first formal release “Imitation Rain” last month and have already topped Japanese music charts with the impactful pop power ballad.

Pilgrims — Photo: Christopher Banks

Upcoming young adult novel I'll Be the One is being developed as a feature by HBO Max, withNahnatchka Khan set to produce with an eye to direct.The soon-to-be launched streamer won a five-studio bidding war for the rights.Author Lyla Lee’s wrote the novel that follows 6-year-old Skye Shin — a bi-sexual, Korean-American girl — as she pursues her dreams as a participant on reality TV singing and dancing competition “K-Pop Shining Star.” With the help of her new friends and her crush, world

Who knew that a melding melody between K-pop and Latin music would go together like peanut butter and jelly? A few Korean and Latin artists have already begun a trend that fuses both musical styles and features bilingual lyrics. 

The Japanese box office leaped by 17% in 2019 to set a record $2.4 billion score, according to figures announced Tuesday by the Motion Picture Producers Association of Japan, locally known as Eirin. The previous high was the $2.2 billion recorded in 2016.

The Japanese box office jumped more than 17 percent to a record $2.39 billion (261 billion yen) in 2019, with admissions up more than 15 percent to 194,910, the highest attendance since 1971.Despite a slowly shrinking population and the rise of streaming platforms, astrong lineup of films, rising wages for the young, low unemployment and a rise in leisure timedue to government work reforms all helped drive the record box office numbers.Hollywood's share rose slightly to 45.6 percent, its

Yesterday saw a deluge of precursor results hit the Oscar race, including one of the biggest Guilds chiming in. Obviously, we know already that last night the Directors Guild of America gave their top prize to Sam Mendes for 1917, but Saturday evening also saw the American Society of Cinematographers Awards, the Annie Awards, the Cinema Audio Society Awards, and the USC Scripter Awards, in addition to the Directors Guild of America Awards.

BTS continues to make history!

BTS are heading out on the road with their Map Of The Soul world tour.

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Pep Guardiola suggested he may have to change the way penalty takers are decided at Manchester City after Gabriel Jesus missed against Sheffield United.

LOS ANGELES, (Variety.com) — Universal’s Dolittle and 1917 found out what Bad Boys will do when they come for you at the box office. Sony’s Bad Boys for Life, the third entry in the Will Smith and Martin Lawrence-led series, beat expectations and towered over the competition during the Martin Luther King Jr. weekend.

Brian May also revealed at a press conference that the release of the 'Bohemian Rhapsody' biopic had screaming fans waiting for them at the airport in Seoul.

U.S. movie admissions slid 4.6% last year to 1.24 billion, the second lowest admissions number during the current century, the National Association of Theatre Owners (NATO) has reported.

As promised, BTS has released their first song titled Black Swan. The music video is the first official song from their album Maps of the Soul 7.

It was a day to remember for the K-Pop band SF9. The South Korean band has been in the music scene for over three years and it was not until this week that they won their first award.