Sony announced on Friday that its new film Here, reuniting the director, writer, and stars of the classic Forrest Gump, will open wide via TriStar Pictures on November 15.
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Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Leading K-pop acts including Enhypen, INI and Kep1er, which this week released new album “Kep1ergoing,” are all set to appear next month at KCON LA 2024. The CJ ENM-backed event in Los Angeles, comprising a convention and multi-act concert series, will feature at least 25 group and solo acts from South Korea. It runs over three days from July 26-28 at the Crypto.com Arena, LA Convention Center and Gilbert Lindsay Plaza and has set Korean tech giant Samsung as its title sponsor.
Other artists confirmed to appear currently include: A.C.E, APOKI, BIBI, BOYNEXTDOOR, CRAXY, DRIPPIN, DXMON, god, HYOLYN, I-LAND 2, isaac hong, JEON SOMI, JO YURI, ME:I, NMIXX, P1Harmony, POW, STAYC, TAEMIN, TWS, ZEROBASEONE and ZICO. The convention will feature four stages enabling larger scale fan interactions. The ‘Showcase’ stage will introduce talented rookies who have not yet made it to the U.S.
and give them the opportunity to meet with a global audience. At ‘Meet & Greet,’ fans can have a closer meet-up opportunity with their favorite artists. “Last year’s KCON LA marked a turning point and focused on expanding both the size and scope of KCON, such as having a major media partner for the first time and we are excited to build on this momentum,” Harry H.K.
Shin, head of music entertainment at CJ ENM. “As a flagship K-pop Super Festival, we will make every effort to serve as a platform for launching K-pop artists’ global debuts and provide more opportunities than ever for intimate connections between fans and artists.” KCON has been held in Los Angeles since 2012 and has welcomed 1.83 million fans over its 12 previous editions. Other iterations are also held in Tokyo and Hong Kong.
.Sony announced on Friday that its new film Here, reuniting the director, writer, and stars of the classic Forrest Gump, will open wide via TriStar Pictures on November 15.
Ana Gasteyer (SNL, American Auto), Tony Hale (Veep, Inside Out 2), Dulé Hill (The West Wing, Psych), Gillian Jacobs (Community, Love) Jim Rash (Community, Fly Me to the Moon) and Sasheer Zamata (SNL, Home Economics) are set to star in a live reading of Beverly Hills, a soap opera written by TVLine founder and Spoiler Alert author Michael Ausiello when he was 13.
Kate Middleton has been taking a break from the spotlight of late as she continues her journey back to health. And there are very few places in the UK where the Princess of Wales would be able to step out for a coffee and go unnoticed like a normal person but one small Scottish village nestled away in the countryside allows her to do just that.
Zack Sharf Digital News Director Matthew McConaughey recently told Glen Powell as part of an Interview magazine discussion that “it was scary” quitting Hollywood for two years when all that was being offered to him early in his career was romantic-comedy films. McConaughey was a king of the genre thanks to films like “The Wedding Planner,” “How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days,” “Failure To Launch,” “Fool’s Gold,” and “Ghosts Of Girlfriends Past,” nearly all of which grossed over $100 million at the worldwide box office. But the more rom-coms McConaughey made the less Hollywood wanted him starring in anything else.
Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Steve W. Chung, a former executive at Fox and Korea’s CJ ENM, has been appointed as the inaugural COO of Azuki, an anime community platform and digital art collection.
EXCLUSIVE: The director of Irish folk horror All you Need is Death has set his next feature project for 1185 Films, as the London indie unveils a slate with a number of up-and-coming directors attached.
Thania Garcia Post Malone‘s sixth studio album “F-1 Trillion” will arrive on Aug. 16, the American singer and rapper announced Tuesday. Malone shared a picture of a sign in Nashville revealing the album’s title and car-themed logo.
A carer left her elderly step-father “looking like a smashed pumpkin” - amid claims he disrupted her plans to watch a Celtic and Rangers match.
Jordan Peele has a new feature coming.
Scots should be prepared to be hit by all kinds of weather, as the last leg of June is set to be a mixed bag of rain, thunder and heat.
Sorry, Kim Kardashian! You are totally cringe! But it’s not us offering up that opinion — it’s coming from your own children!
Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief U.S-produced film and TV content has maintained leadership in terms of reach among Subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) users in nine major markets in Asia-Pacific. And it remains important for acquiring and maintaining subscriptions, a new report finds. New research from consultancy firm Media Partners Asia is based on passively-collected data from 40,000 digital users amassed by its AMPD sister company.
EXCLUSIVE: The Sundance Institute has named the 10 producers selected to participate in its annual Producers Lab, taking place for the first time at Ucross Foundation in Wyoming this month.
EXCLUSIVE: Prime Video announced on Thursday that Sam Morril: You’ve Changed, its first comedy special from fast-rising New York comic Sam Morril, will premiere in more than 240 countries and territories worldwide on July 9.
EXCLUSIVE: The National Film Authority of Ghana has re-teamed with regional operator Silverbird Cinemas to mount the Africa Cinema Summit in the nation’s capital, Accra.
Garbage have announced their support acts for their huge 2024 London Wembley show and the reasons why they’ve chosen them.The band are soon to embark on their UK and Europe tour, where they conclude their tour with a huge concert at the arena on July 20. Shirley Manson and co also have plans to stop by Manchester, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Bridlington and Wolverhampton before they round off their tour.Now, Garbage have announced their support acts, unveiling Savages frontwoman Jehnny Beth and Lucia & The Best Boys as the musicians joining them in July.“Beyond thrilled to have the great icon Jehnny Beth join us for our 20th July show in London at Wembley OVO Arena,” wrote Garbage on Instagram.
The 2025 F1 driver lineup is shaping up more and more!
Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief The imminently upcoming Sydney Film Festival has added eight titles that premiered at Cannes to its lineup. They are: Guan Hu’s “Black Dog”; Mohammad Rasoulof’s “The Seed of the Sacred Fig”; Francis Ford Coppola’s passion project “Megalopolis”; Guy Maddin, Evan and Galen Johnson’s “Rumours,” starring Australia’s Cate Blanchett; documentary “Ernest Cole: Lost and Found,” Jia Zhangke’s “Caught by the Tides”; “The Girl with the Needle”; and revenge thriller “Ghost Trail.” Due to demand, the SFF organizers have also added additional screenings of “The Substance,” the Demi Moore-starring film already set as the festival’s closing night title. The festival runs June 5-16.
Thania Garcia Megan Thee Stallion revealed her third studio album will arrive later this June during one of the rescheduled dates of her Atlanta tour stops on Sunday night. The self-titled record will be released under her own Hot Girl Productions and is slated for June 28. After the May 31 and June 1 dates of her Atlanta concerts were postponed due to burst water pipes and outages, Megan shared the news of her album with a QR code and speech during Sunday’s show at the State Farm Arena.
Ryan Reynolds has unveiled a special edition popcorn bucket for Deadpool & Wolverine, playfully mocking Dune: Part Two‘s viral sandworm receptacle.The producer-star of the upcoming movie – which will be Deadpool’s Marvel Cinematic Universe debut – teased the new product with a humorous video on his social media and YouTube accounts.The video, set to Richard Strauss’ ‘Also sprach Zarathustra’, features a bucket made to resemble the helmeted head of Hugh Jackman‘s X-Men character Wolverine, with his mouth suggestively agape. Deadpool himself is then seen pouring and stuffing popcorn into the product, before drizzling melted butter over his frenemy’s face.“Years from now they will look back at 2024 as the year the War of the Popcorn Buckets began.