Netflix Planning Korean Adaptation Of Spanish Hit ‘Money Heist’

Controversial South Korean director Kim Ki-duk died in a hospital in Latvia where he was being treated for COVID-19. He was 59.

The documentary Assassins, opening in theaters today, is part legal thriller, part spy thriller, and part true crime story, “on literally the largest geopolitical scale,” as director Ryan White puts it.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefAward-winning and deeply divisive South Korean film director Kim Ki-duk has died of COVID-19-related complications while on a visit to Latvia, local media in Latvia has reported. His death has not been confirmed in Korea.Latvian news portal Delfi said Kim arrived in the country a month ago with the intention of buying a house and applying for alien residency status.

Also Read: 'Let Them All Talk' Film Review: Meryl Streep Contemplates Life, Love and Literature on Transatlantic VoyageImmaculately crafted to the most minuscule production design detail, “Minari” mines significance from the plot’s built-in wisdom, such as the water and the lack thereof standing as a metaphor for the necessary components for growth, for both the crops and the people tending to them.

Netflix has revealed some color about its subscribers’ viewing habits during 2020.

Partner Content Last February, “Parasite” surprised the world, winning four Academy Awards: best original screenplay, best international feature film, best director, and the most coveted statuette, best picture.It was a historic moment, as “Parasite” was the first international film to take home the Academy’s top prize — and the first Korean film to win Academy Awards in the country’s 101-year cinematic history.While “Parasite’s” wins are one of the biggest film-industry stories of 2020,

has sold for $17 million.The home, at 64 La Gorce Circle, first went on the market for $22 million last August.The estate, which sits on 0.68 acres in La Gorce’s guarded and gated community, features palm trees and a sprawling, three-story Spanish style villa filled with archways courtyards and fountains that optimize the concept of indoor/outdoor entertaining.The home itself is 11,406 square feet and features six bedrooms, 6½ bathrooms — along with an office, media room, game room, bar and gym.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefLarge parts of South Korea’s entertainment industry are reeling as the national government put capital city Seoul on the country’s second highest virus response footing.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefCinemas in Korea are trying to adapt to new straitened circumstances as the autumn box office recovery peters out.

BTS. It will be welcome news for the seven-member pop group's legions of diehard fans around the world, who were celebrating the band's unprecedented position at the top of the Billboard chart on Tuesday.

Thanks to a new Korean law, BTS’ Jin will defer his military service by two years. Jin, the eldest member of BTS, will turn 28 on Friday, December 4, which meant that he had 20 months to enlist in the military under the previous South Korean law.

Fans of Netflix's hit Spanish crime drama Money Heist will have more to look forward to after the show concludes its fifth and final season in 2021. Netflix said Tuesday that it has greenlit a 12-episode first season of an all-new Korean version of Money Heist (La casa de papel), which is expected to go into production sometime next year.

A Korean version of the hit Netflix series Money Heist is in the works!

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefNetflix is to create a Korean version of its own Spanish-language fantasy crime series “Money Heist” (“La Casa De Papel”).

Netflix is to start declaring its U.K. revenues — forecast to reach £1.3 billion ($1.7 billion) next year, according to analysts —to British tax authorities.