‘Pachinko’ Renewed For Season 2 By Apple TV+

The International Film Festival Rotterdam has appointed its new team line up and structure as the festival revamps.

By Minha Kim was surprised, quite literally, when she learned she landed the lead role in the Apple TV+ series —a role that would ultimately change her life. Kim was out to dinner in Seoul with a casting director and assumed the meal was to celebrate her upcoming birthday. “We were just chatting, and then suddenly she ordered champagne and told me that I got the role.

“Squid Game” director Hwang Dong-hyuk says there might have been a different ending to season 1 had the characters just learned to work together.

Zack Sharf “Squid Game” is coming back to Netflix for a second season, but fans of the smash hit drama series are going to have to wait well over a year for  new episodes. Series creator Hwang Dong-hyuk told Vanity Fair that he predicts the next batch of episodes won’t be ready for release until the end of 2023 at the earliest.

Japanese Breakfast is set to make her Saturday Night Live debut next week, appearing as the musical guest on the show’s season 47 finale.The singer-songwriter, aka Michelle Zauner, released new album ‘Jubilee’ last year, will appear on the May 21 edition of the long-running show, with Russian Doll and Orange Is The New Black star Natasha Lyonne on board to host.“Help!!!!!!!!” Japanese Breakfast simply wrote on Twitter to announce her performance. Last month in an interview backstage at Coachella, Zauner told NME: “This year is about enjoying myself.

Hulu is bidding farewell to another one of its Marvel properties. M.O.D.O.K., the streamer’s adult animated show from Jordan Blum and Patton Oswalt, has been canceled after one season.

America’s Funniest Home Videos, Celebrity Wheel Of Fortune and Shark Tank are all returning as ABC stocks up its unscripted lineup.

Selome Hailu ABC has renewed the unscripted series “The Bachelor,” “American Idol,” “Shark Tank,” “America’s Funniest Home Videos” and “Celebrity Wheel of Fortune” for new seasons.“The Bachelor” has been renewed for Season 27. Season 5 star Jesse Palmer will continue hosting the series after replacing previous host Chris Harrison in Season 26. The hit dating series is produced by Next Entertainment and Warner Bros.

Selome Hailu Natasha Lyonne is set to host the season finale of “Saturday Night Live” on May 21 with Japanese Breakfast performing as the musical guest.The episode will mark the “Saturday Night Live” debut for Lyonne, who is the co-creator, executive producer, director and star of the comedy-drama series “Russian Doll,” which debuted its second season on Netflix on April 20. Season 1 follows Nadia (Lyonne) as she mysteriously finds herself stuck in a time loop and must find her way out with the help of a stranger named Alan (Charlie Barnett) who she realizes in the same situation.

Natasha Lyonne is making her Saturday Night Live hosting debut on the season finale.

EXCLUSIVE: Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Laura Nyro, one of the most revered singer-songwriters of the 20thcentury, will be the subject of an upcoming documentary from Vistas Media Capital.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief“Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” opened with a stunning $14.4 million debut weekend in South Korea, far in excess of any film this year at the Korean box office. Its five-day opening score was $29.1 million.Data from the Korean Film Council’s Kobis tracking service shows the film garnered an 87% market share over the weekend, as it lifted nationwide box office to pre-COVID levels for the first time in more than two years.

When it came to setting the soundtrack for Pachinko, composer Nico Muhly realized he had some heavy lifting to do in helping to tell the multi-generational story about a Korean immigrant family.

Yeah Yeah Yeahs have signed a new record deal with Secretly Canadian ahead of the release of new music later this year. This follows the announcement of live shows in the US, the UK and elsewhere.“It’s with true life affirming pleasure to announce our two headline shows in our two hometowns NYC and LA, supported by two wildly gifted bands, Japanese Breakfast and The Linda Lindas at the Hollywood Bowl, with The Linda Lindas supporting in Forest Hills and our other support TBA soon”, says frontwoman Karen O.

Apple TV+'s ambitious generations-spanning drama, adapted from the 2017 best-selling novel by Min Jin Lee, has been renewed for season 2, the streaming service announced Friday ahead of the season 1 finale.«Words cannot express my joy in being able to continue telling the extraordinary story of this indomitable family,” said creator, writer and executive producer Soo Hugh in a statement. “I'm grateful to the amazing team at Apple and Media Res studio for believing and supporting this show and to our passionate fans who have cheered us on.

Pachinko is here!

Ellise Shafer “Pachinko” has been renewed for a second season at Apple TV+ ahead of the series’ Season 1 finale on Friday night.The Korean, Japanese and English-language drama was created, written and executive produced by Soo Hugh. Based on the bestselling novel of the same name by Min Jin Lee, “Pachinko” follows a Korean immigrant family across four generations as they leave their homeland in hopes of a brighter future.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorCity Parks Foundation has announced the 2022 season of Capital One City Parks Foundation SummerStage, New York City’s outdoor performing arts festival, bringing nearly 90 free and benefit shows to Central Park and 12 neighborhood parks across the five boroughs.Citywide parks and venues hosting SummerStage this season include Marcus Garvey Park in Harlem, Von King Park and The Coney Island Amphitheater in Brooklyn, Flushing Meadows-Corona Park in Queens, Crotona Park in the Bronx, Corporal Thompson Park in Staten Island, as well as the newly refurbished SummerStage flagship venue at Rumsey Playfield in Central Park. All performances will be free and open to the public, except for benefit concerts, and select shows will also be live-streamed on SummerStageAnywhere.org.

The Masked Singer has found itself in the middle of political controversy during its current seventh season after Deadline revealed that Rudy Giuliani was one of the contestants. Donald Trump’s lawyer was unmasked this week on the Fox reality competition series.