Paramount Players Lands Rights To The Short Film ‘Koreatown Ghost Story’ With Teddy Tenenbaum And Minsun Park Directing

Rebecca Souw Barunson E&A, one of the production companies behind South Korean Oscar-winning film “Parasite,” will work with director Bong Joon-ho on two additional Korean films.The Seoul-based company provided no further details of the Bong projects, but announced an expanded production slate spanning films and TV series and hinted at overseas expansion.Barunson, which was producer of the smash hit KBS series “Descendants of the Sun,” previously worked with Bong on his 2009 drama “Mother,”

Jamie Lang This year’s San Sebastian Nest competition for international student short films honored Sara Grgurić’s Croatian relationship drama “In the Woods” with this year’s Nest Award and its accompanying €10,000 ($11,800) cash prize.“Because of its complexity and its precision, because with little it tells something enormous and because since we saw it, it has stayed with us, we give the award to ‘In the Woods,’” said the jury as they made the announcement.Spanish production “Pont de Pedra”

The “Muppets” make their way to “The Haunted Mansion” in Disney’s star-studded new movie.

EXCLUSIVE: Award-winning actor John Cho (Searching, Star Trek) has signed on to Erick Oh’s animated short, Namoo, as an executive producer.

EXCLUSIVE: Husband-wife team Arturo Perez Jr. and Samantha Jayne have signed on to direct the film adaptation of Mean Girls the Musical for Paramount Players. The film will be produced by Lorne Michaels and Tina Fey with a script by Fey and featuring music by Jeff Richmond and lyrics by Nell Benjamin, who did the music from the Broadway production.

Paquette said in a statement that “these paintings and graphic novel are rich and tell a timeless tale of our shared humanity and the hope for a better tomorrow that will entertain audiences around the world.” The project is out to writers and directors.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefYoun Yuh-jung, who won the Oscar for best supporting actress in “Minari” earlier this year, will be the subject of a special focus this year at the London Korean Film Festival. The festival will be held as an in-person event Nov.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefKakao Entertainment, part of South Korean internet giant Kakao Corp., is poised to buy leading Korean film production company Zip Cinema from its Singaporean owner Spackman Entertainment. The deal is valued at S$19.8 million ($14.8 million).Zip Cinema is producer of “Broker,” the Korean-language debut of Japanese Palme d’or winner Kore-eda Hirokazu (“Shoplifters”), which is now in post-production and being sold by CJ Entertainment.

Back in April, New Jersey rapper Topaz Jones shared his album Don't Go Tellin' Your Mama, an LP that came with a very well-received short film of the same name. The film, co-directed Jones and rubberband, went on to win a Jury Award at this year's Sundance Film Festival.

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Paramount Players has acquired the U.S. distribution rights to “Orphan: First Kill,” the prequel to the 2009 film “Orphan,” an individual with knowledge of the deal told TheWrap.

Paramount Players has acquired the U.S. distribution rights to “Orphan: First Kill,” the prequel to the 2009 film “Orphan,” an individual with knowledge of the deal told TheWrap.

One of our most anticipated releases of the year is Colourblind, the new album from English experimental soul artist Tirzah. In her recent FADER cover story, she described taking a raw, in-the-moment attitude to the songwriting.

Ryan Murphy’s penchant for campy histrionics in focusing its narrative arc on the three women whose cumulative actions culminated in Clinton’s fall from grace: Monica Lewinsky (Beanie Feldstein), Linda Tripp (Murphy stock player Sarah Paulson) and Paula Jones (“B Positive” star Annaleigh Ashford). They each deliver terrific performances in an absorbing take on a scandal that closed out the decade on a sour note.

EXCLUSIVE: Following a heated bidding war, Paramount Players has landed the package Significant Other with Maika Monroe and Jack Lacy on board to star. Dan Berk and Robert Olsen will direct and also penned the script. Dan Kagan is producing.