‘Squid Game’s Hwang Dong-hyuk, Lee Jung-jae & Wi Ha-joon Set For Italy’s Lucca Comics & Games

Manu Akanji is hoping for a reunion with some Manchester City teammates - so he can knock them and England out of the Euros.

Don’t expect to see Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck head out on any trips together this summer!

Taylor Swift received a welcome gift from U2 when she landed in Dublin, Ireland, for her latest stop on The Eras Tour.

Saint Clare starring Bella Thorne will open this year’s Taormina Film Festival.

Mandy Moore is enjoying a lunch outing.

Naver‘s online comics platform Webtoon Entertainment is seeking to raise as much as $315M through an initial public offering in the U.S.

Hoyeon is addressing her career, as well as her personal life.

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent “Squid Game” creator, writer and director Hwang Dong-hyuk and the show’s protagonists Lee Jung-jae and Wi Ha-Jun will be attending Italy’s Lucca Comics and Games festival on Oct. 31 to tease the hit Netflix series’ second season. The hotly anticipated second instalment of the Korean-language survival drama series is set to launch on Netflix by the end of the year.

David Fincher is reportedly working on a remake of Netflix‘s hit dystopian South Korean series Squid Game.According to a report from The Playlist, Fincher has reportedly been working on the series for around two years, though neither Netflix nor the Fight Club director have confirmed the production.Per The Playlist, Fincher first decided to work on a Squid Game remake shortly after the Korean series’ release in 2021, which was a pop culture juggernaut, spawning a reality competition and an upcoming second season. The publication also reports that Fincher has hired writer Dennis Kelly for the project.

EXCLUSIVE: Eugene Levy has another plane to catch for Apple.

Pulp performed ‘Bar Italia’ for the first time in 12 years in Italy last night (June 23).The track, which is based on the Italian café located on Frith Street in the Soho district of London, closes their classic 1995 album ‘Different Class’.The song describes the café as “round the corner in Soho” and “where all the broken people go”, and the band can be seen sitting in the haunt on the artwork for their classic hit ‘Common People’.Many fans expressed their delight at hearing the band play the track for the first time since 2012 at the Medimex festival, with one writing on X: “Pulp ending their set tonight with Bar Italia, the final song from Different Class, was EPIC.”Another added: “PULP PLAYED BAR ITALIA???? WHAT THE FUCK?????”I can’t believe it

Jarvis Cocker of Pulp has joined The Jesus & Mary Chain for a performance of ‘Just Like Honey’ – watch footage of the performance below.While performing at the Medimex festival in Italy, The Jesus & Mary Chain brought out Pulp frontman Cocker to aid them in singing their 1985 hit ‘Just Like Honey’. It is worth noting that Cocker did not sing the main vocals for the song, and instead only provided backing vocals for the band’s Jim Reid.Watch fan-shot footage of Jarvis Cocker joining The Jesus & Mary Chain for ‘Just Like Honey’ below.A post shared by dee (@deetledum)Elsewhere during their set, The Jesus & Mary Chain performed several songs from their new album ‘Glasgow Eyes’, including ‘Jamcod’, ‘Venal Joy’ and ‘Girl 71’ – the latter of which featured guest backing vocalist Rachel Conti.Later that night, Pulp headlined the same festival, where they performed an array of career highlights, including ‘This Is Hardcore’, ‘Do You Remember The First Time?’, ‘Common People’, ‘Something Changed’, ‘Underwear’ and more.

James Martin, the beloved TV chef known for his stint on BBC's Saturday Kitchen, has shared a rather explosive anecdote about a barbecue gone wrong that sent chops soaring "about 20-30 feet in the air".The culinary star of ITV's Saturday Morning, James also admitted to a fiery fiasco at his own abode, involving an accidental house blaze sparked by a barbecue mishap. Chatting on the Grilling podcast with fellow foodie and celebrity chef Simon Rimmer in 2021, James dished out his hair-raising tale when asked if he'd ever had any barbecue disasters. Recounting the fiery incident at his residence, the ex-BBC host explained it was all down to a pizza oven roof that should have been metal but was mistakenly made of wood.

Hunter King stars in the new Hallmark Channel movie Two Scoops of Italy and she’s opening up about how she prepared to shoot on location in Italy.

Disney/Pixar‘s Inside Out 2 grossed $29.1M stateside yesterday, repping a Tuesday record for an animated movie. That beats the first Tuesday gross of 2018’s Incredibles 2 at $27M.

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent “Flow,” a director-driven animated feature which world premiered at Cannes’ Un Certain Regard and just swept three awards at Annecy Film Festival, has been embraced by a raft of major distributors in key territories, including the U.K., Japan, South Korea, Germany, Spain and Italy. The movie is represented internationally by Charades.

Netflix‘s EMEA chief has described his Los Gatos overlords as “very hands off” when it comes to content strategy outside the U.S.

Manchester United now regard Amad as one of their more integral squad members for the future.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at Large I think I can say this on behalf of the entire collective of reporters who cover television: Nothing makes us groan more than when a series star or producer refers to the setting as another “character” in their show. (Actually, I take that back, something else causes even heavier eye rolls: When a performer says their co-stars are “like a family.”) And yet, I may have to temper my cynicism.

Rebecca Rubin Senior Film and Media Reporter Francis Ford Coppola’s sci-fi epic “Megalopolis,” which proved to be wildly divisive after its Cannes Film Festival premiere, has finally found a distributor. Lionsgate has signed a deal to distribute the film in theaters in the U.S. and Canada.