Sundance: Kim Jong-nam Doc 'Assassins' Picked Up by Magnolia

SEOUL, South Korea -- Kim Da-hye, a 29-year-old South Korean, said that moving into a semi-basement apartment was her least-preferred option when she was looking for a new place to live.

By Jake Kanter

After weeks of awards campaigning and hundreds of interviews, “Parasite” began Sunday as a successful and well-appreciated movie. Yet its Academy Awards wins for best picture and for Bong Joon-ho as best director were shocks that thrilled the Asian movie industry.

Porsha Williams, 38, is working on trusting Dennis McKinley, 43, again — but the pair aren’t rushing to make plans to walk down the aisle! “They’re together, happy and engaged but aren’t wedding planning really at the moment,” a source close to the Real Housewives of Atlanta star spills to HollywoodLife EXCLUSIVELY.

By Nellie Andreeva

A year after Fox found a hit in “The Masked Singer,” the network has acquired another music-based format from South Korea: “I Can See Your Voice.” The network has ordered the music guessing game to series.

Big Hit Entertainment is helping the BTS ARMY connect better with their favourite K-Pop band. A few weeks ago, we reported that the label introduced subtitles for the Bangtan TV videos, thus helping fans to understand the conversations between the BTS members easily instead of depending on translations.

After denying dating rumours, K Pop singer Kangta and Korean actress Jung Yu Mi have taken off the lid and confirmed that they are in a relationship. The H.O.T singer and the Train to Busan star were first linked last summer. However, both the stars' agencies denied the rumours. But now, the agencies have confirmed that the two Korean stars are in a relationship. Kangta’s agency SM Entertainment told MyDaily and Jung Yu Mi’s agency Ace Factory issued statements sharing the news. 

In Bong Joon Ho's genre-bending thrillerParasite, Kim Chung-sook (Chang Hyae-jin) is tasked with makingram-donwith steak for the soon-to-arrive Park family. In the film, they used instant black bean noodles and spicy seafood-flavored noodles made by two of the most famous South Korean noodle brands.

Magnolia Pictures has bought the documentary “Assassins,” which explores the 2017 assassination of Kim Jong-nam, half brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un.

By Patrick Hipes

One of these days, somebody should (and probably will) make a documentary about Kim Jong-un, the Supreme Leader of North Korea.

It took four movies before Lee Isaac Chung was ready to tell the kind of story first-timers so often rush to share straight out of the gate. Not a coming-of-age movie so much as a deeply personal and lovingly poetic rendering of his Korean American childhood — specifically, how it felt for his immigrant family to adjust to life in small-town Arkansas — “Minari” benefits from the maturity and perspective Chung brings to the project.

Fishy metaphors abound in Kim Yong-hoon's smart port-city neo-noir Beasts Clawing at Straws (Jipuragirado Jabgo Sipeun Jimseungdeul), which looks set to hook audiences in its native Korea following a high-profile bow in the main competition at Rotterdam.Overseas it will find welcoming berths at festivals receptive to audience-friendly genre fare; the adaptation of Sone Keisuke's Japanese novel also has considerable English-language remake appeal at a time when Korean cinema has never enjoyed

Most immigration stories are similar in a broad sense but distinctive in the details, which is certainly the case withMinari.A rare look at a Korean family trying to adapt and make a go of it in, of all places, 1980s Arkansas, Lee Isaac Chung’s autobiographical feature is warmly observant, gently humorous in the vein of Ozu and not shy about the awful strain the struggle places on the adults in the family.

BTS’s appearance on the red carpet of 2020 Grammy Awards was everything the fans had been waiting for. The Korean boy band absolutely slayed the red carpet in coordinated looks and the fans are going gaga.

In mid-February 2017, shocking news began breaking on broadcast and online outlets worldwide: Kim Jong-nam, the estranged half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, had been killed in an audacious public assassination at Kuala Lumpur’s international airport.