‘The Masked Singer’ Creator Wonwoo Park Signs First-Look Deal With Fox, Developing U.S. Version Of Korean Talent Format ‘Lotto Singer’

Elle Korea, the star of the ongoing K-drama series Chimera spoke about her surprise over the sudden and recent popularity of Korean content, saying that she didn’t expect it to happen in “such a short time”.Kim noted that when she had been filming the 2014 Netflix series Marco Polo, her fellow co-stars were “very interested in Korean content”, although she didn’t specify which actors she was speaking about.

EXCLUSIVE: Kellie Madison (Never Back Down: Revolt) has signed on to direct a supernatural action thriller, centered on a geothermic explosion inside the ruins of Pompeii, for Pressman Film.

Korean actors Park Shin-hye and Choi Tae-joon have announced that they are getting married and that they’re also expecting a baby!

Escape From Mogadishu, Korea’s submission to this year’s International Feature Oscar race, tells the harrowing true story of North and South Koreans caught in the middle of a brutal civil war in Somalia in 1991, and how the divided nation worked together to survive the crisis in a foreign land.

EXCLUSIVE: Squid Game star HoYeon Jung has signed with CAA. Deadline recently revealed how every agency in town has been trying to land Jung and her co-stars as well as show writer-director, Hwang Dong-hyuk and this marks the first of the group to land at a major agency.

the show ‘Squid Game’ and film ‘Parasite,’ this really sparked the curiosity and the global audience for Korean culture,” Sun-kyun, 46, told The Post through a translator. “There are many platforms that provide easy access to Korean content, so I think it seems fresh and new to people who haven’t been acquainted with the culture — and we have common grounds despite the differences.

EXCLUSIVE: Move over Squid Games, it’s Time To Hunt. In an interesting development, we can reveal that Netflix is remaking its Korean-language movie Time To Hunt, marking the first time the streamer has adapted one of its local-language movies into English. The studio has come full circle, you might say.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefThe decision to make a second season of Netflix global hit “Squid Game” is a sound one, according to analysis firm Media Partners Asia which finds that Korean and Thai content have the strongest cross-border travel potential within the Asia-Pacific region.The company’s “Netflix in the Asia Pacific: The Scalability of Local Content” report is based on passive measurement of 30,000 streaming consumers in Australia, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Philippines,

Squid Game creator Hwang Dong-hyuk is opening up about the ending of season one of the popular Netflix series, and how he actually struggled between two endings.

has become a global phenomenon, so it only makes sense that Netflix is looking to keep the series going. Creator Hwang Dong-hyuk says season 2 is all but inevitable.«Season 2, I'm in the middle of brainstorming. Yeah, I mean after this huge success, we've got to do something about season 2,» Hwang shared with ET's Leanne Aguilera on the red carpet at a special screening of in Los Angeles on Monday.

Squid Game creator Hwang Dong-hyuk has confirmed the hit show will be back for more after season one breaks streaming records.

Jordan Moreau Another season of “Squid Game” is on the way.Creator Hwang Dong-hyuk confirmed the plans to the Associated Press at a screening and Q&A in Los Angeles for the Korean drama, which became a global phenomenon for Netflix in the past couple months.“There’s been so much pressure, so much demand and so much love for a second season. So I almost feel like you leave us no choice!” Hwang told the Associated Press on the Monday night red carpet.

EXCLUSIVE: Playground Entertainment, the company behind Damian Lewis period drama Wolf Hall, is to adapt acclaimed South Korean graphic novel Moms as a television series.

who recently exited his first-look deal at Universal Television’s unscripted studio, added: “Korea had long been an unnoticed market, but over the last few years formats such as ‘The King of Masked Singer’ have been sold all over the world.  Many K-pop singers are massively popular around the world, and Korean production companies clearly have the ability to produce high-efficiency programming.  I expect this collaboration with Fo to create more hits; and our team here at dI turn is ready.”Park,

Joe Otterson TV ReporterWonwoo Park, the creator of “The Masked Singer” format, has signed a first-look deal with Fox Alternative Entertainment.Under the deal, Fox and Park’s Seoul-based production company, dI turn, will jointly develop series for global territories and the American market.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefDon Lee, who stars as an Asian superhero in Marvel’s “Eternals,” will next be seen at the head of Korean franchise movie “The Roundup.”The film is a sequel to “The Outlaws,” a 2017 crime actioner that took $51 million at the Korean box office.

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