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South Korea will be this year's country of honor at international TV confab MIPCOM, honoring the global success of Korean television drama and reality formats. Korean shiny floor competition show The Masked Singer has been one of the most successful formats worldwide in recent years —the U.S.

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Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefAsia’s stuttering film and TV production outlook stems in large measure from the relative caution with which the region’s governments have approached the coronavirus outbreak.Calling on experience garnered with several recent bouts of epidemic disease (SARS in 2003, Avian Flu in 2013 and recurring waves of Dengue fever), governments around the Asia-Pacific region quickly urged their populations to mask up. Then they locked the borders.

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Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefThe South Korean release of a new film about K-pop superstars BTS has been indefinitely delayed, due to the coronavirus pandemic.The documentary film “Break The Silence: The Movie” had been scheduled for a Sept. 10 release in South Korean theaters.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefKorean cinemagoers came out to see “Tenet,” but their enthusiasm extended almost no further, as coronavirus cases resurge in the world’s number four box office market. And Korean cinema operators are retrenching.“Tenet,” the much-anticipated time-looping spy thriller earned $2.90 million from 353,000 ticket sales over the Friday to Sunday weekend.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefHollywood blockbuster “Tenet” opened on top of the Korean box office, but its performance is declining as the coronavirus makes a comeback in the country. Releases of other films, including “Mulan,” are now being postponed or halted.Christopher Nolan’s “Tenet” began its commercial career in the world’s fourth largest theatrical market on Wednesday earning $596,000 from 2,228 screens, according to data from the Korean Film Council’s KOBIZ system.

Miranda Kerr said she is “so happy” for ex-husband Orlando Bloom and his partner Katy Perry following the birth of their first child together.

Tom Grater International Film ReporterSong Kang-ho, the star of Oscar sensation Parasite and the 2013 feature Snowpiercer, will lead the cast of Korean feature Broker. The film marks the Korean directing debut of Japanese filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda, whose previous credits include the Palme d’Or-winning and Oscar-nomianted 2018 drama Shoplifters.Also starring in Broker will be Gang Dong-won and Bae Doona.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefSong Kang-ho, star of Oscar-winner “Parasite,” will head the cast of “Baby, Box, Broker,” the Korean-language debut of “Shoplifters” director Hirokazu Kore-eda. Rounding out a stellar acting lineup are Bae Doona (“Cloud Atlas,” “The Host”) and Gang Dong-won (“Peninsula,” “The Priests”).The film takes as its starting point boxes that are left out for people to anonymously drop off their unwanted babies.

For BTS ARMY, when it was announced that a K-drama was in the works which would look into the lives of BTS members from before they became a septet leading up to their debut in 2013, it was like an instant serotonin boost.