Oh Yeong-Su, the 79-year-old South Korean actor, was convicted today in Seoul of sexual misconduct. Oh, who captured a Golden Globe nomination for his role as Oh Il-nam in Netflix’s Squid Game, had been charged in 2022 that he hugged a woman and kissed her on the cheek without her consent. He was reportedly sentenced …
Debuting this week as part of the New Look showcase at New York’s Museum of the Moving Image, Samsara is an impressive new film by Spanish director Lois Patiño. As I watched it, I could not help but think of Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s poem “Crossing the Bar” with its depiction of death as a passage…
©The Boy and the Heron, GKIDS Studio Ghibli’s acclaimed animations will continue to be streamed in the United States on the Max platform, thanks to an extension of an multi-year arrangement with GKIDS, the entity that manages North American distribution for the Japanese animators. The deal includes 23 titles, including the recent Oscar-winning The Boy…
Kobi Libii’s feature directorial debut, The American Society of Magical Negroes, takes a light-hearted, satirical look at a cultural phenomenon that has recently been denigrated by filmmakers like Spike Lee, among others. The term itself refers to a cinematic or literary trope governing the strategic inclusion of Black characters in American cinematic or literary works….
Japanese filmmakers Hirokazu Kore-eda was a big winner at last night’s Asian Film Awards in Hong Kong. For the second consecutive year, Kore-eda captured the Best Director title, this time for his latest feature, Monster. The prolific director had won the prize a year ago for Broker, a Korean-language film. Discussing his most recent award,…
March 10 was Mario Day (MAR10), and Nintendo marked the occasion by announcing that a new movie about Super Mario Bros. will be released on April 3, 2026. The upcoming film will be directed by Aaron Horvath and Michael Jelenic from a script by Matthew Fogel. It will be co-financed by Universal Pictures and Nintendo…
As first reported by Deadline, Sony Pictures has acquired the film rights to “Ankle Snatcher,” a 2023 short story by Grady Hendrix. The story originally appeared in the Creature Feature Collection by Amazon Original Stories. As of now, no cast or director has been announced for the adaptation, which is being produced by Todd Black,…
Nikon, the Japanese camera-maker, is expanding into the movie-making sphere with the acquisition of RED Digital Cinema as a wholly-owned subsidiary. RED, which is located in Foothill Ranch, California has about 200 employees and is headed by president Jarred Land. The company was founded in 2005 by Jim Jannard. Terms of the acquisition have not…
©Kenzon World Margaret Qualley will be playing the role of Amanda Knox in a new, as-yet-untitled limited series to air on Hulu. According to the official synopsis, the series will be “based on the true story of how Knox was wrongfully convicted for the murder of her roommate Meredith Kercher and her 16-year odyssey to…
Shōgun is streaming to an auspicious start. According to a report in Deadline, the launch of FX’s 10-episode series has garnered 9 million views on Hulu, Disney+, and Star+ in just its first six days. As a result, Shōgun has become the number-one scripted series premiere for Disney General Entertainment, eclipsing The Kardashians, Season 1….
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