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Director Bong Joon-ho Demands Inquiry into Lee Sun-kyun’s Death

@Venice Film Festival  South Korean director Bong Joon-ho has joined a group of artists calling for a government investigation around the death of actor Lee Sun-kyun, who died in an apparent suicide in December. The 48-year-old actor was widely known for his film work, including a leading role in Bong’s Parasite, which became the first South…

‘Top Gun 3’ in Development at Paramount

@Photo by Paramount Pictures/Paramount Pictures – © 2019 Paramount Pictures Corporation. All rights reserved. Tom Cruise, the versatile actor/producer, is cruising full speed ahead on a bunch of new projects, including Top Gun 3, which is in development at Paramount. He’s also shooting Mission : Impossible 8 for the same studio and is working on a…

Annie Awards Nomination 2024 : Here’s the Complete List

@ASIFA-Hollywood The nominations for the 51st Annie Award have been announced, the ceremony is considered the Oscars of the animation world, Hayao Miyazaki’s “The Boy and a Heron” and Makoto Shinkai’s “Suzume no Tojimari” has been selected as the best feature category.  “Nimona,” Netflix‘s sci-fi fantasy about a disgraced knight and a shape-shifting teenager, led…

’28 Days Later’ May Rise from the Crypt in ’28 Years Later’ Sequel

As reported in CinemaDailyUS in November of 2022, 28 Days Later may indeed be rising from the crypt. Danny Boyle and Alex Garland, the director/screenwriter who created the macabre zombie horror film back in 2002 are reportedly planning a new trilogy called 28 Years Later—not to be confused with the 28 Weeks Later sequel that…

Paul Thomas Anderson to Team Up With Leonard DiCaprio

@Photo by Wilson Webb – © 2013 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. Paul Thomas Anderson will be directing a new Warner Bros. film that will feature an ensemble cast headed by Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn, and Regina Hall. Few details are known about the as-yet-untitled movie, other than the fact that Anderson will also be writing the…

SAG Awards 2024 Nominations Announced

@Barbenheimer – Margot Robbie in Barbie and Cillian Murphy in Oppenheimer The nominations for the 2024 SAG Awards have been announced. Oppenheimer and Barbie are leading the film categories with four nods each, including in the top category of best cast. Succession, meanwhile, has received the most recognition in the television categories. Besides best cast, Oppenheimer…

Tom Cruise Partners with Warner Bros. Discovery to Develop Films

@Collateral(2004) Tom Cruise and Warner Bros. Discovery have agreed to a nonexclusive partnership arrangement whereby the prolific actor/producer will be developing and producing–and starring in– new films for the studio. According to the terms of the deal, Cruise and his entourage will be setting up shop on the Warner Bros. lot in Burbank. The partnership…

‘Purple Rain’ Being Adapted Into a Broadway Stage Musical

A new Broadway stage adaptation of Prince‘s critically acclaimed Purple Rain film is currently in development. The upcoming play will be based on the movie’s original screenplay, which was written by Albert Magnoli and William Blinn, Variety is reporting. The stage version of the Oscar-winning film will feature the iconic music of Prince and a…

Martin Scorsese Plans Film Based on Shusaku Endo’s ‘Life of Jesus’

@Photo by Jaap Buitendijk – © 2011 GK Films. All Rights Reserved. Martin Scorsese plans to make a new film about Jesus that will be quite different from his controversial 1988 film The Last Temptation of Christ. According to an interview he gave to the Los Angeles Times, his new film will be based on A…

The 2024 Golden Globe Winners List

@HFPA(The Hollywood Foreign Press Association) After the ethics and diversity scandal within HFPA(The Hollywood Foreign Press Association) which led to the cancellation of the 2022 broadcast of the show. The 2024 Golden Globes has initiated the Hollywood film and TV awards season, which took place last night under new ownership, an expanded voting membership, and…

Japanese Comedian Hitoshi Matsumoto to Halt His Activities After Reports

@Yoshimoto Kogyo Co. LTD One of the most well-known Japanese comedian and TV personality Hitoshi Matsumoto, who recently faced a Shukan Bunshun weekly magazine report over his sexual behavior, now he decided to go on hiatus, his managing company Yoshimoto Kogyo Holding Co. said Monday, underscoring his intention to “focus on the trial that is…