©Courtesy of Parasite Korean actor Song Kang-ho, will be joining the second-season cast of Beef, the award-winning Netflix anthology series. He will appear as a guest star alongside Carey Mulligan, Oscar Isaac, Charles Melton, Cailee Spaeny, and Youn Yuh-jung. In 2019, Song starred as Kim Ki-taek in Parasite, which won an Academy Award for Best…
© Courtesy of CJ Entertainment Warner Bros. Motion Pictures Group and CJ ENM have signed a deal to develop, finance and distribute English language and Korean language features, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The projects will be remakes of each studio’s films. As part of the new agreement, Warner Bros. will serve as the lead…
©Courtesy of Magnolia Pictures and Magnet Releasing SLEEP follows newlyweds Hyun-su (Lee Sun-kyun, PARASITE) and Soo-jin (Jung Yu-mi), whose domestic bliss is disrupted when Hyun-su begins speaking in his sleep, ominously stating, “Someone’s inside.” From that night on, whenever he falls asleep, Hyun-su transforms into someone else, with no recollection of what happened the night…
Photo by James Hargis Connelly – © MPTV – Image courtesy Though Asian actors have been performing in movies for more than a century, they were often cast in one-dimensional roles that stereotyped them as either hopelessly passive or brutally aggressive. In many cases, Asian characters were often played by non-Asian actors in “yellowface.” For example,…
Mickey 17, the much-anticipated sci-fi thriller by Korean director Bong Joon-Ho, will finally be released on January 31, 2025, says Warner Bros. The film will also be available on IMAX screens. It had originally been scheduled to debut on March 29, 2024 until it was postponed indefinitely. According to Variety, the rescheduling is allowing the…
@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…
Lee Sun-Kyun, a South Korean actor who starred in the Oscar winning film,“Parasite,” has died on Wednesday morning, according to the Associated Press. He was only 48. Lee was found unconscious in a parked car in Seoul on March 27, when he was found, there was a charcoal briquette in the car. Lee’s wife had…
Netflix has dropped a new trailer and poster for upcoming Korean drama “Gyeongseong Creature” which is starring Park Seo-joon and Han So Hee. The series, set in the spring of 1945, tells the story of two young individuals battling against a monstrous entity born from human greed. The teaser poster reveals a tense and suspenseful…
Lee Sun-kyun, the South Korean actor who’s best known for his role of Dong Ik in the Oscar-winning Korean film Parasite, is being removed from the upcoming black comedy No Way Out, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The movie’s producer, Studio X+U, released a statement today confirming the news, after reports surfaced that he was…
Concrete Utopia, an apocalyptic thriller about life in Seoul after a disastrous earthquake, has been selected by the Korean Film Council as its official entry for the 96th Academy Awards ceremony next spring. It will be competing in the Best International Feature Film category. The movie will also be featured at the upcoming Toronto Film…
Tilda Swinton has dropped out of the cast of Adam McKay’s HBO adaptation of Bong Joon Ho’s Parasite. The Oscar-winning actress did not give any reason for her decision, telling Variety, “I don’t think I’ll be a part of it, but I’m very happy to be a cheerleader.” Swinton had been slated to play the…
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