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Netflix's runaway success Squid Game is set to return for a second season and its final cast members have been revealed. Production of season two is set to start later this year and one huge star has been named as one of the new actors involved.

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Cannes Thriller ‘Sleep’ Sells to Magnolia’s Genre Arm, Magnet Releasing (EXCLUSIVE)

Brent Lang Executive Editor Magnet Releasing, the genre arm of indie distributor Magnolia Pictures, has acquired North American rights to “Sleep.” The horror-thriller, which sounds designed to make you rethink your thoughts about sleepwalking, recently had its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival’s critics week. It was directed and written by Jason Yu, who worked with Korean filmmaking legends Bong Joon-ho and Lee Chang-dong before making his feature directing debut with “Sleep.” Magnet will release the film early next year. The director’s previous collaborator, Bong, called “Sleep,” “the most unique horror film and the smartest debut film I’ve seen in 10 years.” So that’s some high praise from the director of “The Host” and “Parasite.”

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C-Beauty Helped Me Transition—Now It’s My Armor Against Anti-Asian Hate

By You know those scenes in anime where magical girls like Sailor Moon and Tokyo Mew Mew transform into a superhero? That’s how I feel when I do my C-beauty routine. As a teenager, I started wearing makeup as an outlet to .

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Fall Out Boy have updated Billy Joel’s We Didn’t Start The Fire for some reason

Fall Out Boy have released an updated version of Billy Joel’s song ‘We Didn’t Start The Fire’ in order to, I don’t know, highlight how lists are still a thing, or something.Joel’s original song was released as a single in 1989 and listed 118 people and events from politics, culture, science and sport that had proven notable between 1949, the year when Joel was born, and the year of the track’s release.So, your first verse goes like this: “Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray, South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio, Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, Television, North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe, Rosenbergs, H-Bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom, Brando, The King And I, and The Catcher In The Rye, Eisenhower, Vaccine, England’s got a new queen, Marciano, Liberace, Santayana goodbye”.Anyway, it’s now 34 years since Joel released the song. So, to mark this, erm, milestone, Fall Out Boy have recorded a new version, listing significant things that have happened since 1989.

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Fall Out Boy update Billy Joel’s ‘We Didn’t Start The Fire’ with lyrics about news from 1989 to 2023

Fall Out Boy have released an updated version of Billy Joel‘s ‘We Didn’t Start The Fire’ with headlines from the past 30 years.Joel’s 1989 Number one hit, ‘We Didn’t Start The Fire’, includes brief references to 118 significant political, cultural and scientific events between the years of Joel’s birth in 1949 and the song’s release in 1989.Today (June 28), Fall Out Boy shared a modernised version of the track, replacing the original lyrics with standout events from where the song left off in 1989 to 2023.“I thought about this song a lot when I was younger. All these important people and events – some that disappeared into the sands of time –others that changed the world forever,” shared the band on Twitter.“So much has happened in the span of the last 34 years – we felt like a little system update might be fun.

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PURPLE KISS’ Swan teases debut single album ‘Twenty’

K-pop girl group PURPLE KISS will soon be making her solo debut with her single album ‘Twenty’.On June 28, RBW Entertainment unveiled a music video teaser for ‘Twenty’, the upcoming debut single of PURPLE KISS member Swan. The new clip features the singer waking up on a mattress surrounded by paper cranes, before showcasing snippets of the song’s choreography as the music kicks in.

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Busan Film Festival Chairman Lee Yong-kwan Seeks Immediate Departure, Blames Political Interference

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Lee Yong-kwan, one of the original founders of the Busan International Film Festival, says he is stepping down as the event’s chairman – this time with immediate effect. He says the move is intended to defuse a morass of factional infighting and political interference surrounding Asian’s most prominent film festival. A festival spokesman told Variety that the board of directors “has decided to persuade the chairperson to return. So, the resignation has not been accepted yet.”

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Korea Rivals the U.S. in New Scripted Shows’ Global Internet Popularity

Ampere Analysis presented Tuesday at Spain’s Conecta Fiction. Ampere’s popularity score is a propriety metric based not on viewership but on the tracking of internet search volume received by a title each month as well as other metrics, Ampere’s Alice Thorpe clarified at the presentation. The fandom base of Korean series and Japanese anime are concentrated in teen and YA demographics, which are also most avid Internet users.

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‘Seoul Searching’ Director Benson Lee Signs With Verve

EXCLUSIVE: Seoul Searching director Benson Lee has signed with Verve.

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Busan Confirms Nam Dong-Chul & Kang Seung-Ah To Head Festival As Former Chiefs Exit In Management Crisis

South Korea’s Busan International Film Festival has moved to resolve its ongoing management crisis by confirming that managing director Cho Jongkook has been dismissed and will be replaced by deputy director Kang Seung-ah.

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Hear XG’s Hinata, Juria and Chisa’s soulful cover of TLC’s ‘No Scrubs’

XG have shared a cover of TLC’s ‘No Scrubs’.On June 25, XG released the fifth video of their ‘XG VOX’ series on YouTube, which features cover performances by the girl group’s vocalists. In the new clip, Hinata, Juria and Chisa each perform a solo cover before teaming up for their rendition of TLC’s 1999 hit ‘No Scrubs’.Hinata opens the clip with her take on Kriz and WOODZ’s 2018 song ‘Bad’, singing in Korean and English.

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Korean Film Guilds Call for Urgent Reform of Busan Festival

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Some 18 film industry guilds and trade associations are calling for urgent structural reform of the Busan International Film Festival. They point out that this year’s edition of the festival is looming less than 100 days away. The festival’s management has made a succession of management missteps in recent weeks, including one that resulted in an official apology. At the beginning of May, a decision to split the festival’s senior management in two by creating a new position for Cho Jongkook, was followed by consternation among guilds and the resignation of festival director Huh Moonyoung.

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Korea Box Office: ‘Elemental’ Takes Weekend Win, as ‘Spider-Verse’ Lands in Third

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Pixar animation “Elemental” rose to the top of the South Korean box office over the latest weekend. It overtook “The Roundup: No Way Out” and kept new release “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” at bay, in third place. Released a week earlier, “Elemental” rose from second place to first and grew its revenue by 19% in its second frame. According to data from Kobis, the tracking service operated by the Korean Film Council, “Elemental” earned $3.86 million between Friday and Sunday for a 12-day cumulative of $9.47 million. “The Roundup: No Way Out,” which had dominated the sector for the previous three weekends, slipped to second position. It earned $3.34 million over the weekend, a 34% week-on-week decline. Since releasing on May 31, it has amassed $73.2 million, from 9.67 million ticket sales, by far the biggest haul of any film released this calendar year.

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Ice Cube Says He’s Not ‘Part Of The Club,’ Promises Podcast Tour Will Shake Things Up

The ever-controversial Ice Cube took to Twitter today to promise he’ll shake things up in an upcoming podcast tour that promises to burn a few bridges.

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Future Of Korean Network KBS In Doubt As Government Mulls Funding Shake-Up, Says Public Media Advocate

The viability of South Korea’s KBS is under threat due to government plans to alter its funding mechanism, according a public service media advocacy group.

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AleXa calls out haters for “invalidating” her Korean heritage

AleXa has spoken out on the hate she has received has a half-Korean K-pop idol.In a recent livestream, as archived by fans on TikTok, AleXa opened up about being called the “White girl idol”. The singer also touched on how she feels she is treated differently from other half-Korean K-pop idols such as SEVENTEEN‘s Vernon, former MOMOLAND member Nancy and ex-I.O.I singer Jeon Somi.“Is it because I’m American that people choose to treat me differently and that I didn’t grow up in Korea?” AleXa said during the livestream.

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‘The Roundup’s Don Lee To Star In & Produce Feature Adaptation Of Sci-Fi Novels ‘Hell Divers’ With Arad Productions

EXCLUSIVE: Korean multi-hyphenate powerhouse Don Lee (aka Ma Dong-seok) is set to star in and produce an English-language feature adaptation of New York Times bestselling author Nicholas Sansbury Smith’s dystopian sci-fi novel series Hell Divers. The film will draw from the first three books in the series whose first installment was published by Blackstone in 2016; there are 10 books in total.

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Netflix Co-CEO Ted Sarandos Says $2.5BN Korean Investment Won’t Exploit Local Industry, Amid Pushback From Lawmakers

During a three-day visit to Seoul, Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos said the streamer is fairly compensating producers and nurturing new talent, after calls from some local lawmakers and industry figures for more profit-sharing with creators.

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KC Global Media Sells Animax Korea, Linear Kids Channel, to Aniplus

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief KC Global Media, a leading multi-territory operator of linear TV channels in Asia, has sold Animax Korea to Aniplus, an Asian multinational television channel and anime distributor based in Singapore and South Korea. The deal “aims to elevate Animax Korea’s offerings while focusing on horizontally integrating its content across Aniplus’ platform and reach,” the companies said. The deal was agreed in April, but was subject to regulatory approvals. These have now been obtained. Deal terms were not disclosed. But sources close to the transaction suggest that it was valued at some KRW46 billion ($35.5 million).

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Netflix’s Ted Sarandos says Korean content “catches the American audience by surprise”

committed to invest US$2.5billion on new South Korean TV shows and films.“[Korean content] is very often unpredictable and catches the American audience by surprise,” Sarandos said at the event, per Variety. “I think what’s brilliant is to see film, unscripted and series all grow according to the interests of our Korean audience.”He added that “great stories can come from anywhere and be loved anywhere [and] nowhere has this proven more true than here in Korea”, per Yonhap News Agency.Over the past two years, Netflix has released a number of hit Korean series and films, from the global phenomenon Squid Game, to the thrilling revenge series The Glory, to the reality TV series Single’s Inferno.Sarandos added that 60 per cent of all Netflix subscribers have watched at least one Korean title, while viewership of Korean content is up sixfold over the past half decade.During the event, the Netflix co-CEO also spoke about how the company is looking to use its US$2.5billion investment plan to “grow the industry” in Korea.

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Ted Sarandos Calls Korean Content ‘Surprising and Unpredictable’ as Netflix Prepares to Double Investment in Shows, Industry Development

Rebecca Souw There’s more to Korean TV than a greenlit second season of “Squid Game” and Ted Sarandos, Netflix co-CEO, shed new light on what’s making the “Korean wave” worthy of large-scale commitment. After meeting with leading helmer Park Chan-wook (“Oldboy” and upcoming series “War and Revolt”) and 100 film students a day earlier, Sarandos on Wednesday held a public forum at Seoul’s Four Seasons Hotel on the future of Korean content. The abundant glad-handing follows a public commitment made in April to spend $2.5 billion on original Korean content over the next four years. “[Korean content] is very often unpredictable and catches the American audience by surprise,” said Sarandos at the event. “I think what’s brilliant is to see film, unscripted and series all grow according to the interests of our Korean audience.”

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