Bong Joon-Ho: Last News

Anticipation for Robert Pattinson’s portrayal of Bruce Wayne in “The Batman” has been escalating for almost three years now, ever since the 2019 casting announcement.

John Carpenter and Bong Joon-ho have agreed to work with each other on the latter’s new horror film.The two directors made the pact at a recent screening of a 4K restoration of Carpenter’s The Thing, as Bong teased one of his future projects.The Mickey 17 director said his “next next” project would be a horror and wanted his fellow director to do the score.“I wanna do your score,” Carpenter then interjected before the two agreed to the idea with a handshake.BONG X CARPENTER pic.twitter.com/TlHefx9FCP— karen han (@karenyhan) March 23, 2025Carpenter is well known for composing scores alongside his directing work, which includes classics such as Halloween, Christine and The Fog.Bong’s recently released his latest film Mickey 17, his first feature project since 2019’s Oscar-winning Parasite. The film stars Robert Pattinson as a disposable worker who is cloned each time he dies for research purposes.In NME‘s four-star review of the film, we said: “Above all, there’s an infectious warmth to proceedings that makes you stick with Mickey 17 (and 18) through thick and thin.

Warner Bros and Plan B Entertainment’s Mickey 17 did $2.5M in previews last night at 3,200 locations.

which it can’t touch) and “Okja.” It’s far from terrible and a pleasure to look at. But, perhaps inevitably, after such a raging success, Bong’s latest movie is a disappointment.The familiar satire hangs on a great premise, though: a futuristic society that depends on sacrificial clones. That warped idea is a fitting canvas for Bong’s usual themes and messages — class disparity, capitalism, environmentalism — only they’re held together with bubblegum.

Robert Pattinson has talked about how he has become more frightened of horror films as he has grown older, and revealed an extreme reaction to watching one particular film.The actor sat down for a conversation with his Mickey 17 director Bong Joon-Ho for GQ’s YouTube channel, and pondered his viewing habits over the years. He said: “I used to watch a lot of dark stuff when I was younger and think ‘yeah, this is cool’. And now, I’m too sensitive”.“It’s strange, you’d think it would go the other way round,” he continued.

Mickey 17 and Parasite, has named BLACKPINK as his favourite K-pop group.In support of Mickey 17’s upcoming premiere, South Korean filmmaker Bong Joon-ho recently made an appearance on the Buzzfeed YouTube series The Puppy Interview. During his time on the series, the director was quizzed about several things, including who his favourite K-pop group are.“BLACKPINK,” he answered.

Robert Pattinson sci-fi black comedy Mickey 17 has seen yet another change to its release date, with it now set to arrive earlier than expected.The film, which is an adaptation of Edward Ashton’s 2022 novel Mickey7, is directed by Bong Joon-ho, who helmed the Oscar-conquering Parasite in 2019 as well as Okja, Snowpiercer and The Host.Pattinson plays Mickey Barnes, a man who signs up to be an “expendable”, a human that can regenerate after death, but finds multiple versions of himself confronting each other after a space expedition goes wrong. The film also stars Naomi Ackie, Steven Yeun, Toni Collette and Mark Ruffalo.Check out the trailer here:The film’s release date has been moved back and forth multiple times over the last 12 months, but now it appears that a final date has been set, with Warner Bros.

Mickey 17 starring Robert Pattinson has been pushed back a couple of months – find out more about the film’s new release window below.Per a Variety report, the upcoming Bong Joon-ho-directed sci-fi black comedy film is being delayed by three months, moving from its January 31 release to April 18, 2025.The film – which is being distributed by Warner Bros. – will now be available for screening in IMAX during its April run, according to a statement from a spokesperson to Variety: “When the April 18 date became available, we quickly moved to secure it for Mickey 17.

William Earl administrator Jason Yu’s feature debut, “Sleep,” is a supernatural domestic thriller about a South Korean couple named Soo-jin and Hyeon-soo (Jung Yu-mi and Lee Sun-kyun) who are torn apart by his increasingly dark sleepwalking habits. As they welcome a baby into their world, things take a turn for the worse, and she investigates what is really causing her husband’s frightening behavior. Yu cut his teeth as Bong Joon-ho‘s right-hand man during the two-and-a-half-year filming of “Okja,” and considers the director a mentor and inspiration for the project.

Bong Joon-ho‘s Mickey 17 has arrived – watch it below.Years after it was first announced, the first full trailer for Bong Joon-ho’s sci-fi film has been released. It stars Robert Pattinson as Mickey, a human who signs on as a disposable member of an expedition to explore an ice planet.

Awwww! What a happy camper Robert Pattinson is right now!

Rebecca Rubin Senior Film and Media Reporter Allow Robert Pattinson to introduce himself again… and again and again. He plays more than a dozen versions of the same character, Mickey Barnes, in director Bong Joon Ho‘s upcoming sci-fi thriller “Mickey 17.” Bong, the Oscar-winning director of “Parasite,” brought a wacky, thrilling first look at the film to CinemaCon, the annual exhibition trade show that’s currently unfolding in Las Vegas.

Lee Sun-kyun died at age 48. Lee starred as the father of a wealthy family in “Parasite,” which was the first non-English-language movie to win best picture in the Oscars’ 92-year history.

Get ready for a ton of sequels, threequels and prequels coming to the big screen in 2024, including some movies that were delayed due to the Hollywood strikes. Although the actors and writers strikes may have pushed back production and release dates for some films, moviegoers will still have plenty of in the coming year.

Neon CEO Tom Quinn has addressed the debate around the new theatrical standards for Best Picture eligibilityannounced by Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences over the summer.

Bong Joon-ho has found the star of his next movie in Robert Pattinson.

Venice Film Festival jury president Bong Joon-Ho told the press corps at the opening press conference this morning that he’s looking forward to bringing his panelists together and hoping to “have an explosion with them” as they judge the 19 movies in competition. He added that the jury is “ready to fight, maybe, on the very last day.”

With “Parasite” just arriving last year, we’re still going to have to wait a bit longer for a new Bong Joon Ho feature film. That being said, NEON has decided that now is the best time to re-release Bong’s crime drama, “Memories of Murder,” to further help the American public fall in love with the South Korean filmmaker’s works.