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Bong Joon Ho will return with the sci-fi movie Mickey 17, and the sci-fi comedy has shifted into a later release date. Warner Bros. has now set course for Easter Weekend.

Mickey 17 now hits theaters on April 18, 2025, moving from its January 31 date.

Robert Pattinson stars alongside Toni Collette, Steven Yeun, Mark Ruffalo and Naomi Ackie in Mickey 17, a hybrid science fiction comedy movie based on a 2022 novel.

In the upcoming movie written and directed by Bong Joon Ho, “An unlikely hero, Mickey Barnes (Robert Pattinson) has found himself in the extraordinary circumstance of working for an employer who demands the ultimate commitment to the job… to die, for a living.”

The trailer indicates Pattinson will be turning in a memorable performance with multiple interations of his character to juggle. Not to mention that accent. Watch below.

The film is produced by Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Bong Joon Ho and Dooho Choi,...

Bong Joon Ho wants fans to rest assured knowing that “Mickey 17” will be his director’s cut.

The Oscar winner told Empire that he had final cut for the film built into his Warner Bros. contract. “Mickey 17” was first announced in 2022; filming took place from August to December 2022. The feature was originally set for a March 29, 2024 release before being pushed to January 31, 2025.

“With ‘Okja’ and now ‘Mickey 17,’ I was given the final cut as part of my deal,” Bong said. “The studio respected my final cut rights.”

He continued, “Of course, during the editing process there are many opinions and many discussions that happen. But this film is my cut, and I’m very happy about it. It was a long process, but it was always smooth and respectful.”

“Mickey 17” lead star Robert Pattinson added that Bong’s final cut made for an “incredibly unusual” film.

South Korean cinema loves the thriller genre and like a number of her contemporaries, director Chun Sun-young too chose to make her feature debut with a thriller, “A Girl with Closed Eyes”. After debuting her previous short film “Good Night” at Cannes Critics’ Week, her feature debut too takes the festival route, having its premiere at the Busan International Film Festival in its Korean Cinema Today section.

A Girl with Closed Eyes is released by Finecut and screened at Busan International Film Festival

Up-and-coming author Jeong Sang-woo, whose new book is all the rage, is murdered in cold blood, shot three times in close quarters with a shotgun. Found standing over his body, smoking gun in hand, is Lee Min-ju, who is taken into custody but refuses to talk to anyone until Seoul detective Park Min-ju is called in. When Min-ju arrives in her hometown of Hongcheon, she realizes that...

Rising star Minha Kim unveils her first lead performance since breaking out in AppleTV+’s prestige drama series Pachinko, playing a young woman accused of murdering a best-selling author in Chun Sun-young’s feature debut A Girl with Closed Eyes. Premiering at the Busan International Film Festival, the yarn unspools as a polished crime thriller bolstered by a raft of strong performances, not least from Kim and Choi Hee-seo, but ultimately let down by some wildly implausible plotting.

Set in South Korea’s provincial mountain region of Hongcheon, A Girl with Closed Eyes opens as a young woman calling herself Min-ju (Kim) is caught, smoking gun literally in hand, standing over the bloodied corpse of celebrated writer Jeong Sang-woo (Lee Ki-woo). Taken in for questioning, she claims that Jeong was responsible for an unsolved kidnapping case from 20 years earlier that serves as the inspiration for his hit novel. She also...

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. He also counts Lee, who died in 2023, as a person who deeply influenced him as a filmmaker. Yu spoke with Variety about crafting his horror around a family drama, films that inspired him and the best advice he got from Director Bong.

Where did the idea for “Sleep” originate from?

I too have some very nasty sleeping habits. Not as nasty...

Meryl Streep is lending her voice to the climate change crisis — literally.

The Oscar-winning icon narrates “Want to Tell a Great Story,” a new PSA that debuted today from the Sustainable Entertainment Alliance made in partnership with the Nrdc’s Rewrite the Future.

“Hey, want to see a story about climate change?” Streep asks in the opening seconds before a series of clips from Get Out, The Lego Movie and Anchorman show characters saying “no” in quick succession. “We get it, we really do. Climate change is scary. It can make us feel, well, a little anxious. And we turn to movies and TV to escape. But what if we changed the question?”

Streep does just that and alters the query: “Want to see a great story? Stories can engage with the climate even as they entertain. Whether they are dramatic or funny or stories of courage, stories about protecting what you love,...

Warner Bros. has finally released the first trailer for South Korean film director Bong Joon-ho’s “Mickey 17,” Bong’s follow-up to the 2020 Best Picture Oscar winner “Parasite.” Starring Robert Pattinson, Toni Collette, Naomie Ackie, and Mark Ruffalo, this is not Bong’s first time working with Hollywood actors (see “Snowpiercer” or “Okja”). But it is his first time working with a Hollywood studio.

And the increased budget absolutely shows. The film—set on vast spaceships and on imaginary planets—follows suit with the themes of his earlier work, mainly how workers get screwed by The Man. In the case of “Mickey 17,” they get screwed over and over, even after they die. The premise is that Pattinson signs up to be an “expendable” on some kind of interstellar work crew, which means his body is cloned should he perish due to an accident. His memories retain, however. There are complications when multiple Pattinsons appear,...

Award-winning director Bong Joon Ho is releasing a new sci-fi film called “Mickey 17” in January 2025. The movie stars Robert Pattinson in the title role of Mickey Barnes, an “Expendable” sent to help colonize the icy planet Niflheim. What makes Mickey unique is that he continuously dies in the name of science, with his memories and body replicated each time.

The movie is based on Edward Ashton’s novel “Mickey 7.” The first trailer provides a glimpse at Mickey enduring various violent deaths. It shows Pattinson bringing his intense acting style to portray multiple versions of the same character. As more Mickey clones coexist, chaos and excitement reportedly ensue.

Bong is known for blending social commentary with dark humor in movies like “Snowpiercer” and “Okja.” “Mickey 17” appears to examine themes of identity and human worth in a futuristic setting. The director sweeps last year’s Academy Awards for “Parasite” and...

Robert Pattinson is sacrificing himself for science, literally, in the trailer for Bong Joon Ho’s Mickey 17. In the clip, Pattinson plays a man named Mickey who volunteers to be an “expendable” and is subject to repeated deaths in a futuristic world.

The comedic trailer, which sees the British Pattinson doing an unusual American accent, shows Mickey forced to die in violent ways in the name of research, with his body replicated each time he kicks the bucket. Eventually, though, two Mickeys exist at once, causing both chaos and excitement.

At long last, the official trailer for Bong Joon Ho's Mickey 17 has arrived, offering a delightfully bizarre first look at the 3x Academy Award-winning director's upcoming sci-fi film starring The Batman star Robert Pattinson in the lead role as a disposable employee who repeatedly killed and cloned, during an effort to colonize a mysterious new ice world.

As per the trailer, the seventeenth iteration wll take center stage in the film, and there's plenty of twists and turns heading our way as he finds himself face to face with a multiple...

In addition to Pattinson, the cast features Robert Pattinson as Mickey Barnes, Naomi Ackie (Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker; Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody), Steven Yeun (Minari; The Walking Dead), Toni Collette (Hereditary; The Sixth Sense), Mark Ruffalo (Spotlight; Avengers: Endgame), Holliday Grainger (The Borgias; Animals), Anamaria Vartolomei (Happening; My Revolution), Thomas Turgoose (This Is England...

From the Academy Award-winning writer/director of “Parasite,” Bong Joon Ho, comes his next groundbreaking cinematic experience, “Mickey 17.”

The unlikely hero, Mickey Barnes (Robert Pattinson) has found himself in the extraordinary circumstance of working for an employer who demands the ultimate commitment to the job… to die, for a living. Written and directed by Bong Joon Ho, “Mickey 17” stars Robert Pattinson, Naomi Ackie (“Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker”), Steven Yeun (“Nope”), with Academy Award nominees Toni Collette (“Hereditary”), and Mark Ruffalo (“Poor Things”).

Watch the first trailer below.

The film is produced by Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Bong Joon Ho and Dooho Choi. It is based on the novel Mickey 7 by Edward Ashton. The executive producers are Brad Pitt, Jesse Ehrman, Peter Dodd and Marianne Jenkins. The director of photography is Darius Khondji. The production designer is Fiona Crombie. It is edited by Yang Jinmo.

What do you do after you've won the Oscar for Best Picture? If you're Bong Joon-ho, you get right back to work to make another banger, and choose to make it potentially weirder and more studded with Hollywood stars than anything you've made before. The first full trailer for Bong's "Parasite" follow-up "Mickey 17" is finally here, and his adaptation of Edward Ashton's trippy sci-fi novel, "Mickey7," looks great — darkly funny, unnerving, and, yes, trippy.

The first sneak peek of the new movie came over a year ago, in December 2022. At that point, "Mickey 17" was due to hit theaters by early 2024, but it was subsequently delayed by what The Hollywood Reporter previously referred to "post-strike production shifts," which no doubt gave the movie's team more time to make it as sharp and cinematic as possible in post-production.

"Mickey7" and Bong's new movie both follow the life of an "expendable,...

In the wake of the Oscar-winning Parasite, Bong Joon Ho will return with the sci-fi movie Mickey 17, which finally has a locked in release date as well as an official trailer tonight.

Mickey 17 hits theaters on January 31, 2025. Watch the official trailer below.

Robert Pattinson stars alongside Toni Collette, Steven Yeun, Mark Ruffalo and Naomi Ackie in Mickey 17, a hybrid science fiction comedy movie based on a 2022 novel.

In the upcoming movie written and directed by Bong Joon Ho, “An unlikely hero, Mickey Barnes (Robert Pattinson) has found himself in the extraordinary circumstance of working for an employer who demands the ultimate commitment to the job… to die, for a living.”

The film is produced by Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Bong Joon Ho and Dooho Choi, and it’s based on the novel Mickey 7 by Edward Ashton.

Executive producers are Brad Pitt, Jesse Ehrman, Peter Dodd and Marianne Jenkins.

Warner Bros. has released the trailer for Bong Joon Ho’s “Mickey 17,” the long-awaited follow-up to the director’s best picture winner “Parasite.” Based on the 2022 novel “Mickey7” by Edward Ashton, the sci-fi thriller stars Robert Pattinson as an “expendable” employee named Mickey Barnes.

In the novel, Mickey is sent on dangerous missions to colonize an ice planet. When one version of Mickey dies, a duplicate is created to replace him that retains most of his memories.

Along with Pattinson, the cast includes Steven Yeun, Naomi Ackie, Toni Collette and Mark Ruffalo.

“Mickey 17” is directed and written by Bong, who also produces through his company Offscreen. Additional producers include Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner of Plan B and Dooho Choi of Kate Street Pictures.

Warner Bros. has nudged “Mickey 17” a few times on its theatrical schedule, most recently bumping the film from a March 29, 2024, date to its current January 2025 slot.

Warner Bros. Pictures has revealed the official trailer for Mickey 17, the next film from Oscar-winning writer, director, and producer Bong Joon Ho. The movie will open in theaters on January 31, 2025.

Mickey 17 is based on the novel entitled Mickey7 by Edward Ashton. The follow-up to Mickey7 is titled Antimatter Blues.

From the Academy Award-winning writer/director of Parasite, Bong Joon Ho, comes his next groundbreaking cinematic experience, Mickey 17. The unlikely hero, Mickey Barnes (Robert Pattinson) has found himself in the extraordinary circumstance of working for an employer who demands the ultimate commitment to the job… to die, for a living.

Written and directed by Bong Joon Ho, Mickey 17 stars Robert Pattinson, Naomi Ackie (Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker), and Steven Yeun (Nope), with Academy Award nominees Toni Collette (Hereditary) and Mark Ruffalo (Poor Things).

The film is produced by Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner (Oscar winners...

Robert Pattinson hates dying, especially after kicking the bucket 17-plus times for Bong Joon Ho’s sci-fi-novel adaptation “Mickey 17.”

The feature, which marks writer/director Bong’s long-awaited follow-up to his Best Picture-winning “Parasite,” centers on Pattinson’s title character Mickey, who is a disposable employee called an Expendable. Mickey is sent on a human expedition sent to colonize ice world Niflheim; any mission that is considered too dangerous for humans is a task for Mickey. And of course, there are more than a few Mickey-related fatalities.

Steven Yeun, Toni Collette, Mark Ruffalo, and “Blink Twice” breakout Naomi Ackie also star.

Bong adapted Edward Ashton’s novel “Mickey 7” but added more deaths for the lead character. The film project was first announced in January 2022, which came before the novel’s release in February via Macmillan imprint St. Martin. The film was originally set for a March 29, 2024 release before being...

Robert Pattinson and Leonardo DiCaprio are two names in Hollywood, who have been making waves by their dynamic and transformative careers. While the Oscar-winner DiCaprio is already long established as one of the industry’s finest, Pattinson has been steadily rising, transitioning from his early days in Twilight to becoming a critically acclaimed actor.

Robert Pattinson in Twilight | Summit Entertainment

As buzz builds around his upcoming film Mickey 17, a Bong Joon-ho directorial, there have been speculations about whether Pattinson could surpass DiCaprio in terms of impact and recognition. In the midst of this debate, the young actor’s latest project has added fuel to the fire, hinting that he may be poised to surpass a seasoned artist in the near future.

Could Robert Pattinson Beat Leonardo DiCaprio? Credits: Leonardo DiCaprio in Inception / Warner Bros. Pictures

When considering whether Robert Pattinson could surpass Leonardo DiCaprio, it’s important to recognize...

Throughout film history, there have been companies and, for certain stretches, whole studios notorious for churning out garbage. Obviously, American International Pictures had a rep for schlock, but they hit for a shockingly high average at their late 1950s and '60s peak. There's also Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus' Cannon Films, which sparkled with its constellation of B-list action stars like Chuck Norris and Charles Bronson, but Golan was a filmmaker himself with dreams of respectability who courted legit directors like Franco Zeffirelli, Jerry Schatzberg, and Andrei Konchalovsky to make Academy Awards-worthy movies for his exploitation factory.

One of the more outlandishly awful runs from any production entity was Hollywood Pictures, which was created by Disney to nurture fledgling executives and feed film-starved multiplexes — lacking in the wake of MGM/UA, Lorimar and Deg's financial difficulties — with new movies. Disney wasn't sending its best to Hollywood Pictures, so agents...

Production kicked off in Seoul on Sept. 3 for “Hana Korea,” an ambitious Denmark-Korea co-production based on the real-life story of a North Korean defector.

“Hana Korea” is co-written and directed by Danish documentary filmmaker Frederik Sølberg and co-written by Sharon Choi, a filmmaker and Bong Joon-ho’s interpreter, who accompanied the director in his 2019 journey with “Parasite” from Cannes to its Oscar wins. Choi is also working as Sølberg’s on-set translator.

“Hana Korea” tells the story of Hyesun, a North Korean defector sent to the Hanawon (“house of unity”) educational institution for three months, where she is debriefed on life outside of the Dprk, learning about democracy, personal freedom, equality and how to use a credit card.

“Hana Korea’s” cast includes Kim Minha, who gained international recognition for her portrayal of Sunja in the Apple TV+ series “Pachinko”; Kim Joo-ryoung, seen in Netflix’s smash hit series “Squid Game”; and An Seo-hyun,...

Korean thriller film “A Girl With Closed Eyes,” which will have a market launch at the Toronto International Film Festival, before world premiering in October’s Busan festival, has secured a world sales representative in Finecut.

The company is also representing “By the Stream,” the latest project by Korean auteur Hong Sangsoo, which premiered in Locarno earlier this month, where it won the best performance award, and will next play in the Centrepiece section in Toronto. Finecut’s Korean horror-thriller “Noise” will premiere at the Sitges fantasy festival and has a market screening at Toronto Industry Select.

“A Girl With Closed Eyes” follows a murder suspect and a detective with a shared past. The two women are reunited through the murder of a bestselling author and uncover hidden truths as the investigation deepens.

The film, currently in advanced post-production, marks the feature debut of director Chun Sunyoung, whose short film...

South Korea’s Finecut has secured international sales rights A Girl With Closed Eyes, a thriller led by Minha Kim of Apple TV+ series Pachinko, ahead of its world premiere at Busan International Film Festival (Biff).

The sales agent will reveal the first footage of the film to international buyers at Toronto next week. It will premiere in the Korean Cinema Today section of Biff in October.

The upcoming feature follows a murder suspect and a detective with a shared past, reunited through the killing of a bestselling author, where hidden truths are uncovered as the investigation deepens.

It marks...

"Let me live in peace. Just you and I." Magnolia Pictures has debuted their own official US trailer for the Korean horror thriller film titled simply Sleep (or 잠 in Korean), an indie creation from filmmaker Jason Yu. This is his feature directorial debut after working as an assistant director for Bong Joon-ho on Okja and other films. It's finally getting a proper US release in theaters and on VOD this fall after playing on the festival circuit for a year. "When he sleeps, someone awakes..." A pregnant wife who becomes worried about her husband’s sleeping habits. What starts out as some light sleep-talking soon escalates to unexpectedly grotesque behaviour. They consult a sleep clinic without success and as his nightmarish behaviour escalates, they desperately seek help from a shaman. Starring Jung Yu-mi as Soo-jin & Lee Sun-kyun as Hyeon-soo, with Kim Gook-hee. It debuted at last year's Critics Week...

The film industry around the world is currently at a crossroads: How can audience interest in the theatrical experience possibly be rebuilt, when everyone's become so accustomed to the immeasurable convenience of streaming? A good first step, of course, would be to let films actually play in theaters -- and, even more than that, to let films play in theaters without having their box office runs curtailed by shorter release windows and premature streaming availability.

Is there any hope of Hollywood execs internalizing that notion before it's too late? Hard to tell at this point. But if they do, it will be to the benefit of both filmmakers and viewers, as attested by the numerous films in recent years that deeply deserved big-screen time yet never got it -- or got so little of it that 99% of viewers saw them on streaming anyway. Easy and accessible as watching movies on streaming can be,...

Netflix’ Paris Theater, NYC’s longest-running arthouse and Manhattan’s sole single-screen cinema, is marking one year since reopening with the return of screening series Big & Loud.

Special presentations include a new 70mm print of Alfred Hitchock’s Vertigo screening for the first time in New York, new 70mm prints of North By Northwest and The Searchers, as well as 70mm screenings of 2001: A Space Odyssey, Boogie Nights, Hamlet (1996), Inception, Lawrence of Arabia, Malcolm X, Nope, Phantom Thread, Spartacus and The Untouchables.

Netflix reopened the historic theater last year following upgrades to present 70mm projection and make it the largest Atmos cinema in Manhattan. It called Big & Loud “a screening series of eye-popping 70mm prints, thunderous Dolby Atmos and cinema worth celebrating.”

Highlights include Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Days of Heaven, Dazed And Confused, East of Eden (in Atmos), Gravity (in Atmos), The Green Fog (double bill with Vertigo), Koyaanisqatsi,...

Following last year’s very successful “Big & Loud! 70mm, Atmos, and Audio-Obsessive Cinema” screening series, Netflix is launching its latest edition of what is becoming a signature late summer and early fall event at its Paris Theater in New York City. This year’s series will again boast, per the streamer, “eye-popping 70mm prints, thunderous Dolby Atmos, and cinema worth celebrating.”

The series kicks off on Friday, August 23 and will run through Thursday, October 31. Special presentations will include a new 70mm print of Alfred Hitchcock’s “Vertigo” (screening for the first time in New York), plus new 70mm prints of “North by Northwest” and “The Searchers,” as well as 70mm screenings of “2001: A Space Odyssey,” “Boogie Nights,” “Hamlet” (1996), “The Hateful Eight,” “Inception,” “Lawrence of Arabia,” “Malcolm X,” “Nope,” “Phantom Thread,” “Spartacus,” and “The Untouchables.”

Other highlights (and there are many) include “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” “Days of Heaven,...

Hur Bum-wook announces himself as a talent to watch with his furious and deranged animated eco-horror parable Pig That Survived Foot-and-Mouth Disease. A cross between early Yeon Sang-ho animation works like The King of Pigs, Bong Joon-ho's Okja and Watership Down, the film opens amidst Korea's foot-and-mouth epidemic of 2010, during which over a million pigs were culled to halt the spread of disease. Beyond the sheer number of animals being slaughtered, many were dismayed by the government's method of extermination: burying the pigs alive in mass graves. Hur's film guides us straight into this scene of chaos as thousands of bewildered pigs are heaped on top of each other before mounds of dirt are poured over them. Within the increasingly claustrophobic confines of this...

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Filmmaking as an art can be as extensive and taxing as it can be intricate, and Bong Joon-ho’s meteoric success, Parasite, is no exception. From charting the storyline and compiling the script to interviewing locals around Seoul and consolidating everything into a screenplay, no stone was left unturned for the 2019 dark comedy and thriller.

Amongst the movie crew resided Bong’s trusted comrade Han Jin Won, who would soon end up as the film’s screenwriter, toiling away for hours every day for an impeccable execution of the screenplay.

Parasite (2019) (Credit: Neon)

But little did he know, working on Parasite was not going to be how the Oscar-winning director had made it look like.

How Parasite Director Bong Joon-ho Tricked the Film’s Screenwriter

Han Jin Won – who had previously worked as a production assistant on a Bong Joon-ho-helmed dystopian series, Snowpiercer – was handed a fragmented treatment for Parasite...

"The ghost haunts your husband, but you brought him in." Curzon Films has revealed an official trailer for the Korean horror thriller film titled Sleep, an indie creation from filmmaker Jason Yu. This is his feature directorial debut after working as an assistant director for Bong Joon-ho on Okja and other films. It first premiered at last year's Critics Week sidebar at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival, where it earned rave reviews. "When he sleeps, someone awakes..." A pregnant wife who becomes worried about her husband’s sleeping habits. What starts out as some light sleep-talking soon escalates to unexpectedly grotesque behaviour. They consult a sleep clinic without success and as his nightmarish behaviour escalates, they desperately seek help from a shaman. Sleep stars Jung Yu-mi as Soo-jin and Lee Sun-kyun as Hyeon-soo, with Kim Gook-hee. This film is super scary! It's quietly unsettling horror that will get under your skin...

South Korean cinema continues to be a thriller forerunner in many genres, especially horror, and the new horror thriller, “Sleep,” seems to be continuing the tradition. The film is the feature-length directorial debut of Jason Yu, a second unit director on Bong Joon-Ho’s sci-fi-ish thriller “Okja.” The connections to Joon-Ho don’t end there either, as “Parasite” star Lee Sun-Kyun is among the cast members.

Continue reading ‘Sleep’ Trailer: The Late Lee Sun-Kyun Faces Night Terrors In New Korean Horror at The Playlist.

In the run-up to its world premiere in competition at the Cannes Film Festival, Francis Ford Coppola’s 135-minute epic “Megalopolis” is on track to sell to a French distributor, Le Pacte.

The indie company, presided over by veteran French distributor Jean Labadie, is currently negotiating a deal. It seems like an odd match for such a pricey movie considering Le Pacte’s fairly modest size. Although the company has had recent hits, including Justine Triet’s “Anatomy of a Fall” and Maiwenn’s “Jeanne du Barry,” it may not be able to splurge on P&a. Coppola’s lawyer Barry Hirsch, who also served as a producer, has been courting studios and streamers to secure a splashy deal with a P&a commitment amounting to more than half of the film’s $120 million budget, according to industry insiders. The pending deal with Le Pacte suggests that the film, which Coppola self-financed,...

One glimpse at Stellar Blade’s trailers is enough to understand that a lot of work has gone into creating a visually appealing game. Dynamic environments, rapid particle effects, multiple explosions, and a protagonist who catches the eye are all from the mind of renowned game illustrator Hyung-Tae Kim.

That’s not to say the enemies in the game have not been given the same degree of attention. Hee-Cheol Jang, the man behind the iconic movie monsters seen in The Host and Okja, was first just a consultant on Stellar Blade before coming on full-time. We are going to see his expertise as Eve goes up against the Naytiba.

The Monsters of Stellar Blade have Some Hidden Secrets The Gigas from Stellar Blade are going to be the heavy hitters.

A well-designed character holds more than it shows. This allows the player to organically discover certain elements and aspects of the game world,...

What we’ve seen so far about Stellar Blade shows it’s all about great designs and fluid combat. The combat may often be compared to Sekiro, but the art and design of the game are truly unique. Hyung-Tae Kim has put a lot of thought and effort into making his characters stand out from the crowd.

But the design doesn’t stop at just humans. The creatures Eve faces were given the same degree of attention by none other than legendary Korean movie monster designer Hee-Cheol Jang. Jang is the mind behind some iconic monster movies, such as The Host and Okja. However, even he was surprised by Shift Up’s design process.

Stellar Blade Creature Design Began with Old School Methods

Stellar Blade‘s Naytiba are going to be a formidable and horrifying foe.

In the game, Eve will be facing off against a never-before-seen species known as the Naytiba.

Following the press conference unveiling the Cannes lineup, festival director Thierry Fremaux addressed a few hot topics, including Francis Ford Coppola’s 135-minute epic “Megalopolis,” which doesn’t yet have a distribution deal.

While “Megalopolis,” Coppola’s self-produced $120 million opus starring Adam Driver, has been selected to compete at the Cannes Film Festival, it doesn’t have a distribution deal in France. In theory, that’s not an issue as there are “quite a lot of films in the official section without any distribution,” as Fremaux tells Variety. But in the case of “Megalopolis,” it may be a ticking bomb.

If “Megalopolis” does get sold to a streamer with no theatrical plans for France, it will spark uproar on the Croisette and within local exhibitors. Most importantly, it will clash with Cannes’ infamous rule which requires every film in competition to have French theatrical distribution. That strict guideline was first...

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. Through an interpreter, the Korean director described “Mickey 17” as a “story about a simple man who ultimately ends up saving the world. It’s a strange type of hero’s journey.”

It’s based on Edward Ashton’s novel “Mickey 7,” but Bong opted to ever-so-slightly change the name of the film to “Mickey 17.” The number reflects how many times the main character dies, so Bong teased, “I killed him 10 more times!”

Before theater owners at CinemaCon got a sneak peek of the trailer, which...

Somewhere, as "Euphoria" struggles to reassemble its cast of former no-names-turned-movie-stars for season 3, the team behind "Bones" is wistfully inquiring, "First time?" Hart Hanson's nearly-unstoppable procedural dramedy not only transformed Emily Deschanel and David Boreanaz into household names over its 12 seasons, but it also took many of its supporting players to the next level. The only downside was, this meant it was sometimes necessary for the show's creatives to kill off a fan-favorite member of the Jeffersonian's staff once the actors behind them had filled up their workload with outside projects.

Most infamously, "Bones" took Booth's honorary little brother Lance Sweets out back behind the shed after John Francis Daley's directing career made it impossible for him to continue playing the cherished FBI psychologist on a regular basis. It wasn't fun for anyone (least of all Daley), although he was far from the only cast member whose character got Old Yeller-ed.

Jake Gyllenhaal is one of those many actors who has been a part of the superhero franchise, even if it was for a brief time. He has portrayed numerous characters in his career spanning more than three decades. From hero to villain to something in between, the actor has proved his versatility with movies like Donnie Darko, Brokeback Mountain, and Okja.

Jake Gyllenhaal | Source: Spider-Man: Far From Home

Gyllenhaal is no stranger to the superhero genre. He played the role of the comic book villain Quentin Beck, better known as Mysterio, in the 2019 movie Spider-Man: Far From Home. This time the actor has his eyes set on the DC Comics superhero Batman. However, he seems to be better suited for the role of Joker based on his performance in the 2014 movie Nightcrawler.

Jake Gyllenhaal Wants to Portray the DC Superhero Batman Jake Gyllenhaal in Road House

Jake Gyllenhaal began acting when he was a child.

People are animals. Literally. Biologically. Much as our species has always tried to separate ourselves from the rest of God’s creations and reign above the “lesser creatures” who lack the curse of reason, there’s ultimately less difference than we’d like to imagine between homo sapiens and horses, or fish, or dogs.

And yet, from the first displays of tribalism to the days of strictly bordered nation-states, our instinct to other everything under the sun has defined us almost as much as our ability to walk upright. We like to think of humans as being made in God’s image, and yet our abiding need to justify our dominion — to find some way to live with our nagging awareness of death — has made it so that people can hardly even see themselves in their fellow man.

That’s by design. Anything that dares to challenge that dynamic is...

“Mickey 17” is looking more like “Mickey 2025.”

South Korean director Bong Joon-ho’s hotly anticipated follow-up to his Best Picture-winning film “Parasite” was originally set for release in just about a month from now by Warner Bros. Discovery. In January, citing post-production delays and the lingering effect of the SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes, the studio removed it from the calendar and slipped “Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire” in its place. Tuesday, it was announced that the Robert Pattinson-led picture won’t get released this year at all and, instead, will come next (eek!) January.

January is, uh, not when an auteur-led movie with a sterling cast like this is usually released, so the date does raise some eyebrows. Variety noted that the new date guarantees placement in IMAX houses, and coincides with Lunar New Year, which is a big movie-going day internationally.

“Mickey 17” (which is not the...

When Bonnie Timmermann is helping Ridley Scott or Michael Mann find the perfect person for a role in films like “Black Hawk Down” and “Heat,” she will buy auditioning actors pizza or Chinese food and grill them about their lives and ambitions. Sooner or later, they’ll get around to reading the scenes, but Timmermann has an innate sense of what to do to put performers at ease.

“You need to understand who they are, so when they get in front of a director you know how to help them deliver their best work,” she says. “The only way you can do that is to understand their psyche.”

And when she’s not overseeing casting calls, you’ll find Timmermann at screenings or plays on the prowl for talent. She likes to keep Polaroids and videos of actors she’s tried out — even the ones that she’s turned down,...

Mark Ruffalo is calling for an Israel-Hamas ceasefire. At the DGA awards in Beverly Hills on Saturday night he told Deadline the pins on his lapel represented “peace lillies and Artists for Ceasefire”.

Ruffalo said that Artists for Ceasefire is “calling for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza. There are 1,200 Israelis dead and 27,000 Palestinians,” he continued.

“We’ve come to understand this bombing isn’t working, we’re not going to bomb our way to peace, and all we’re saying is, what’s wrong with giving a ceasefire a chance? We have a million refugees on the border of Rafah right now, who are looking at another bombing surge, and we have 400,000 people starving to death right now, without any humanitarian aid being able to get in there. So we’re asking the leaders of the world, especially President Biden, to demand a ceasefire, a lasting ceasefire, and give...

Cannes boss Thierry Fremaux wants director David Fincher’s work back in cinemas rather than on Netflix – and he doesn’t mince his words about it.

We all know that Netlfix isn’t exactly beloved at Cannes. The streaming platform hasn’t been welcome at the prestigious French film festival since 2017 and even then, the films that it debuted (Okja and The Meyerowitz Stories) are said to have opened to boos. For Cannes boss, Thierry Fremaux, it’s a source of continued dismay that auteur filmmaker David Fincher continues to ply his trade exclusively for the Silicon Valley studio.

Fincher has recently signed an extension to his deal with Netflix which will see him work exclusively (we think) for the company for another three years. That doesn’t sit well with Fremaux, who wants to see Fincher back on cinema screens and back at Cannes.

“He’s still a great filmmaker,...

Exclusive: Tilda Swinton, the Academy Award- and BAFTA Award-winning actress most recently seen in yet another indelible role in David Fincher’s Netflix hitman pic The Killer, has signed with CAA.

One of the most esteemed screen talents currently working, Swinton has, in her nearly four-decade career, established ongoing relationships with such renowned filmmakers as Bong Joon Ho, Wes Anderson, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Luca Guadagnino, Jim Jarmusch, Fincher, and Joanna Hogg, having made eight films at the start of her career with director Derek Jarman.

Best known for roles in such films as Michael Clayton, for which she won an Academy Award and BAFTA for Best Supporting Actress, and We Need to Talk About Kevin, for which she received a BAFTA Award nomination, she also boasts credits including Orlando, I Am Love, Okja and The Chronicles of Narnia franchise, to name a few.

Swinton won the Venice Film Festival’s Best...

When Scott Stuber arrived at Netflix in 2017, some of its biggest films to date were the Idris Elba drama “Beasts of No Nation,” the Adam Sandler comedy “Sandy Wexler,” or the Will Smith fantasy action film “Bright.” Some were hits or got some awards buzz, and sure they had new films by Noah Baumbach and Angelina Jolie, but Netflix at that time was still getting booed at the Cannes Film Festival for releasing Bong Joon-Ho’s “Okja.”

Under Stuber’s watch, that all changed. Netflix would be the place where Martin Scorsese, Bradley Cooper, Alfonso Cuarón, Jane Campion, and more would want to make their passion projects. It was the place The Rock, the Russo Brothers, Zack Snyder, and Shawn Levy took their tentpoles to make some of the streamer’s biggest hits to date. He spent a fortune to get the rights to two “Knives Out” sequels. And it...

Spaceman. Adam Sandler as Jakub in Spaceman. Cr. Courtesy of Netflix © 2023.

Netflix’s upcoming movie Spaceman hits the streaming service on March 1st.

Six months into a solitary research mission to the edge of the solar system, an astronaut, Jakub (Adam Sandler), realizes that the marriage he left behind might not be waiting for him when he returns to Earth. Desperate to fix things with his wife, Lenka (Carey Mulligan), he is helped by a mysterious creature from the beginning of time he finds hiding in the bowels of his ship. Hanuš (voiced by Paul Dano) works with Jakub to make sense of what went wrong before it is too late.

Directed by Johan Renck and based on the novel Spaceman of Bohemia, the film also stars Kunal Nayyar, Lena Olin, and Isabella Rossellini.

https://www.netflix.com/title/81301595

“I really wanted to have a performance from him that had...

After going to school for film at the University of East London, Jemma Burns began music supervising on TV series Summer Heights High. She has worked on noteworthy film and TV series’ like Okja and Top of the Lake. More recent credits include Heartbreak High, which featured 128 songs of different genres, from pop ballads from musical artists like Dua Lipa and Steve Lacy to more underground drill and trap beats. For the Ari Aster film Beau is Afraid, Burns was able to land Mariah Carey’s “Always Be My Baby” for a peculiar and freaky sex scene by being strategic […]

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After going to school for film at the University of East London, Jemma Burns began music supervising on TV series Summer Heights High. She has worked on noteworthy film and TV series’ like Okja and Top of the Lake. More recent credits include Heartbreak High, which featured 128 songs of different genres, from pop ballads from musical artists like Dua Lipa and Steve Lacy to more underground drill and trap beats. For the Ari Aster film Beau is Afraid, Burns was able to land Mariah Carey’s “Always Be My Baby” for a peculiar and freaky sex scene by being strategic […]

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Exclusive: Steven Yeun and producer Christina Oh have partnered to create Celadon Pictures.

Yeun and Oh first met working together on Bong Joon-Ho’s Okja, which premiered at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival. The two teamed again for the 2021 Oscar-nominated Minari, which earned them Oscar nominations for Best Actor and Best Picture, respectively.

With Celadon Pictures, they have already secured deals to develop and produce both features and television. In addition to focusing on elevated stories in film, Yeun plans to use his recent award-winning experience producing Beef to further grow a broad TV slate with Oh.

“We are very excited about our partnership, and we look forward to collaborating with new and established voices to create lasting and impactful stories that connect us,” said Yeun and Oh.

For Yeun, he was last seen starring and serving as executive producer on the acclaimed limited series Beef for Netflix and A24. The...

At the end of Ryan Coogler's 2018 superhero film "Black Panther," the title hero (Chadwick Boseman) gathered on a Wakandan battlefield to face off against the vengeful Killmonger (Michael B. Jordan) with M'Baku (Winston Duke) aiding Black Panther and W'Kabi (Daniel Kaluuya) aiding Killmonger. At one point in the battle, W'Kabi blows a trumpet and summons several armored rhinoceroses to knock over enemy combatants in an extended action-packed battle sequence. As one might predict, the bulk of this sequence's fantastical elements were realized using CGI, although there was also a lot of impressive fight choreography by Jordan, Danai Gurira, and many, many accomplished stunt performers. According to a 2018 article in VFX Voice Magazine, a set was built on a ranch in the state of Georgia, and there were a lot of enormous blue screens, used to key in the CGI-created backgrounds of Wakanda. 

The rhinos were not played by real trained rhinos,...

With a fast-growing box office expected to hit the billion-dollar mark by 2030 and rising numbers of streaming subscriptions, Saudi Arabia is at a key point in its journey into becoming a key global player when it comes to TV and film production.

However, with a market that is only five years old — with Saudi lifting its 35-year ban on cinema in 2018 — local audiences are yet to flock to locally made content, which is still relatively scarce when it comes to the big screen.

While Saudi production catches up with the potential market, the popularity of two other national entertainment industries has become obvious in the Middle East country: India’s Bollywood and South Korea’s Hallyuwood. This trend led the Red Sea Film Festival’s industry conversation arm Red Sea 360 to invite leading executives from these countries to understand the global impact of both industries.

Speaking on the global popularity of South Korean narratives,...

Post-pandemic audiences are much more open to different cultures, thanks to streaming and exposure to new types of content, but some of the world’s biggest film industries are still figuring out how to adapt in a rapidly changing landscape, said speakers on the ‘Cinematic Crossovers’ panel in Red Sea Souk.

Leading producers from three industries with an international footprint – Woo-sik Seo from Korea’s Barunson C&c, a subsidiary of Barunson E&a (Parasite), Dheer Momaya from India’s Jugaad Motion Pictures (Last Film Show) and Jadesola Osiberu, founder of Nigeria’s Greoh Studios (Gangs Of Lagos) – compared their business and funding models with the old world system set up by France’s Cnc and the nascent film industry in Saudi Arabia.

But they concluded by saying that, despite their success in achieving global impact, the current systems face some challenges – particularly in terms of censorship and IP ownership.

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