Korean entertainment giant CJ ENM, the studio famously behind Bong Joon Ho’s multi-Oscar-winning Parasite, has signed a three-year pact with the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures to boost Asian cinema’s presence in Hollywood. The agreement’s first initiative, spearheaded under CJ ENM’s support, will be the world’s first museum exhibition dedicated to Bong’s work. Opening March 23 and titled “Director’s Inspiration: …
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[This story contains spoilers from The White Lotus season three, episode six, “Denials.”] You gotta hand it to Mike White. Whatever else you want to say about the Emmy winning writer’s work on The White Lotus, when it comes to delivering on shock value, he does a heck of a job. Case in point: season three, episode six. If last week’s kiss between brothers Saxon …
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American mystery writer Mary Roberts Rinehart once said, “The mystery story is two stories in one: the story of what happened and the story of what appeared to happen.” This is very much the case for all mysteries — but throw in chaos with an unreliable ensemble of characters as things go haywire, and you have the recipe for Netflix‘s new …
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Mike Myers is appearing in an ad for Canada‘s Liberal party that supports new Prime Minster Mark Carney and throws some shade at U.S. President Donald Trump. In the ad, Myers and Carney are chatting inside a hockey rink wearing red and white jerseys that say “Canada,” with a Canadian flag hanging on the wall behind them. Carney, who posted …
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YouTube star-turned-boxer Jake Paul and his Olympic speed skater girlfriend Jutta Leerdam got engaged on Friday. The couple announced the news in a joint Instagram post Saturday, featuring photos of the proposal, which took place the day before. In front of a scenic backdrop and amid white flowers and candles, Paul proposed to Leerdam, who looked surprised as she put …
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Rosie O’Donnell has revealed more about why she moved to Ireland following President Donald Trump‘s re-election to a second term and shared her thoughts on the “surreal” Oval Office moment where Ireland‘s prime minister was asked about her move. Appearing on RTÉ’s Late Late Show on Friday night, O’Donnell was shown the clip of Irish prime minister Micheál Martin and …
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Have you stayed at the Armani Hotel in Milan lately? Have you whiffed the air in the lobby? One Hollywood producer who just returned from a trip says she practically needed a hazmat suit to circumvent the fragrance cloud she encountered while checking in. “It was awful,” she says, scrunching her nose. “It was like they were trying to baptize …
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War of the Kingdoms is, by any measure, a big swing. The epic German fantasy series, which Fremantle presented to buyers at last month’s London Screenings and unspools at Series Mania‘s inaugural buyers upfront event on Monday, is one of the most expensive and ambitious projects to come out of Europe. Adapted from Wolfgang Hohlbein’s 1986 novel Hagen von Tronje …
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Anna Faris — currently Down Under, where she’s close to wrapping production on the Jon Lucas and Scott Moore-directed Spa Weekend — took a break from filming to talk to The Hollywood Reporter about a side hustle for Scrubbing Bubbles. The actress appears in a new ad for the multipurpose cleaner that finds Faris undercover in a red wig and …
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Nikki Toscano has a long resume filled with many high-profile TV shows including Revenge, Bates Motel, Shades of Blue, Hunters, The Offer and American Gigolo. But nothing has delivered the “unique excitement” like her latest, Peacock‘s Long Bright River starring Amanda Seyfried. That’s because the eight-episode limited series marks her first creator credit (in tandem with Liz Moore who wrote …
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