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Ador CEO denies allegations, accuses Hybe of mistreating NewJeans
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Medical reform committee kicks off despite boycott from doctors
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10-man S. Korea lose to Indonesia to miss out on Paris Olympic football qualification
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Hybe-Ador feud should have limited effect on Hybe's overall performance: analysts
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Second Gimpo civil servant found dead, after apologizing for not finishing work
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DP leader says he will meet Yoon without conditions
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Over 9,000 hotline calls made by stalking victims in 2023
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[Hello India] Hyundai Motor vows to boost 'clean mobility' in India
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Monthly users on local streaming platforms outpace Netflix, Disney+
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US will take steps for three-way engagement on nuclear deterrence with S. Korea, Japan: Campbell
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Spike Lee launches Kickstarter campaign for film
NEW YORK (AP) ― The next Spike Lee film will be a Kickstarter production.Following in the footsteps of “Veronica Mars’’ and Zach Braff, Lee has launched an online campaign to help fund his next feature film. The filmmaker on Monday unveiled his bid to raise $1.25 million over the next month using the fundraising site Kickstarter.Lee offered few details on the film but said it would be about “the addiction of blood.’’The 56-year-old director said he was inspired to crowd-source the film after hea
July 24, 2013
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‘Snowpiercer’ powerfully explores class, privilege
Know your position, keep your position, be the “shoe.”This is what those who live at the bottom of Snowpiercer, a massive train carrying the last remnants of humanity, are constantly told to do in director Bong Joon-ho’s latest sci-fi movie of the same name. “Being the shoe” is a metaphor. The people are the bottom of the bottom, lowest of the low, and should never seek to climb the ladder, or “try to be the head.”In the very back railcar, the lowliest passengers live on protein bars made of dea
July 23, 2013
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Superman’s past, future takes spotlight at Comic-Con
SAN DIEGO (AP) ― Superman is among comics’ most recognizable characters, and 75 years after Cleveland teenagers Jerry Siegel and Joe Schuster’s Kryptonian made his debut in the pages of Action Comics No. 1, his popularity remains stratospheric.At Comic-Con International, Superman’s presence could be seen everywhere ― from attendees wearing various incarnations of his many costumes to scenes from the television series, cartoons, films, and even in comic books.“Superman was the first comic book su
July 22, 2013
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Box Office: Snowpiercer, The Wolverine, RED 2
SnowpiercerAction. Sci-Fi. Thriller. Directed by Bong Joon-hoOpening Aug. 1Based on the French novel “Le Transperceneige” by Jacques Lob and Jean-Marc Rochette, the film is set in a future where a failed global-warming experiment kills off almost all living things on Earth with the sudden onset of an Ice Age. Survivors are on the Snowpiercer, a train that travels around the globe via a perpetual-motion engine. As time passes a class system evolves on the train, the elites inhabit the carriages i
July 19, 2013
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Michael Pena hopes family-friendly ‘Turbo’ will bowl over his son
For a guy who rarely goes bowling and is content with breaking 100 on the score sheet, Michael Pena ― best known for his roles in “Crash” and “End of Watch” ― sure carried himself like a big shot on the lanes last Monday. But it was all in good fun, other than the fact that Pena really wanted to win.“Are you nervous?” asked Pena, 37, before the first of our two embarrassingly low-scoring games at Lucky Strike Lanes in Chicago’s Streeterville neighborhood. “I feel like you’re nervous.”In addition
July 19, 2013
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‘Cold Eyes’ smashes 4 million mark
Korean thriller film “Cold Eyes” attracted 4 million viewers in just 17 days, becoming the fifth domestic film to hit the record this year ― following box office hits “The Berlin File,” “Secretly Greatly,” “New World” and “Miracle in Cell No.7.”The star-studded film, which stars actors Sol Kyung-gu, Jung Woo-sung, and actress Han Hyo-joo, tells the story of a group of detectives specializing in surveillance activities on high profile criminals. In the film, they together try to arrest the member
July 19, 2013
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Hong Sang-soo’s latest work to compete at Locarno film festival
Korean director Hong Sang-soo’s latest work has been invited to Locarno International Film Festival’s international competition section, the film’s local promoters said.The film, titled “Our Sunhi,” tells the story of a young film student named Sun-hi (played by actress Jeong Yoo-mi) who is about to leave Korea to study overseas. Before moving abroad, she visits two of her ex-boyfriends (played by Lee Sun-kyun and Jung Jae-young) and her professor named Choi (played by Kim Sang-jung). “Our Sunhi
July 18, 2013
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Ha Jung-woo to direct film adaptation of Chinese novel
Popular actor Ha Jung-woo will direct and star in a film adaptation of famed Chinese author Yu Hua’s 1995 novel “Chronicle of a Blood Merchant,” Korean film house NEW said.The novel, which is set from the early years of the People’s Republic of China until after the Cultural Revolution in the early 1950s to the 1980s, deals with a man who sells his blood for many years to support his family. The upcoming movie will be the first film adaptation of the novel. Author Yu’s 1992 novel “To Live” was f
July 17, 2013
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Bong Jun-ho’s ‘Snowpiercer’ sets record with presales to 167 countries
Even before its world premiere in Seoul on Aug. 1, director Bong Jun-ho’s “Snowpiercer” has already been sold to 167 different countries, CJ Entertainment said Tuesday, setting a presale record for a film by a Korean director.Film distributor The Weinstein Company secured the distribution rights for countries in North America, the U.K., New Zealand, Australia and other English-speaking nations. French film distributor Wildside, which in the past distributed Korean films such as “Thirst” (2009),
July 17, 2013
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Annual genre film festival arrives in Bucheon
The annual Puchon (Bucheon) International Fantastic Film Festival (PiFan), considered the largest genre film fest in Asia, opens this Thursday with 229 horror, fantasy, mystery and animated films from 44 countries.This year’s PiFan celebrates its 17th edition and includes a total of 53 world premieres. Its opener is Israeli filmmaker Ari Folman’s latest animated film “The Congress.” The filmmaker, who is best known for his 2008 animated documentary “Waltz with Bashir” ― which dealt with his own
July 16, 2013
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Hugh Jackman talks ‘The Wolverine’
Following his visit to Seoul last year to promote “Les Miserables,” Australian actor Hugh Jackman made his fourth visit to the city, this time with the sixth installment in the X-Men Film series, “The Wolverine.”The actor, who made his first visit to Seoul in 2006 and his second in 2009, was appointed a goodwill ambassador for Seoul in 2009. “Actually, Korea is the only place in the world I can go out for dinner and it is still on my Wolverine diet ― that’s Korean barbecue,” the actor, who said
July 15, 2013
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Johnny Depp’s interest in Wounded Knee causes a stir
SIOUX FALLS, South Dakota (AP) ― For months, questions have swirled about whether developers, activists or tribes would be willing to plunk down millions to buy a portion of the Wounded Knee National Historic Landmark. Now there’s a new potential buyer in the mix: Johnny Depp.But is the star of “The Lone Ranger” really preparing to be the one who buys the property where hundreds of Native Americans were killed? Or is it just the latest rumor in the contentious debate over the landmark’s future?D
July 14, 2013
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Box Office: RED 2, Mr. Go, Side Effects
RED 2Action. Comedy. Crime. Directed by Dean Parisot.Opening July 18While trying to enjoy a normal life, retired black-ops CIA agent Frank Moses (Bruce Willis) is notified by his old friend Marvin Boggs (John Malkovich) that Interpol is hunting him. When Frank tries to clear his name, he gets reacquainted on a global mission to track down a missing nuclear device that was sneaked into Russia and reassembled. While Frank reunites his former team of elite operatives and is working on the mission,
July 12, 2013
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SeaWorld gets a black eye in new documentary
Filmmaker Gabriela Cowperthwaite was something of a “SeaWorld mom.” She’d taken her kids to the San Diego location of the popular theme park corporation, “planted us firmly in the Shamu splash zone. We all just ate it up.”Then she read of SeaWorld Orlando trainer Dawn Brancheau’s grisly death by orca in February 2010. She “just couldn’t come to terms with it. I could not understand how a highly intelligent, beloved mammal could make that decision. I was confounded. Was he playing? Did she drown
July 12, 2013
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Homegrown tech brings gorilla to life
Korean moviegoers have seen Richard Parker, the stunning CG tiger in Ang Lee’s 2012 3-D adventure drama “Life of Pi.” On screen, the CG animal looked nothing less than a flesh-and-blood Bengal tiger. Just about a year later, moviegoers are being introduced to Ling Ling, a CG gorilla created using local technology. Director Kim Yong-hwa’s (“Take Off,” “200 Pounds Beauty”) ambitious and expensive 3-D project, titled “Mr. Go,” was unveiled to the press on Monday, ahead of its scheduled opening on J
July 10, 2013
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Weinstein, Warner Bros. spar over ‘The Butler’
NEW YORK (AP) ― With the drama of a summer blockbuster, the dispute over the rights to a film title has turned into a public battle between Harvey Weinstein and Warner Bros.Disputed is the claim to the title “The Butler,’’ which the Weinstein Co. has promoted as the name of an upcoming drama about a White House butler. An arbitrator last week ruled Warner Bros. has the right to “The Butler,’’ having released a so-named silent short in 1916.Weinstein, appalled that his potential Oscar bait could
July 10, 2013
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Statue of Colin Firth’s Mr. Darcy rises from lake
LONDON (AP) ― It’s Colin Firth, but not as we know him. He’s 3.7 meter tall and made of fiberglass.A statue of brooding Mr. Darcy, the character played by Firth in “Pride and Prejudice’’ was installed Monday in London’s Serpentine lake.The figure shows Darcy emerging from the water in a soaked shirt, recreating a scene from the 1995 television adaptation of Jane Austen’s novel.The scene helped turn Firth into a sex symbol and is regularly voted among Britain’s most memorable TV moments.One of th
July 9, 2013
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Macau hosts glittering Indian film awards
MACAU (AFP) ― Romantic comedy ‘Barfi!’ swept almost all the major gongs, including best picture, at India’s answer to the Oscars on Saturday as Bollywood celebrates its centenary.Bollywood royalty converged on the Chinese gambling hub of Macau for the 14th edition of the Indian International Film Festival, held in the territory’s glittering Venetian resort.“Barfi!” won six awards, including the prize for best actor and best director.The light-hearted film, about a deaf and mute man from Darjeeli
July 7, 2013
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Box Office: Mr. Go, Side Effects, Cold Eyes
Mr. GoComedy. Drama. Directed by Kim Yong-hwa.Opening July 17The film revolves around a young circus ringmaster Wei Wei and her special gorilla friend Ling Ling. After her grandfather dies in the Great Sichuan earthquake leaving an insurmountable debt, Wei Wei depends on Ling Ling as her only family member. The two enjoy playing baseball and are quite good at it since Wei Wei‘s grandfather was a huge fan of baseball. Story of the two is introduced in Korea and the materialistic sports agent Sung
July 5, 2013
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‘Way, Way Back’ a romance that’s nostalgic for the present
A person can come of age at any time. But in the movies, a lot of that growing up seems packed into the summer months. Especially for boys. That’s when a lad can hang out on the beach, come to some sort of arrangement with girls and endure entirely too much of his closely-observed family for his own good.“The Way, Way Back” is a semi-nostalgic coming-of-age dramedy from the folks who wrote “The Descendants.” It’s about a shy, put-upon lad, his long-suffering mother, the mom’s difficult new beau
July 5, 2013