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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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DP leader says he will meet Yoon without conditions
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Second Gimpo civil servant found dead, after apologizing for not finishing work
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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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Glamour, art, politics collide at Cannes
May 8, 2011
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Thomas & Friends: Misty Island Rescue (U.K.)Opened May 5Animation, Adventure, Family. Directed by Greg Tiernan. On the Island of Sodor where Thomas lives, a new Search and Rescue Center is being built. Greedy Diesel, thinking he is better than the “steamies”, decides to take the Jobi logs to the rescue center himself and races down the tracks with the Jobi logs. Thomas sees that Diesel is going to
May 6, 2011
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‘Beaver’ director Jodie Foster’s loyalty to Mel Gibson intact
LOS ANGELES ― As she has crisscrossed the country tirelessly promoting her latest directorial effort, “The Beaver,” Jodie Foster has been keeping in touch via text with Mel Gibson. When the star of your film is also your close friend and Hollywood’s leading persona non grata, the messages can get a tad awkward.“Mel said, ‘I will be dragged through gravel for you,’” Foster said in Beverly Hills. “H
May 6, 2011
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Actor Hemsworth, almost outgrew his costume playing title character in ‘Thor’
KANSAS CITY ― Turning your body into that of a god is a weird process.Chris Hemsworth knows. Once he was tapped to play the title character in “Thor,” the Australian actor threw himself into a body-building regimen that would transform his solid but unspectacular physique into one worthy of a Marvel superhero.“I don’t naturally have the kind of weight Thor has,” Hemsworth said. “I ate tons of prot
May 6, 2011
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Int'l film festival in Jeonju closes with award winners
An annual international film festival in southern South Korea wrapped its nine-day run Friday after the announcement of additional award winners.The 12th Jeonju International Film Festival closed in this city about 240 kilometers south of Seoul with the screening of the South Korean film "Anyang, Paradise City." It won the grand prize in the Korean feature films competition.Directed by Park Chan-k
May 6, 2011
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Dancer-turned-actor Kwok is summer star of Chinese movies
HONG KONG (AP) ― May is the month of Aaron Kwok in Chinese movies.The dancer-turned-singer-turned-actor stars in two of the month’s major releases ― Gu Changwei’s romance “Love for Life,” and Oxide Pang’s crime thriller “The Detective 2” ― and has earned rave reviews from both directors.The 45-year-old Hong Kong entertainer’s versatile performances in two closely timed releases are testimony to hi
May 5, 2011
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'Hurt Locker' team plans film on bin Laden hunt
The filmmakers behind the war-on-terror drama ``The Hurt Locker'' are moving forward with an action thriller about the hunt for Osama bin Laden.Director Kathryn Bigelow and screenwriter Mark Boal have had the bin Laden project in the works, and now that the al-Qaeda leader has been killed, a person close to the filmmakers said Monday that the film is more relevant than ever.The as-yet-untitled fil
May 3, 2011
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This year, summer movies not only about men
From its earliest days, Hollywood has been a boy’s club.And summer traditionally is the season of boy movies ― big, loud, rude and not terribly smart.So what are we to make of the summer of 2011 when so many titles suggest, well, an estrogen-centric approach?It’s not as if bad boys and manly men will be AWOL from the megaplex over the next four months ― not with “Thor” and “Green Lantern” and “Cap
May 1, 2011
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Mao’s last dancer (Australia)Opening April 28Drama. Directed by Bruce Beresford. A drama based on an autobiography by Li Cunxin. Eleven-year-old Li (Chi Cao) from a poor Chinese village is taken to Beijing by Madame Mao’s cultural delegate to study ballet. A few years later, Li is invited to perform with the Houston Ballet by its director. As the first Asian to be invited, Li soon becomes a star o
April 29, 2011
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Reese Witherspoon occasionally welcomes disorder in her life
LOS ANGELES ― As far as tightly wound actresses go, Reese Witherspoon tops the list. She insists upon a strict sense of order in her life. Her production company is called Type A, a moniker her latest costar, Robert Pattinson, says fits her strong sense of self perfectly. And even when she appears to be having a spontaneous moment, lamenting that her well-orchestrated career built around an avoida
April 29, 2011
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Universal soups up ‘Fast and Furious’
LOS ANGELES ― Hoping to transform one of its few successful film series into a top-tier global franchise, Universal Pictures has refueled “Fast and Furious” with an international backdrop, a bigger production budget and a new genre.Audiences will witness the results of that strategy Friday when “Fast Five” debuts as the first of Hollywood’s summer season releases. The movie abandons the world of i
April 29, 2011
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Jude Law in Austria for ‘360’ film
VIENNA (AP) ― Hollywood actor Jude Law is among the stars of “360” ― a new movie partly set in the Austrian capital in which the British heartthrob plays a man whose marriage has hit a lull.The film is directed by Fernando Meirelles and inspired by Arthur Schnitzler’s play “Reigen,” or “La Ronde.”While storyline specifics are being kept under wraps, screenwriter Peter Morgan told reporters Tuesday
April 27, 2011
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Tribeca documentaries examine bullying, toxicity
April 25, 2011
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Hollywood’s latest trend reimagines classic childhood tales
LOS ANGELES ― All grown up, Hansel and Gretel return to the forest to exact revenge on their childhood tormentors. Snow White escapes the Evil Queen and takes up with a group of Shaolin monks. And after leaving Kansas, carnival barker Oscar Diggs remakes himself as a wizard in the Emerald City.Childhood classics as seen through a fun-house mirror? Well, yes. But for the film business, it’s also so
April 25, 2011
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Emma Watson takes break from Brown University
Emma Watson, who played Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter movie series, is to put her studying on hold.“I’ve decided to take a bit of time off to completely finish my work on ‘Harry Potter’ … and to focus on my other professional and acting projects,” posted Watson on her site Emmawatson.com, explaining her decision.“I will still be working towards my degree ... it’s just going to take me a sem
April 24, 2011
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How Sidney Lumet fought showbiz blacklist
LOS ANGELES ― I’d almost forgotten what an unabashed liberal Sidney Lumet had been until I read an essay by New York Post critic Kyle Smith, an unabashed conservative who has little good to say about Lumet’s signature work, seeing it as emblematic of the weak-kneed moral relativism of lefty do-gooders. Taking apart Lumet’s “12 Angry Men,” Smith dubs it an “ur-myth of liberal fantasy,” saying “one
April 22, 2011
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Norwegian Wood Opening April 21Drama. Directed by Tran Anh Hung. Upon hearing the Beatles’ song “Norwegian Wood,” a Japanese businessman reminisces about the intense romance of his university days in Tokyo, set against the turbulent student riots of the late 1960s. Toru Watanabe (Kenichi Matsuyama), an aloof university student at the time, had lost Kizuki -- his best friend in high school -- after
April 22, 2011
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Director Max Winkler’s persistence pays off with ‘Ceremony’
LOS ANGELES ― When Max Winkler set out to make a movie, he made one thing clear: He didn’t want any help from his Hollywood veteran father, no matter how tempting the prospect.Editing his directorial debut, “Ceremony,” out of his boyhood bedroom put Winkler mighty close to Dad ― Henry Winkler, still remembered best as the Fonz from “Happy Days.”“I would walk down the hall and I would have a spring
April 22, 2011
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‘Journals of Musan’ to screen with English subtitles
“The Journals of Musan” will be shown with English subtitles at Cinecode Sonje in Samcheong-dong this week. A scene from “The Journals of Musan” (JINJIN Pictures)“The Journals of Musan” is director Park Jung-bum’s debut feature, about a North Korean defector Jeon Seung-chul (Park Jung-bum) who originally came to South Korea to live a better life, but finds it difficult to be happy with his defecto
April 21, 2011
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‘Ghost’ selected for Cannes short film competition
The short film “Ghost,” directed by Lee Jung-Jin (a.k.a. Ma Dahci), has been selected for the Short Film Competition of the 64th Cannes Film Festival. “Ghost” is a 10-minute thriller about a criminal hiding in an empty house in a deserted town where gentrification has been discontinued. “Ghost” by Lee Jung-jinThe Short Film Competition is an official competition category that highlights young tal
April 21, 2011