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'King's Speech' crowned Oscars monarch

Feb 28, 2011

HOLLYWOOD, (AFP) - British royal drama "The King's Speech" was crowned Oscars winner on Sunday, taking three of the top Academy Award prizes at the climax of Hollywood's annual awards season. The mo...
No Oscar love for casting directors

Feb 25, 2011

Some of Hollywood’s most fabled directors, Elia Kazan and Robert Altman among them, have said that casting accounts for roughly 90 percent of a movie’s ultimate success or failure. Yet at Sunday’s A...
The best (and worst) supporting Oscars hosts

Feb 25, 2011

Will James Franco pull a poem out of his tux, or read an excerpt from one of his short stories? Will Anne Hathaway break into song? Will the two of them, virgin co-hosts of the 83rd Academy Awards,...
Box-office rankings

Feb 25, 2011

Feb. 18 - Feb. 20 1. Aideul (Children) Opened Feb. 17 Directed by Lee Gyu-man Starring Park Yong-woo, Ryu Seung-ryong 2. Late Autumn Opened Feb. 17 Directed by Kim Tae-yong Starring Hyun Bin...
Box office

Feb 25, 2011

Shotgun Love (Korea) Opening March 10 Comedy. Directed by Jeong Woo-cheol. Home shopping model Sang-yeol (Im Chang-jeong) has a huge crush on his colleague So-yeon (Kim Gyu-ri). Unlike Sang-yeol, w...
Italian seeks kung-fu stardom in Shanghai

Feb 21, 2011

SHANGHAI (AFP) ― At a Shanghai building site, a man in a black Stetson looks over his shoulder at two approaching thugs. Four others appear, fists raised. They lock eyes and the cowboy springs up in ...
Director tells more than her family story in ‘Goodbye Pyeongyang’

Feb 21, 2011

Personal documentary recounts tale of Korean-Japanese who resettled in N. Korea Movie director Yang Yong-hi has a one-of-a-kind family. She lives in Tokyo, her mother in Osaka and her brothers in P...
S. Korean actress Lee Young-ae gives birth to twins

Feb 21, 2011

South Korean actress Lee Young-ae, widely popular across Asia, has given birth to twins, her agent here said Monday. Lee, 40, became a mother of fraternal twins, a boy and a girl, at 10:30 a.m. Sund...
Downbeat S. Korean drama booed in Berlin

Feb 21, 2011

Korean actor Bin Hyun and South Korean actress Soo-jung Lim arrive for a press conference for the film "Come Rain, Come Shine" on February 17, in Berlin. The sole Asian contender for the Berlin film ...
‘Night Fishing’ brings home Golden Bear

Feb 20, 2011

Park brothers’ iPhone-shot short film wins award at Berlinale South Korea’s highly acclaimed director Park Chan-wook and his younger brother, media artist Park Chan-kyong , captured a Golden Bear ...
Adam Sandler: Is he the new Woody Allen? No, and yes

Feb 18, 2011

We humans divide ourselves into camps. Liberals and conservatives. Cat people and dog people. Woody Allen fans and Adam Sandler fans. Sandler, whose “Just Go With It” opens Friday, occupies a pla...
Director Lee defends pace of Berlin’s sole Asian entry

Feb 18, 2011

BERLIN (AFP) ― The sole Asian contender for the Berlin film festival’s Golden Bear top prize, minimalist South Korean breakup drama “Come Rain, Come Shine,” met with jeers from critics Thursday. It ...
Box office

Feb 18, 2011

Come Rain, Come Shine (Korea) Opening Mar. 3 Drama. Directed by Lee Yoon-ki. A woman (Im Soo-jeong), who has been married for five years, one day tells her husband she wants to leave him for anothe...
Box-office rankings

Feb 18, 2011

Feb. 11 ― feb. 13 1. Detective K : Secret Of Virtuous Widow Opened Jan. 27 Directed by Kim Seok-yoon Starring Kim Myeong-min, Han Ji-min 2. Tangled (Rapunzel) Opened Feb. 10 Directed by Nathan...
He-men of a certain age contend with young rivals

Feb 18, 2011

This summer, 68-year-old Harrison Ford will be mixing it up with Old West-invading extraterrestrials in “Cowboys & Aliens.” Next month, 67-year-old Robert De Niro will star in the action thriller “Li...