Tag: Kingdom
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Netflix reshuffles creative leadership team across Asia
Streaming giant shakes up senior team in its fastest growing region.Netflix has reshuffled its creative leadership team in Asia Pacific with South Korean executive Minyoung Kim appointed to oversee operations across the region, excluding India.Asia Pacific is the steaming giant’s second-largest territory in terms of paid subscription growth.Kim was formerly vice president of content for…
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Fifth ‘Predator’ Movie in Development With ’10 Cloverfield Lane’ Director
Disney’s 20th Century Studios is developing a fifth “Predator” movie with “10 Cloverfield Lane” director Dan Trachtenberg.Patrick Aison, whose television credits include the series “Kingdom,” “Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan” and “Treadstone,” has been hired to write the script.The four “Predator” movies earned $443 million worldwide, with John Davis producing each. The original “Predator” was released…
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‘Kingdom’ Season 2 Trailer: Netflix’s Medieval Korean Zombie Series is Back from the Dead
Kingdom is coming back from the dead….of hiatus. The medieval Korean zombie series was never gone, but it has been a year since Kingdom debuted its first season on Netflix to critical acclaim. Now it returns for its second season, which follows Ju Ji-Hoon and Bae Doona as they continue their battle with the undead…
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Japan Box Office Leaps to $2.4 Billion Record in 2019
The Japanese box office leaped by 17% in 2019 to set a record $2.4 billion score, according to figures announced Tuesday by the Motion Picture Producers Association of Japan, locally known as Eirin. The previous high was the $2.2 billion recorded in 2016.The Makoto Shinkai animation “Weathering with You” was the highest earning film among…
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Film Review: ‘Kingdom’
A dose of 21st century attitude mixes nicely with other winning ingredients in “Kingdom,” a thoroughly entertaining adaptation of Yasuhisa Hara’s hugely popular manga set in China, 245 B.C. Centered on two orphan boys who dream of becoming “the greatest generals on Earth,” this Japanese take on a Chinese wuxia is overwrought at times and…
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‘Kingdom’ Trailer: Zombies Invade Medieval Korea in This Netflix Horror Series
South Korea has already reached the pinnacle of the zombie genre with the horror masterpiece Train to Busan, but the new Korean Netflix original series will do you one better. Zombies…in medieval Korea. Kingdom is the streaming service’s second Korean original series, and it brings the zombie genre to Korea’s Joseon period in a historical…