Tag: Snowpiercer
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‘Snowpiercer’ TV Show: Watch The Planet Freeze In This Beautiful, Animated Sneak Peek
While I can’t speak for every film or television critic in the industry, I know that I want to enjoy everything I watch. As such, I often find myself looking for the good in every upcoming property. When TNT announced a television remake of Bong Joon-ho‘s “Snowpiercer,” I figured the fact that the show starred…
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Cannes Film Review: ‘Parasite’
A laugh turns into a snarl which gets stuck in the throat like a sob — or an arrow through the neck — in Bong Joon-ho’s latest wild, wild ride, “Parasite.” On paper, that might not sound so very different from the experience of watching Bong’s “Snowpiercer,” “Memories of Murder” “The Host” or “Okja.” The…
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China’s Huanxi Media Picks Up ‘Snowpiercer’ TV Show From ITV Studios
China’s Huanxi Media Group Limited has bought the exclusive broadcasting right in the mainland for the forthcoming sci-fi TV series “Snowpiercer” from ITV Studios Global Entertainment — a show based on Korean director Bong Joon-Ho’s film of the same name. The series is set to debut on TBS in the U.S. in the spring of…
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Korean Actor Song Kang-ho is First Asian Honored With Locarno Excellence Award
The Locarno Film Festival will pay tribute to leading South Korean actor Song Kang-ho, marking the first time this prestigious prize has gone to an Asian film personality.Song, 52, who made his big screen debut at 29 in Hong Sang-soo’s edgy “The Day a Pig Fell into the Well” (1996), has since “never stopped experimenting,”…
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Bong Joon-ho Pens “A Word Of Pleading” To Cannes Critics About Not Posting ‘Parasite’ Spoilers
It appears that the Russo Brothers have unknowingly started a trend. After the directors of the massive superhero blockbuster “Avengers: Endgame” posted their second letter begging fans to not spoil the film after seeing it in theaters, many thought we reached peak levels of spoiler culture. But alas, the fear of spoilers is even encroaching…
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Bong Joon-Ho’s Drama ‘Parasite’ Bought by Neon
Neon has acquired the North American rights to Bong Joon-Ho’s family drama “
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Netflix acquires ‘Snowpiercer’, ‘Dirty John’ series
Snowpiercer to air outside Us and China in 2019.Netflix has acquired first-run international rights to ITV Studios’ series version of Snowpiercer and Universal’s true crime series Dirty John.Snowpiercer is set to debut in the Us on cable network TNT and Dirty John on Bravo, with Netflix coming in as co-licensee to give the series their…
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Jennifer Connelly On Tarmac For ‘Top Gun 2: Maverick’
Exclusive: Jennifer Connelly is being set to join Tom Cruise in Top Gun 2: Maverick, the Joseph Kosinski-directed sequel for Paramount Pictures and Skydance. She will join Cruise, who reprises his Maverick character from the 1986 hit, alongside Val Kilmer who returns to play Maverick’s nemesis Iceman. Miles Teller also will star as the son…