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Netflix has confirmed production of documentary, Yellow Door: Looking For Director Bong’s Unreleased Short Film (working title), delving into the story behind Parasite director Bong Joon Ho's first short film, which was seen by just ten people.  While many believe that Bong's 1994 short White Man was…

EXCLUSIVE: Five years after working together on the Netflix pic Okja, Steven Yeun is reuniting with Bong Joon Ho on the director’s next feature film at Warner Bros. The untitled film is based on the novel Mickey7 by Edward Ashton and also stars Robert Pattinson, Naomi Ackie, Mark Ruffalo and Toni Collette. Bong will…

EXCLUSIVE: Bong Joon-Ho's follow-up film to Oscar winner Parasite is currently in pre-production at Warner Bros Studios Leavesden. Robert Pattinson, coming off The Batman, is set to star in the anticipated sci-fi film, which is due to begin shoot over the summer. As we revealed last week, also joining are Toni Collette…

EXCLUSIVE: Bong Joon Ho’s follow-up film to his Oscar-winning Parasite is gaining quite the ensemble, as sources tell Deadline that Toni Collette and Mark Ruffalo (whose deals are in final negotiations), along with Naomi Ackie, are joining Robert Pattinson in Bong’s next feature at Warner Bros. The untitled film is…

EXCLUSIVE: After taking nearly two years to figure out his next project following his Oscar sweep in 2020 with Parasite, director Bong Joon Ho looks to have found his next film and is taking a certain Caped Crusader along for the ride. Sources tell Deadline that Bong is in talks to write and direct an untitled film…

Venice Film Festival jury president Bong Joon-Ho told the press corps at the opening press conference this morning that he's looking forward to bringing his panelists together and hoping to "have an explosion with them" as they judge the 19 movies in competition. He added that the jury is "ready to fight, maybe, on…

The 74th Cannes Film Festival kicked off in earnest Tuesday evening as big names came out to support the event that's just getting back to business after last year's cancellation and this year's delays. Assembled together, 2019 Oscar and Palme d'Or winner Bong Joon-ho, Cannes veteran Pedro Almodóvar, jury president…

Bong Joon-Ho, the Oscar-winning Korean director behind Parasite, will helm a feature animation about humans and deep-sea creatures. The Yonhap News Agency reported that the filmmaker has been working on the project since 2018 and finished the screenplay in January. Pic is being produced by local tech company and…

Directors and creators should be bolder when dealing with issues like Anti-Asian violence, said Academy Award-winning director Bong Joon-ho in a Wednesday night interview at Chapman University’s Dodge College in Orange, Calif. Addressing questions remotely from his Korea home and speaking through a translator, the Para…

EXCLUSIVE: The London Korean Film Festival will celebrate its 15th anniversary from October 29– November 12 in both digital and physical forms. This is the first year the event will offer online screenings available to audiences across the UK, along with a selection of special cinema screenings in London. The festival…

Participant and Oscar winning Parasite director Bong Joon Ho have teamed up for a new adaptation of Sea Fog, a feature based on Bong’s 2014 Korean film Haemoo, which will be written and directed by Matt Palmer (Calibre). The original film, which was directed by Shim Sung Bo and written by Bong and Shim, was adapted…

EXCLUSIVE: Film financier and fund manager Samuel Ha has opened the doors to Bound Entertainment, a new studio focused on global stories and Asia co-productions in film and TV, while also publishing web comics for the U.S. and Korea. Heading up film and TV in the Los Angeles office is 10-year-international feature…