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EXCLUSIVE: With Riverdale coming to an end after its upcoming seventh season, the CW is eyeing another soapy, noir thriller teen drama set in the world of Archie Comics. Jake Chang, which is in development at the network, comes from writer Oanh Ly and writer-director Viet Nguyen, who both worked on the Archie…

The Hot Zone: Anthrax star Daniel Dae Kim said that filming the National Geographic drama during the pandemic “was one of the hardest on-location experiences I’ve ever had in my career.” However, he said that quarantine and closed restaurants helped him and co-star Tony Goldwyn tap into the paranoia and caution of the…

Daniel Dae Kim (The Hot Zone: Anthrax, Hawaii Five-0) is set to star in Avatar: The Last Airbender, Netflix’s live-action adaptation of the beloved Nickelodeon animated series. Kim will play top villain Fire Lord Ozai, the ruthlessly driven leader of the Fire Nation who demands that everyone live up to his impossible…

“Anthrax spores do not just die — they settle. They lie in wait.” That chilling reminder leads the first trailer for The Hot Zone: Anthrax, National Geographic’s series about the wave of terror that gripped the country 20 years ago. In the weeks after the 9/11 attacks, several news-media offices and some prominent…

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon Studios, 3AD and Motoko Kimura are teaming up to develop the feature film This Is Always with Mina Shum writing and directing and Daniel Dae Kim in talks to star. The film, which is based on a successful Japanese television series Pure Soul from YTV, follows two forty-somethings who feel perfectly…

Following the success of National Geographic limited series The Hot Zone, showrunner-EPs Kelly Souders and Brian Peterson and EP David Zucker looked at around 100 ideas for a second season, landing subject-wise on the harrowing anthrax attacks of 2001. From the perspective of Peterson, The Hot Zone: Anthrax was…

B.J. Novak’s previously untitled comedy anthology series for FX now has a title and fresh lineup of stars set to appear. Created, written and hosted by Novak, The Premise adds Ben Platt, Tracee Ellis Ross, Daniel Dae Kim, Lola Kirke, Soko, Jermaine Fowler, Ayo Edebiri, Eric Lange to its cast. Set to debut on FX on Hulu…

Even with the most recent watershed moments of Minari, Sound of Metal and Crazy Rich Asians, finding a place in Hollywood remains a challenge for Asian American and Pacific Islander creatives and talent. On Thursday Daniel Dae Kim, Nina Yang Bongiovi and Sanjay Sharma gathered for Amazon’s Asian & Pacific Islander…

EXCLUSIVE: Ken Jeong is set to star in a half-hour dramedy about life failures that is in the works at Amazon with Daniel Dae Kim producing. The I Can See Your Voice host and The Masked Singer panelist, who shot to fame with his role in The Hangover movies, is attached as the lead in Shoot the Moon. The single-camera…

Director Joe Penna apparently likes barren open spaces. The Brazilian filmmaker made a fine first film, Arctic, taking place on that frigid corner of the earth, and now he has switched to outer space as three team crew members, and unknowingly a fourth, head out on a mission to a colony on Mars but find big trouble…

Actor Daniel Dae Kim spoke out about the rise in anti-Asian violence at a congressional hearing, where he urged lawmakers to pass bills aimed at curbing hate crimes but also called out Republicans who declined to vote for a resolution last year condemning anti-Asian sentiment. “I was disheartened to find that for a…

I suppose it’s not fair to compare CGI animated movies about a boy — or girl — and their dragon, but if I must, let me just say this right off the top: I really prefer DreamWorks’ How to Train Your Dragon and both of its sequels to the latest entry from Walt Disney Animation Studios, Raya and the Last Dragon. It had…