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EXCLUSIVE: Magnolia Pictures has snapped up domestic rights to Hunt, the feature directorial from Squid Game Emmy nominated star Lee Jung-jae, which made its world premiere at this year’s Cannes Film Festival in the Midnight section. Magnolia Pictures plans a December theatrical release. A stylish espionage action…

While at the Cannes Film Festival last month I got the chance to sit down on the beach and talk with the multi-talented Lee Jung-jae, the SAG Award-winning and heavily Emmy-buzzed star of Netflix’s international phenomenon Squid Game. He was at the world’s most famous film festival though to premiere his first…

Lee Jung-jae is up there with Brad Pitt in his native Korea, but western audiences know him better as the beleaguered star of Netflix’s Squid Game. Fans of the ultra-violent show created by Hwang Dong-hyuk will be delighted to learn that Lee’s directing debut is just as hard-boiled: an '80s-set spy thriller film with…

Although a star for nearly 30 years in South Korean films, Lee Jung-Jae recently rocketed to international fame on a whole other level as the star of the television phenomenon, The Squid Game. All of that spotlight will add to interest in Hunt, which he not only stars, produces, co-wrote (with Jo Seung-Hee), but makes…

In Squid Game, lead character Seong Gi-hun is a down-on-his-luck gambling addict given a dangerous opportunity to win a fortune and turn his life around by playing deadly children's games against 456 other cash-strapped no-hopers. Lee Jung-jae, who plays Seong, has almost nothing in common with his alter-ego: he is…