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Crazy Rich Asians director Jon M. Chu is squarely in Rose Tico’s corner. Chu has taken to social media to urge Disney+ to make a Star Wars series revolving around Resistance member Rose Tico, played by Kelly Marie Tran in the Star Wars films The Last Jedi and The Rise of Skywalker. “Ok @disneyplus. Put me in coach…

EXCLUSIVE: Jon M. Chu we hear is set to produce a feature adaptation of Mary H.K. Choi’s bestselling YA romance novel Permanent Record for Warner Bros. He is also in talks to direct. Published by Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, the novel explores how social media influences relationships every day. Pablo…

Close to a week after the news broke about Crazy Rich Asians screenwriter Adele Lim leaving the sequels due to a huge pay disparity between her and co-writer Peter Chiarelli, director Jon M. Chu responded to the situation Monday championing Lim on Twitter, and explaining the challenging intricacies of…

Lin-Manuel Miranda and the In the Heights movie crew surprised on Friday by turning out for a high school performance of the play at New York's George Washington High. Crazy Rich Asians' Jon M. Chu, who will direct the film, recorded the reaction when Miranda took the stage. "We start shooting #InTheHeightsMovie on…

Toggling between the Apple TV series Home Before Dark, a Netflix project on the trapped Thai boys real life drama of 2018, the In the Heights movie and more, Jon M. Chu has found a small screen home. The Crazy Rich Asians director has signed a four-year overall deal with 20th Century Fox Television. Joining recent…

Netflix is joining forces with SK Global Entertainment (Crazy Rich Asians), director Jon M. Chu (Crazy Rich Asians), and Nattawut "Baz" Poonpiriya (Bad Genius) to tell the story of the 2018 Thai soccer team cave rescue. Netflix and SK Global Entertainment have been granted the rights by the 13 Thumluang Company – the…

Crazy Rich Asians has of course swept in a much-needed new era for actors of Asian descent, given that it's the first all-Asian cast studio film since The Joy Luck Club 25 years ago. It certainly rocked the box office, but when director Jon M. Chu set out on the project, rather than being crushed by the weight of its…

SPOILER ALERT: This article contains details from the premiere episode of Good Trouble. Gone are the days of the enjoyably schmaltzy and sugar-coated melodramatic coming-of-age series about young adulthood (I love me some Dawson’s Creek) and welcome to a new era of millennial-driven shows that are inclusive and tackle…

The highest-grossing romantic comedy in a decade, which has taken in over $238 million worldwide, Crazy Rich Asians looks like it was made with an impossibly large budget, though this wasn't in fact the case. A star-studded studio smash set between Singapore and New York, which examines the lives of the ultra-wealthy…

USC boosters Karen Wong and Scott Lee have established the Jon M. Chu APAA Cinematic Arts Scholarship, which will be awarded to students whose projects focus on Asian Pacific culture in film, television and interactive media. "I could not be more honored to have my name included in this beautiful scholarship," said…

The era of Peak TV hit a record-breaking peak in 2018 with the relative newbies of Netflix, Amazon, Hulu and Apple's soon to debut small screen service beating out the broadcasters and cablers for the first time ever. Though down by a notch from FX boss John Landgraf's prediction earlier this year that there would be…

Crazy Rich Asians was the surprise sensation of the year, and its hot streak continued Thursday with two nominations for the 76th annual Golden Globes, including Best Motion Picture (Comedy or Musical). Constance Wu got the other nomination, with her buoyant portrayal of New York professor Rachel Chu earning mention…