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EXCLUSIVE: Minari director Lee Isaac Chung has parted ways with the Paramount and Bad Robot adaptation of Your Name. Sources indicate scheduling conflicts ultimately led to Chung leaving the project. Insiders say Paramount is acting fast to find his replacement, having reached out to several potential suitors. Chung…

These are good times for Lee Isaac Chung. The writer-director of the widely acclaimed Minari is up for Best Director at this weekend’s DGA awards, and his film is nominated for six BAFTA Awards including one for his directing. It is also up for the Best Picture Oscar and five other nominations including two for him in…

“Honestly, my head has not caught up to it,” Minari director/writer Lee Isaac Chung told Deadline in regards to the six Oscar nominations his American family drama received on Monday morning. “My heart is full but my head can’t wrap around what happened this morning.” Minari earned nominations for Best Director, Best…

Lee Isaac Chung’s Minari is an American film that tells the story of a Korean American family as they uproot from their more metropolitan life in California to a rural one in a small Arkansas town in search of the American dream. In case you didn’t catch on, this is a very American film. In A24’s drama, Steven Yeun…

For the second year in a row, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association has given its Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film to a movie (predominantly) in Korean. However, the twist this time around is that 2021 winner Minari is a wholly U.S. production (as opposed to last year's laureate Parasite). Minari, an A24…

Lee Isaac Chung's family drama Minari is named after a Korean herb that "comes in the pockets of immigrants, dies in the first year, thrives in the second, purifies the water and the soil around it." There couldn't be a more perfect analogy for this story about the American Dream. A24's Minari follows a…

In Minari, writer/director Lee Isaac Chung and Steven Yeun tell the story of a Korean immigrant family risking everything in pursuit of the American dream. Jacob (Yeun) uproots his family from 1980s Los Angeles, determined to start a farm in Arkansas, while his wife Monica (Yeri Han) grows weary of his optimism in the…

Lee Isaac Chung’s Minari starring Steven Yeun is very much an American story. Chung, who was born in Denver, Colorado, tells the story of an immigrant Korean family that has lived in America for some time as they adapt to their new farm life in a small Arkansas town. All that said, the A24 film was put in the Best…

MGM has signed a two-year second-look film production deal with Plan B Entertainment. As part of the new pact, Plan B's Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner have set several projects with the studio, including an original sweeping love story from writer and director Lee Isaac Chung and Cory Finley's film…

Just about a month before the South Korean phenomenon Parasite made history by sweeping several major categories at the Oscars including Best Picture, the warm and beautifully acted story of a Korean family striving to make a living on a farm in Arkansas, Minari, did the same thing at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival…

A24 has dropped the trailer for its Steven Yeun-led Korean immigrant drama Minari. The flick, written and directed by Lee Isaac Chung, took home the dramatic grand jury prize at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival. “We said we wanted a new start. This is it,” a hopeful Jacob (Yeun) tells his skeptical wife Monica (Yeri…

EXCLUSIVE: Lee Isaac Chung will rewrite and direct Paramount, Bad Robot and Toho’s live-action adaptation of Your Name, the reimagined adaptation of the 2016 animated romantic fantasy drama film which was an instant classic in Japan. Chung will work off the draft by Emily V. Gordon. The script was originally written…