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Major Hollywood actors including Leonardo DiCaprio will “probably” become part of Squid Game if there is a third season, according to the show’s Emmy-winning director Hwang Dong-hyuk, who said Netflix has upped budget for season two and he has now settled on the games. The director of Netflix’s most-watched show of…

Squid Game star Lee Jung-jae made Emmy history tonight as the first first foreign-language actor to win Lead Actor in a Drama Series — he was also the first such actor to ever be nominated. While Lee was Deadline’s predicted winner in the category, he took home the trophy against a packed field that included Jason…

EXCLUSIVE: The eve of his potential historic night at the Emmys, Squid Game star Lee Jung-jae looks to have found his first major American studio role following that breakout in a property more popular then the Netflix global phenomenon. Sources tell Deadline that Lee has landed the male lead in the new Disney+ Star Wa…

Like the Drama Series contest, none of the nominees for Lead Actor or Actress were in the race last year. Four of the six actors nominated this time around have been to this rodeo before, even if only one of them has a lead actor Emmy to prove it. Interestingly, though, Jeremy Strong won this two years ago, and Brian…

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…

Squid Game may be the most watched Netflix original series ever, but for the Emmy-nominated stars of the Korean horror thriller, it's all very personal. "I am extremely grateful and thankful to all of the global audiences who have shown so much love for Squid Game," Lee Jung-jae said of the huge and…

Admit it, Emmy voters, there's a very slim chance you'll have enough time to binge all the terrific new and returning dramas available via broadcast, cable and streaming this season. And how to prioritize, really? Yellowjackets should be a mandatory first stop, but you might want to cleanse your palate with The Gilded…

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…

The 75th Cannes Film Festival, which runs May 17-28, was already due to be a starry affair with the likes of Tom Cruise in Top Gun: Maverick and Baz Luhrmann's Elvis screening out of competition. Today it got even hotter with a strong Official Selection that should make for glamorous red carpets, but one that will…