South Korea's Bong Joon-ho has been a familiar sight in Cannes since 2006, when word of his delirious Han River monster romp The Host swept the Croisette after screening in Directors’ Fortnight. Since then, while his English and dress sense quietly improved, director Bong has always returned with a surprise, making…

EXCLUSIVE: Okja, the Netflix parable film about a supersized pig and the theme of treatment of animals raised for food, and Bleecker Street’s military drama Megan Leavey, about the bond between a Marine and her combat dog, both have been named Outstanding Feature Film at 32nd annual Genesis Awards. Presented by the…

A column chronicling conversations and events on the awards circuit. Is Wonder the latest entry into this season’s awards battle? When Lionsgate moved the film from its original date to mid November some pundits misread that as an indication they were preparing for an Oscar run, but the studio actually just wanted to…

Bong Joon-Ho, the South Korean director whose film Okja was the subject of much controversy at the Cannes Film Festival last month, has said that he hopes the debate following the film will become a "signal flare" in establishing new rules for similar films. According to the Yonhap News Agency, Bong told journalists…

Netflix's Okja has hit another stumbling block as the sci-fi drama looks set to be boycotted from South Korean director Bong Joon-ho's home turf. According to the Korea Times, South Korea's three largest exhibitors – CJ CGV, Lotte Cinema and Megabox – are poised to shut out the Tilda Swinton, Jake Gyllenhaal and Paul…

Netflix CEO Reed Hastings was happy to have the fight Netflix found itself in with French theater chains this month at the Cannes Film Festival — it just gave his company’s two competition films Okja and The Meyerowitz Stories more exposure, he said today. He also doubled down against the exhibition business, again…

The Edinburgh International Film Festival has unveiled its full program for its upcoming 71st edition. This year's fest will showcase a total of 151 features from 46 countries including 17 world premieres, 12 international premieres, nine European premieres and 69 UK premieres. In addition to the previously announced…

There is a youth surge going on in Cannes and it is all up on the screen. I have been to many of these Cannes fests, but I can’t remember one that featured so many outstanding performances from the under-21 set, and most of them are in movies their age group are not even old enough to see. I was reminded of this…

If there was one truth to come out of the blighted Okja press screening in Cannes two days ago, it was this: for all the am-dram booing of the Netflix logo at the film’s start (and this reporter bore witness to just as much, if not more, cheering for the VOD giant’s Croisette debut), by its end there was only room for…

Netflix might have had a spotty day in Cannes, what with a technically challenged early-morning press screening for its first Cannes Film Festival contender Okja, as well as some trade and newspaper headlines that quite frankly misrepresented that incident. But Friday evening’s Okja gala at the Grand Lumiere Theatre…

Cannes just can't seem to win with Netflix. The first-ever film from the streaming service to premiere in Competition here, Bong Joon-Ho's Okja, was marred by technical difficulties at its press screening this morning, prompting the fest to hastily issue a mea culpa. What's more, reports from inside the Palais are…

Okja director Bong Joon-Ho and Tilda Swinton used their Cannes Film Festival press conference today to defend their Netflix film, the competition title that has the fest buzzing but not for the reasons a movie usually does. “In fact, I loved working with Netflix, they gave me total freedom, in terms of the casting…