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Taiwan has selected Lou Yi-An’s Goddamned Asura as the nation’s pick for the 2023 International Feature Film Academy Award. The feature was released six months ago and, having picked up a Golden Horse and three Taipei Film Awards, could be in with a shot. White Lies creator Lou’s third film is described as a…

Park Chan-wook's crime drama Decision To Leave has been selected by South Korea to represent the country in the Best International Feature category at the 95th Academy Awards. The film originally debuted in Cannes where Park won the Best Director prize. It is also teed up to screen at the New York Film Festival this…

The 60th New York Film Festival on Tuesday unveiled its main slate of movies from established and upcoming directors including Cannes’ Palme d'Or winner Triangle of Sadness by Ruben Östlund, Claire Denis' Stars at Noon (tied for Cannes Grand Prize), Park Chan-wook's Decision to Leave (Cannes Best Director) and Charlott…

SPOILER ALERT: If you still have questions after watching Decision to Leave, then watch our interview with filmmaker Park Chan-wook. If you haven’t seen the movie yet, however, you might want to wait.  While The Handmaiden dropped jaws in a lot of ways from kink to its opulence at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival, Decisio…

Coming away from Cannes this year with his cop-suspect romance noir Decision to Leave, Park Chan-wook told Deadline recently that his next project is the HBO series The Sympathizer based on Viet Thanh Nguyen’s novel about Vietnamese-Americans in the mid-'70s. While a series can take some time to get off the conveyor…

While Park Chan-wook’s The Handmaiden dealt with a lot of sex and kink in its story of a handmaiden who gets into the good graces of her Japanese heiress, only to defraud her, the Korean filmmaker in his latest Decision to Leave, dotes on a detective Hae-Joon (Park Hae-il) who is head over heels with a very possible…

Detective Hae-joon is investigating the death of a man who fell from a mountain in Park Chan-wook's latest film in competition at Cannes, Decision To Leave. It’s been six years since the director’s last movie here, The Handmaiden, which made a splash at Cannes in 2016. Will Decision To Leave get the same unanimous…

Park Chan-wook made a big impact in Cannes in 2004 with his lurid revenge drama Oldboy, which took the Grand Prix from Quentin Tarantino's jury, made a cult star of Choi Min-sik, and alerted audiences everywhere to the perils of eating live sushi. Since then, the director has been a semi-regular fixture at the…

EXCLUSIVE: Park Chan-wook’s anticipated Cannes Competition title Decision to Leave has sold to arthouse streamer, theatrical distributor and producer Mubi in what we understand to be the company’s biggest film deal to date. Mubi, which has made waves in the past 12 months for its voracious appetite for significant…

EXCLUSIVE: After officially hanging up his Iron Man suit in Avengers: Endgame, Robert Downey Jr. looks to have found his next big role to tackle while also marking his first starring TV venture. Sources tell Deadline, HBO has ordered the A24 drama series adaptation of Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Th…

Film lovers roll up. Here's our annual list of movies that could have festivals drooling in 2021. In the age of Covid-19, could has never felt more operative. With Sundance and Berlin reimagining their events next year, traditional festival paths are already diminishing, but here's to hoping that the pandemic eases…

EXCLUSIVE UPDATE, 10/14/20 02:00AM: Korean major CJ’s in-house sales arm, which previously handled international rights on Parasite, has boarded sales on Park Chan-Wook’s next movie Decision To Leave, Deadline has learned. As per our earlier story, the film, a mystery romance, begins shooting this month. PREVIOUSLY, 10…