Written and directed by Lee Isaac Chung, Minari tells the story of a Korean-American family that uproots from metropolitan Los Angeles to rural Arkansas to chase the American Dream. The film not only gives a different perspective of the immigrant experience but parallels Chung’s own life.
Chung, who was joined in the…
Steven Yeun and J.K. Simmons have been set to lead an A-list voice cast of Invincible, Amazon Prime Video’s eight-episode animated series adapting Robert Kirkman’s comic book series. Amazon greenlighted the hourlong series last June and is now planning to premiere it globally in 2020.
The streaming service said today…
The Walking Dead alum Steven Yeun is set to appear in the first season of CBS All Access’The Twilight Zone in the episode titled "The Traveler”, joining previously announced host and narrator Jordan Peele. Details of Yeun’s role are being kept under wraps. The CBS All Access series will be a modern reimagining of the…
Though Andrew Lincoln told San Diego Comic-Con this summer that his "relationship with Mr. Rick Grimes is far from over," The Walking Dead star is set to leave on November 4 the AMC series he has been on since the beginning – but not without a "thank you" and praise from cast mates present and past.
Starting off with…
Steven Yeun may be best known for his role as Glenn Rhee on The Walking Dead, but since the tragic death of his character (if you read the comics, you knew it was coming), he has been leaning into very genre-driven projects that have shown his range. From voice acting to the environmental drama Okja to Boots Riley’s…
Lee Chang-dong's drama Burning has been selected by South Korea as its submission for the Foreign Language Oscar race this year. Burning made its debut at Cannes in May where it won the FIPRESCI. It's also headed for Toronto, Fantastic Fest and the New York Film Festival.
The film, loosely based on Haruki Murakami's…
When Steven Yeun left his longtime role as the ill-fated Glenn on AMC’s mega-hit zombie apocalypse show The Walking Dead, he could have found it difficult to shake off that mantle. But at Cannes this year, Yeun has embraced a more unconventional thriller in the form of Lee Chang-dong’s Burning – loosely based on…
From marches on Main Street on the day after his inauguration to films and TV shows on the big screens and more, Donald Trump was all over the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. As today's unveiling of the U.S. Competition and World Cinema Competition Dramatic and Documentary categories plus the Midnight, Kids, NEXT, and…
EXCLUSIVE:Tessa Thompson, Lakeith Stanfield, Steven Yeun will star in first-time director Boots Riley’s drama Sorry to Bother You. The project is slated to go before the cameras this month in Oakland, CA where the critically acclaimed Fruitvale Station was filmed. Not surprisingly, Fruitvale Station‘s Nina Yang…
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…
Across YouTube, Facebook and Team Coco, Conan‘s Korea content has clocked a combined 8.5 million views. The biggest haul is being enjoyed by the “Fire” music video, in which the TBS late-night host and Korean-American actor Steven Yeun teamed up with J.Y. Park and K-pop superstars including the Wonder Girls. That…
SPOILER ALERT: This story contains details of tonight's episode of The Walking Dead.
“Without a doubt, this whole season has been completely ballistic,” says The Walking Dead’s Norman Reedus of Season 6, especially tonight’s penultimate episode and next week’s “hard-core” finale, as he calls it. Certainly, if the AMC…
