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The journey from page to screen for Pachinko began in 2017, on a plane ride from London to New York. The transatlantic flight was a typical commute for Soo Hugh, who at the time served as executive producer and co-showrunner on the first season of AMC's The Terror. Nearly seven hours in the air provided an opportunity…

The multigenerational saga of Pachinko will continue at Apple TV+, which said Friday that it has renewed the family drama for a second season. The series comes from creator-showrunner Soo Hugh and executive producers Theresa Kang-Lowe and Michael Ellenberg. The renewal comes before the Season 1 finale, titled “Chapter…

FINAL UPDATE, 4 PM: Oscarcast producers Will Packer and Shayla Cowan have opened the envelope on the final batch of presenters for the 94th annual Academy Awards on Sunday. Josh Brolin, Jacob Elordi, Jake Gyllenhaal, Jason Momoa, Jill Scott, J.K. Simmons, Serena Williams, Venus Williams and Rachel Zegler round out the…

Oscar winner Yuh-Jung Youn, who took Supporting Actress in April for Minari, along with a number of her recent fellow acting nominees including Maria Bakalova, Andra Day, Vanessa Kirby, Leslie Odom Jr., Paul Raci, and Steven Yeun, are among the new class of 395 artists and executives who have been invited to join the…

Just like he did at the 2019 BET Awards and the 2020 Primetime Emmy Awards, Tyler Perry delivered another rousing speech, this time at the 2021 Oscars on Sunday. "I would hope that we would refuse hate," Perry said during his powerful address while receiving the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award in one of the…

Although it was the streamers in this Oscar Year of the Pandemic that had hoped to break through in the big categories, in the end it was the traditional major studios — mostly thanks to their specialty divisions — that ruled the day at the 93rd annual Academy Awards. Netflix has with the most wins with seven, but the…

The 93rd Academy Awards had no host, no masks, no Zoom, and almost no audience. There's a lot of things the Oscars weren't tonight, but lackluster thankfully wasn't one of them overall. Hollywood's biggest night wasn't exactly the movie unto itself that producers Jesse Collins, Stacey Sher and Steven Soderbergh…

Veteran actress Yuh-Jung Youn made history when she became the first South Korean actress ever to receive an Oscar nomination in the supporting actress category, and again made history tonight as the first Korean ever to win an acting Oscar for her portrayal as the feisty grandma in Lee Isaac Chung’s Minari. A visibly…

Another virtual ceremony, another missing red carpet? Not for the Oscars. Just as the Academy somewhat controversially brought the nominees to the show in real life, rather than attempting the fully virtual shows we’ve seen for Emmy, Golden Globe and SAG awards, the Oscars kicked off in style Sunday with a real red…

In Lee Isaac Chung's Minari, actress Yuh-Jung Youn plays the grandmother who swoops in from South Korea to the small Arkansas town where her Korean-American family have made their home, delightfully disrupting their lives. With her abundant charm and unfiltered ways, she makes a significant impact in this heartwarming…

Minari actress Yuh-Jung Youn received the biggest laugh of the night at the virtual BAFTAs this eve when she joked that she was happy to be crowned best supporting actress by the org's voters because Brits are "snobbish". Receiving the award virtually from presenter David Oyelowo, a visibly shocked Yuh-Jung Youn also…

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…