The final episodes of Captivating the King Season 1 were recently released on March 3, and now, many fans wonder if Season 2 is on the horizon.
Captivating the King is a South Korean drama series that follows a king named Lee In and a woman named Kang Hee-soo. The latter begins the series plotting revenge against the king, but the two end up falling in love with one another.
16 episodes comprised Season 1, first released on January 21 on tvN and Netflix.
Read full article on The Direct.
Captivating the King is a South Korean drama series that follows a king named Lee In and a woman named Kang Hee-soo. The latter begins the series plotting revenge against the king, but the two end up falling in love with one another.
16 episodes comprised Season 1, first released on January 21 on tvN and Netflix.
Read full article on The Direct.
- 3/5/2024
- by Nathan Johnson
- The Direct
Directed by Lee Joon-ik whose notable credits include the smash hits King And The Clown (2005) and The Throne (2015), Anarchist from Colony examines the life of Park Yeol (played by Lee Je-hoon), who led an anarchist organization which organized independence fighting movements and sought to assassinate the Japanese crown prince Hirohito during the Colonial Era.
The film is slated for release in June and will be distributed by Megabox Plus M.
source via Kobiz, photos via Daum...
The film is slated for release in June and will be distributed by Megabox Plus M.
source via Kobiz, photos via Daum...
- 5/13/2017
- by Lady J.
- AsianMoviePulse
The ever-reliable thespian Song Kang-ho, after a big 2013, in which he featured in Snowpiercer, The Face Reader and The Attorney, had a quiet 2014 before appearing in Lee Joon-ik’s smash hit period drama The Throne and Kim Jee-woon’s Colonial Era action-thriller The Age of Shadows. This year, Song seems to be hitting his stride with the following films.
Taxi Driver
Sure to stir up many memories and much debate, it depicts the story of a taxi driver and the late Jürgen Hinzpeter (played by Thomas Kretschmann), a German journalist who reported on 1980 Gwangju Uprising, when the Korean military invoked martial law and slaughtered citizen in Gwangju. The film is to be directed by Jang Hoon of Secret Reunion (2010) and stars Song as the titular character.
In 2003, Hinzpeter was awarded with the Song Kun-ho Journalism Prize in Korea and made a thank you speech that he was grateful for a courageous taxi driver,...
Taxi Driver
Sure to stir up many memories and much debate, it depicts the story of a taxi driver and the late Jürgen Hinzpeter (played by Thomas Kretschmann), a German journalist who reported on 1980 Gwangju Uprising, when the Korean military invoked martial law and slaughtered citizen in Gwangju. The film is to be directed by Jang Hoon of Secret Reunion (2010) and stars Song as the titular character.
In 2003, Hinzpeter was awarded with the Song Kun-ho Journalism Prize in Korea and made a thank you speech that he was grateful for a courageous taxi driver,...
- 4/30/2017
- by Lady J.
- AsianMoviePulse
Chung Yoon-chul’s war adventure stars Lee Jung-jae and Yeo Jin-gu.
South Korean sales company M-Line distribution has picked up Fox International Productions’ upcoming Korean production Warriors Of The Dawn (a.k.a. The Proxy Soldiers) (pictured).
Directed by Chung Yoon-chul (Marathon), the period war action adventure stars Lee Jung-jae (Assassination) and Yeo Jin-gu (Hwayi: A Monster Boy).
Back in 1592 when the Japanese were invading Korea - then the kingdom of Joseon, rich families would hire poor men to take the place of their sons in the draft. Tasked with fighting the enemy while supporting their impoverished families back home, the proxy soldiers were known to be superior combatants.
Lee plays a veteran proxy soldier who aids 18-year-old crown prince Gwanghae (played by Yeo), whose father the king fled to safety in China while ordering his young son to take over the country’s defense.
Warriors Of The Dawn is set for local release on May...
South Korean sales company M-Line distribution has picked up Fox International Productions’ upcoming Korean production Warriors Of The Dawn (a.k.a. The Proxy Soldiers) (pictured).
Directed by Chung Yoon-chul (Marathon), the period war action adventure stars Lee Jung-jae (Assassination) and Yeo Jin-gu (Hwayi: A Monster Boy).
Back in 1592 when the Japanese were invading Korea - then the kingdom of Joseon, rich families would hire poor men to take the place of their sons in the draft. Tasked with fighting the enemy while supporting their impoverished families back home, the proxy soldiers were known to be superior combatants.
Lee plays a veteran proxy soldier who aids 18-year-old crown prince Gwanghae (played by Yeo), whose father the king fled to safety in China while ordering his young son to take over the country’s defense.
Warriors Of The Dawn is set for local release on May...
- 4/26/2017
- by hjnoh2007@gmail.com (Jean Noh)
- ScreenDaily
The Walking Dead fans know Chris Hardwick as the host of Talking Dead, but a new promo video features him as the host of the faux talk show Reviewing Evil. With special guests Milla Jovovich and Ali Larter on hand to talk about Resident Evil: The Final Chapter, Hardwick begins to succumb to the zombifying effects of the T-virus…
“Things escalated quickly when Chris Hardwick sits down to chat with the stars of the #ResidentEvilMovie – Milla Jovovich and Ali Larter.
Resident Evil: The Final Chapter synopsis: “In “Resident Evil: The Final Chapter,” Alice (Milla Jovovich) is the only survivor of what was meant to be humanity’s final stand against the undead. Now, she must return to where the nightmare began – The Hive in Raccoon City, where the Umbrella Corporation is gathering its forces for a final strike against the only remaining survivors of the apocalypse. The film was written...
“Things escalated quickly when Chris Hardwick sits down to chat with the stars of the #ResidentEvilMovie – Milla Jovovich and Ali Larter.
Resident Evil: The Final Chapter synopsis: “In “Resident Evil: The Final Chapter,” Alice (Milla Jovovich) is the only survivor of what was meant to be humanity’s final stand against the undead. Now, she must return to where the nightmare began – The Hive in Raccoon City, where the Umbrella Corporation is gathering its forces for a final strike against the only remaining survivors of the apocalypse. The film was written...
- 1/27/2017
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Welcome back to the Weekend Warrior, your weekly look at the new movies hitting theaters this weekend, as well as other cool events and things to check out.
This Past Weekend:
As per my Thursday update, M. Night Shyamalan’s thriller Split ended up winning the weekend but with way more than anyone, including myself, predicted, with more than $40 million for its opening weekend. That’s pretty impressive, and his first movie to open at that level since 2010’s The Last Airbender. Meanwhile, Vin Diesel’s sequel xXx: The Return of Xander Cage ended up making around where I predicted, taking second place with $20.1 million, not a great sign for the continuation of that franchise. Michael Keaton’s The Founder ended up right around where I predicted with $3.4 million, ending up just outside the Top 10. Hidden Figures, La La Land and Sing continued to do well with minimal drop-offs.
This...
This Past Weekend:
As per my Thursday update, M. Night Shyamalan’s thriller Split ended up winning the weekend but with way more than anyone, including myself, predicted, with more than $40 million for its opening weekend. That’s pretty impressive, and his first movie to open at that level since 2010’s The Last Airbender. Meanwhile, Vin Diesel’s sequel xXx: The Return of Xander Cage ended up making around where I predicted, taking second place with $20.1 million, not a great sign for the continuation of that franchise. Michael Keaton’s The Founder ended up right around where I predicted with $3.4 million, ending up just outside the Top 10. Hidden Figures, La La Land and Sing continued to do well with minimal drop-offs.
This...
- 1/25/2017
- by Edward Douglas
- LRMonline.com
SYDNEY -- Maori actor Temuera Morrison is the face of a new anti-piracy campaign launched Tuesday by New Zealand's Federation Against Copyright Theft as it seeks to put a dent in piracy that costs the local film industry NZ$70.89 million ($53 million) a year.
Morrison, who starred In Lee Tamahori's "Once Were Warriors", is featured on 4,000 posters distributed to 2,700 secondary schools around the country with the tagline "Buy Original: See Original". The national education campaign is supported by the New Zealand ministry of education.
On the poster, Morrison says: "Movie piracy is now a global epidemic, and we all have to work towards stamping it out. That means you, your family, your friends, their family, their friends. We can all help by refusing to be a part of this illicit and illegal trade."
Said NZFACT executive director Tony Eaton: "It has never been more urgent that the younger generation understand the moral and commercial value of creative copyright. Our students are the filmmakers and creators of tomorrow, and it is important that we all join together to ensure the film and television community survives to provide jobs for them in the future."
The new campaign follows a report prepared by Los Angeles-based management consultants LEK for NZFACT and the MPA that shows piracy cost the film industry in New Zealand an estimated 25% of its potential market in 2005.
Morrison, who starred In Lee Tamahori's "Once Were Warriors", is featured on 4,000 posters distributed to 2,700 secondary schools around the country with the tagline "Buy Original: See Original". The national education campaign is supported by the New Zealand ministry of education.
On the poster, Morrison says: "Movie piracy is now a global epidemic, and we all have to work towards stamping it out. That means you, your family, your friends, their family, their friends. We can all help by refusing to be a part of this illicit and illegal trade."
Said NZFACT executive director Tony Eaton: "It has never been more urgent that the younger generation understand the moral and commercial value of creative copyright. Our students are the filmmakers and creators of tomorrow, and it is important that we all join together to ensure the film and television community survives to provide jobs for them in the future."
The new campaign follows a report prepared by Los Angeles-based management consultants LEK for NZFACT and the MPA that shows piracy cost the film industry in New Zealand an estimated 25% of its potential market in 2005.
Screened Toronto International Film Festival
TORONTO -- Spike Lee gets uncomfortably close to the grass roots of gang culture in America in Sucker Free City. Focusing on a diverse group of mostly young characters in three San Francisco districts, Lee, working from a rock-solid script from Alex Tse, portrays a volatile subculture that's easy to get sucked into but damn near impossible to quit.
Reverting from recent form, where Lee used overstatement and bombast to make his points, the subtle though tough-minded approach to an unnerving subject here makes this one of the best films In Lee's career. He shot the film for Showtime, but here's hoping that Sucker Free City receives more festival exposure and theatrical playdates.
The white Wade family, gentrified out of a once affordable home in the now trendy Mission District, must move to the neglected, mostly black community of Hunters Point. There they suffer daily confrontations with the vicious V-Dub gang, especially the taunts of hotheaded Leon (Malieek Straughter).
Nick Wade (Ben Crowley), 19, is anxious to move up in the corporate world but must please execs by arranging drug deals and supplement his meager salary with credit card fraud.
K-Luv (Anthony Mackie), a gangbanger with a more stable personality, tries to get Leon off the Wade family's back. He sees Nick, a computer-savvy guy, as someone who can help him in getting into the business of bootleg CDs.
Meanwhile, trouble is brewing between the black gang and the Grant Street Boys, a Chinatown gang, over control of this pirated music. Lincoln Ma (Ken Leung), who collects protection money for a triad crime boss, is playing a double game of jeopardy: He skims money off the top of his collections even as he conducts a clandestine affair with the boss' beloved daughter (T.V. Carpio).
The plot threads allow us to crisscross town to survey the current state of street gang culture in San Francisco. While judging no one, Lee and Tse paint a grim portrait of a world that refuses to change, as it pulls each new generation into a tragic vortex of crime and destroyed lives. They make no bones about the allure of this dangerous milieu or why kids look up to gangsters glorified by rap music and "respected" by people on the street.
Mackie's K-Luv is the closest thing to the film's conscience. A criminal and killer, he nevertheless tries to steer kids toward education and looks for low-risk crime. Crowley's Nick and Leung's Lincoln Ma both are searching desperately to improve their social condition but know no means other than crime.
Cinematographer Cesar R. Charlone shifts color schemes to fit the mood and style of the film's different worlds. Colors often are supersaturated, especially in Chinatown
other times color drains away, bathing, for example, high-rise offices in blue, gray and white.
Barry Alexander Brown's editing is crisp, as is Lee's direction within each scene. Some may wish that Lee had subtitled the V-Dub street lingo just as he does the Cantonese, but the point is always clear: In Sucker Free City, no one knows it, but everyone is a sucker.
SUCKER FREE CITY
Showtime
40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks
Credits:
Director: Spike Lee
Writer: Alex Tse
Producer: Preston Holmes
Executive producers: Spike Lee, Sam Kitt
Director of photography: Cesar R. Charlone
Production designer: Kitty Douris-Bates
Music: Terence Blanchard
Editor: Barry Alexander Brown
Cast:
Nick Wade: Ben Crowley
Lincoln Ma: Ken Leung
K-Luv: Anthony Mackie
Sleepy: Darris Love
Laura Wade: Samantha Wade
Angela: T.V. Carpio
Leon: Malieek Straughter
Anderson Wade: John Savage
Cleo Wade: Kathy Baker
No MPAA rating
Running time -- 116 minutes...
TORONTO -- Spike Lee gets uncomfortably close to the grass roots of gang culture in America in Sucker Free City. Focusing on a diverse group of mostly young characters in three San Francisco districts, Lee, working from a rock-solid script from Alex Tse, portrays a volatile subculture that's easy to get sucked into but damn near impossible to quit.
Reverting from recent form, where Lee used overstatement and bombast to make his points, the subtle though tough-minded approach to an unnerving subject here makes this one of the best films In Lee's career. He shot the film for Showtime, but here's hoping that Sucker Free City receives more festival exposure and theatrical playdates.
The white Wade family, gentrified out of a once affordable home in the now trendy Mission District, must move to the neglected, mostly black community of Hunters Point. There they suffer daily confrontations with the vicious V-Dub gang, especially the taunts of hotheaded Leon (Malieek Straughter).
Nick Wade (Ben Crowley), 19, is anxious to move up in the corporate world but must please execs by arranging drug deals and supplement his meager salary with credit card fraud.
K-Luv (Anthony Mackie), a gangbanger with a more stable personality, tries to get Leon off the Wade family's back. He sees Nick, a computer-savvy guy, as someone who can help him in getting into the business of bootleg CDs.
Meanwhile, trouble is brewing between the black gang and the Grant Street Boys, a Chinatown gang, over control of this pirated music. Lincoln Ma (Ken Leung), who collects protection money for a triad crime boss, is playing a double game of jeopardy: He skims money off the top of his collections even as he conducts a clandestine affair with the boss' beloved daughter (T.V. Carpio).
The plot threads allow us to crisscross town to survey the current state of street gang culture in San Francisco. While judging no one, Lee and Tse paint a grim portrait of a world that refuses to change, as it pulls each new generation into a tragic vortex of crime and destroyed lives. They make no bones about the allure of this dangerous milieu or why kids look up to gangsters glorified by rap music and "respected" by people on the street.
Mackie's K-Luv is the closest thing to the film's conscience. A criminal and killer, he nevertheless tries to steer kids toward education and looks for low-risk crime. Crowley's Nick and Leung's Lincoln Ma both are searching desperately to improve their social condition but know no means other than crime.
Cinematographer Cesar R. Charlone shifts color schemes to fit the mood and style of the film's different worlds. Colors often are supersaturated, especially in Chinatown
other times color drains away, bathing, for example, high-rise offices in blue, gray and white.
Barry Alexander Brown's editing is crisp, as is Lee's direction within each scene. Some may wish that Lee had subtitled the V-Dub street lingo just as he does the Cantonese, but the point is always clear: In Sucker Free City, no one knows it, but everyone is a sucker.
SUCKER FREE CITY
Showtime
40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks
Credits:
Director: Spike Lee
Writer: Alex Tse
Producer: Preston Holmes
Executive producers: Spike Lee, Sam Kitt
Director of photography: Cesar R. Charlone
Production designer: Kitty Douris-Bates
Music: Terence Blanchard
Editor: Barry Alexander Brown
Cast:
Nick Wade: Ben Crowley
Lincoln Ma: Ken Leung
K-Luv: Anthony Mackie
Sleepy: Darris Love
Laura Wade: Samantha Wade
Angela: T.V. Carpio
Leon: Malieek Straughter
Anderson Wade: John Savage
Cleo Wade: Kathy Baker
No MPAA rating
Running time -- 116 minutes...
- 9/14/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Colorful performances and energetic direction can't quite make up for some truly banal, soapy scripting in "When Love Comes", a quirky, equal-opportunity love story.
Part of the Outfest '99 lineup, the New Zealand import isn't likely to woo many viewers beyond the festival circuit.
Rena Owen, who was so memorable as an abused wife In Lee Tamahori's "Once Were Warriors", does some fine character work here as Katie Keen, a down-at-the-heels pop diva whose Top 40 days are well behind her.
Reduced to performing her old hits at noisy bars -- her biggest claim to fame was a No. 1 song in America during the late '70s -- the New Zealand native attempts to thwart a threatening nervous breakdown by coming home to revisit her roots and write a one-woman show.
There to lend a ready shoulder to cry on is her longtime pal Stephen Simon Prast), who's having boyfriend trouble with Mark (Dean O'Gorman), a much younger, budding songwriter who spends most of his life in a drug-and-alcohol-tinged haze.
Having problems with commitment, Mark becomes even more confused when he meets up with Fig (Nancy Brunning) and Sally (Sophia Hawthorne), a pair of aspiring rockers. While drummer Fig is romantically involved with guitarist Sally, she also has a thing for Mark and his edgy lyrics.
To add to all the emotional complications, Katie's nice-guy American boyfriend/manager Eddie Simon Westaway) shows up unannounced and joins in all the dysfunctional festivities. He declares his love for her; she, of course, isn't sure what she wants.
Neither is filmmaker Garth Maxwell. While his direction has a nice visual zip, the script, which he wrote along with Rex Pilgrim and Peter Wells, is awash in self-indulgent characters who spend most of the time taking each other's emotional temperatures while still trying to be interesting and sympathetic. Their group analysis sessions may be therapeutic, but they don't do much for the hapless viewer.
Despite all the "woe is me" dialogue, the cast, following Owen's very capable example, nevertheless manages to create an appealing, sexually diverse landscape that has been vibrantly captured on film by cinematographer Darryl Ward, who makes his feature debut here after a successful career in music videos and commercials.
WHEN LOVE COMES
Jour De Fete Films
MF Films in association with
the New Zealand Film Commission
Director: Garth Maxwell
Screenwriters: Garth Maxwell, Rex Pilgrim, Peter Wells
Director of photography: Darryl Ward
Production designer: Grace Mok
Editor: Cushla Dillon
Costume designer: Kirsty Cameron
Music: Chris Anderton
Color/stereo
Cast:
Katie: Rena Owen
Mark: Dean O'Gorman
Stephen: Simon Prast
Fig: Nancy Brunning
Sally: Sophia Hawthorne
Eddie: Simon Westaway
Running time -- 94 minutes
No MPAA rating...
Part of the Outfest '99 lineup, the New Zealand import isn't likely to woo many viewers beyond the festival circuit.
Rena Owen, who was so memorable as an abused wife In Lee Tamahori's "Once Were Warriors", does some fine character work here as Katie Keen, a down-at-the-heels pop diva whose Top 40 days are well behind her.
Reduced to performing her old hits at noisy bars -- her biggest claim to fame was a No. 1 song in America during the late '70s -- the New Zealand native attempts to thwart a threatening nervous breakdown by coming home to revisit her roots and write a one-woman show.
There to lend a ready shoulder to cry on is her longtime pal Stephen Simon Prast), who's having boyfriend trouble with Mark (Dean O'Gorman), a much younger, budding songwriter who spends most of his life in a drug-and-alcohol-tinged haze.
Having problems with commitment, Mark becomes even more confused when he meets up with Fig (Nancy Brunning) and Sally (Sophia Hawthorne), a pair of aspiring rockers. While drummer Fig is romantically involved with guitarist Sally, she also has a thing for Mark and his edgy lyrics.
To add to all the emotional complications, Katie's nice-guy American boyfriend/manager Eddie Simon Westaway) shows up unannounced and joins in all the dysfunctional festivities. He declares his love for her; she, of course, isn't sure what she wants.
Neither is filmmaker Garth Maxwell. While his direction has a nice visual zip, the script, which he wrote along with Rex Pilgrim and Peter Wells, is awash in self-indulgent characters who spend most of the time taking each other's emotional temperatures while still trying to be interesting and sympathetic. Their group analysis sessions may be therapeutic, but they don't do much for the hapless viewer.
Despite all the "woe is me" dialogue, the cast, following Owen's very capable example, nevertheless manages to create an appealing, sexually diverse landscape that has been vibrantly captured on film by cinematographer Darryl Ward, who makes his feature debut here after a successful career in music videos and commercials.
WHEN LOVE COMES
Jour De Fete Films
MF Films in association with
the New Zealand Film Commission
Director: Garth Maxwell
Screenwriters: Garth Maxwell, Rex Pilgrim, Peter Wells
Director of photography: Darryl Ward
Production designer: Grace Mok
Editor: Cushla Dillon
Costume designer: Kirsty Cameron
Music: Chris Anderton
Color/stereo
Cast:
Katie: Rena Owen
Mark: Dean O'Gorman
Stephen: Simon Prast
Fig: Nancy Brunning
Sally: Sophia Hawthorne
Eddie: Simon Westaway
Running time -- 94 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 7/22/1999
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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