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The 29th Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival has selected actor Lee Byung-hun as the featured guest for this year’s Actor in Focus, titled The Master: Lee Byung-Hun.

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A true master of his craft, Lee has demonstrated exceptional range across genres both on screen and off, earning recognition as a global artist and one of Korea’s most iconic actors—hence the title The Master: Lee Byung-hun for this year’s Actor in Focus.

This year’s Actor in Focus will present ten films spanning Lee Byung-hun’s remarkable 30-year acting career: Joint Security Area (2000), Bungee Jumping of Their Own (2001), A Bittersweet Life (2005), Once in a Summer (2006), I Saw the Devil (2010), Masquerade (2012), Inside Men (2015), The Fortress (2017), The Man Standing Next (2019), and Concrete Utopia (2023).

Lee’s rise as a screen icon began early, with unforgettable performances in films like Joint Security Area, Bungee Jumping of Their Own,...

Composer Jung Jaeil needed a translator for his session of Sound & Screen Television but he knew exactly what to say in English when he was asked for teasers about the third and final season of Squid Game.

“I’m not allowed,” he declared.

But Jung did admit he “poured my heart and soul into the score for Season 3” to help realize the vision of director Hwang Dong-hyuk. In fact, it was his respect for Hwang’s work on the Korean series The Fortress that first persuaded him to create the music for the hit Netflix show.

Jung Jae Il at Deadline’s Sound & Screen Television Jc Olivera/Deadline

Jung spoke on the Sound & Screen panel about having to balance elements like blood and massacre with a little bit of humor.

“Season 2 has a lot more character than Season 1,” he said through his translator. One of his favorite parts was creating...

First published in 1977, Heavy Metal Magazine is back with a brand-new Issue #1 that is packed with 232 pages of genre greatness from some of the best creators in comics. With over 73,000 copies ordered, this is one of the mag's largest print runs ever, and we have all the details, including information on creators, variant covers, and availability:

From the Press Release: After its enormously successful Kickstarter campaign last year, Heavy Metal Magazine has officially relaunched with its brand new Issue #1 (Legacy #321) out now. Featuring a monumental 232 pages of mind-bending visuals and boundary-pushing content from both returning legends and breakout creators from around the globe, the debut issue marks a bold return to the magazine’s roots as the definitive illustrated anthology. Heavy Metal #1 is available for purchase today (via Diamond) and May 7 (via Lunar) in local comic shops, with the sci-fi, fantasy, and horror magazine hitting newsstands in the US, Canada,...

Netflix is ready to horrify you with another season of its survival thriller series, Squid Game. Emmy-winning actor Lee Jung-jae is returning as Seong Gi-hun in the second season. The climax of the first season showed Player 456 deciding to go back to the bloody games, determined to go after whoever runs the games.

Lee Jung-jae in a still from Squid Game Season 2 | Credits: Netflix

However, from the glimpses shown to us through sneak peeks and teaser trailers, it doesn’t appear that things are under Gi-hun’s control. Following his apparent death in the first season, Detective Hwang Jun-ho also returns in the second season, though it remains a mystery why he hasn’t put an end to the games yet.

Squid Game Season 2 Release Date: When Does It Premiere? Lee Jung-jae as Player 456 in Squid Game Season 2 | Credits: Netflix

Squid Game first premiered on Netflix in September 2021. The second...

Copenhagen-based TrustNordisk has picked up international rights on “My Brother,” a four-part mystery thriller produced by Banijay Group’s Swedish banner Filmlance International, credited for the crime hits “The Bridge”, “Fallen”, and family epic “Ronja the Robber’s Daughter.” Filming on the Svt series is due to begin in February 2025 in Norrbotten, Sweden’s northernmost county, with a delivery date set for the winter 2025.

Billed as a northern Western, “My Brother” is based on bestselling author Karin Smirnoff’s debut novel, part of the Jana Kippo book trilogy sold to several countries including the U.K., Italy and Germany. Smirnoff has also authored the new Millennium novel “The Cry of the Sea Eagle.”

Filmlance’s newest bet on crime is adapted by seasoned screenwriter Karin Arrhenius, with Sanna Lenken directing.

“We are eager to introduce the deeply emotional and gripping story,” said Susan Wendt, TrustNordisk managing director. “Not only does it...

Finland’s Fireframe Studios has boarded upcoming Arctic thriller “The Ice.”

Developed in collaboration with Nordisk Film Production, it’s based on the successful novel by Norwegian writer John Kåre Raake, also behind movies “The Wave” and “The Quake,” and series “The Fortress.”

Filming is scheduled for next year.

The story plays out at one of Earth’s most inhospitable places, the North Pole, with the team teasing “The Ice” as a “highlight for thrill-seeking audience, combining high concept with tense political conflicts.” As well as “ice-cold thrills and warm human drama.”

“It’s an ideal co-production for Fireframe. Much of the film relies on virtual production, which is our specialty,” said Mikko Kodisoja, Fireframe’s founder and CEO. Kodisoja is one of the founders of Finnish mobile game development company Supercell.

“By getting involved from the get-go, we leverage real-time technologies to explore creative possibilities and to problem-solve at speed,...

Squid Game: Meet the New Cast of the Highly-Anticipated Second Season - Main Image

Squid Game season 2 returns with new sets of players this year on Netflix, just in time for the holidays. Keep in mind that each new actor's roles for the second season have yet to be disclosed. Check out which stars you may recognize from their previous Kdramas!

Im Si-Wan

Outside being a member of the Kpop group, Ze:a, the award-winning actor Im Si-Wan has proven his talent when it comes to the acting industry.

Fans may recognize previous works of his from Jeong Seok-Won in tvN's Reply 1997, Yoon Jong-Woo from Strangers From Hell, Jang Byeong-Tae from 2023's Boyhood, but he is most popularly known for starring as the main culprit on the 2023 flick Unlocked as hacker Oh Jun-Yeong.

Kang Ha-Neul

The multiple best actor awardee Kang Ha-Neul has starred in prominent Kdramas since...