Reimagining Korea’s Dynamic Film & TV Industry With Wow Point Executive Producer Yoomin Hailey Yang
Wow Point CEO and executive producer Yoomin Hailey Yang is blazing a trail for young female producers in the Korean film and TV industry.
After stints working with Korean broadcaster MBC and agency-producer BH Entertainment, she co-founded Wow Point with leading Korean filmmaker Yeon Sang-ho (Train To Busan, Peninsula) in 2021. The Seoul-based company has launched two series on Netflix so far this year: Parasyte: The Grey,
“Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow” Will Soar Into Theaters in June 2026
James Gunn and Peter Safran’s DC Studios is moving quickly on Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow now that the film has its star in Milly Alcock and its director in Craig Gillespie.
On Tuesday, DC Studios and Warner Bros. announced that Gillespie and Alcock’s marquee film will soar into theaters on June 26, 2026. This appropriately makes Supergirl the second film under the new look DC Studios to get a release date,
Writer/Director Jane Schoenbrun on Their Stunning New Film “I Saw the TV Glow”
While a student at Boston University, writer/director Jane Schoenbrun enjoyed “many formative movie experiences” at the nearby Coolidge Corner Theater. “A fond memory is of a zombie movie and me and all my friends dressing in zombie makeup,” says Schoenbrun. “It was one of the happiest memories of my college experience, and it probably says something about me.”
So it’s a fitting, full circle moment for Schoenbrun when they returned to the historic Boston theater on May 11 as the 2024 recipient of the Coolidge Breakthrough Artist Award.
Francis Ford Coppola Unveils the Trailer for His Epic New Film “Megalopolis”
Francis Ford Coppola has finally revealed the first look at his decades-long passion project Megalopolis.
The new teaser trailer, which Coppola shared on Monday night, reveals the scope and grandeur of the legendary director’s ambition. It paints a vivid picture of an imagined America told in the style of an epic Roman fable in a story about the competing visions of a city that has a chance to rise from the ashes or remain mired in stagnation.
“The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim” Set to Debut Footage at Annecy International Animation Film Festival
The story of one of Middle-earth’s most legendary figures and the creation of one of its most crucial locations, the fortress of Helm’s Deep, is getting an epic anime treatment.
The first look at The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim is set to be unveiled at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival, which begins on June 9. This first look is certainly the most high-profile of Warner Bros.
Third “Downton Abbey” Movie Will Star Paul Giamatti
Recent Oscar nominee Paul Giamatti has traded a stuffy New England prep school for even stuffier (and better appointed) Old England.
The Holdovers star is set to star in the third Downton Abbey movie, which will be written by the series creator Julian Fellowes, with Downton Abbey: A New Era director Simon Curtis returning to helm.
Giamatti is riding high after his stellar turn as embittered professor Paul Hunham in Alexander Payne’s recent film,
“The Mandalorian & Grogu” Looks to Add Sci-Fi Legend Sigourney Weaver to the “Star Wars” Universe
The first new Star Wars movie since J.J. Abrams’ trilogy capping The Rise of Skywalker to go into production will be Jon Favreau’s The Mandalorian & Grogu, and who better to enlist in the film than sci-fi legend Sigourney Weaver?
Weaver was, of course, the face of the Alien franchise as Ellen Ripley and one of the first true female action stars,
“The Fantastic Four” Casts Ralph Ineson as Supervillain Galactus
One of the great character actors of his generation, with one of the truly great voices in all of cinema, is joining the MCU.
Ralph Ineson has joined the cast of director Matt Shakman’s The Fantastic Four as the supervillain Galactus, one of the major baddies in the canon. Ineson’s career has spanned major franchises and beloved indies, including the Harry Potter films, The Witch,
Taiwan Based Producer Sam Yuan on His Netflix Series “Shards of Her” & More
In a career that spans over two decades, Taiwan-based producer Sam Yuan has been involved in a variety of productions, from critically acclaimed GF*BF and box office megahit Our Times in his early days to the more recent, Golden Horse-winning My Missing Valentine and Netflix hit series Shards of Her.
He is currently the secretary general of the Taiwanese industry organization, New Media Entertainment Association (NMEA),
“A Quiet Place: Day One” Trailer Unleashes the Alien Scourge on an Unsuspecting NYC
A brand new trailer for A Quiet Place: Day One has finally arrived, teasing out a bit more of the story behind this prequel to John Krasinski’s 2018 original A Quiet Place.
We’ve already seen what the world was like on day 472 of the reign of the sound-hunting aliens in Krasinski’s 2018 original A Quiet Place—now, we finally get to see what the world was right as the alien invasion was underway.
Peter Jackson Working on Multiple New “Lord of the Rings” Films For Warner Bros.
We knew Peter Jackson was returning to Middle-earth, but we thought that return trip was limited to re-releasing his groundbreaking trilogy in new remastered and extended versions. Today, huge news broke—Warner Bros. CEO David Zaslav revealed that Jackson is really returning to the realms created by J.R.R. Tolkien for a series of new films.
On a Warner Bros. Discovery earnings call, Zaslav revealed that the company was in the early stages of script development for new Lord of the Rings movies,
Glen Powell’s a Busy Man
Glen Powell’s dance card is getting awfully full. Powell, who broke out in Top Gun: Maverick and then cemented his status as a rising star with chemistry to spare starring opposite Sydney Sweeney in the romantic comedy Anyone But You, has a slew of upcoming films set to release this summer and a slate of incredible projects he’s attached to.
Powell can next be seen in Richard Linklater’s critically acclaimed Hit Man (June 7),
Critics Hail Director Wes Ball’s Mighty “Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes”
Wes Ball didn’t have the easiest task when he signed on to make the fourth new Planet of the Apes film of the modern era. Rupert Wyatt kicked things off with Rise of the Planet of the Apes back in 2011, and then The Batman director Matt Reeves filmed the ferocious final two installments in the new trilogy, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes and War for the Planet of the Apes in 2014 and 2017,
Riding the Storm of the Century in the New “Twisters” Trailer
The second trailer for Minari director Lee Isaac Chung’s Twisters has whipped into view, giving us a longer look at what the talented Chung has done with the sequel to the 1996 original starring Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton.
We open on a rodeo where bucking broncos have their violent twisting upstaged by the titular weather event. Twisters is centered on Kate Cooper (Daisy Edgar-Jones), a young woman with a vertiginous history with a cataclysmic twister she faced when she was in college,
“Challengers” Production Designer Merissa Lombardo Sets the Stage on Court & Off
Director Luca Guadagnino’s sexy new tennis romance, Challengers, layers a years-long love triangle of three millennial-era players over the highs and lows of their careers. At the center is talented, driven, and stunning Tashi (Zendaya). She first dates Patrick (Josh O’Connor), who plays as well as she does, but doesn’t take his career or their relationship seriously enough for either to work out. After getting knocked out of the circuit with a knee injury,
“Furiosa” First Reactions Hail Another Super-Charged Stunner
Nine years after George Miller’s more or less flawless Mad Max: Fury Road introduced an unbelievable Charlize Theron as Furiosa, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, the origin story of how Theron’s one-armed warrior supreme came to be, is racing toward theaters. And with its swiftly approaching premiere date comes the first reactions to Miller’s follow-up, the fifth film in his decades-spanning Mad Max dystopian mega-narrative.
While we’ll have to wait a bit longer for the full reviews,
First Look at “Superman” Revealed: Behold David Corenswet as The Man of Steel
Our first glimpse of David Corenswet as Superman is here.
Writer/director James Gunn, naturally, was the one who shared the image of Corenswet suited up as the Man of Steel, sliding on his red boot. This is the first time we’ve seen Corenswet in Superman’s iconic red and blue suit, and he becomes only the third man to play the superhero, joining Christopher Reeve, who played him from 1978 to 1987, Brandon Routh in 2006,
“The Fall Guy” Stunt Designer Chris O’Hara on Helping Create Ryan Gosling’s Gonzo Performance
Hollywood couldn’t have found a more perfect director for Ryan Gosling’s stuntman rom-com The Fall Guy (in theaters now) than David Leitch. A body double-turned-stunt supervisor on dozens of movies, including John Wick, he understood the stunt world firsthand before moving into the director’s chair for Deadpool 2 and Bullet Train. To oversee stunts on The Fall Guy, co-starring Emily Blunt and Aaron Taylor-Johnson,
“Star Wars: Episode 1 – The Phantom Menace” has Big Re-Release to Celebrate 25th Anniversary
This past Saturday was May the 4th, the annual Star Wars celebration that began with this apocryphal story: the first reference came on May 4, 1979, the day Margaret Thatcher became the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. The story goes that her political party, the Conservatives, took out an ad in the London Evening News that read, “May the Fourth Be with You, Maggie. Congratulations.” Yet this advertisement, as far as we can tell,
“Fantastic Four” Cast Adds Paul Walter Hauser
The great Paul Walter Hauser is headed to the MCU to join one of Marvel’s most anticipated films-in-progress.
The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed that Hauser is joining the cast of The Fantastic Four, joining Pedro Pascal as Reed Richards/Mr. Fantastic, Vanessa Kirby as Sue Storm/The Invisible Woman, Joseph Quinn as Johnny Storm/The Human Torch, Ebon Moss-Bachrach as Ben Grimm/The Thing, and Julia Garner as the Silver Surfer.
