'Dr. Brain': Apple TV+ Orders New Sci-Fi Series From 'I Saw The Devil' Director Kim Jee-Woon
Apple TV+ has ordered Dr. Brain, a Korean-language series from I Saw the Devil director Kim Jee-woon.
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Netflix Picks Up Kim Jee-Woon's Action Thriller 'Illang: The Wolf Brigade'
As Kim Jee-Woon's anime adaptation nears release in South Korea, an Illang The Wolf Brigade Netflix release will be available for international audiences.
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'In-Rang: The Wolf Brigade' Trailer: Kim Jee-Woon Adapts The Acclaimed Manga
In the In-rang The Wolf Brigade trailer, Kim Jee-Woon adapts the acclaimed Japanese manga and anime film Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade into a South Korean film set in a near-future reunified Korea.
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27 People Who Could (Or Should) Direct 'The Batman'
With Ben Affleck officially vacating the director's chair, here are 27 people who could (or should) take his place on The Batman.
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'The Age Of Shadows' Is An Exciting, Somewhat Murky Return For Kim Jee-Woon [Fantastic Fest Review]
In our The Age of Shadows review, we discuss the return of director Kim Jee-woon, whose new historical thriller is a bit of a mixed bag.
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'The Age Of Shadows' Trailer: The Latest From The Great Kim Jee-Woon Looks Like A Return To Form
Watch The Age of Shadows trailer to get a glimpse of the next film from director Kim Jee-woon, which looks like the filmmaker has another great film.
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'Secret Agent' Is The Next Film From 'I Saw The Devil' Director Kim Jee-Woon
Secret Agent, the new film from The Last Stand director Kim Jee-woon, gains backing from Warner Bros.
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'The Grey' Producers To Remake Kim Jee-Woon's 'I Saw The Devil'
Spike Lee's Oldboy wasn't really a success in any sense when it opened last month. Critics met the film with a shrug, audiences failed to meet it at all, and fans who were against it to begin with got to crow "I told you so." But Oldboy's failure isn't keeping producers Adi Shankar and Spencer…
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Watch Video Of ScreenX, A "Horizontal IMAX" Format [Updated]
Update: There is now a video showing ScreenX in Action, watch it embedded after the jump. Video of ScreenX in action (via movies): http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=2QaBQV-l3AE Original story follows: New cinema technologies are developed fairly often, but only some of them stick around long enough to become fixtures of the movigoing landscape. Many of those that do have…
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Kim Jee-Woon Directing Ed Brubaker's 'Coward'
The English-language debut of South Korean director Kim Ji-woon (I Saw the Devil; The Good, the Bad, the Weird) didn't land with much impact. But the piffle of a reception given The Last Stand hasn't frightened the director off making films outside his native country. And now Kim has latched on to a project that perhaps suits his…
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Early Buzz: Bong Joon-Ho's Dark, Ambitious 'Snowpiercer' Wows
After much anticipation, neither Kim Ji-woon's The Last Stand nor Park Chan-wook's Stoker set Western audiences on fire when they opened earlier this year. But the third English-language debut by a South Korean director this year, Bong Joon-ho's Snowpiercer, seems poised to blow the other two out of the water. Following very early screenings for the…
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'The Last Stand' Red-Band Trailer: Arnold Schwarzenegger's Quiet Weekend
If the two Expendables movies were Arnold Schwarzenegger dipping his toe back into the acting pool, Kim Jee-woon's The Last Stand is him taking a cannonball dive back in. The former governor of California soaks in the spotlight as Ray Owens, a small-town sheriff who becomes the last guy standing between a ruthless cartel leader…
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'The Last Stand' Theatrical Poster: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Johnny Knoxville And A Big-Ass Gun
The final theatrical poster for Arnold Schwarzenegger's return to action star status, The Last Stand, has just been revealed and with it comes a big promise. Arnold will be handling a big-ass gun in an image reminiscent of Terminator 2: Judgement Day. In The Last Stand, the English language debut of Kim-Jee Woon, Schwarzenegger plays a small-town…
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'The Last Stand' Trailer: Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom!
The first big film in Arnold Schwarzenegger's star comeback was The Expendables 2, which expanded on his appearance in The Expendables, but didn't give Arnie a movie of his own to play with. He takes center stage, however, in The Last Stand, with South Korean director Kim Jee-woon (The Good, the Bad, the Weird; I Saw…
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'The Last Stand' Trailer: Arnold Schwarzenegger Gets A Second Chance
To hell with The Expendables, let's move on to The Last Stand. South Korean director Kim Jee-woon (I Saw the Devil, The Good, the Bad, the Weird) makes his English-language debut directing Arnold Schwarzenegger's return to marquee-heading status. The straightforward action film features Arnie as a disgraced cop currently holding a small-town Sheriff post, who…
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First Official Look: Arnold Schwarzenegger In 'The Last Stand' [Updated]
Well, it looks a lot like Arnold Schwarzenegger on any typical Wednesday, but here's an official shot of the returning action star as he appears in The Last Stand. The film is from South Korean director Kim Jee-Woon (I Saw the Devil; The Good, the Bad, the Weird) and features Arnie as a disgraced LA…
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'Doomsday Book' Trailer: Korean Sci-Fi Anthology With A Segment From 'I Saw The Devil' Director
Some of the biggest genre-oriented directors out of South Korea have, in addition to their signature features, dallied with segments in anthology films. Park Chan-wook (Oldboy) did a part in the film Three...Extremes; Bong Joon-ho (Mother, The Host) did a segment for Tokyo!; and Kim Jee-woon (I Saw the Devil, the upcoming Arnold Schwarzenegger movie…
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First Look: Arnold Schwarzenegger On The Set Of 'The Last Stand'
Celebrity Twitter accounts make some first-look reveals pretty easy. I'm surprised it has taken this long for Arnold Schwarzenegger to tweet out a cast photo from his new action movie The Last Stand. And I'll say this: in this pic at least, he looks the part of an aged lawman who has retreated to a…
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Arnold Schwarzenegger's 'The Last Stand' Begins Shooting; Forest Whitaker, Johnny Knoxville, Harry Dean Stanton Cast
Today Kim Jee-woon (The Good, the Bad, the Weird and I Saw the Devil) begins shooting his English language debut, The Last Stand. The film is notable for being the return of Arnold Schwarzenegger to a starring role. Arnie plays a former LAPD officer now working as a small-town sheriff, who has to deal with…
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Casting Bits: Jim Carrey In 'Burt Wonderstone', Eduardo Noriega In 'The Last Stand', Mickey Rourke And Kellan Lutz In 'Java Heat'
Sometime last summer, a report surfaced that Jim Carrey had been offered a part, possibly the lead, in the magician comedy Burt Wonderstone. Steve Carell has since landed the title role, but now it seems Carrey may be interested in climbing aboard in a different capacity. Carrey has entered negotiations for the film, which will…
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Casting Bits: Peter Stormare Joins Arnold Schwarzenegger In 'The Last Stand;' Anthony Hopkins In 'Solace;' More Confirmed For 'The Expendables 2'?
It's an action/thriller casting break this evening, featuring the return of some classic actors to familiar old stomping grounds. So after the break you'll find: Peter Stormare is a bad guy in Arniold Schwarzenegger's The Last Stand, Anthony Hopkins will hunt a serial killer in Solace, and Chuck Norris, Jean-Claude Van Damme and John Travolta…
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'I Saw The Devil:' Revenge Is A Dish Best Served Bloody [Sundance Review]
Violent revenge flicks are pretty much heroin for most film fans. We inject the works of Park Chan-Wook and Takashi Miike directly into our veins, swooning in the delights of violence and hyperkinetic cinema. In comparison, Kim Jee-woon is relatively new to the scene. His film, The Good The Bad and the Weird, certainly made…
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This Week In Trailers: Bananas!*, Shaolin, Legacy, The Good, The Bad And The Weird, I Know You Know
Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: I celebrate all levels of trailers and hopefully this column will satisfactorily give you a baseline of what beta wave I’m…
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