A24 and Rhombus Media are developing The Sympathizer TV series, based on Viet Thanh Nguyen's Pulitzer-winning novel, which Park Chan-wook will direct.
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Decision to Leave filming on Park Chan-wook's first movie since The Handmaiden will begin this month, starring Tang Wei and Park Hye-il.
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Matthew McConaughey may star in The Brigands of Rattlecreek, a violent western from director Park Chan-wook and writer S. Craig Zahler (Bone Tomahawk).
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In this week's Pop Culture Imports, we cover Park Chan-wook's Vengeance Trilogy, two French dramas from Jacques Audiard, and an Indian millennial webseries.
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The Little Drummer Girl trailer offers an exciting look at Park Chan-wook's first foray into television, featuring Florence Pugh, Alexander Skarsgård and Michael Shannon.
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In our The Handmaiden review, we heartily recommend Park Chan-wook's latest masterpiece, a sexy, funny, and gripping psychological thriller.
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Watch the latest The Handmaiden trailer. Oldboy director Park Chan-wook returns with an adaptation of Sarah Waters' Fingersmith, a lesbian revenge thriller.
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Read all about the Park Chan-wook Fingersmith movie. The Oldboy helmer is directing an adaptation of Sarah Waters' Victorian-era lesbian novel.
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Spike Lee's Oldboy is a curiosity to be sure, a remake of a bizarre, twisted, gruesome Korean thriller. Most people thought Lee's film was pretty terrible, and while I don't have too many positive things to say about it, I did find it fascinating to compare the decisions that Lee made with those that Park Chan-wook made…
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Hany Abu-Assad, whose 2006 film Paradise Now was nominated for a Best Foreign Film Oscar, and who just won the Jury Prize at Cannes this year for his new effort, Omar, will be the latest to attempt a remake of Park Chan-Wook's first "vengeance" film, Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance. The remake rights have been in the…
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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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We've seen Tilda Swinton play many different roles, with an eclectic variety of looks over the years. But we've never seen her in a getup quite like what she sports for Bong Joon-ho's new film Snowpiercer. If you can imagine a halfway point between an aged Princess Leia and a stern schoolmistress, you're close to…
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Park Chan-wook's first English-language film, Stoker, opens this week in limited release, before going out to more theaters in the weeks to follow. One of the better aspects of the movie is the score from Clint Mansell (Moon, Requiem For a Dream). The entire score is now available to stream in full, and you can…
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I may not have been wild about Park Chan-Wook's English-language debut, Stoker, but there are definite pleasures within. Among them are the performances from the supporting cast. Jacki Weaver shows up for a bit, as does Dermot Mulroney. Neither has featured in a big way in the marketing so far, as each has a relatively…
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To coincide with its long-awaited Sundance debut, Chan-wook Park's Stoker has just unveiled a new international trailer. The first English-language outing from the Oldboy auteur stars Mia Wasikowska as India, a teenage girl mourning the death of her father (Dermot Mulroney). The unexpected arrival of her mysterious Uncle Charlie (Matthew Goode) further complicates matters, especially…
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The title Stoker suggests vampirism, as a play on the name of Dracula creator Bram Stoker. But the monsters in this film are purely human -- people warped into terrible shapes by neglect and jealousy. For his English-language debut, Oldboy direcotor Park Chan-Wook chose Stoker, a script by actor Wentworth Miller that revolves around a…
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Park Chan-Wook's Stoker is one of the film's we're most keen to see in the early months of 2013; the English-language debut of the director behind Thirst and the "Vengeance Trilogy" (Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, Oldboy, Sympathy for Lady Vengeance) holds a lot of appeal. That's in part due to Park's wonderful work with the…
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The core of the US trailer for Stoker, from Oldboy director Park Chan-wook, was a wonderfully hateful little speech from Nicole Kidman as the threatened matriarch of the Stoker family. That speech is in this new UK trailer, but thrown toward the end, truncated, and cut up with other footage. The core here, instead, is…
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Finally! We recently saw some footage from Stoker, which is the English-language debut from South Korean director Park Chan-wook, best known for the "vengeance trilogy" of Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, Oldboy, and Sympathy for Lady Vengeance. Stoker appears to be a thriller in the Hitchcock/De Palma vein, with a good dose of heated psycho-sexual tension,…
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It's not a proper trailer -- in fact, this is one of those irritating footage presentations on Entertainment Tonight where the talking heads yammer over the top of scenes from a film. But it is the first footage from Stoker, which marks the English-language directorial debut from acclaimed South Korean filmmaker Park Chan-wook, responsible for…
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We just talked about the Black List script Ezekiel Moss, which has Philip Seymour Hoffman set to direct, and now there's another Black List script with a high-profile talent attached to direct. Park Chan-wook, who made the original Oldboy and recently finished his English-language debut Stoker, will make Corsica 72. The script is by Neal Purvis…
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Briefly: South Korean director Park Chan-wook, perhaps most famous for his 'revenge' trilogy of films, the centerpiece of which was Oldboy, has completed his English-language debut and is lining up his next film. The film he just finished is Stoker, starring Mia Wasikowska, Nicole Kidman, Dermot Mulroney, and Matthew Goode, and which sounds like a…
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Briefly: The mere fact that Stoker marks the English-language debut of Oldboy helmer Chan-wook Park would've been reason enough to get excited about the film. But toss in the star-studded cast (Nicole Kidman, Mia Wasikowskia, and Matthew Goode) and a Clint Mansell score, and our anticipation levels are going off the charts. Now, helpfully, we…
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When you've got the director of Oldboy making an intimate vampire film, you know the score will be as important as the lead actors. In the case of Park Chan-wook's English-language debut, Stoker, that certainly seems to be the case. He's recruited Clint Mansell to score the film, which stars Oscar-winner Nicole Kidman and Alice in Wonderland herself, Mia Waskiowska, in the…
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Snow Piercer may mark South Korean filmmaker Bong Joon-ho's first English-language picture, but his casting choices so far suggest he's already got damn great taste in English-speaking stars. Octavia Spencer has become the latest addition to the cast of his post-apocalyptic thriller, joining Chris Evans, John Hurt, Tilda Swinton, Jamie Bell, and Song Kang-ho (The Host).…
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Though we first heard of Bong Joon-ho's Snow Piercer back in 2009, it wasn't until just a couple of weeks ago that the project really began to pick up steam and build a top-notch cast. Chris Evans was the first star announced for the film, with Tilda Swinton and Jamie Bell boarding soon afterward. Now…
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Throughout his career, Chris Evans has jumped back and forth between big-budget pics and indie films and tackled a wide range of roles in the process. And though he's now a fast-rising star thanks to last year's Captain America and this summer's The Avengers, it seems he's still interested in mixing things up, as he…
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