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  • ‘Twister’ sequel will get a 2024 launch date

    By Express News Service

    Twisters, the upcoming sequel to the 1996 movie Twister, will hit the theatres on July 19, 2024, the manufacturing banners Universal and Amblin Entertainment introduced lately.

    The movie shall be directed by Isaac Chung and written by Mark L Smith. Chung’s Minari bagged a nomination for Best Director on the 2022 Academy Awards.

    The 1996 movie, directed by Jan de Bont, revolved round a college professor Jo Harding (Helen Hunt), her estranged companion William Bill (Bill Paxton) and a crew of scholars, who’re set on to organize a prototype for Dorothy, a ground-breaking twister data-collection system.

    Twisters, the upcoming sequel to the 1996 movie Twister, will hit the theatres on July 19, 2024, the manufacturing banners Universal and Amblin Entertainment introduced lately.

    The movie shall be directed by Isaac Chung and written by Mark L Smith. Chung’s Minari bagged a nomination for Best Director on the 2022 Academy Awards.

    The 1996 movie, directed by Jan de Bont, revolved round a college professor Jo Harding (Helen Hunt), her estranged companion William Bill (Bill Paxton) and a crew of scholars, who’re set on to organize a prototype for Dorothy, a ground-breaking twister data-collection system.

  • ‘Minari’ director Lee Isaac Chung exits live-action adaptation of ‘Your Name’

    By Express News Service
    Minari director Lee Isaac Chung has exited Paramount and Bad Robot’s live-action adaptation of Your Name. According to Deadline, scheduling conflicts within the undertaking led to the exit of the director and that the studios are on the lookout for a alternative.

    The unique Your Name anime is one among Japan’s largest hits, grossing over $303 million domestically. It revolves round a teenage boy and a teenage woman from totally different elements of Japan who quickly uncover that they’ve the power to swap our bodies. 

    They quickly additionally uncover that they’re separated by time and area, and when a catastrophe threatens one among their cities, the 2 have to get collectively and discover a option to cease it from occurring.

    The movie is produced by Bad Robot’s JJ Abrams, together with Genki Kawamura, who produced the uniqueChung landed the job after his critically acclaimed Minari grew to become one of the crucial fashionable movies of final yr, and took that momentum all the way in which to a Best Picture nomination at this yr’s Oscars. 

  • Lee Isaac Chung’s Academy Award-nominated drama  ‘Minari’ to launch on Amazon Prime Video

    By PTI
    MUMBAI: Filmmaker Lee Isaac Chung’s Academy Award-nominated drama “Minari” can have its digital premiere on May 11 on Amazon Prime Video, the streamer introduced on Sunday.

    “Minari”, a semi-autobiographical drama a few household of Korean immigrants making an attempt to understand their American dream within the Nineteen Eighties, was launched in Indian theatres by PVR Pictures on April 9.

    It revolves round Jacob (Steven Yeun), a younger Korean-American father who alongside together with his spouse and two kids strikes from California to a farm in rural Arkansas in pursuit of stability.

    Starring “The Walking Dead” alum Yeun, Han Ye-ri, Alan Kim, Noel Kate Cho and Will Patton, the film is predominantly in Korean language.

    Veteran South Korean star Yuh-jung Youn received the Oscar for the very best supporting actress on the 93rd Academy Awards for her efficiency within the movie, which was nominated in six classes together with greatest image, greatest director, greatest actor (Yeun), and the very best supporting actress (Yuh-jung).

    “Minari” additionally received the very best foreign-language Golden Globe award.

  • WATCH | ‘I did not scent him, I’m not a canine’: Youn Yuh Jung responds to media after viral second with Brad Pitt on Oscar stage

    By ANI
    WASHINGTON: Youn Yuh Jung, who bagged Oscar for Best Supporting Female Actor for ‘Minari’, has been hogging the limelight for the cute remarks she made about Brad Pitt in her successful speech.

    It appears the ‘Minari’ star has a ‘fan woman’ inside her which shed its inhibitions after seeing the charming ‘Moneyball’ star in entrance of her.

    Youn, who delivered maybe essentially the most memorable acceptance speech of the 2021 Oscars, has been trending over social media since she made cute onstage remarks about ‘Minari’ govt producer Brad Pitt after he offered her with Best Supporting Actress.

    “Mr Brad Pitt, finally. Nice to meet you. Where were you while we were filming in Tulsa? Very honored to meet you,” she stated to Brad whereas he bashfully smiled at her.

    The restricted crowd at L.A.’s Union Station laughed at Youn’s comment, maybe considering it was a playful flirtation.

    Not solely this, the 73-year-old performer stored the quips coming backstage too. According to E! News, when a reporter requested what she talked about with Pitt and if she might describe how he smells, Youn replied with fun, “I didn’t smell him. I’m not a dog.”

    #Minari star and Academy Award winner Yuh-Jung Youn responds to a query backstage on the #Oscars about what Brad Pitt smells like: “I didn’t smell him, I’m not dog.” pic.twitter.com/eZs6YGq60V
    — Film Updates (@TheFilmUpdates) April 26, 2021

    She went on to say she has been a fan of Brad since he was “young,” and that she “couldn’t believe” it when he introduced her identify to current her with the Oscar.

    “Maybe I just blacked out a couple of seconds,” she continued. “What should I say, ‘Where am I?’ or something like that? But I kept asking my friend, ‘Am I saying it right? Do they understand what I’m trying to say?’” she added with fun.

    E! News reported that Youn additionally praised the ‘Mr and Mrs Smith’ actor for the best way he stated her identify in the course of the ceremony.

    “I can tell he practised a lot–he didn’t mispronounce my name. That moment, when I got there, I [was] just lost. What I was supposed to say, ‘Should I begin?’ or something?,” she shared. 

    ALSO READ: China censors Oscars success of history-making director Chloe Zhao

    In Minari, Youn performed the function of Soon-ja, “grandma” to younger David, who comes from Korea to stick with the household on their farm in Arkansas. She brings together with her the “minari” seeds that give the movie its title.

    ‘Minari’ has been directed by Lee Isaac Chung and it stars Steven Yeun, Han Ye-ri, Alan Kim, Noel Kate Cho, Youn Yuh-Jung, and Will Patton. The movie is a semi-autobiographical tackle Chung’s upbringing and the plot follows a household of South Korean immigrants who attempt to make it in rural America in the course of the Eighties.

    The 93rd Academy Awards ceremony came about two months later than initially deliberate, as a result of influence of the COVID-19 pandemic on the leisure trade.

    The nominations for the 93rd Academy Awards have been introduced on March 15 this yr. This is barely the fourth time in historical past that the Academy Awards have been postponed.

  • China mutes response to Chloe Zhao’s Oscars as South Korea lauds Youn Yuh-jung

    Chloé Zhao’s history-making Oscars sweep, profitable greatest director and greatest image, is being met with a muted response in her nation of delivery, and even censorship.
    Zhao’s Nomadland is the second movie directed by a girl to win a greatest image Oscar. She is the primary lady of colour and second lady ever to win the Oscars for greatest director.
    Yet, in China, the place Zhao was born, her history-making success has not been trumpeted or celebrated. State media in China remained silent as of Monday afternoon, with no point out of her win by both CCTV and Xinhua, the 2 foremost state-run shops.

    Instead, there was even censorship. A publish saying Zhao’s directing win by movie journal Watch Movies, which has over 14 million followers on the ever present Weibo microblog, was censored a couple of hours after it appeared Monday morning. A hashtag known as “Chloe Zhao wins Best Director” was additionally censored on the platform with customers coming throughout an error message saying, “according to relevant laws and regulations and policies, the page is not found.”

    Some customers resorting to utilizing “zt” to publish about Zhao, utilizing the initials of her full title in Chinese, Zhou Ting. Typing in Zhou’s title in Chinese on Weibo introduced up solely unrelated posts from the start of April. A seek for “Oscars” confirmed solely official posts from the South Korean and US embassies.
    Douban, an app common with movie buffs, banned searches for Nomadland and Zhao Ting saying that “the search results could not be displayed in accordance to relevant laws and regulations.” Multiple dialogue threads about Zhao’s win had been deleted on the app as effectively. A information article on WeChat, the biggest messaging app within the nation, was additionally deleted.

    Still, the information of her wins unfold onto the Chinese web, with particular person net customers and bloggers cheering Zhao. Many took observe of her acceptance speech, wherein Zhao quoted a line from a poem written within the thirteenth century that she, like many different Chinese kids, had memorized as a toddler, which interprets as, “People are good at birth.”
    In stark distinction, South Korea’s Youn Yuh-jung, who gained over audiences taking part in the grandmother in Minari might nonetheless be searched on the Chinese web. Youn nabbed greatest supporting actress award, turning into the primary Korean performer to win an Oscar.

    And in Youn’s dwelling of South Korea, Actor Youn Yuh-jung topped Twitter’s trending record whereas different South Korean celebrities rapidly provided their congratulations. Lee Byung-hun, a South Korean actor recognized overseas for his position as Storm Shadow on the G.I. Joe sequence, posted a photograph of Youn clutching an Oscar trophy. “Impossible is just an opinion,” he wrote on the publish. Bae Doona from the acclaimed Netflix sequence “Kingdom” and a well known South Korean actor Kim Hye-soo additionally congratulated Youn on their social media accounts.
    Zhao confronted a nationalist backlash in March when she gained a Golden Globe for greatest director, with web customers in China questioning whether or not she may very well be known as Chinese and a few saying she had insulted her dwelling nation in feedback on the political system. China’s press, tv and social media are tightly managed by the ruling Communist Party, both straight or by self-censorship, and on-line criticism can continuously end in requires boycotts of entertainers or title manufacturers.

    Before the backlash in March, the movie was slated for an April 23 launch in China based on native media, but it surely didn’t open final week and there was no official phrase on a launch. Employees at two cinemas in Beijing stated they didn’t know of any upcoming showings of the movie.
    Offline, nevertheless, some celebrated Zhao’s win and provided congratulations.
    “Wow that’s incredible—winning a world’s top award as a Chinese person,” stated Zhou Lu, 35, who labored at a writer in Beijing. She stated she had not heard of Zhao earlier than, nevertheless, however would plan to observe the movie.
    Others identified that the nationalism shouldn’t have a spot within the dialogue concerning the movie.
    “Her win is deserved, and it has nothing to do with her country or her ethnicity,” stated Victory Dong, a 19-year-old faculty scholar who makes use of Douban.
    But Dong didn’t really feel any specific reference to Zhao simply based mostly on her nation of delivery. “She is a global citizen, I am not.”

  • Yuh-Jung Youn wins Best Supporting Actress award for ‘Minari’ in 93rd Oscars

    By Associated Press
    WASHINGTON: South Korean actor Youn Yuh-jung,’ the feisty grandmother in “Minari”, captured greater than her grandson’s coronary heart.

    Youn, a outstanding movie and TV actor in her house nation of South Korea, received the perfect supporting actress award at Sunday’s Oscars. She’s the second Asian actress to win within the class, greater than 4 many years after Japanese-born Miyoshi Umeki earned the trophy for 1957’s “Sayonara”.

    In her acceptance speech, Youn was as charmingly candid as her character in “Minari”. “You are all forgiven” for what she known as the frequent mangling of her title, she mentioned, smiling. She acknowledged what she known as her “Minari” household and the formidable friends within the class.

    “I don’t believe in competition. How can I win over Glenn Close,” she mentioned of her fellow nominee. She credited a “little bit of luck” for her Oscar, “and maybe American hospitality for the Korean actor”. She additionally thanked her two sons, “who make me go out and work. ….This is the result, because Mommy works so hard,” Youn mentioned, holding her Oscar aloft.

    Youn teased presenter Brad Pitt, who introduced her award and whose firm was concerned within the manufacturing of “Minari”, for not visiting the set in Oklahoma. “Nice to meet you,” she mentioned, later taking his arm as she walked offstage. Pitt gave her the envelope containing her title.

    The first Korean lady to be nominated for an Oscar, Youn’s victory comes one yr after academy voters snubbed the South Korean solid of greatest image winner “Parasite”.

    Youn performs Soon-ja, a card-playing grandmom with a knack for swearing, who’s moved from Korea to hitch her daughter and stepson in his seemingly quixotic quest to commerce dispiriting work in California for farming in Arkansas. Soon-ja and her initially cautious grandson type an unlikely however loving bond.

    Youn, making a uncommon US display look in “Minari”, captured a string of honors for the semi-autobiographical movie primarily based on the childhood of Korean American director Lee Isaac Chung.

    The Screen Actors Guild and the British movie and TV academy had been amongst these honoring her efficiency in “Minari”, which earned Oscar nominations together with greatest image, director and lead actor for Steven Yuen (“The Walking Dead”).

    Youn grew to become an prompt movie star in South Korea together with her 1971 debut “Fire Woman”. At the height of her profession, she married common singer Cho Young-nam and moved with him to the United States, the place he carried out at Billy Graham’s church.

    Her American detour put her profession on maintain for almost a decade, till she returned to South Korea, her marriage ended and she or he resumed performing.

  • Stressful to be first Korean actress nominated for an Oscar: ‘Minari’ star Youn Yuh-Jung

    By PTI
    LOS ANGELES: “Minari” star Youn Yuh-Jung says it’s “very stressful” to be the primary South Korean actor to be nominated on the Academy Awards.

    The veteran star, one of many greatest names within the South Korean cinema, is up for Best Supporting Actress for her highly effective function as grandmother Soonja in Lee Isaac Chung’s Best Picture nominee “Minari”, a narrative that revolves round South Korean immigrants looking for their very own American dream in rural Arkansas.

    When Deadline requested what it is wish to be the primary Korean actress nominated for an Oscar, the 73-year-old actor stated, “Very stressful”.

    “I was just very happy being nominated. I never even dreamed about being nominated for an Oscar. People will be very happy for me if I get the win, but it’s very stressful.”

    Youn received the Best Supporting Actress trophy at each the BAFTA awards and Screen Ators Guild Awards, which strengthen’s her possibilities on the Oscars later this month.

    The ator is competing in opposition to Maria Bakalova for “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm”, Glenn Close for “Hillbilly Elegy”, Olivia Colman for “The Father”, and Amanda Seyfried for “Mank”.

  • Bong Joon Ho was very encouraging, says ‘Minari’ director Lee Isaac Chung

    By PTI
    NEW DELHI: “Minari” director Lee Isaac Chung says getting praised by any person with as sturdy a watch for element as Oscar-winning filmmaker Bong Joon Ho was a “real treat”.

    Lee spoke to the “Parasite” filmmaker over a cellphone name and although he was initially nervous, he was elated when he came upon that Bong appreciated his movie.

    “I feel like he was very happy for us and he’s very encouraging. I’m so glad he likes the movie. That’s a real treat for me. He has a very strong eye for detail. I was nervous talking to him but I was so glad that he picked up on a lot of details that excited me about the film,” the filmmaker informed PTI throughout a digital roundtable with worldwide journalists.

    Lee, 42, did not watch “Parasite” whereas he was enhancing “Minari” as he was afraid that it will find yourself influencing him.

    He waited till he was finished enhancing his film to lastly watch the film.

    “And I was blown away by what he (Bong) did (in the movie). I told him, as we were on that call together, that he made the perfect movie.”

    While “Parasite” was a darkish satire on the rich-poor divide in South Korea, Lee’s semi-autobiographical drama comes from a extra private area.

    ALSO READ | Loved Oscar winner Parasite? Here are 5 extra Bong Joon-ho motion pictures to binge-watch throughout COVID-19 lockdown

    It revolves round Jacob (Steven Yeun), a youn Korean-American father who alongside along with his spouse and two youngsters strikes from California to a farm in rural Arkansas in quest of their American dream in Eighties.

    Predominantly in Korean language and slated to be launched in Indian theatres by PVR Pictures on April 16, the movie has emerged as one of many front-runners on this 12 months’s Hollywood award season.

    “Minari” is vying for six Oscars on the 93rd Academy Awards, together with greatest image, greatest director, greatest actor (Yeun), and the perfect supporting actress (Youn Yuh-jung).

    It has already received the perfect foreign-language Golden Globe and the best-supporting actress BAFTA for Youn.

    Lee is stunned by the extraordinary journey the mission, which was a low finances movie and a “stressful shoot” for him, has had.

    “I had no idea any of this would happen. It’s been a wild ride and I have been touched by audiences who are connecting with this film,” he mentioned.

    There was a robust echo of the previous as Lee started filming “Minari.

    The director remembers that after they moved to Arkansas within the 80s, it was the time of a fantastic farm disaster in America, and whereas he was prepping for the movie, he learn information tales that there was a risk that it was taking place once more.

    “So I felt like there’s something happening in which there’s a cycle that’s happening for me on a personal level and then perhaps in our country in which farming, and also immigration was becoming quite an issue, and it continues to be an issue now,” he mentioned.

    Lee additionally believes that the ’80s period someway captures one thing of the current.

    “We couldn’t have imagined that the pandemic would raise another echo of what’s happening in the story, which is a family having to come together due to suffering and due to catastrophe in a way,” the director mentioned, explaining that the story emerged from a private area however someway discovered “more echoes” alongside the best way.

    “That has been the character of this mission.

    Somehow, we’re submitting to one thing within the artistic means of discovering new issues as we go, I suppose,” he added.

    While writing Jacob’s character, Lee thought quite a bit in regards to the cinema of American display screen icon James Dean as he felt he needed somebody like that for the position.

    “An vital theme that I considered whereas I used to be writing Jacob was a scene from ‘East of Eden’ the place James Dean discovers that his crops are rising, after which he runs round within the discipline and rolls within the grime.

    He does one thing related in ‘Giant’ when he discovers oil, there’s this huge celebration.

    “I keep in mind feeling like that is the type of Jacob that I would like, and particularly for the scene the place he discovers water and the scenes when he will get the tractor and when farming appears to be going his means.

    I did not have any particular actor.

    But lo and behold, I really feel like I discovered James Dean in Steven.

    ” The director said he was surprised when Yeun, a major Hollywood Korean-American star with credits such as “The Walking Dead” and “Burning”, additionally introduced up Dean throughout their dialogue.

    “I keep in mind actually being floored when he introduced it up as a result of that was in my thoughts as I used to be writing.

    So it was nice that we obtained to come back collectively on this and to create these characters collectively,” Lee mentioned.

    The movie additionally options Han Ye-ri, Alan Kim, Noel Kate Cho and Will Patton.

  • Minari film assessment: An expertise tough to neglect

    Minari film forged: Steven Yeun, Yeri Han, Alan Kim, Noel Cho, Yuh-jung YounMinari film director: Lee Isaac ChungMinari film score: 4 stars
    Families are unpredictable issues, sure by invisible bonds, divided by immeasurable rifts. The worst of them can’t discover a method to one another regardless of a lifetime beneath the identical roof. The better of them could drift, keep aside for years solely to suit effortlessly collectively once they meet. The bonds can leap over years, generations, continents and cultures.Minari is the story of 1 such household, of Korean descent, who has come to the US someday within the 1970-80s chasing the American dream. The husband and spouse (Jacob performed by Yeun, Monica by Han) discover they will’t agree on the contours of this dream, the way in which to it, and what to sacrifice and what to bear alongside. Their youngsters (the daughter, Anne, performed by Cho, and the son, David, by Kim) — who’re extra comfy talking English and but fairly heat of their Korean pores and skin — are torn between the 2.
    A reminder of what actually issues comes from throughout the seas, by means of Monica’s mom Soonja (Youn). A widow of the battle, the one dad or mum to an solely baby, she is gone the age of ‘adjustments’. Soonja can’t cook dinner, although she carries throughout the seas what her daughter misses probably the most in America (crimson chillies and anchovies), she swears, she loves enjoying playing cards and watching bruising boxing matches, and he or she advises: “Getting hurt is part of growing up”. David declares all this implies she is “not a real grandma”, ones like his buddies have.
    Between the grandmother and David, 7, sprouts a relationship that’s the beating coronary heart of Minari. In ways in which solely grandparents and grandchildren come collectively, they see in one another the issues the mother and father have lengthy stopped seeing. Anne is disappointingly solely a backdrop on this autobiographical story by writer-director Chung, although David and his grandmother have sufficient like to accommodate everybody round them.
    The movie is ready in huge, lonesome Arkansas, the place Jacob has purchased a farm that’s haunted as per native lore by what occurred to the outdated proprietor (not spelled out). Barely eking out a residing in California as a employee who separates chicks as per gender, cooped in a small home, Jacob clearly sees within the Arkansas farm an opportunity to reclaim the life he left behind — nearer to the earth, beneath open skies, rising Korean greens. It makes financial sense too, given the rising variety of Korean immigrants.
    Monica is dismayed at what that suggests for his or her youngsters, particularly David who has a coronary heart situation. Their home is only a lengthy trailer, there isn’t a neighborhood round, and Jacob solely grudgingly agrees to go to church — although they discover neighbours who’re wholesomely welcoming there.
    If Minari has a fault, it’s that it’s virtually too fairytale-like, in its settings, in its characters that embrace a pleasant neighbourhood workman whom Jacob hires, in its faint hints at Oriental exoticism in comparison with the opposite facet, and within the ease with which the Yi household will get over what God and different beings throw in its method.
    However, its perspective of an Asian household discovering its roots in rural America as an alternative of the same old metropolis settings, its piquant commentary on the methods of the West and youngsters (“who cares what a small boy wears”), its uniquely rural and therefore common issues, and its insights into how households work on a day-to-day, routine foundation — portrayed by a stellar forged — make Minari an expertise tough to neglect.

  • Oscar-nominated drama ‘Minari’ to launch in India in April

    By PTI
    MUMBAI: Filmmaker Lee Isaac Chung’s semi-autobiographical drama “Minari” is ready to be launched in Indian theatres on April 16.

    Headlined by “The Walking Dead” alum Steven Yeun, “Minari” is a few household of Korean immigrants making an attempt to grasp their American dream within the Nineteen Eighties.

    It additionally stars Han Ye-ri, Alan Kim, Noel Kate Cho, Youn Yuh-jung and Will Patton.

    The film, predominantly in Korean language, will probably be launched by PVR photos within the nation.

    As an impartial movie, “Minari” had its world premiere on the Sundance Film Festival in January 2020, profitable each the US Dramatic Grand Jury Prize and the US Dramatic Audience Award.

    Courtesy phrase of mouth, stellar efficiency by the ensemble solid and Chung’s tender storytelling, “Minari” has turn into a favorite this awards season, bagging the very best international movie Golden Globe and Young Performer Critics Choice Award for baby actor Kim.

    The movie additionally just lately scored six Academy Award nominations for greatest image, director, unique screenplay, greatest actor (Yeun), greatest supporting actress (Youn) and unique rating for Emile Mosseri.

    “Minari” has additionally booked six BAFTA awards nominations, together with a spot within the Best Film Not within the English Language class.