A decade into her solo career, Beyoncé effectively evaded irrelevancy by wresting control of her own narrative. After her 2011 album 4 failed to produce a Top 10 hit—to date, her only album to do so—the singer began dropping albums without any pre-release promotion, sidestepping chart expectations and reimagining the traditional pop album release strategy. Since then, she’s done few interviews and often glides into awards shows donning dark shades and a straight face, shrewdly creating a superstar mystique in the vein of Michael Jackson and Prince.
That approach, thankfully, has been accompanied by some of Beyoncé’s most creative, political, and inspired work to date. Her 2016 visual album Lemonade drew on her personal experiences as a Black woman to comment on feminism and racism in the Me Too and Black Lives Matter era, while its follow-up, 2022’s Renaissance, kept the focus squarely on the music, inspired by and dedicated...
That approach, thankfully, has been accompanied by some of Beyoncé’s most creative, political, and inspired work to date. Her 2016 visual album Lemonade drew on her personal experiences as a Black woman to comment on feminism and racism in the Me Too and Black Lives Matter era, while its follow-up, 2022’s Renaissance, kept the focus squarely on the music, inspired by and dedicated...
- 4/10/2024
- by Slant Staff
- Slant Magazine
The party continues with Enrique Iglesias, Pitbull and Ricky Martin.
With a combined five Grammys, 10 Latin Grammys and over 77 million Spotify listeners, it’s no surprise that all initial tour dates have sold out, leading to extended dates into 2024.
After their final scheduled date this year in Vancouver, they will take a break before going back onstage on January 31, 2024, and are scheduled to perform their final extended show on March 10 in Tampa, Florida.
Though this is not the first time Iglesias has worked with his two co-headliners, this is the first time all three share the stage.
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01-30 Fresno, CA — Save Mart Center
01-31 San Francisco, CA — Chase Center
02-02 Palm Desert, CA — Acrisure Arena
02-03 Anaheim, CA — Honda Center
02-08 Oklahoma City, Ok — Paycom Center
02-09 Austin, TX — Moody Center
02-10 Fort Worth, TX — Dickies Arena
02-13 Denver, Co — Ball Arena
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With a combined five Grammys, 10 Latin Grammys and over 77 million Spotify listeners, it’s no surprise that all initial tour dates have sold out, leading to extended dates into 2024.
After their final scheduled date this year in Vancouver, they will take a break before going back onstage on January 31, 2024, and are scheduled to perform their final extended show on March 10 in Tampa, Florida.
Though this is not the first time Iglesias has worked with his two co-headliners, this is the first time all three share the stage.
>Get Trilogy Tour Concert Tickets Now!
Added Dates:
01-30 Fresno, CA — Save Mart Center
01-31 San Francisco, CA — Chase Center
02-02 Palm Desert, CA — Acrisure Arena
02-03 Anaheim, CA — Honda Center
02-08 Oklahoma City, Ok — Paycom Center
02-09 Austin, TX — Moody Center
02-10 Fort Worth, TX — Dickies Arena
02-13 Denver, Co — Ball Arena
02-16 St.
- 12/30/2023
- by Rose Anne Cox-Peralta
- Uinterview
The new Netflix series “Xo, Kitty” takes some notes from the “To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before” film trilogy, but it also branches out for youngest sister Kitty’s (Anna Cathcart) adventures to Korea. After getting the same scholarship that her mom got to study abroad at the Korean Independent School of Seoul, Kitty jets out to surprise her long-distance boyfriend Dae (Minyeong Choi), who happens to attend Kiss. Things get a bit more complicated when Yuri Han (Gia Kim) dreams up a fake dating scheme to distract her mother from other parts of her life, and she chooses Dae to be her fake boyfriend.
And just like the “To All the Boys” movies, the “Xo, Kitty” soundtrack is great.
K-Pop dominates the show’s episodes with big hits from BTS and Blackpink as well as Seventeen and more. The series also connects to Jenny Han’s films starring...
And just like the “To All the Boys” movies, the “Xo, Kitty” soundtrack is great.
K-Pop dominates the show’s episodes with big hits from BTS and Blackpink as well as Seventeen and more. The series also connects to Jenny Han’s films starring...
- 5/18/2023
- by Dessi Gomez
- The Wrap
Carl “Chucky” Thompson, a producer and multi-instrumentalist whose slick samples of Seventies and Eighties soul underpinned some of the most popular R&b and hip-hop tracks of the Nineties, died on Monday at age 53, his rep confirmed to Rolling Stone. A cause of death was not immediately available.
In the Nineties, mainstream hip-hop started to move away from building tracks on obscure samples, choosing instead to craft songs around loops of well-known refrains and bass-lines from earlier eras. P. Diddy and his crew of producers — a group known as the...
In the Nineties, mainstream hip-hop started to move away from building tracks on obscure samples, choosing instead to craft songs around loops of well-known refrains and bass-lines from earlier eras. P. Diddy and his crew of producers — a group known as the...
- 8/10/2021
- by Elias Leight
- Rollingstone.com
Some artists struggle to determine which of their releases is the most vital — it’s like asking a parent to pick a favorite child. But Mary J. Blige has no such hang-ups. “I have 13 albums,” she declares early on in her new Amazon documentary, released on Friday, “but my second, My Life, is my most important.”
After working with a grab-bag of big names — including Devante Swing of Jodeci and the rappers Busta Rhymes and Grand Puba — on her debut, What’s the 411?, Blige narrowed her focus for its follow-up,...
After working with a grab-bag of big names — including Devante Swing of Jodeci and the rappers Busta Rhymes and Grand Puba — on her debut, What’s the 411?, Blige narrowed her focus for its follow-up,...
- 6/25/2021
- by Elias Leight
- Rollingstone.com
It would not be misplaced to say that 2020 was a successful year for actor Park Jung-min. The 34-year-old actor featured in two highly anticipated projects last year, “Time to Hunt” and “Deliver Us from Evil“, both of which were very well received and his performance of a transgender character in the latter earned the actor much applause and awards. His first work in 2021, “Miracle: Letters to the President” comes halfway into the year and is helmed by “Be With You” director Lee Jang-hoon.
Synopsis
In 1988, math genius Joon-Kyeong lives in a small village. The village has a railroad that passes through it, but it doesn’t have a train station. Joon-Kyeong’s life long dream is to have a railway stop at his village. He tries different ways to get a station built, including writing dozens of letters to the South Korean president.
After “Be With You”, Lee Jang-hoon’s...
Synopsis
In 1988, math genius Joon-Kyeong lives in a small village. The village has a railroad that passes through it, but it doesn’t have a train station. Joon-Kyeong’s life long dream is to have a railway stop at his village. He tries different ways to get a station built, including writing dozens of letters to the South Korean president.
After “Be With You”, Lee Jang-hoon’s...
- 6/10/2021
- by Rhythm Zaveri
- AsianMoviePulse
Following the success of the Inaugural Blumfest in 2020, producer Jason Blum has announced the second Blumfest will return this October. In a video featuring the mega-producer in full Star Wars attire in honor of “May the 4th Be With You”, Blum delivered the news that is sure to excite fans of all things Blumhouse. Like last year’s event, the event will be entirely virtual.
Last year’s Blumfest was held on October 30th and feature a number of panels on upcoming Blumhouse properties include Freaky, The Craft: Legacy and Halloween Kills as well as a conversation between Blum and Jennifer Salke, Head of Amazon Studios for a conversation about the collaboration between Amazon and Blumhouse on the recently launched movies The Lie, Nocturne, Evil Eye and Black Box.
This year’s festival will be held on October 1 with panels still being kept under wraps. You can watch Blum’s announcement above.
Last year’s Blumfest was held on October 30th and feature a number of panels on upcoming Blumhouse properties include Freaky, The Craft: Legacy and Halloween Kills as well as a conversation between Blum and Jennifer Salke, Head of Amazon Studios for a conversation about the collaboration between Amazon and Blumhouse on the recently launched movies The Lie, Nocturne, Evil Eye and Black Box.
This year’s festival will be held on October 1 with panels still being kept under wraps. You can watch Blum’s announcement above.
- 5/5/2021
- by Justin Kroll
- Deadline Film + TV
Yet another mystery film with A-list stars is about to get its long-anticipated release in South Korea, with Yoon Jong-seok’s “Confession” getting ready for a release imminently.
Synopsis
Yoo Min-ho is the CEO of an It company. He becomes a suspect in a murder case that occurred in a sealed room.
Yang Shin-ae becomes Yoo Min-ho’s lawyer. She hasn’t lost a case yet in her career. Meanwhile, Kim Se-hee is the person who holds the key to the case.
“Confession” stars So Ji-sub, returning to the big screening after the 2018 melodrama “Be With You” as Yoo Min-ho and Kim Yun-jin as Yang Shin-ae in her second film appearance this year after “Pawn”. Singer/actress Nana (“The Swindlers”) plays the mysterious Kim Se-hee. “Confession” releases in Korean cinemas on December 16th, 2020.
Synopsis
Yoo Min-ho is the CEO of an It company. He becomes a suspect in a murder case that occurred in a sealed room.
Yang Shin-ae becomes Yoo Min-ho’s lawyer. She hasn’t lost a case yet in her career. Meanwhile, Kim Se-hee is the person who holds the key to the case.
“Confession” stars So Ji-sub, returning to the big screening after the 2018 melodrama “Be With You” as Yoo Min-ho and Kim Yun-jin as Yang Shin-ae in her second film appearance this year after “Pawn”. Singer/actress Nana (“The Swindlers”) plays the mysterious Kim Se-hee. “Confession” releases in Korean cinemas on December 16th, 2020.
- 10/19/2020
- by Rhythm Zaveri
- AsianMoviePulse
First titles on the slate include drama ‘Shades Of The Heart’ and mystery ‘The Confession’.
Information and communications technology-based contents and commerce provider kth (Korea Telecom Hitel), a subsidiary of Korea Telecom (KT), is launching its international sales team at Busan’s Asian Film Market with a slate of new projects.
The company owns a slate of original IP-based film content and more than 100 distribution channels including Iptv, mobile, VOD and home entertainment. It has previously been doing acquisitions and distribution as well as partial financing of films. Starting last year, kth also stepped up as main financier on some feature projects,...
Information and communications technology-based contents and commerce provider kth (Korea Telecom Hitel), a subsidiary of Korea Telecom (KT), is launching its international sales team at Busan’s Asian Film Market with a slate of new projects.
The company owns a slate of original IP-based film content and more than 100 distribution channels including Iptv, mobile, VOD and home entertainment. It has previously been doing acquisitions and distribution as well as partial financing of films. Starting last year, kth also stepped up as main financier on some feature projects,...
- 10/4/2019
- by 134¦Jean Noh¦516¦
- ScreenDaily
Everyone has seen Kikuhrio and Pk, but there’s nothing wrong with adding a few other titles to your rotation. Did you know that watching movies with your loved ones brings two times greater positive effects that watching them alone? You can always use this site to find someone to spend some time with.
With that said, let’s get right into it!
5. A Werewolf Boy (2012)
As one of the most popular Korean romantic movies, it should be no surprise it’s on this list. In this movie, Song Joon Ki plays the role of Chul Soo, the “werewolf” boy and Park Bo Young portray the lovely teen, Soon Yi.
When Soon Yi’s family moves to the countryside because of her illness, she meets Chul Soon and helps him acclimate to civilized life. As you guessed, they fall in love!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGyLPT6pQs8
4. Two...
With that said, let’s get right into it!
5. A Werewolf Boy (2012)
As one of the most popular Korean romantic movies, it should be no surprise it’s on this list. In this movie, Song Joon Ki plays the role of Chul Soo, the “werewolf” boy and Park Bo Young portray the lovely teen, Soon Yi.
When Soon Yi’s family moves to the countryside because of her illness, she meets Chul Soon and helps him acclimate to civilized life. As you guessed, they fall in love!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGyLPT6pQs8
4. Two...
- 7/10/2019
- by AMP Training
- AsianMoviePulse
When Joy Williams sat down to work on material for her new album, she had a bit of an epiphany. “I remember saying, whatever this project is, if I can’t play it on a front porch, it’s probably not for me,” Williams told Rolling Stone this past April. With the assistance of producer Kenneth Pattengale of the Milk Carton Kids and engineer Matt Ross-Spang, Williams made an album, aptly titled Front Porch (due May 3rd on Sensibility/Thirty Tigers), that could be just that — music carried by primarily acoustic instruments and her ethereal,...
- 1/24/2019
- by Marissa R. Moss
- Rollingstone.com
Hoping to bring a “The Fast & The Furious” vibe to South Korean cinema is director Han Jun-hee (“Coin Locker Girl”) with his latest action film “Hit-and-Run Squad”.
Synopsis
Eun Shi-yeon is a police lieutenant. She is demoted to a hit-and-run investigation team from the regional investigation unit at the National Police Agency. At the hit-and-run investigation team, Eun Shi-yeon works with Police Constable Seo Min-jae, who has a knack for cars, and Woo Sun-young . They try to catch Jung Jae-cheol. He is the first Formula One racer in South Korea, but he suddenly retired as a race car driver. He is now businessman.
Han Jun-hee has been able to call upon an able starcast for the project. Gong Hyo-jin, who was recently seen in the hit urban thriller “Door Lock” as well as in a special appearance in “Be With You” earlier last year, plays Eun Shi-yeon. Ryu Jun-yeol, who...
Synopsis
Eun Shi-yeon is a police lieutenant. She is demoted to a hit-and-run investigation team from the regional investigation unit at the National Police Agency. At the hit-and-run investigation team, Eun Shi-yeon works with Police Constable Seo Min-jae, who has a knack for cars, and Woo Sun-young . They try to catch Jung Jae-cheol. He is the first Formula One racer in South Korea, but he suddenly retired as a race car driver. He is now businessman.
Han Jun-hee has been able to call upon an able starcast for the project. Gong Hyo-jin, who was recently seen in the hit urban thriller “Door Lock” as well as in a special appearance in “Be With You” earlier last year, plays Eun Shi-yeon. Ryu Jun-yeol, who...
- 1/6/2019
- by Rhythm Zaveri
- AsianMoviePulse
South Korea hasn’t really done an exciting hostage negotiation film so far. Here to change that is hit-making production house Jk Films, whose latest film “The Negotiation” pits popular actors Son Ye-jin and Hyun Bin against each other in a game of cat-and-mouse.
Synopsis
Not much is known about the plot at the moment, except that it is a criminal thriller movie about a kidnapper and a negotiator whose superior has been kidnapped.
Hyun Bin, who was last seen in the conman drama “The Swindlers“, stars in his first negative role as the kidnapper while Son Ye-jin, who last appeared in the romantic melodrama “Be With You“, plays the lead negotiator trying to secure the release of the hostages from the kidnapper’s clutches. Directed by Lee Jong-suk, who has previously worked as an assistant director on Jk Films’s hugely popular “Ode to My Father“, “The Negotiation” also...
Synopsis
Not much is known about the plot at the moment, except that it is a criminal thriller movie about a kidnapper and a negotiator whose superior has been kidnapped.
Hyun Bin, who was last seen in the conman drama “The Swindlers“, stars in his first negative role as the kidnapper while Son Ye-jin, who last appeared in the romantic melodrama “Be With You“, plays the lead negotiator trying to secure the release of the hostages from the kidnapper’s clutches. Directed by Lee Jong-suk, who has previously worked as an assistant director on Jk Films’s hugely popular “Ode to My Father“, “The Negotiation” also...
- 8/20/2018
- by Rhythm Zaveri
- AsianMoviePulse
2018 is halfway over already, so now is a good moment to cast our eyes back over the last six months, and more specifically, the cinematic offerings that emerged from Asia. Traditionally the first half of the year tends to be weaker, and certainly most of the Chinese New Year offerings left plenty to be desired. Chen Kaige's Legend of the Demon Cat, Raman Hui's Monster Hunt 2, Soi Cheang's The Monkey King 3 and Chen Sicheng's Detective Chinatown 2 all managed to underwhelm, while the endless barrage of sub-par Japanese and Korean dramas and thrillers was as relentless as it was soul-crushing. That said, Korean offerings like Little Forest, Be With You and I Can Speak weren’t bad at all, while Colour...
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- 7/4/2018
- Screen Anarchy
Here are a bunch of little bites to satisfy your hunger for movie culture: Mashup of the Day: In Avengers: Infinity War, Marvel's mighty heroes met their match in Thanos. Now they meet even worse in this Toy Story crossover from How it Should Have Ended titled Avengers: Infinity War and Beyond: Franchise Recap of the Day: Speaking of Infinity War, here's another recap of the Marvel Cinematic Universe up to the latest movie, in the form of a rap song: Cosplay of the Day: It's Star Wars Day! To commemorate May the Fourth (Be With You), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles co-creator Kevin Eastman shared an awesome mashup cosplay: always loved this #Tmnt Star Wars Stromtrooper mashup...
- 5/5/2018
- by Christopher Campbell
- Movies.com
The Korean fantasy romance, a genre that has spawned modern classics such as Il Mare and Ditto, has fallen on hard times in recent years but makes a strong case for a return to form with Be With You, an engaging new vehicle for stars Son Ye-jin and So Ji-sub. Woo-jin and Soo-a are a happily married couple in the countryside who live with their young son Ji-ho, until one day when Soo-a dies unexpectedly. Woo-jin does his best to live on, taking care of Ji-ho. A year to the day following Soo-a's death, she returns to them, but without any memories of who she was. Based on a Japanese book by Takuji Ichikawa published in 2003 that has already served as the basis for...
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- 5/2/2018
- Screen Anarchy
Hong Kong film icon Brigitte Lin Ching-hsia, who is rarely seen in public these days, will be on hand to open the 20th edition of the Far East Film Festival in Udine. She will also receive the festival’s lifetime award, the Golden Mulberry.
The opening film is set to be Korean thriller “Steel Rain, an actioner backed by streaming video platform Netflix. There are currently no plans to show it on the big screen again. Also on the opening night agenda is Malaysian drama “Crossroads: One Two Jaga.”
The festival program runs 20-28 April and includes films from 11 East Asian territories, 5 world premieres and a trio of restored titles. Among the classics is Johnnie To’s “Throw Down,” brought back to life by the Italo-Hong Kong company L’Immagine Ritrovata.
New for the 20th edition is the launch of the White Mulberry competitive section. It will include 21 films by first or second time directors.
The opening film is set to be Korean thriller “Steel Rain, an actioner backed by streaming video platform Netflix. There are currently no plans to show it on the big screen again. Also on the opening night agenda is Malaysian drama “Crossroads: One Two Jaga.”
The festival program runs 20-28 April and includes films from 11 East Asian territories, 5 world premieres and a trio of restored titles. Among the classics is Johnnie To’s “Throw Down,” brought back to life by the Italo-Hong Kong company L’Immagine Ritrovata.
New for the 20th edition is the launch of the White Mulberry competitive section. It will include 21 films by first or second time directors.
- 4/12/2018
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Ranked by earnings, “Ready Player One” emerged on top of the Korean box office with $4.08 million earned from 473,000 admissions.
Korean box office charts, however, are usually ranked by ticket sales, and arranged that way local horror “Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum” remained on top for the second consecutive weekend. It earned $4.02 million from 514,000 admissions between Friday and Sunday. After two weekends, “Gonjiam” has accumulated $16.7 million, the second biggest gross for a Korean horror movie, behind 2003’s “A Tale of Two Sisters.” Warner’s “Player” has $14.2 million after two weeks.
Released on Thursday, Korean comedy “What a Man Wants” earned $4.7 million over four days. The Next Entertainment World release sees the story of four people seeking adventure and love on Jeju Island. The top three films accounted for 81% of the weekend box office.
Lotte’s Korean drama “Stand by Me” earned $994,000 over its four opening days for Megabox. Fantasy romance, “Be With You...
Korean box office charts, however, are usually ranked by ticket sales, and arranged that way local horror “Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum” remained on top for the second consecutive weekend. It earned $4.02 million from 514,000 admissions between Friday and Sunday. After two weekends, “Gonjiam” has accumulated $16.7 million, the second biggest gross for a Korean horror movie, behind 2003’s “A Tale of Two Sisters.” Warner’s “Player” has $14.2 million after two weeks.
Released on Thursday, Korean comedy “What a Man Wants” earned $4.7 million over four days. The Next Entertainment World release sees the story of four people seeking adventure and love on Jeju Island. The top three films accounted for 81% of the weekend box office.
Lotte’s Korean drama “Stand by Me” earned $994,000 over its four opening days for Megabox. Fantasy romance, “Be With You...
- 4/9/2018
- by Sonia Kil
- Variety Film + TV
The London Korean Film Festival Teaser Screening series returns with the European premiere of fantasy drama “Be With You”, based on Japanese author Takuji Ichikawa’s bestselling novel of the same name. Lee Chang-hoon’s directorial debut takes us on a heart-wrenching journey deep into sunaebo, the type of pure and eternal love lying at the core of countless Korean and Japanese melodramas of the kind; yet is perhaps a concept less familiar to the Western eye.
While Woo-jin (So Ji-sub, Rough Cut) mourns the passing of his beloved wife Soo-a (Son Ye-jin, The Truth Beneath), their young son, seven-year-old Ji-ho, holds unfailingly onto his mother’s vow to return when the next rainy season breaks. Ji-ho’s unflinching faith in his mother’s words prove not in vain; miraculously a year later the three are reunited on that promised first day of the rainy season.
The woman who appears...
While Woo-jin (So Ji-sub, Rough Cut) mourns the passing of his beloved wife Soo-a (Son Ye-jin, The Truth Beneath), their young son, seven-year-old Ji-ho, holds unfailingly onto his mother’s vow to return when the next rainy season breaks. Ji-ho’s unflinching faith in his mother’s words prove not in vain; miraculously a year later the three are reunited on that promised first day of the rainy season.
The woman who appears...
- 4/3/2018
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
Local horror thriller, “Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum” landed on top of the South Korean box office. Since opening on Wednesday, the Showbox release earned $10.2 million from 1.37 million admissions, including $492,000 earned from previews. It accounted for 40% of the total weekend box office.
Steven Spielberg’s “Ready Player One” could only manage second place. Also opening on Wednesday, the Warner Bros. release earned $8.09 million, accounting for 33% of the weekend box office revenue.
Fantasy romance, “Be with You” slipped to third from the previous week’s second. The Lotte Entertainment release earned $1.98 million between Friday and Sunday and extended its total to $17.6 million after three weekends.
Another Wednesday opener, “Seven Years of Night” took fourth place. Released by Cj Entertainment and directed by “Masquerade” director Choo Chang-min, the Korean thriller drama earned $2.99 million over five days. Based on Jung Yoo-jung’s novel of the same title, “Seven Years” sees the story of a man...
Steven Spielberg’s “Ready Player One” could only manage second place. Also opening on Wednesday, the Warner Bros. release earned $8.09 million, accounting for 33% of the weekend box office revenue.
Fantasy romance, “Be with You” slipped to third from the previous week’s second. The Lotte Entertainment release earned $1.98 million between Friday and Sunday and extended its total to $17.6 million after three weekends.
Another Wednesday opener, “Seven Years of Night” took fourth place. Released by Cj Entertainment and directed by “Masquerade” director Choo Chang-min, the Korean thriller drama earned $2.99 million over five days. Based on Jung Yoo-jung’s novel of the same title, “Seven Years” sees the story of a man...
- 4/3/2018
- by Sonia Kil
- Variety Film + TV
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