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John Bon Jovi is over the month when his son Jake Bongiovie and daughter-in-law Millie Bobby Brown welcomed the baby girl together. “It’s crazy, but it’s great. It’s amazing,” the music icon told Bunnie Xo in an interview posted on Sunday for Tiktok. “They adopted a girl. We obviously met the baby, and soon it will become your grandson, do you know what I mean?” he continued. “Your baby.” John Bon Jovi responded to his son Jake Bongiovie and daughter-in-law Millie Bobby Brown, and adopted his first child together in an interview with Bunny XO. The experience of being a…
Busan’s Asian Project Market introduces the latest feature of Joe Hae-young, the South Korean director produced by Park Se-jin, “The Arrival of Water.” The project explores sadness, linguistic and cultural dislocations through stories rooted in both Korean and Japanese contexts. Previous works include “The Continuing Land” (2022) and “Simply known as something else,” both screened in Busan, Joe said her new film idea began with her grandmother’s stroke-induced voice disorder. “My grandfather was the only one who could really understand her fragmentary words. After he passed away, I pondered the isolation she was left behind,” she explains. Her own experiences…
London and LA-based studio Ink Factory is working with Korean production company Vo Media to develop a series adaptation of John Le Carré’s acclaimed spice thriller, The Most Wanted. The Korean set adaptation will be scripted by Kim Yun-Shin along with Kim Shin-Ho produced by Vo Media. Vo Media’s Park Bo-Keeong will oversee the development along with Junyoung Jang, the Korean executive producer of the ink factory. Executive producers include Tessa Inkelaar, Simon Cornwell, Stephen Cornwell and Michele Wolkoff’s Ink Factory, as well as Joe Tsai and Arthur Wang from 127 Wall Productions. The 2008 novel focuses on illegal Muslim…
You need to know Justin Bieber and seven-year wife Haley Baldwin Bieber enjoyed a sweet family moment over the weekend with his 13-month-old son, Jack Brust Trio. Justin Bieber offers a candid glimpse into family life with his one-year-old son Jack Bruce and his wife Haley. On Sunday, September 21st, the “Baby” singer shared Instagram Carousel, featuring a shot of TOT’s outspoken family, including one image Little Jack was walking while holding his parents’ hands. The sweet shot shows a pink sleeveless t-shirt with a tot in diaper while he holds it in his parents’ hands. The second image of…
Lai Lai had no intention of romanticizing her hometown. Sikkimese’s filmmaker’s debut, “Momo’s Shape of Momo,” presents an attractive portrait of a woman who deliberately avoids romantic mountain communities and instead navigates patriarchal expectations in a Himalayan village. “People always want to make places like us romantic and turn them into beautiful backgrounds for the stories of others. The Nepali drama continues with Vishnu. As tensions grow along with the arrival of a pregnant sister and the budding relationship with the “appropriate” boy in her community, Vishnu has to choose to follow tradition or assert her independence. Celluloid Dream has…
Dani de La Orden, director of the 2024 breakout “A House on Fire,” will adapt to the beta fiction “El Director,” a bestselling non-fiction book written by David Zimenez about his experience as an editor of the Spanish Daily Newspaper. Jimenez, a former international correspondent for Asia and War Reporters, was brought in in May 2014 to lead Elmund’s digital transformation. But what he found when he spoke in “El Director” was a mutually positive agreement between the newspaper and the establishment of Spain. Refusing to compromise on the publication’s independence, he was fired just a year later. De La…
Busan’s Asian project market has chosen “Heaven Help Us,” a politically charged drama from Philippine director Yves Baswell. This faces the collapse of the Manila Film Centre in 1981, one of the darkest chapters in the country’s cultural history. The project was produced by John Torres, Jules Cataniag and Danzen Santos Cataniag and the team aims to secure international partners, co-production support and pre-sale in the market. Baswell said she was forced to tell the story after linking her own experiences in the unstable workforce with workers who lost their lives while building the center. “The workers built what was…
Busan’s Asian Project Market presents “The Magical Man,” a strange love story by writer-director Biprobu Sarkar, which shines a spotlight on the marginalized Bahrupi performance community in South Asia. Produced by Fran Borgia, François D’Artemare, Sankhajit Biswas and Sarkar, the film explores intimacy, resilience and identity against the backdrop of fading folk traditions and entrenched social taboos. Set in the old Dhaka, “The Magical Men” follows Bahurupi artists Sukumar and Hemanta, who embodies Shiva and Parvati during Neel Shashti Puja. Their secret romance unfolds in tension in family ties, police harassment, and the personal struggles of performers, leading to Hemanta’s…
Pickford’s AI series “Whispers” bowed in Busan Asian content and film markets, offering viewers an interactive teaser introducing the possibilities of AI-driven storytelling. Emmy Award-winning producer Bernie S (“Lizzie Bennett Diaries”) spoke about his motivation for creating an AI series that stems from his desire to explore new narrative forms. “For me, the storyteller is what you’re trying to see, that this experience is a story experience that you can’t do without AI,” Su explained. “It’s a new art form that can’t be done without that fast, faithful, first-time, experience AI and technology.” This showcase allowed viewers to join through…
Busan’s Asian project market will host the latest feature “Moon” by Pradip Kurba, the Indian director produced by Shankar Largoenka, with multiple companies. Between the mist-stained hills of Meghalaya and the restless streets of Delhi, the psychological drama examines the memories, guilt and silence that shape a broken family. The film overshadows the man who returns to his village after years of separation, the man who once knew him, his violent past. After facing the abuser and returning to the family that raised her as a boy, the woman returns from Delhi. When their paths cross in the rain, they…