John Woo is developing a “half-musical” as his next project, joking that it will be his first movie where he won’t need a stuntman. When you think of John Woo, you think of action. With movies such as The Killer, Hard Boiled, Face/Off, Mission: Impossible 2, and more, the director has delivered some of the … Read more
With The Killer, director John Woo joins a very exclusive club: Directors Who Have Directed Remakes of Their Own Work. The new version of The Killer is, according to the press release, a “radical reimagining” of Woo’s own landmark 1989 action film The Killer. And if it seems like it’s beneath a filmmaker of Woo’s stature to remake himself, … Read more
Lovely Runner actor Byeon Woo Seok is all set to embark on his Asia fan meeting tour, titled SUMMER LETTER, starting June 2024. The South Korean actor has captured the hearts of many fans with his sincere and heartwarming portrayal of the male lead, Ryu Sun Jae, in the tvN time-travel romance K-drama. Furthermore, Woo … Read more
The brand-new episode 13 of the hit romance time-travel K-drama Lovely Runner will make its debut on tvN on Monday, May 20, 2024, at 8:50 p.m. KST. The episode will also air on the streaming platform Viki on the same day. tvN recently launched a new trailer for the upcoming episode on its official Instagram … Read more
Episode 5 of Night Has Come, the new thriller K-Drama starring Kim Woo-Seok and Lee Jae-In in the lead roles, arrived on Viki and U+ Mobile TV this Monday, December 11, 2023. Lim Dae-Woong serves as the director of the ongoing Korean series. Viewers of the series have been quite curious to see how the … Read more
One of the great director-actor pairings in Asian cinema history, that of John Woo and Chow Yun-fat, may be over partly due to age. When we think of the great director-actor pairings throughout Asian cinema history, at the top is Kurosawa and Mifune. But we can’t forget Kenji Mizoguchi and Kinuyo Tanaka (seriously, add Ugetsu … Read more
Finally, Woo has returned to the States with the high-concept holiday bloodbath “Silent Night.” After his young son is caught in the crossfire between two opposing gangs and shot dead on Christmas Eve, a grieving father (Joel Kinnaman) tracks down those responsible. The twist here is that the entire film is conveyed without a single … Read more
Chalk up John Woo as another director who doesn’t enjoy superhero movies, with him preferring old-fashioned movies. John Woo is perhaps the greatest action director of all time. No one can shoot action as kinetically as him, and his style paved the way for everyone from Sam Raimi to The Wachowskis to Chad Stahelski, whose … Read more
It’s been 20 years since John Woo made an American thriller. The master of Hong Kong action films like The Killer and Hard Boiled initially came to Hollywood in the early 90s, and found success with a string of very Woo-ish action flicks like Face/Off and Mission: Impossible II. But after a couple of flops he returned home and has been … Read more