Sony Pictures has paid for 95 percent of Funimation Productions’ shares, significantly increasing their foothold on the anime licensing and distribution game. Funimation Productions is an anime licensing and […]
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Yoon Mirae and Sony Pictures Settle Legal Dispute
by REERA YOO | @reeraboo editor@charactermedia.com Korean singer-rapper Yoon Mirae was not amused when she heard her song “Pay Day” briefly play in the controversial Seth Rogan comedy The Interview. “When […]
ABC Orders Ken Jeong’s Comedy ‘Dr. Ken’ to Series
by REERA YOO | @reeraboo editor@charactermedia.com ABC has ordered Ken Jeong’s medical comedy Dr. Ken to series, along with two other pilots, reports Variety. This will be the second sitcom featuring an […]
Activists Postpone Dropping ‘The Interview’ via Balloons Into North Korea
by REERA YOO | @reeraboo editor@charactermedia.com South Korean activists announced on Monday that they will delay their controversial campaign to fly thousands of DVD copies of The Interview, a Sony […]
U.S. Remakes of ‘My Love From Another Star’ and ‘Nine’ Likely to Be Shelved
by REERA YOO | @reeraboo editor@charactermedia.com ABC and NBC recently announced their television show lineup for the 2015-16 season, and the U.S. remakes of Korean dramas My Love From Another […]
Activists Threaten to Drop ‘The Interview’ in North Korea
by REERA YOO | @reeraboo editor@charactermedia.com A South Korean activist group led by a North Korean defector vowed on Tuesday to send Pyongyang a massive number of DVDs of […]
President Park Offers to Meet Kim Jong-un Without Pre-Conditions
by REERA YOO | @reeraboo editor@charactermedia.com South Korean President Park Geun-hye said on Monday that she is open to holding a summit meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un […]
[VIDEO] Diana Bang, Unibrows and Butt-Kicking Ajummas
by ARIANNA CARAMAT What happens when you have two bored sisters, two butt-kicking Ajumma puppets and a tambourine? Pure comedy. Looks like the funny gene runs in the Bang family. […]
Netflix Says It Wants to Stream ‘The Interview’
by DAVID BAUDER, AP Television writer PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — Netflix wants to make Sony’s The Interview available to its 53 million worldwide subscribers, the streaming service’s chief content […]
South Korea Says North Korea Has 6000-Member Cyber Army
by REERA YOO | @reeraboo editor@charactermedia.com South Korea said on Tuesday that North Korea has boosted its cyber army to 6,000 troops, twice the number of cyberwarfare specialists Seoul […]
Did North Korea Hack Sony? The Jury’s Still Out
by SUEVON LEE | @suevlee editor@charactermedia.com Long after The Interview opened in some 300 independent theaters on Christmas Day and was made available to stream online following an unprecedented chain […]
Get to Know Charles Rahi Chun of ‘The Interview’
by AMANDA WALUJONO Looking back at 2014, there was no movie quite like The Interview. A comedy about a fictional assassination attempt of North Korean’s current sitting leader Kim Jong […]
Behind ‘The Interview’ with Diana Bang
by SUEVON LEE | @suevlee editor@charactermedia.com Appearing alongside Randall Park, Seth Rogen and James Franco in Sony Pictures’ comedy The Interview is Diana Bang, a Korean Canadian actress who […]
North Korea Calls Obama a ‘Monkey,’ Blames U.S. for Internet Outage
by HYUNG-JIN KIM, Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea blamed its recent Internet outage on the United States on Saturday and hurled racially charged insults at […]
Dr. Evil Mocks North Korea and Sony Pictures Over ‘The Interview’
by JAMES S. KIM | @james_s_kim editor@charactermedia.com Evil has a name, and it is Dr. Evil. The comically absurd arch nemesis of Austin Powers interrupted last weekend’s Saturday Night Live […]
