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The Busan International Film Festival has unveiled 23 features for its Vision Korea and Vision Asia sections, filling out its showcase for Korean and Asian independent cinema ahead of the reveal of this year’s main competition slate. BIFF selected 12 films for Vision Korea and 11 for Vision Asia. The two strands were introduced last year, part of a broader overhaul that also saw Busan launch its first formal main competition section. The festival describes its Vision program as a showcase for new Korean and Asian independent cinema. The section grew out of Korean Cinema Today – Vision, which traditionally…

Reading Time: 2 minutes Sean Grayson has died in prison. The former Illinois sheriff’s deputy was behind bars for the shocking murder of Sonya Massey. He was only about half a year into his 20-year sentence. What happened? This mugshot photo depicts convicted murderer and former sheriff’s deputy Sean Grayson. (Photo Credit: Macon County Jail) Sean Grayson died on Sunday, August 23 Daniel Fultz, attorney for Grayson, confirmed to TMZ that his client died around noon Central Time (1 PM on the East Coast) on Sunday, August 23. Fultz did not choose to furnish additional details. However, TMZ reports that…

John Oliver took a close look at what he called a “less-covered story from this week” on Sunday’s Last Week Tonight: a reality show from U.S. Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy called The Great American Road Trip. Duffy debuted a trailer for the show in May. At the time, a press release stated that the series “asks: Who are we? Following U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy and his family, this five-part journey encourages Americans to step away from their screens for a vital civic experience. From small towns to iconic landmarks, the series captures the unscripted moments and shared values…

Lesley Vogel, Hayden Panettiere’s mom, is slamming both Gayle King and Megyn Kelly for their recent criticisms in the wake of her daughter’s death. “I was very, very hurt and deeply disappointed in the lack of professionalism, the lack of compassion in slamming someone who’s lost two children, without even a modicum of consideration,” Vogel said during a recent interview with theDaily Mailregarding the CBS Mornings host and podcaster’s separate comments. “No one reached out to me before,” she added. “It’s shameful. It’s unconscionable to me.” The Hollywood Reporter has reached out to CBS Mornings for comment, but did not…

Anna Paquin, Christy Carlson Romano and Melissa Gilbert are calling on Hollywood to protect child actors following the deaths of Hayden Panettiere, Michelle Trachtenberg and Daveigh Chase. Panettiere’s death at age 36 last Sunday prompted the three actresses, who were child stars themselves, to take their concerns public. Trachtenberg died at 39 in February 2025, while Chase died in July at age 35. “It’s not a coincidence that so many former, specifically pre-sexualized female, child ‘stars’ have profoundly sad lives and untimely ends. We were not as protected by the ‘systems’ that look great on paper, as we are supposed…

Jim Berk, CEO of theSimon Wiesenthal Center, is defending Paramount after the studio called Mark Ruffalo’s anti-merger comments “antisemitic.” “Words matter, and so does the willingness to draw a line when legitimate debate gives way to antisemitic tropes,” Berk wrote. “We commend Paramount for speaking clearly and refusing to allow prejudice to masquerade as political or corporate criticism. At a time when antisemitism is too often minimized, rationalized or repackaged in more socially acceptable language, this kind of moral clarity matters.” “Invoking Israel in an issue where it is completely irrelevant is a textbook case of obsession and demonization. Paramount…

Nick Glennie-Smith, the British composer, conductor and keyboardist known for his collaborations with Hans Zimmer and for his work on films including The Rock, The Man in the Iron Mask and Secretariat, has died. He was 74. Glennie-Smith died peacefully Aug. 16 surrounded by family at his home in Charlottesville, Virginia, his wife of 52 years, Jan Glennie-Smith, told The Hollywood Reporter. No cause of death was revealed. As an orchestral conductor, Glennie-Smith teamed with two-time Oscar-winning composer Zimmer on such notable films as The Lion King (1994), Crimson Tide (1995), The Simpsons Movie (2007), Transformers (2007), X-Men: First Class…

Reading Time: 2 minutes Sydney Sweeney and Glen Powell had undeniable chemistry in Anyone But You. In fact, fans were convinced that Sydney was cheating on her then-fiance with Powell. And apparently, that chemistry may still be causing problems. Glen Powell and Sydney Sweeney attend Columbia Pictures’ “Anyone But You” New York premiere at AMC Lincoln Square Theater on December 11, 2023 in New York City. (Photo by John Lamparski/WireImage) Sydney is reportedly in no rush to reunite with Powell on screen, despite the success of their 2023 romantic comedy. According to a source, her boyfriend, Scooter Braun, is uncomfortable…

Ahead of her upcoming honor at the Academy Museum Gala this fall, Charlize Theron stopped by the museum on Saturday night for a discussion about one of her biggest — and most famously fraught — projects, in Mad Max: Fury Road. The 2015 action film, set in a post-apocalyptic desert wasteland, stars Theron as warrior Imperator Furiosa, who leads the daring escape of female prisoners from a tyrannical ruler. She co-stars alongside Tom Hardy (playing former captive Max Rockatansky), and the two majorly butted heads throughout the production. The film still went on to major critical and commercial success, landing…

Leslie Parrish, who starred as the hopelessly in love Daisy Mae in the Paramount Pictures musical Li’l Abnerand sported a Queen of Diamonds costume for The Manchurian Candidate, has died. She was 90. Parrish lived in Washington state and died late last year, Erica Berdan, a daughter of the actress’ second husband, Jonathan Livingston Seagull author Richard Bach, told The Hollywood Reporter. THR only recently learned of her death. Parrish also starred opposite Vic Morrow (as Dutch Schultz) in Portrait of a Mobster (1961); wasone of Thelma Ritter’s daughters (Mitzi Gaynor and Julie Newmar were the others) in For Love…