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Ryusuke Hamaguchi's Drive My Car was awarded best feature at this year’s Asian Film Awards (March 12), along with prizes for best editing and best original music. The multiple award-winning Japanese film premiered at Cannes film festival in 2021 and also won the Oscar for Best International Feature last…

EXCLUSIVE: For the second time this week, we can reveal a milestone performance for a Mubi film, with the update that Park Chan-wook’s Decision To Leave has become the company’s most streamed film in North America. We're told the Cannes 2022 hit has now surpassed North America engagement for films…

With the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences having expanded its shortlist for the Best International Feature Film Oscar to 15 in recent years, it's inevitable that some deserving titles miss the nominations cut. However, several of the perceived front-runners are in the mix after today's…

Bong Joon-ho may be the national hero for bringing home the Oscar for Parasite, but it was Park Chan-wook who first blazed the trail for Korean cinema. After two false starts, his international career began in earnest in 2000 with Berlinale hit Joint Security Area (J.S.A), a military thriller set in the…

Park Chan-wook's stylish crime drama Decision to Leave leads the nominations for this year's Asian Film Awards with a sweeping 10 nods, including Best Director and Best Film. The film's impressive nominations haul also includes a Best Screenplay nod and acting nominations for leads Park Hae-il and…

The year 2022 has been great for film as we return to the cinemas to watch movies in all their grandeur as they are meant to be experienced: with an audience.  With so much to choose from, some films fall under the radar and do not receive the recognition or attention they deserve. These films can be overlooked in…

Fresh from its success at the Cannes Film Festival where it won Best Director, Decision to Leave marks the first time a film by Park Chan-wook — long believed to be one of South Korea's finest contemporary filmmakers — has represented his country at the Oscars. A friendly rivalry with Parasite director…

Decision to Leave has a murder, a search for the killer and a determined investigator. But co-writer and director Park Chan-wook says he was determined to tell a story that would set the film apart. “My challenge was how to tell a unique story from that basic premise,” Park said through a translator…

The Fabelmans grossed an estimated $160k this weekend at four theaters in NY and LA. That’s a $40K per screen average, on par with recent strong (for post-Covid) specialty openings like The Banshees Of Inisherin (at $45k PSA) and Tár (also $40k), both on four screens too, reflecting a definite pickup in…

Searchlight Pictures' The Banshees Of Inisherin opened to an estimated $181,000 and a raring per screen average of $45,250, beating Tár’s impressive $40,000. Both opened in four locations and now rank no. 2 and no. 3 for an indie per-theater gross this year after A24's Everything Everywhere All At Once…

Chinonye Chukwu's Till got off to a solid start at the specialized box office, grossing over $15k per theater from 16 locations in five markets for an estimated weekend gross of $240.9k, possibly more depending on how Sunday plays out. "It's as much as we could have hoped for," said Erik Lomis…

The Film That Lit My Fuse is a Deadline video series that aims to provide an antidote to headlines about industry uncertainty by swinging the conversation back to the creative ambitions, formative influences and inspirations of some of today's great screen artists. Every installment asks the same five…