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Pop singer and DJ Chloe Jane sat down to explain her musical style and her goals for her career in her new uInterview.

A DJ, singer and social media star, Jane grew up in Ibiza, Spain, where she started to dance at six years old and play piano at nine. As a child, she spent her summers watching DJs perform, and at age 12 realized her dream to be one. She became a resident DJ at the disco Amnesia in 2017.

Jane described the elements that went into her new single. “My new song ‘Keep Holding On (Set Me Free)’ is a really, really anthemic dance-pop song,” she told uInterview founder Erik Meers. “I wrote it here in L.A. – I’m in L.A. right now – with my friend Zach. It’s a dance-pop banger that I perform live and DJ in the clubs. I wrote this song because I love...

Jimin of BTS is back — sort of. While the global star is still in the midst of serving his compulsory time in the South Korean military, he recently released his second solo project, a summery, sunny effort titled Muse.

In addition to recording a second full album before heading to the military, Jimin prepared something extra special for Army by making sure to pre-record a live performance of the album’s focus track, “Who,” for The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Watch it below, and read on to dig into five highlights from the confident performance.

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For anyone who has been following BTS for any period of time, live performances being truly live should come as no surprise — but Jimin’s voice sounded especially clear during this performance. As a member of BTS’ vocal line, Jimin tends to take responsibility for parts in the higher vocal range; when on his own,...

Power Rangers is an enduring franchise that has made our childhoods awesome. It has been around for a long time, entertaining us with its action-packed episodes. When it comes to the Red Ranger, he was the ultimate superhero for all of us.

Because he was the one who always led the charge, showed guts, and was just downright awesome. Whether it’s their cool red suits, epic fights, or those pump-up speeches, Red Rangers always hit the right note with fans of all ages.

Red Ranger in the Power Rangers franchise

Austin St. John was the man behind the Red Ranger mask in the original series. He played Jason Lee Scott, the leader of the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, making him the first Red Ranger we ever saw on screen. After his stint in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, St. John continued his Ranger journey.

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Montreal-based international sales company H264 has unveiled its lineup for this month’s European Film Market in Berlin, which includes François Delisle’s “Waiting for the Storms” and Léa Pool’s “Hotel Silence.” Variety has exclusive access to the first image from “Waiting for the Storms.”

“Waiting for the Storms” is described as “a fable about the climate crisis that transcends artistic boundaries to spark a dialogue between our past, present and future.” Delisle’s credits include “Chorus” and “Le Météore.”

“Across various timelines and locations, four characters weave a web of stories that explore human resilience in the face of environmental upheaval,” according to a statement.

The film follows four characters: Marie, who is gripped by obsessive, heart-wrenching questions as a young mother whose child faces a dead-end future, and channels her anxiety into passionate activism; Terence, a climate-change refugee, who tells strangers his story in the hopes of...

Welcome To Our Weekly rundown of the best new music — featuring big new singles, key tracks from our favorite albums, and more. This week Miley Cyrus returns with her highly anticipated eighth album, Becky G joins forces with Omega, Lil Keed’s posthumous release, and Tame Impala soundtrack an upcoming Dungeons and Dragons adaptation.

Miley Cyrus, “Jaded” (YouTube)

McKinley Dixon, “Run, Run, Run” (YouTube)

Myke Towers, “Aguardiente” (YouTube)

Twice, “Set Me Free” (YouTube)

Roísín Murphy & DJ Koze, “CooCool” (YouTube)

Lil Keed, “Self Employed” (YouTube)

Lola Brooke, “So Disrespectful” (YouTube)

Spencer Sutherland,...

Twice were the musical guest on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon Thursday night. The K-pop girl group took over the studio stage with a performance of “Set Me Free,” a track from their new mini-album Ready To Be.

Before Nayeon, Jeongyeon, Momo, Sana, Jihyo, Mina, Dahyun, Chaeyoung, and Tzuyu were even visible, the audience was already erupting in screams and applause. The close quarters didn’t stop the idols from making a splash, and their complex choreography is impressive even on-camera; we can only imagine how it looks in person. Watch Twice perform “Set Me Free” on Fallon and stream Ready To Be below.

Twice will embark on their “Ready To Be” tour next month, performing 17 shows across 14 cities around the world. Marked as “Part 1” of the tour with future dates promised, the “Ready To Be” tour will begin in Seoul before they make their grand return to the...

Jimmy Fallon’s introduction of Twice before their performance on The Tonight Show was no match for the packed-in studio audience of fans, whose cheers easily overpowered his voice. But the K-pop supergroup – made up of Nayeon, Jeongyeon, Momo, Sana, Jihyo, Mina, Dahyun, Chaeyoung, and Tzuyu – had the most commanding voices in the room.

Performing “Set Me Free” from their latest mini-album Ready to Be, Twice completely disregarded the usual staging for The Tonight Show – the quant and contained performance space everyone else uses wouldn’t be large enough to...

It’s Friday, Friday, gotta get down on Friday — especially when it’s New Music Friday! We’re breaking down this week’s best new tracks to keep on your radar.

New Music Friday – March 10th, 2023

Miley Cyrus – “River”, plus Endless Summer Vacation (Album)

Calvin Harris and Ellie Goulding – “Miracle”

Meghan Trainor – “Mother”, plus Takin’ It Back (Deluxe) (Album)

Nf – “Motto”

Maluma – “La Reina”

Twice – “Set Me Free”, plus Ready To Be (Album)

d4vd – “Worthless”

Other noteworthy artists with releases this week include 6Lack – “Talkback”, Tame Impala – “Wings Of Time”, Christine and the Queens – “To be honest”, Myke Towers – “Aguardiente”, Chrissy Chlapecka – “I’m So Hot”, Pnau & Khalid – “The Hard Way”, Roderick Porter ft Jay Isaiah – “Bittersweet”, joan – “loner”, Akira Galaxy – “Virtual Eyes”, Tiësto – “All Nighter”, Becky G ft Omega – “Arranca”, Sebastian Esquivel and Alex Favela – “Rzr Rojo”, Maris – “Crashland”, Peter Raffoul – “Thought You Should Know, and Griffen Palmer...

Much has been said about K-pop over the years and much has been misunderstood about the genre too. Naysayers chalk up K-pop acts to pale imitations of Western artists, while the uninitiated disparage the grandiose production as derivative or cliché.

But on their new EP, Ready to Be, the girl group Twice blows up the tired stereotypes and smashes through barriers with a seven-song set that’s as brash and compelling as anything in the pop music landscape today. Ready to Be is a confident comeback from one of K-pop’s most exciting groups,...

BTS’ Jimin will release his debut solo album, Face, on March 24. Ahead of its release, the singer has shared the complete tracklist for the record.

The project will feature six songs in total. A graphic unveiling the song titles and collaborators featured notes relating to the album’s themes. “Circle of Resonance,” one read. “Reflection of vulnerable minds and unexposed wounds.” Another added: “Face, the reflection of myself in an unfamiliar appearance” and “Face of facing the deepest part of inner-self.”

#지민 #Jimin #Jimin_FACE Tracklist#LikeCrazy #SetMeFree_Pt2 pic.

François Arnaud (Surface, Midnight Texas), Joshua Close (Monica, Fargo) and Troian Bellisario (Pretty Little Liars) will be joining the CBC original drama series Plan B, set for a winter 2023 debut.

The series stars Patrick J. Adams as Philip and Karine Vanasse as Evelyn.

Adams is best known for playing college dropout turned lawyer Mike Ross in USA Network’s Suits between 2011 and 2019, a role that garnered him a Screen Actors Guild nomination. He recently made his Broadway debut in Richard Greenberg’s Tony-nominated revival of Take Me Out and starred as original Mercury 7 astronaut John Glenn in National Geographic’s first scripted series for Disney+, The Right Stuff.

Vanasse is an award-winning actress who starred as Detective Lise Delorme in CTV’s drama Cardinal between 2017 and 2020, for which she won a Canadian Screen Award for Best Lead Actress in a Drama Series in 2019 and...

Exclusive: Patrick J. Adams (Suits) and Karine Vanasse (Cardinal) have been cast as the leads in an English-language adaptation of time travel drama Plan B for Canada’s CBC.

Adapted from the Radio-Canada French-language drama created by Jean-François Asselin and Jacques Drolet and set in Montreal, Plan B is billed as high-concept, gripping and intimate psychological drama about a man on a desperate and relentless quest to save his relationship – and by extension, his whole world.

Adams plays Philip, who discovers how to go back in time, giving him the chance to save his relationship with love of his life Evelyn (Vanasse), his law firm and his dysfunctional family. But he soon realizes that even the smallest choice has repercussions — as uncontrollable as they are unexpected — on his life and the lives of others.

Quebec-based Kotv, which produces the original series, is attached to the adaption and will be...

The Chicks have revealed the tracklisting for their upcoming album Gaslighter, set for release later this month.

The track listing for #Gaslighter has been revealed. We’ll be revealing the lyrics to songs to come. Stay tuned. The first track and title of the album, #Gaslighter, is out now. Listen again here: https://t.co/XDpUyk57b5https://t.co/6NmljJLVcF

— The Chicks (@thechicks) July 8, 2020

The tracklist was made available on Wednesday via Apple Music, showing the 12 song titles as well as their songwriting credits. All three Chicks co-wrote most of the album’s tracks,...

Parasite is a film about families as much as it is about class resentment. As avatars of capitalism, the Parks and the Kims’ codependence sheds light on its systemic mutual toxicity. Yet just as compelling as the parasitic relationships in these families—and what they reveal about the greedy instincts that have been socially programmed into our psyches— is how the distinct nature of their intra-familial dynamics also speak to the larger social forces they exist within. In this light, director Bong Joon-ho is asking us to consider the extent to which capitalism itself cleaves or fortifies the bonds of familial love—suggesting that the greater the class resentment, the stronger the bond.

And strong are the Kim family ties indeed. Their scruffy and clamorous energy invokes a kinship that’s weathered its fair share of hardships, and whose resilience functions as a suit of armor against a ruthless and obscenely unequal social landscape.

In the two years since Choi Wooshik made his appearance in Bong Joon-ho’s Okja, the sky has been the limit. Choi has rocketed from bit parts in television dramas, to award-winning feature performances in Set Me Free and co-starring in blockbusters like Train to Busan, to lie at the center of Director Bong’s Palme d’Or-winning masterpiece, Parasite. Having graced The Lady Miz Diva with his very first overseas, English-language interview in 2017, Choi and Lmd reunite to talk exclusively about his second time around with Director Bong, learning at the knee of acting legend, Song Kang-ho, and a possible place in Hollywood. The Lady Miz Diva: When we spoke back in 2017, it was on the occasion of your first Bong Joon-ho...

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Leela James is one of the few southern soul singers who can still achieve a hit today. Her most recent example, “Don’t Want You Back,” is an exercise in classic form — a handsome, raspy “good riddance” with a guitar that studiously recreates the sound of Hi Records. But the window-shaking drums updated that style enough to make it a Number One radio record.

James harnesses her vocal firepower for something more gnarled and abrasive on the Are You Ready Ep, due April 12. Lead single “I’m Not That Woman” is a vicious,...

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Choi Wooshik’s outstanding performance in 2014’s haunting, heartbreaking Set Me Free not only won him the Busan International Film Festival Actor of the Year and the prestigious Blue Dragon awards, it also gained him a place in the incredible international cast of Director Bong Joon-ho’s Okja, as a rebellious avatar for Bong’s message to today’s youth. In his first overseas interview, Choi told me about his days on the Okja set, working with Us stars, Steven Yeun and Paul Dano, and the possibility of future western projects. The Lady Miz Diva: Please tell us how you came to Okja? Choi Wooshik: There was this movie called Set Me Free. It happened to be that one of Director Bong’s assistants said, “Oh, there...

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Bong Joon ho’s “Okja” was booed at its Cannes Film Festival press screening on Friday after a technical issue caused the film to be projected in the wrong aspect ratio for several minutes at the start of the movie. Boos were also heard when the Netflix logo appeared on the screen prior to the glitch. The screening at the Lumière Auditorium proceeded normally after the issue was resolved.

Read More: Netflix at Cannes: Pedro Almodovar Will Give ‘Okja’ a Fair Shake

“This incident was entirely the responsibility of the Festival’s technical service, which offers its apologies to the director, his teams, the producers and the audience at the showing,” Cannes said in a statement. Netflix was not immediately available for comment on Friday.

Tilda Swinton, Jake Gyllenhaal, Lily Collins, Paul Dano, and Ahn Seo-hyun star in the monster film, which was co-written by Joon-Ho and Jon Ronson (“The Men Who Stare at Goats...

In advance of its splashy bow at Cannes this week, Netflix has released the first full trailer for its much-anticipated Bong Joon Ho monster joint, “Okja.” And it’s adorable.

Tilda Swinton, Jake Gyllenhaal, Lily Collins, Paul Dano, and Ahn Seo-hyun star in the monster film, which appears to marry the concerns of corporate greed (care of Swinton’s character) and charming inter-species friendship (the eponymous beast and Ahn) into one glorious mash-up of humor and terror as only Bong could create.

Read More: ‘Okja’ First Look: Jake Gyllenhaal Makes His Debut in Bong Joon-ho’s Monster Movie Adventure

Co-written by Joon-Ho and Jon Ronson (“The Men Who Stare at Goats”), “Okja” tells the story of Mija, a young girl who lives in the deep woods of the Gangwon Province of South Korea. Mija will do everything in her power to prevent a powerful company (led by Swinton, naturally) from taking her best friend,...

Mary J. Blige is on an emotional journey, but she has no regrets.

The 46-year-old singer, who split from estranged husband Kendu Isaacs, last year, is opening up about her personal life, and the therapeutic process of recording her new album, Strength of a Woman.

Related: Mary J. Blige Recalls 'Breaking Point' in Her Marriage to Kendu Isaacs: 'I Had to Save Myself'

"Every day is a process because it's a lot that's going on. But, there's a lot of light in all this darkness," the singing powerhouse told Power 105.1 host Angie Martinez during her iHeartRadio Album Release Party at the iHeartRadio Theater in New York City on Tuesday.

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At one point in her chat with Martinez, the Grammy winner was almost brought to tears when referencing the "hurt" and "betrayal" that led to her breakup with Isaacs.

"You found out you [weren't] what this person wanted, for all these...

Sales agent also announces deals on One Step, The Age Of Shadows, The Wailing and Operation Chromite.

South Korean sales company Finecut has announced a raft of deals from the European Film Market (Efm) and Hong Kong Filmart led by Yunjin Kim-starrer House Of The Disappeared pre-selling to major Asian territories including Japan (New Select) and the Philippines (Viva Communications).

Other titles that Finecut has closed sales on include One Step, The Age Of Shadows, The Wailing, Operation Chromite, The Net, Misbehavior and The World Of Us.

Lim Dae-woong’s mystery thriller House Of The Disappeared, which also stars K-pop group 2Pm member Ok Taec-yeon, also pre-sold to Taiwan (Long Shong International), Vietnam (Red Pictures) and Singapore, Malaysia and Brunei (mm2 Entertainment). The film is still in post-production with a local release set for April 5.

Directed by Juhn Jai-hong (Poongsan, Beautiful), music drama One Step starring K-pop group 2NE1 member Sandara Park locked deals to Thiland...

"I took nature and science, and I synthesized." Since 2013's Snowpiercer, we've been eagerly awaiting Okja, the next film from Bong Joon-ho, and ahead of its premiere this June on Netflix, the first teaser trailer for the movie has been unveiled.

"From visionary Director Bong Joon Ho, this grand global adventure follows a friendship too big to ignore. Meet Mija, a young girl who risks everything to prevent a powerful, multi-national company from kidnapping her best friend – a massive animal named Okja. Following her across continents, the coming-of-age comedy drama sees Mija’s horizons expand in a way one never would want for one’s children, coming up against the harsh realities of genetically modified food experimentation, globalization, eco-terrorism, and humanity’s obsession with image, brand and self-promotion."

Okja reteams Joon-ho with Snowpiercer co-star Tilda Swinton (Only Lovers Left Alive) and also features Jake Gyllenhaal (Life), Paul Dano (Swiss Army Man...

Netflix has released the first teaser trailer for Bong Joon-Ho’s anticipated fantasy film “Okja,” starring Tilda Swinton, Jake Gyllenhaal, Lily Collins and Paul Dano. Watch the trailer below.

Read More: ‘Okja’ New Photos Introduce Lily Collins’ Character in Bong Joon-Ho’s Upcoming Film

Co-written by Joon-Ho and Jon Ronson (“The Men Who Stare at Goats”), “Okja” tells the story of Mija (played by South Korean actress Ahn Seo-hyun), a young girl who lives in the deep woods of the Gangwon Province of South Korea. Mija will do everything in her power to prevent a powerful company from taking her best friend, a massive beast named Okja. “It’s a very shy and introverted animal. It’s a unique animal that we’ve not seen before,” the director told Entertainment Weekly.

This trailer offers a first glimpse of Okja, a large creature with big brown eyes, while Swinton’s character...

Every week, IndieWire asks a select handful of TV critics two questions and publishes the results on Tuesday. (The answer to the second, “What is the best show currently on TV?” can be found at the end of this post.)

This week’s question: What is the best TV theme song for a current show that aired in 2016?

Alan Sepinwall (@sepinwall), HitFix

If we’re talking pre-existing theme songs of shows that aired in 2016, then the obvious choice for me is “Brooklyn Nine-Nine,” whose funky ’70s cop show riff often provides the biggest joy I get out of my viewing week, especially when paired with all those great visuals (Gina dancing, Charles injuring himself). In terms of theme songs brand new to this year, I go with one that I actually had to make an effort to watch with each episode: “Luke Cage.” Another ’70s throwback, it perfectly sets the mood for everything that follows,...

Many filmmakers who transition to television describe the switch as a simple one, usually using a phrase to the effect of, “It’s just a 10-hour movie.” They pretend — and I do mean pretend — that the only difference between what they made for the cinema and what they’re doing for television is the literal length of time they have with the characters.

This, however, is a lie; a lie often innocently told to toss aside a question with a much more complex answer, but still a lie. For the truth is, TV seasons aren’t just longer movies. They’re not novels, either (another popular, but only slightly more accurate simile). They’re TV shows, and they’re designed that way… that is, until “The Get Down.”

Read More: Review: ‘The Get Down’ is the Baz Luhrmann Movie You’ve Been Waiting For Since ‘Moulin Rouge!’

What first strikes you is the length.

In a mysterious Tweet yesterday, UK electronic trio Nero seem to have teased an upcoming four track Ep. The group released their sophomore album Between II Worlds last fall to critical acclaim, coming four years after their self-titled debut, so the idea of new material in such a short time is an exciting prospect.

The cryptic message the group shared on social media appears to allude to the tracklist of a four track Ep. “Different Story,” “Set Me Free,” “Still Going,” and “Just Us” are listed in the Tweet, following by the words “coming soon.” While the band doesn’t explicitly state that these are song names, it seems likely that they could be just that.

Different Story

Set Me Free

Still Going

Just Us

…coming soon

— Nero (@NeroUK) June 30, 2016

While we don’t have much to go on at this point, fans will no doubt be thrilled at the...

Diplo hasn’t found himself in the electronic music community’s good graces of late, but at least he can still poke fun at himself. The ever-prolific “Set Me Free” producer has released announced this year’s Mad Decent Block Party tour dates via a trailer in which he’s played by Dawson’s Creek star James Van Der Beek.

While the choice of Van Der Beek makes for a head scratcher considering that the actor looks nothing like Diplo and hasn’t been relevant in ages, his tongue-in-cheek portrayal earns the latter some respect points. During the whimsical day-in-the-life scenarios, members of his team are depicted as resenting him behind his back.

After M.I.A. spoke out last year on Diplo’s controlling behavior during their relationship in 2004, he didn’t do himself any favors by calling Edm “a really lame culture” in a recent Billboard interview. At this point,...

Those who have been eager to see another movie from Bong Joon-Ho after climbing aboard The Rattling Ark in 2013’s Snowpiercer will be happy to hear that his next film, Okja, has begun filming in South Korea with a cast that includes Tilda Swinton, Jake Gyllenhaal, and The Walking Dead’s Steven Yeun.

Yeun, who plays Glenn on AMC’s The Walking Dead, also recently signed on to star in Joe Lynch’s new action horror film, Mayhem. Fans can see Yeun in Okja when it debuts on Netflix in 2017, with a limited theatrical release also planned in the Us. For more details about Joon-Ho’s latest film, we have the official press release:

Press Release: Seoul, South Korea (April 23, 2016) – Netflix announced that principal photography began yesterday on its feature film Okja in Seoul, South Korea. From director Bong Joon Ho (Snowpiercer, The Host, Mother), Okja is produced by Plan B,...

Principal photography has begun in Seoul, South Korea, on Netflix’s Okja, Bong Joon-Ho’s anticipated follow-up to Snowpiercer, starring Tilda Swinton, Jake Gyllenhaal and Paul Dano. Steven Yeun (The Walking Dead), Lily Collins (To The Bone), Devon Bostick (The 100), Byun Heebong (The Host), Shirley Henderson (Anna Karenina), Daniel Henshall (The Babadook), Yoon Je Moon (Mother) and Choi Wooshik (Set Me Free) round out the cast. Written by Bong and Jon Ronson (Frank), Okja…...

Continuing in the world of sci-fi following his post-apocalyptic thriller Snowpiercer, writer-director Bong Joon-ho has now begun shooting his follow-up, Okja. Backed by Brad Pitt’s Plan B and Netflix, we now have the finalized cast. Toplined by Tilda Swinton, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Paul Dano, the “bold, global adventure” will be led by Seohyun An, playing Mija.

Co-written by Frank‘s Jon Ronson, it follows “a young girl who must risk everything to prevent a powerful, multi-national company from kidnapping her best friend – a massive animal named Okja.” “With Okja I want to show the beauty that can exist between man and animal, and also the horror between them,” the director says.

Rounding out the cast is Devon Bostick (The 100), Lily Collins (Mirror Mirror), Byun Heebong (The Host), Shirley Henderson (Anna Karenina), Daniel Henshall (The Babadook), Yoon Je Moon (Mother), Choi Wooshik (Set Me Free) and Steven Yeun (The Walking Dead...

Dyro‘s made a name for himself as one of the most respected artists in electro house, and the title track from his new Ep sees him as deserving of such accolades as ever.

On “Set Me Free,” the DJ/producer has collaborated with fellow Dutchman Loopers to add a measure of wonk to the production. After all, the track blends Dyro’s masterful production style with the bass house elements that have found themselves an increasingly prevalent component of mainstream electronic music. The metallic buzz of each reverberant wobble complements the anthemic vocals to an unexpected degree, and each part of the arrangement rings out with a masterful crispness.

As far as the rest of the Set me Free Ep is concerned, Dyro fans can stream or download it here. In the meantime, listen to the lead single of the Ep above and tell us what you think by...

Edm funnyman Dillon Francis and Dutch boy wonder Martin Garrix dropped an outrageous video today for their recent collab, “Set Me Free,” delivering a crazy visual accompaniment to the track filled with strange animations fit for an Adult Swim bumper.

“Set Me Free” is a crazy banger on its own musical merits, featuring the best qualities of both producers, and the new music video serves as the perfect backdrop for the party anthem.

The video opens within a computer screen, centring on a crazy fan page for Francis and Garrix that apparently actually exists. From there, things just get crazier as the two producers come to life and pop out of the computer screen to get the party started.

After that, the world is simply one big house party as every character that passes through the video dances uncontrollably. The whole concept just gets totally weird, complete with surreal imagery...

In contrast to the Grand Bell Awards, candidates and winners flooded the Grand Peace Palace’s red carpet, in an obvious reaction to the tactics of the organizers of the aforementioned. Additionally, the mass media also contributed to the fact, with their headlines stressing, during the previous days, the presence of celebrities in the Blue Dragon Awards. Lastly, and as usually, since the particular ones are considered more objective, the awards were spread among a plethora of films.

Seolhyun

The impressive 36th ceremony was broadcast on Sbs and hosted by Kim Hye Soo and Yoo Jun Sang on the 26th of November. The winners were:

Lee Min Hoo

Best Picture: Assassination (Choi Dong Hoon)

Best Director: Ryu Seung Wan (Veteran)

Best Actor: Yoo Ah In (Sado)

Best Actress: Lee Jung Hyun (Alice in Earnestland)

Best Supporting Actor: Oh Dal Soo (Ode to My Father)

Best Supporting Actress: Jeon Hye...

Bass music tastemaker and occasional provocateur Diplo has been on something of a releasing spree lately. Last week he dropped a MØ collaboration that failed to live up to what the two delivered on Major Lazer and DJ Snake’s “Lean On” – but this week’s Liz collaboration, “Set Me Free,” has turned out to be significantly more palatable.

There are unmistakeable sound design similarities between this track and “Too Original,” which Diplo released through his Major Lazer project. Bouncy, kazoo-like synths aside, though, Liz’ invigorating vocals and an upbeat rave piano melody make for an inviting exploration of the Diplo sound, which leans more towards Edm than hip-hop or bass music.

Considering that Diplo has been exploring a wider stylistic range recently – as evidenced by his overwhelmingly housey Sleepy Tom collaboration – it stands to reason that fans can expect more tracks like “Set Me Free” from him in the months to follow.

The Assassin will compete for best feature at this year’s Asia Pacific Screen Awards on Nov 26.Scroll down for the full list

Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s festival hit The Assassin, which won him best director at Cannes this year, has been nominated for three prizes at this year’s Asia Pacific Screen Awards.

The film will compete for best feature, achievement in directing for Hou Hsiao-Hsien and achievement in cinematography for Mark Lee Ping-Bing.

Other nominees in the best feature category include multi-territory co-production Cementery Of Splendour, Korean feature End Of Winter and Japanese/French drama Journey To The Shore.

Elsewhere, France’s foreign language Oscar submission Mustang received a best youth feature film nod, while Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Look Of Silence will compete for best documentary.

A total of 39 films from 22 countries have received nominations.

The awards ceremony takes place on Thursday 26 November at City Hall, Brisbane.

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The Assassin will compete for best feature at this year’s Asia Pacific Screen Awards on Nov 26.Scroll down for the full list

Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s festival hit The Assassin, which won him best director at Cannes this year, has been nominated for three prizes at this year’s Asia Pacific Screen Awards.

The film will compete for best feature, achievement in directing for Hou Hsiao-Hsien and achievement in cinematography for Mark Lee Ping-Bing.

Other nominees in the best feature category include multi-territory co-production Cementery Of Splendour, Korean feature End Of Winter and Japanese/French drama Journey To The Shore.

Elsewhere, France’s foreign language Oscar submission Mustang received a best youth feature film nod, while Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Look Of Silence will compete for best documentary.

A total of 39 films from 22 countries have received nominations.

The awards ceremony takes place on Thursday 26 November at City Hall, Brisbane.

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Korean sales company Finecut has picked up Kim Tae-yong’s sophomore feature Yeogyosa (tentative title which translates to ‘female teacher’).

Kim’s debut feature Set Me Free premiered at Busan last year and won the Citizen Critics’ Award and screened at Rotterdam.

Backed by Cj E&M, Yeogyosa is produced by Filmmaker R&K, the company founded and run by director Ryoo Seung-wan and producer Kang Hye-jeong.

Ryoo’s latest film, Veteran, on Sept 29 became the all-time third most watched film at the Korean box office with 13.12 million admissions according the Korean Film Council.

Currently in production, Kim’s second film stars Kim Ha-neul (Blind) as an untenured instructor at a boy’s high school who feels an inexplicable sense of humiliation towards a new tenured teacher from a rich family played by Yoo In-young (Veteran) while up-and-coming actor Lee Won-geun plays a dance student with an elusive charm who gets entangled with the two female teachers...

The Asia Pacific Screen Awards today announced the nominees in the youth, animation and documentary feature film categories for the 9th annual awards.

Also announced was the international jury who will determine the winners in these three categories before the November 26 ceremony at Brisbane.s City Hall.

The Australian contenders are Deane Taylor's Blinky Bill: The Movie and Molly Reynold's feature documentary Another Country,. in which David Gulpili. attempts to make sense of the contradictions of the modern Aboriginal experience. The nominees for best youth feature are Mina Walking (Afghanistan, Canada), Set Me Free (Geo-in, Republic of Korea), A Corner of Heaven (Tiantang jiaoluo, People.s Republic of China, France), Mustang (Turkey, Qatar, France, Germany), and River (Gtsngbo, People.s Republic of China), a recipient of the Apsa Academy Children.s Film Fund, written and directed by Apsa Academy member Songtaijia. Vying for best documentary feature are The Look of Silence (Indonesia,...

Titles include London Stories from Hana Makhmalbaf [pictured].Scroll down for full selection

Busan’s Asian Project Market (Apm) has announced this year’s line-up to include Hana Makhmalbaf’s London Stories and Yu Lik Wai’s A Mean To An End.

In its 18th year, the co-production market will showcase 30 projects from 15 countries including the UK, China, Vietnam and Iraq.

Up to last year, Apm selected a total of 442 projects of which 200 were completed and screened at film festivals around the world.

Organizers noted a rising trend of international co-productions tailored from the pre-production stage, not only between Asian countries but also European and Asian countries.

This year’s line-up also includes up-and-coming directors such as 2014 Cannes Un Certain Regard film Titli director Janu Behl with family comedy Agra, a India-France co-production, and 2014 Rotterdam invitee Siti director Eddie Cahyono with The Wasted Land, a story about an Indonesian peasant who is ready to do anything she can...

(Here's someone literally begging to be taken to church...) In Kim Tae-yong's debut film Set Me Free (original Korean title Geo-in), he deals with the memories he has about one of the darkest moments in his own childhood. His parents were both alcoholic and most of the time unemployed, and he was sent to a foster family who took care of many young foster children. That in itself worked out fine, but there was a catch: it was meant to be a temporary solution. As the kids became adolescents, so did the day approach when they were deemed too old to stay with the foster family, and were sent back home. This prospect loomed like a sword over all of the older children, who often...

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Iffr reveals Big Screen Awards nominees and the complete line-up for its Bright Future and Spectrum strands, including world premieres from the Us, China and the Netherlands.

Second Coming, starring Idris Elba and Nadine Marshall, has been named as one of 10 films up for the Big Screen Award at the International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr) (Jan 21 - Feb 1).

The UK film, written and directed by Debbie Tucker Green, will be vying for a prize of €10,000 ($12,000) awarded specifically to support theatrical distribution of the film in The Netherlands

The 10 nominees are from Iffr’s Bright Future and Spectrum programmes with the winner chosen by a specially selected audience jury. Other titles include Lisandro Alonso’s Cannes Fipresci winner Jauja and Carlos Vermut’s San Sebastian winner Magical Girl.

The nominees are:

I Swear I’ll Leave This Town, Danial AragãoJauja, Lisandro AlonsoKey House Mirror, Michael NoerThe Lesson, Kristina Grozeva, Petar ValchanovMagical Girl, Carlos VermutA...

While some people's idea of the perfect New Year's Eve is to stay in and watch the ball drop in Times Square on TV with Ryan Seacrest (or Anderson Cooper and Kathy Griffin), all cuddled up with a loved one and a bottle of Cabernet, many others will dance 'till the sun comes up.

DJs are the new rock stars -- and they're the tastemakers of the year's biggest party night. So what constitutes the perfect New Year's Eve playlist? ETonline reached out to the world's biggest DJs -- many of whom regularly play to crowds of tens of thousands -- to get their go-to tracks and tips for curating the soundtrack for the perfect New Year's party.

Pics: Which Celebrities Can Drop a Beat? Check out 9 Star DJs!

1. The Chainsmokers: This DJ duo had a huge 2014 - cracking DJ Mag's prestigious Top 100 list for the first time at No. 97 riding support...

Move over Diplo, Dillon Francis has a new best friend, and his name is Martin Garrix. Seriously, these guys seem to be attached at the hip lately. From their new single Set Me Free, which is on Francis’ new album, to that recent Facebook interview they did, Francis and Garrix are Edm’s newest Bff duo.

Now, they seem to have taken things a bit further, as the two recently went on a lovely date in Amsterdam. Ok, not really, but they did sit down with Beatport while they were there to do a very amusing and often hilarious interview. These two are endlessly entertaining and their charisma and chemistry is hard to resist, as you’ll see in the video below.

Though brief, they talk collaborating on Set Me Free, the first time they met, how they would help each other on Tinder, and more. Check it out below...

DJ Hanzel, DJ Rich As Fuck, Drunk Chef, Rave Dad, Diplo’s Bff….whichever alias you choose to call Dillon Francis by, you can’t deny that the DJ is currently one of the fastest rising stars in Edm. Though he’s been making music for years now, the Mad Decent recruit has experienced a meteoric rise in fame and popularity over the past year or so. Now a common face at most major festivals, and collaborating with everyone from Diplo to Calvin Harris, the young artist has finally released his first studio album, and it’s pretty damn close to perfect.

Titled Money Sucks, Friends Rule, the disc spans a whole variety of genres, from trap to moombahton and everything in between. Whether it’s the electro-reggae track We Make It Bounce or the emotionally charged Love In The Middle of a Firefight, there’s truly something here for everyone,...

It might not be October 28th just yet, but that doesn’t mean you can’t hear Dillon Francis‘ upcoming album in full. That’s right, the DJ has decided to give his fans a nice little treat by making Money Sucks, Friends Rule available to stream online.

As one of the most anticipated releases of the year, this is certainly fantastic news. Admittedly, we’ve already heard the majority of the album over the past few weeks, as Francis has gifted us several of the songs already, but still, getting to hear it in full is great as now we finally know what’s in store for us come the end of the month.

I know I’ve commented on this before, but what I really love about Money Sucks, Friends Rule is that it shows how seamlessly Dillon can move between genres. Each track feels unique and fresh...

The New Currents Award went to Korean film End Of Winter [pictured], directed by Kim Daehwan, and Iranian film 13, directed by Hooman Seyedi.

The 19th Busan International Film Festival (Biff) wrapped Oct 11 with a record number of admissions at 226,473, topping its 2012 record of 221,002. The top New Currents Award, given to two winners from the competition for first and second time feature directors, went to Korean film End Of Winter, directed by Kim Daehwan, and Iranian film 13, directed by Hooman Seyedi.

The New Currents jury headed by Asgar Farhadi said, “We unanimously voted for 1 by Korean director Kim Daehwan, which impressed us with its stylistic consistency, its skillful exploration of family relations, its elegant mastery of cinematic space, and its great ensemble cast.”

“The majority of the jury voted for the Iranian film 13 by director Hooman Seyedi. Its inventive camerawork, high level of technical achievement and dynamism make for a promising debut feature,” they said.

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With Dillon Francis‘ upcoming album, Money Sucks, Friends Rule, just around the corner (it drops on October 28th), the hype machine continues to press on. Over the past couple of months, the Edm jokester has given us almost half of the disc, with tracks like When We Were Young, Make It Bounce, Can’t Take It and more all finding their way onto the internet. You’d think that Francis would want to save the rest of the album for release, but now, here we are again with another new song.

This one is titled Set Me Free and is a collaboration with Martin Garrix. Combining the Dutch DJ’s big room sound with Francis’ bouncy moombahton style and a huge drop, the result is a banger that should easily find a place in many upcoming festival sets.

As with most of what I’ve heard from the upcoming album,...

Chen-Zer Doze Niu’s Paradise In Service and Lee Bo-Cheung’s Gangster Pay Day to bookend 19th edition.

The 19th Busan International Film Festival (Biff) (Oct 2-11) today announced its line-up with the international premiere of Chen-Zer Doze Niu’s Taiwanese film Paradise In Service as the opening film.

Niu and cast members will be on hand at the opening ceremony on Oct 2, to be emceed by Moon So-ri and Ken Watanabe.

Lee Bo-Cheung’s Hong Kong-China film Gangster Pay Day will receive its world premiere as the closing film on Oct 11. The director as well as stars Anthony Wong and Charlene Choi will be on hand to present the film.

Biff will screen 314 films from 79 countries with 98 world premieres and 36 international premieres.

All the 12 New Currents competition films are world or international premieres, including Amin Dora’s Ghadi, the first Lebanese film to screen in this section, and Jalal’s Story, directed by Abu...

A review of tonight's "The Americans" coming up just as soon as I have a friend in Japan named Hirohito... "The Americans" was set in the early '80s because the period features the last great gasp of the Cold War, but it also happens to be an important transitional era for espionage in general. It's still an analog world where human intelligence is still the main driver of the field, but we're just starting to get to the point where machines could duplicate or even surpass what could be obtained through people in the field like Philip, Elizabeth or Stan. And "Arpanet," in addition to advancing many of this season's big arcs, tells a pair of linked tales of Russian man (and woman) vs. American machine, with Oleg coaching Nina on how to fool the polygraph, Philip trying to get access to Arpanet — and having to rely on the...