Kim Soo-hyun and Kim Ji-won stole our hearts in the recently concluded Queen Of Tears. But did you also notice all references to shows like Crash Landing On You and My Love From The Star – and all the nods to Bae Suzy and Song Joong-ki? Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Pioneer Newz … Read more
STAR AWARDS 2024 WINNERS Special Achievement Award: Mark Lee Best Actor: Jeremy Chan (All That Glitters) Best Actress: Kym Ng (Till The End) Best Supporting Actor: Zhang Ze Tong (All That Glitters) Best Supporting Actress: Aileen Tan (SHERO) Best Audio Personality: Dennis Chew (The Breakfast Quintet, Love 972) Best Programme Host (Entertainment & Infotainment): Quan Yi Fong (Hear U Out S4) … Read more
“But there was this ad in the paper. It said pilot of the airwaves,” Lance said, adding that a friend working at then-Singapore Broadcasting Corporation – an earlier iteration of Mediacorp – urged him to give it a try. Lance described the Perfect 10 audition process, where he was in an office packed with hundreds … Read more
British actor Dev Patel’s directorial debut Monkey Man premiered in Singapore last week. Those who managed to catch the film may have noticed a familiar face in the cast. Local actor Mathi Alagan, whom many Singaporeans will remember as Bhaskar Ram in Mediacorp long-form drama Tanglin (2015), or Sanjay Devaraj in Code Of Law (2012), plays a guns dealer … Read more
Celebrated Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki won his second Oscar on Sunday (Mar 11) with The Boy And The Heron – the Studio Ghibli co-founder’s first film in a decade, and potentially his last. It bested top rival Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse, Disney’s Elemental, Netflix’s Nimona and the dialogue-free Robot Dreams. Miyazaki was not present in … Read more
Shortly after that, the Kyoto native saw Bernstein in a documentary on Japanese television. “I was really inspired by what he was talking about,” Hiro said. “I thought, you know, ‘Someday, I want to work on a film about Leonard Bernstein’.” Then, in 2020, he got a call from Cooper, who directed, cowrote and stars in … Read more
The golden era of Hong Kong films and Cantopop was in the 1980s and 1990s, when directors such as Wong Kar Wai and actors like Tony Leung and Jackie Chan took to Western theatres while superstars such as Leslie Cheung and Anita Mui led the region’s pop culture. Last year, the Christmas holiday slump for … Read more
She was also nominated for Best Actress in a Leading Role, for Third Rail. These were just two of Mediacorp’s four wins from the second day of this year’s ATA, which revealed winners in the Entertainment and Performance categories. The national broadcaster clinched two other awards on Jan 12, which announced winners in the Technical … Read more
Wonderland is directed by Chai Yee Wei and produced by Mocha Chai Laboratories, a development house founded in 2012 by Chai and industry veteran Michelle Chang. Said Chang, 50: “Winning the Local Jury Award at the Palm Springs International Film Festival (PSIFF) is totally unexpected, as we are talking about an independent, non-English, Hokkien-dialect film … Read more
She shares glimpses of the journey on her Instagram page where you’ll find pictures and videos of her doing manual work for the house, such as using a saw to cut firewood for the fireplace. She said: “I feel very energised by the experience. I like learning about things in this way. I like doing … Read more
