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Park Chan-wook ’s crime drama Decision To Leave has been selected by South Korea to represent the country in the Best International Feature category at the 95th Academy Awards. The film originally debuted in Cannes where Park won the Best Director prize. It is also teed up to screen at the New York Film Festival this fall. Mubi has North American rights. The Korean Film Council announced its choice this evening local time saying it took into consideration “workmanship and directing ability, the possibility of box office success in the North American market, and the promotion ability of overseas distributors.” The selection committee “agreed that Decision To Leave is the most appropriate, and we expect the work to be well-received.” Park Hae-il and Tang Wei star in the noir detective story cum romance. In Park’s own words, as he described the plot of Decision To Leave to Deadline: “A detective is dispatched to a scene of death of a man who has fallen from … [Read more...] about Oscars: Korea Submits Park Chan-wook’s ‘Decision To Leave’ For International Feature Race

Sony brass might be licking their wounds today, or trying keep their blood from boiling, after reading Fortune’s new cover story about last year’s cyber attacks. The magazine published a lengthy piece by Peter Elkind — which includes material from private emails stolen and made public by cyber attackers –that surmises that Sony was so focused on cost cutting that it “failed to employ several basic safeguards” to protect its network and “didn’t put up much of a fight” once hackers breached its system. Sony Pictures execs and others also neglected warnings that a fictional depiction of an assassination of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in the studio’s comedy The Interview might invite a hack attack. Fortune also paints an unflattering picture of Sony Pictures, describing it as “a deeply unhappy place, beset by pressures over disappointing profits, cost cutting and layoffs, the scorn of an activist investor, and tribal infighting.” The article doesn’t really … [Read more...] about Sony Neglect Of “Basic Safeguards” Enabled Hack Attack: Fortune

Sony Pictures Entertainment got some of what it wanted in its motion to dismiss, but still has to face claims of negligence that its security wasn’t sufficient to protect past and present employee’s private information from ending up all over the World Wide Web. Long story short – Sony is facing more fallout from last fall’s massive hack, this time in court. “Plaintiffs …allege that based on prior data breaches at other Sony companies and audits of Sony’s own security systems, specifically with regard to human resource records, it was foreseeable that a data breach would occur and that Plaintiffs’ would suffer harm,” wrote Judge Gary Klausner in an order dated June 15 ( read it here ). “Nonetheless, Sony made a business decision to not expend the money needed to shore up its system, and instead to accept the risk of a security breach. As a result, of Sony’s failure to maintain an adequate security system and timely notify Plaintiffs of the breach, Plaintiffs suffered the injury … [Read more...] about Sony Fails To Get Employees’ Hacking Attack Lawsuit Dismissed

Legal trouble is coming as a duo for the hacked apart Sony Pictures . Just one day after the first class action lawsuit from former employees of the studio hit the courts, another was filed today. Unlike the previous complaint, this one from the former production coordinator and production manger on 2004’s Spider-Man 2 is centering its claims on upcoming directly on The Interview as well as Sony digital security. “The damages sustained by Sony’s current and former employees and associates (“Class Members”) is staggering and cognizable,” says the 4-claim jury seeking complaint from Susan Dukrow and Yvonne Yaconelli (read it here ) over the hack that was revealed on November 24. “Sony knew the risks and repercussions associated with releasing the film. Sony received multiple warnings that retribution for releasing the film was inevitable,” the complaint adds of the upcoming James Franco and Seth Rogen comedy about an attempted assassination of North Korean leader Kim … [Read more...] about Sony Hit With Another Ex-Employees’ Class Action Over ‘Interview’ “Retribution”

There’s plenty of evidence that Donald Trump wanted to be treated like a dictator , that he frequently butted heads with military leaders , and that his ignorance of history knew no bounds. It shouldn’t be that surprising, then, how the former president reached back to World War II in trying to explain the kind of absolute loyalty he expected from America’s generals. According to an excerpt from The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021 published in The New Yorker on Monday, Trump once griped to then-White House Chief of Staff John Kelly about what he perceived as disloyal generals. “You fucking generals, why can’t you be like the German generals?” “Which generals?” Kelly responded. “The German generals in World War II,” said Trump. Kelly then reminded the president of the failed assassination attempts against Hitler by his subordinates. “You do know that they tried to kill Hitler three times and almost pulled it off?” Kelly said. But … [Read more...] about Trump Said He Wanted Generals to Be Loyal to Him Like Nazis Were to Hitler: Report

Federal agents searched for documents relating to nuclear weapons and other classified intelligence information during Monday’s raid on former President Donald Trump’s Florida estate , individuals with knowledge of the investigation say. According to a report in The Washington Post , the anonymous sources declined to reveal specifics about the nature of the documents — including whether or not they pertained to nuclear weapons owned by the United States or another country. The Post also stated that the sources did not indicate if such documents were located during the Mar-a-Lago search. David Laufman, the former chief of the Justice Department’s counterintelligence section, told the publication that the speed with which authorities issued and executed the search warrant at the Trump estate suggested that the “material residing unlawfully at Mar-a-Lago may have been classified at the highest classification level.” The revelation comes months after the National Archives … [Read more...] about Mar-a-Lago Search Focused on Classified Nuclear Docs: Report

Back in 2008, Hwang Dong-hyuk never imagined that his feature script, about a group of desperate people playing a game of life or death, would see the light of day. But a decade later, his idea for Squid Game was pitched as a series to Netflix, and much to his surprise, the thriller quickly turned into a global phenomenon with 1.65 billion views only four weeks after its launch. The milestones continue as Squid Game has crossed over successfully into awards season, culminating with a record 14 Emmy nominations, making it the first non-English language series up for Outstanding Drama Series. DEADLINE: Congratulations on all the Emmy nominations. They celebrate both the actors and the team behind the scenes, like production designer Chae Kyoung-sun, art director Gim En-jee, set decorator Kim Jeong-gon and editor Nam Na-young. HWANG DONG-HYUK : Yes, I’m very happy that, not only the show and the actors, but as you said, our behind-the-scenes crew members got … [Read more...] about ‘Squid Game’ Creator Hwang Dong-Hyuk On Breaking Hollywood’s Rules To Ignite A Global Phenomenon