After two years on hiatus due to the Covid-19 pandemic, VidCon — the annual convention for fans, creators, and online platform industry types — returned to the Anaheim Convention Center last week. But it looked a little different than usual. For starters, the ear-piercing shrieks of fans lining up to meet their favorite creators were just a little quieter. With 50,000 attendees as opposed to 2019’s 75,000, the convention was somewhat smaller than it previously had been. Further, unlike VidCons of years past, some attendees were wearing masks, albeit an infinitesimally small number among the hordes of preteens angling for photo ops with their favorite creators (days later, several attendees of VidCon, which required proof of vaccination or a recent Covid test for entry, began reporting on social media that they had tested positive for COVID after the event). Perhaps most importantly, however, TikTok , the short-form video platform that dominated the app store starting in … [Read more...] about VidCon 2022 Was a Candy-Colored, Covid-Spreading, Content-Creating Extravaganza
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‘See’: Jason Momoa’s Apple Drama Series To End With Season 3
Jason Momoa ’s Baba Voss has fought his last battle after Apple TV+ revealed that season three of See would be its last. The post-apocalyptic drama series will return for its third and final on August 26 and will be rolled out weekly. See is set in a brutal and primitive future, hundreds of years after humankind has lost the ability to see. In season three, almost a year has passed since Baba Voss (Momoa) defeated his nemesis brother Edo, played by Dave Bautista, and bid farewell to his family to live remotely in the forest. But when a Trivantian scientist develops a new and devastating form of sighted weaponry that threatens the future of humanity, Baba returns to Paya in order to protect his tribe once more. It’s not a huge surprise that the show is ending with its third season (you can see a tease below). Showrunner and exec producer Jonathan Tropper posted an emotional message on social media in November after wrapping production of two seasons of the show … [Read more...] about ‘See’: Jason Momoa’s Apple Drama Series To End With Season 3
Deadline Hallyuwood Podcast: Yoo Ji-tae, Park Hae-soo Talk Netflix’s ‘Money Heist: Korea – Joint Economic Area’
Hallyu is an invented term used to describe the rising global popularity of Korean culture, but it also has never been more applicable in Hollywood than at this moment. Welcome to Deadline Hallyuwood , a new podcast dedicated to giving listeners the inside scoop behind some of the most popular and beloved Korean TV series and films. Each week, host Brandon Choe will talk with prominent actors, creators and other players at the growing intersection of Hollywood and Korea about what’s hot today and what’s coming next. For our inaugural episode, we’re joined by Yoo Ji-tae and Park Hae-soo , stars of the new Netflix La Casa de Papel spinoff Money Heist – Korea: Joint Economic Area . The series is set in an alternate timeline where South and North Korea are being reunified in the year 2025. The Joint Security Area becomes the Joint Economic Area and the two nations have established the Korean Unified Mint to start a new currency. A man named The Professor (Yoo) … [Read more...] about Deadline Hallyuwood Podcast: Yoo Ji-tae, Park Hae-soo Talk Netflix’s ‘Money Heist: Korea – Joint Economic Area’