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Mina Park covers entertainment, with a focus on Asian and Asian diaspora film, television, music, celebrity culture, casting, and fandom. She is interested in how stories and stars move across platforms, industries, and global audiences.
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Netflix greenlit Outback, an Australia-set Korean mystery from the webtoon G'Day, with Jung Ho-yeon, Ryu Jun-yeol, Hong Kyung, Won Ji-an, and Justin H. Min. No release date yet.
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Anushka Sen is the first Indian actor to headline a South Korean film. Jeju Olle wraps a three-year India-Korea bridge into a Jeju romance musical with a November multi-market release.
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Rubaiyat Hossain's The Difficult Bride became the first Bangladeshi feature in Venice Orizzonti, then heads to TIFF with ticketed screenings mid-September. The Soft Power story is bridal beauty turned into feminist body horror.
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Six months after leaving ENHYPEN, EVAN's DEATH OF ME sold 461,488 copies on Hanteo day one. He stayed at BELIFT, rebranded, dropped Ride or Die in June, and wrote across the mini.
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Loved Madame in Saigon? Five Vietnamese films you can actually find next: Song Lang for Saigon stage world, The Third Wife for period power, Furie for action heat, The Scent of Green Papaya for the Oscar gateway, and Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell for Cannes slow cinema.
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UCLA's 2026 Hollywood Diversity Report found BIPOC leads in streaming films fell from 51% in 2024 to 36% in 2025. Asian actors remained underrepresented as leads even as Asian-led titles kept drawing audiences.
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Wild opens at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 dated Aug. 29 with 170,000 equivalent album units, the biggest week an all-woman group has posted since the chart switched to consumption units in 2014. Two of KATSEYE's six members are sitting out the victory lap.
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Unloveu is Lara Raj's first songwriting and production credit on a KATSEYE release, written with Amy Allen and Ross Golan and buried on the Target edition of Wild. It landed the same week the EP hit No. 1.
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Madame in Saigon opens Friday, August 28 in more than 200 North American theaters, after a Los Angeles premiere Wednesday with Thanh Hằng. The two-hour period drama draws on a real 1963 Saigon acid attack, and Hồng Ánh is the performance worth the ticket.
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Vietnam's defining supermodel developed the script for eight months, produced it, and played the dancer who gets destroyed. Madame in Saigon opens in North America this week after a domestic run that lost money.
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NTT DOCOMO is ending Manga Mirai on December 15 and moving eligible purchases to MangaPlaza. Readers still have a path to keep reading, and a clear reminder that Buy usually buys a license.
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Cinemalaya split Best Actress between Ruby Ruiz in Status: Rejected and Pokwang in 2 Valid IDs. In Manila, both wins had decades of work behind them.
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