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Karate Kid’s cast expands with the arrival of Ming Na-Wen. Lionsgate wants to turn John Wick and Twilight into animated series. Get a creepy look at Train to Busan director Yeon Sang-ho’s Parasyte adaptation. Plus, what’s to come on Resident Alien. Spoilers, away!Who Should Be The New Wolverine? io9 PicksDeadpool & WolverineVinnie Jones, who played Cain Marko/The Juggernaut in the Fox X-Men films, has said that he turned down a chance to return to the third Deadpool movie, citing the awkwardness of the suit as well as…

Get a creepy first look at Train to Busan director Yeon Sang-Ho’s Parasyte adaptation. Harvey Guillen talks “voicing” Odie in the new Garfield. Plus, another new look at The First Omen, and Imaginary celebrates making it past leap day with new footage. Spoilers get!Harvey Guillén on the DC’s Upcoming Blue Beetle Movie | io9 InterviewThe Garfield MovieDespite being hired to “voice” the character, Harvey Guillen confirmed to Comic Book that Odie does not speak in The Garfield Movie. That was my first thing. ‘Excuse me.…

Last updated: November 29th, 2023 at 10:25 UTC+01:00 Elections meant to determine the location of World Expo 2030 concluded yesterday. Despite South Korea's and Samsung Electronics‘ efforts to promote Busan as the host city for the upcoming expo, Busan lost to Riyadh. The Saudi Arabian capital won the elections in a landslide victory. Busan won only 29 votes out of 165, while Rome in Italy earned a mere 17 votes. Meanwhile, Riyadh accumulated 119 votes, resulting in Rome and Busan getting knocked out of the election…

Last updated: May 8th, 2023 at 13:19 UTC+02:00 By now, Samsung is probably the biggest supporter of the 2030 Busan Expo. Every few months or so, we hear more news on Samsung promoting Busan as the location for the upcoming 2030 World Expo, and most recently, the company went to Germany to do the same. The annual Hamburg Port Festival, Europe’s largest port festival, was held in Hamburg, Germany, from the 5th to the 7th of the month. And as you may have guessed, Samsung Electronics was there to push its bid for the…

Last updated: February 28th, 2023 at 13:12 UTC+01:00 Samsung is promoting the Korean city of Busan as the host for World Expo 2030 with every opportunity it gets, and one such opportunity is the ongoing Mobile World Congress 2023 event. The company has set up a panel to support Busan in the bid for World Expo 2030 and inform MWC visitors about the strengths of the Korean city and why it should be voted as the host for the 2030 tech event. Samsung has projected a “Busan World Expo 2030” promotional video on a large…

Screenshot: NetflixA battle of mother and country ensues in the post-apocalyptic near-future in Jung_E, the latest from Train to Busan director Yeon Sang-ho. And that’s quite literally an army of moms, modeled after the mother of a researcher at an AI lab. Amid a civil war, the new Netflix film finds a scientist coping with the loss of her heroic mother by... cloning her. Nothing couldpossibly go wrong, right?Watch the trailer below for the Netflix feature release!JUNG_E | Official Trailer | NetflixIt’s gripping and…

Screenshot: NetflixThe future of AI robotics never seems to have a silver lining, and here’s a new nightmarish vision of what could come to pass from Jung_E, the latest film from Yeon Sang-ho (Train to Busan). The Netflix release is slated to hit the streaming service exclusively on January 20, 2023.The official synopsis from Netflix reveals a tease of the plot: “In a post-apocalyptic 22nd century, a researcher at an AI lab leads the effort to end a civil war by cloning the brain of a heroic soldier—her mother.”Watch the…

Walk into the topmost floor of Krafton's HQ — spread across eight floors of a 35-storey glass-and-steel building in Seoul's posh and trendy Gangnam neighbourhood — and you'll be greeted by a giant curved screen. On a breezy, overcast November morning, it's playing a loop of Krafton's latest collaborations, including a tie-up with K-pop girl group Blackpink for an in-game concert. But it's what lies behind that screen that defines the South Korean video game giant.A row of awards and trophies is dominated by seven Guinness…

Photo: Christopher Jue (Getty Images)Joker: Folie à Deux adds another major mystery role. Wild rumors allege that Adam Driver could join Fantastic Four. The new Goosebumps show expands its cast. Plus, what’s coming on the next American Horror Story: NYC. Spoilers get!Joker: Folie à DeuxAccording to Deadline, Harry Lawtey (Industry) has joined the cast of the upcoming Joker sequel in an undisclosed but “big” role.Mother, May I?Deadline also reports Kyle Gallner and Holland Roden are attached to star in Mother, May I?, the…

Business travelers are on the road again. So there's no better time for CNBC Travel to name the best hotels for business travel across Asia-Pacific.CNBC joined with the market and consumer data firm Statista to produce rankings of the "Best Hotels for Business Travelers." A second list of rankings for hotels in Europe and the Middle East will be published next month.In total, we analyzed more than 10,000 four- and five-star hotels in 117 locations to produce a list corporate travelers can trust. We did this using a…