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| Posted: 16 Mar 2013 02:25 AM PDT US-South Korean connections spark excitement. FAMED South Korean filmmaker Bong Joon-ho's upcoming Hollywood debut, Snowpiercer, is already creating much buzz in the global film industry, and looks to be one of the most anticipated Korean-foreign joint productions of the year. The sci-fi film, jointly distributed by Korea's CJ Entertainment and American film studio The Weinstein Company, stars Tilda Swinton, Chris Evans and Jamie Bell, along with Korean heavyweight Song Kang-ho. But Snowpiercer isn't the only film that moviegoers should be excited about. A number of significant Korean-foreign joint productions are slated to be released this year, featuring some of the most popular Asian stars – including Korean singer BoA, famed Hong Kong-based, Malaysian actress Michelle Yeoh, and Henry Lau, a member of one of music group Super Junior's sub-groups, Super Junior-M. Among them, celebrated K-pop star BoA is making her Hollywood debut this year, with the release of her upcoming Korean-US joint production Cobu 3D. In the film, she stars with American dancer and actor Derek Hough. The dance film is inspired by Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, and features two young dancers as star-crossed lovers. Meanwhile, Yeoh, who played Aung San Suu Kyi in Luc Besson's 2011 film The Lady, is starring with Henry Lau in Final Recipe. The film is directed by South Korean filmmaker Gina Kim, whose previous works include the 2007 romance Never Forever, which starred top South Korean actor Ha Joeng-woo and American actress Vera Farmiga. Final Recipe tells the story of young aspiring chef Mark (Henry Lau), who decides to participate in an international cooking contest in an attempt to save his grandfather's restaurant from going out of business. Lau is a Hong Kong-Canadian, and is known to speak Mandarin, Cantonese, Korean and English. Meanwhile, Korean actress Kim Hyo-jin (The Taste Of Money, Life Is Peachy) is starring in Korean-Japanese joint film Mumyeongin, along with Japanese actor Hidetoshi Nishijima (Sayonara Itsuka, Cut). The film, whose title literally translates to "The Nameless Person", is an adaptation of Japanese writer Tsukasaki Siro's novel Genome Hazard. The mystery thriller tells the story of a Japanese man who one day realises all of his memories aren't his own but someone else's. He soon realises they were implanted in his brain by unknown forces. The film is also slated to be released this year, according to its South Korean investor and distributor Lotte Entertainment. – The Korea Herald/Asia News Network |
| Filipina nanny set for US trial against Sharon Stone Posted: 15 Mar 2013 08:12 PM PDT LOS ANGELES: A US judge cleared the way Friday for a Filipina former nanny of Sharon Stone to go to trial against the US actress for wrongful dismissal and harassment, including racist abuse. Lawyers for Erlinda Elemen, who worked as a live-in nanny for the "Basic Instinct" star until she was sacked in 2011, announced last year that she was suing the actress. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Mary Strobel ruled that Elemen's lawyers had provided enough evidence to support her allegations of harassment, failure to prevent harassment, retaliation and wrongful termination. "We're pleased that the judge recognized that the plaintiff's claims should proceed," said lawyer Solomon Gresen, adding: "We look forward to our July trial date." The trial is tentatively set for July 30. Stone's lawyers sought to have the case dismissed, arguing that comments by the actress did not amount to harassment. "All we have is that Ms Stone made comments about Filipino food, Filipino accents," said lawyer Daniel Gutenplan. When the lawsuit was announced in May, the actress's publicist slammed the legal action as "absurd," claiming the ex-nanny was simply trying to "cash in" on Stone. The lawsuit claimed the star equated being Filipino with being stupid, and ordered her not to speak in front of her children so they would not "talk like you." Stone also banned Elemen from reading the Bible in Stone's home, even though she lived with her to look after the actress's three children, and frequently traveled with them. From August 2010, Elemen "was repeatedly subjected to repeated derogatory comments and slurs by (Stone) related to her Filipino ethnicity and heritage," said the 17-page lawsuit. Elemen, who was hired in October 2006 and was promoted to head live-in nanny two years later, was dismissed in February 2011, after Stone learned she was paid overtime when traveling with the children and on holiday days. Stone told her nanny that she had no right to overtime pay, and accused Elemen of "'stealing' from her by taking the... overtime pay," telling her it was "illegal" to have taken the extra pay and demanding the money back, court documents showed. The lawsuit asks for an unspecified amount for unpaid wages, damages and penalties, and is seeking trial by jury. In 2011, the actress was ordered to pay $232,000 in compensation to a worker who injured his knee after slipping and falling in her backyard in 2006. - AFP |
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