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Squid Game creator Hwang Dong-hyuk and stars Lee Jung-jae and Wi Ha-joon will head to Italy for this year’s Lucca Comics & Games festival. The trio will meet fans and to news about the highly anticipated second season of the Korean survival thriller on October 31 in the striking Tuscan city of Lucca…

Welcome to Global Breakouts, Deadline's fortnightly strand in which we shine a spotlight on the TV shows and films making noise in their local territories. The industry is as globalized as it's ever been, but breakout hits are appearing in pockets of the world all the time and it can be hard to keep track…

Squid Game star O Yeong-Su has been convicted of sexual misconduct over allegations he hugged and kissed a woman on the cheek against her wishes. O was one of the stand-out performers in Netflix’s global megahit Squid Game, garnering a Golden Globe nomination for his role as Oh Il-nam. According…

Netflix’s recent spate of international content showcases has continued today with an update on Korea. Among the key updates for its 2024 Korea slate is Oldboy director Park Chan-wook (Oldboy) releasing his first project with Netflix at the end of this year, titled Uprising. The film, directed…

Netflix has unveiled some of the first footage for Season 3 of Bridgerton, as well as a quick look at Season 2 of Hwang Dong-hyuk’s survival drama series Squid Game. Penelope’s (Nicola Coughlan) love life is a main focus of the upcoming third season of Bridgerton. In the teaser trailer above we see…

Squid Game is coming back this year. Netflix confirmed that the Korean drama series will air in 2024. It will debut alongside the second seasons of The Diplomat and Empress as well as the third season of Bridgerton. "Looking ahead, despite last year's strikes pushing back the launch of some…

The reminders are relentless, but the mission under-exciting: Academy voting is "obligatory" for members this week. It's time to conjure up those lists of "bests." OK, I respect the ritual but – candidly — my attention is drifting. Instead of creating…

The South Korean TV phenomenon goes way beyond Squid Game, as revealed by Netflix’s newly-released landmark viewing data report. Series from the Asian country such as The Glory, Physical: 100 and Extraordinary Attorney Woo feature consistently at the summit of the 18,200+ title viewership data…

SPOILER ALERT: Do not read unless you’ve seen the first five episodes of Squid Game: The Challenge on Netflix. Anyone who’s tuned into Netflix’s exhilarating reality show version of Squid Game was no doubt moved by the plight of Spencer Hawkins, aka Player 299 — the poor dude whose team got stuck…

Studio Lambert has introduced the world to Gogglebox, Race Across the World and The Circle but the indie has faced its greatest test in Netflix’s Squid Game: The Challenge, and the road has been a bit of a bumpy one. Stephen Lambert’s 15-year-old British production house, which its founder says is…

UPDATED, 8 AM: “Attention all players. It is now time for the next game.” So begins the new trailer for Squid Game: The Challenge, dropped today by Netflix ahead of the reality series’ November 22 premiere. It’s an extended look at the competition series inspired by the hit Korean dystopian drama series…

When Netflix announced in April that it's planning to spend $2.5 billion on Korean content across the next four years, on top of the more than $1 billion already spent since 2016, it made the world sit up and take notice. In many ways, spending heavily in Korea is a no-brainer. Netflix has already…