South Korean pop culture is rife with sinister stories of systemic breakdown and authority not to be trusted, from Netflix’s runaway hit Squid Game to the more recent Paramount+ series Bargain, which involves an organ harvesting/prostitution ring busted up by a cataclysmic earthquake. (Yes, really.) The new two-part docuseries Crush, also on Paramount+, goes right to a high-profile, real-life source of such anxieties: the chaotic 2022 Halloween crowd catastrophe in Seoul’s Itaewon neighborhood that left 158 people dead (plus one survivor driven to taking their own life by guilt).
It’s a horrific tale,...
It’s a horrific tale,...
- 10/17/2023
- by Chris Vognar
- Rollingstone.com
Paramount+ has dropped a trailer for the hard-hitting, two-part docuseries “Crush” that premieres on the streamer October 17 ahead of the first anniversary of the devastating crowd catastrophe in Seoul, South Korea that unfolded on October 29 of last year. Watch the trailer above.
“Crush” is described as “a spine-tingling account of what happened when a Halloween night of celebration turned into a nightmare.” More than 100,000 mostly young revelers who were packed like sardines into the narrow bar-lined alleyways of Seoul’s trendy Itaewon neighborhood became trapped in a mass panic. The toll was astonishing: 159 people, including two American students studying abroad, suffocated in the ensuing bedlam and died. Nearly all of those who perished were in their twenties.
From the co-producers of “11 Minutes,” the four-part docuseries about the mass murder at the Route 91 Harvest Music Festival in Las Vegas,” “Crush” tells the tale of the Seoul tragedy in an immersive style,...
“Crush” is described as “a spine-tingling account of what happened when a Halloween night of celebration turned into a nightmare.” More than 100,000 mostly young revelers who were packed like sardines into the narrow bar-lined alleyways of Seoul’s trendy Itaewon neighborhood became trapped in a mass panic. The toll was astonishing: 159 people, including two American students studying abroad, suffocated in the ensuing bedlam and died. Nearly all of those who perished were in their twenties.
From the co-producers of “11 Minutes,” the four-part docuseries about the mass murder at the Route 91 Harvest Music Festival in Las Vegas,” “Crush” tells the tale of the Seoul tragedy in an immersive style,...
- 10/11/2023
- by Ray Richmond
- Gold Derby
Exclusive: The team behind award-winning documentary 11 Minutes, which told the story of the mass shooting at Las Vegas’ Route 91 Harvest music festival, have set up another docuseries at Paramount+.
The streamer has ordered Crush, which will explore the Halloween tragedy in Seoul, South Korea, that left 159 dead and hundreds injured.
The series, which is set to launch this fall, likely around the anniversary of the tragedy, comes from See It Now Studios, Triage Entertainment, and All Rise Films. It is exec produced by Jeff Zimbalist, who directs, Stu Schreiberg, Terence Wrong and Susan Zirinsky with Josh Gaynor as co-exec producer, Aysu Saliba as supervising producer and Alana Saad as producer.
The Seoul crush tragedy occurred on October 29, 2022 during Halloween festivities in the Itaewon neighborhood of the South Korean city and was the country’s largest crowd crush in its history.
The multi-part series will be an immersive moment-by-moment dive...
The streamer has ordered Crush, which will explore the Halloween tragedy in Seoul, South Korea, that left 159 dead and hundreds injured.
The series, which is set to launch this fall, likely around the anniversary of the tragedy, comes from See It Now Studios, Triage Entertainment, and All Rise Films. It is exec produced by Jeff Zimbalist, who directs, Stu Schreiberg, Terence Wrong and Susan Zirinsky with Josh Gaynor as co-exec producer, Aysu Saliba as supervising producer and Alana Saad as producer.
The Seoul crush tragedy occurred on October 29, 2022 during Halloween festivities in the Itaewon neighborhood of the South Korean city and was the country’s largest crowd crush in its history.
The multi-part series will be an immersive moment-by-moment dive...
- 5/11/2023
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Paramount+ is readying a new doc on King Charles III.
King Charles: The Boy Who Walked Alone will debut on the service in the U.S. on May 2, giving subscribers a look at the new monarch’s life from former friends and girlfriends, schoolmates and his private staff ahead of his coronation as king this month.
The doc comes from Diana: The Truth Behind the Scandal producer Blink Films and Paramount Global’s See It Now Studio. In the U.S. it will be branded as a Paramount+ Original, following an agreement brokered through See It Now Studios, whose President Susan Zirinsky keynoted at Mip TV today, where she urged doc makers not to pay contributors.
Silverlinings Rights has been shopping a separate version called My King Charles, which last month was sold to 14 co-production partners including Australia’s Nine Network, Rtl in Germany and TV2 in Denmark.
When news of that doc broke,...
King Charles: The Boy Who Walked Alone will debut on the service in the U.S. on May 2, giving subscribers a look at the new monarch’s life from former friends and girlfriends, schoolmates and his private staff ahead of his coronation as king this month.
The doc comes from Diana: The Truth Behind the Scandal producer Blink Films and Paramount Global’s See It Now Studio. In the U.S. it will be branded as a Paramount+ Original, following an agreement brokered through See It Now Studios, whose President Susan Zirinsky keynoted at Mip TV today, where she urged doc makers not to pay contributors.
Silverlinings Rights has been shopping a separate version called My King Charles, which last month was sold to 14 co-production partners including Australia’s Nine Network, Rtl in Germany and TV2 in Denmark.
When news of that doc broke,...
- 4/17/2023
- by Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
At the age of 84, Polish director Jerzy Skolimowski has crafted one of the most vigorously energetic and vibrant films of the year. Inspired by Bresson’s seminal classic Au Hasard Balthazar, but taking the idea to formally dazzling new heights, Eo tells the journey of a donkey traversing through Europe. Via a series of striking vignettes, we witness the totality of the human (and animal) experience.
As Poland’s Oscar entry opens in U.S. theaters courtesy of Sideshow and Janus Film, I had the pleasure of speaking with Skolimowski and his co-writer, producer, and wife Ewa Piaskowska about the total freedom they found in creating Eo, the power of Bresson, leaving room for the audience’s imagination, and the Christ-like allegory in the film.
The Film Stage: There’s a sense, watching the film, that you gave yourself total freedom in where this journey would go. Can you talk about developing the structure?...
As Poland’s Oscar entry opens in U.S. theaters courtesy of Sideshow and Janus Film, I had the pleasure of speaking with Skolimowski and his co-writer, producer, and wife Ewa Piaskowska about the total freedom they found in creating Eo, the power of Bresson, leaving room for the audience’s imagination, and the Christ-like allegory in the film.
The Film Stage: There’s a sense, watching the film, that you gave yourself total freedom in where this journey would go. Can you talk about developing the structure?...
- 11/18/2022
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Eo (2022).It is not often that a film is made with radical sympathy. Too often, movies ignore the longing and pain of people, excluding their existence in form and feeling from storyworlds. And if such things are acknowledged, the movie will tend to make up for this rarity by overplaying misery and desperation. Jerzy Skolimowski's Eo, a tremendously sad but also overwhelmingly beautiful picture, chooses the radical path. The film is devoted, in body and soul, style and spirit, to sympathizing with another creature, and one who suffers a great deal without exploiting either its pathos or the viewer’s emotional reserves. Skolimowski and his co-writer, producer, and wife Ewa, in the spirit of great compassion, tell the story not of a human creature, but of an animal; and better yet, a donkey.Even with Robert Bresson’s Au hasard Balthazar (1966) as a precedent, it’s an unexpected subject,...
- 11/17/2022
- MUBI
How do you write music for a wandering donkey in Eo? Composer Pawel Mykietyn didn’t take the responsibility lightly.
“First off this donkey survived,” the Polish composer told the audience, with the help of an interpreter, at Deadline’s Sound & Screen awards-season event. “I hope I don’t disturb the movie by music. … Sometimes it’s difficult to know what a donkey feels.”
Eo, by Polish veteran Jerzy Skolimowski and submitted by Poland to this year’s Oscar International Feature race, is a vision of modern Europe as seen through the eyes of a a precious mule. “In the movie, the donkey is in a lot of different places, the donkey meets different people,” said Mykietyn. “There are different situations, some tragic, sometimes funny. I tried to follow the situation, follow the emotion … add some color.”
Related: Deadline’s Sound & Screen: Full Coverage
“It’s crazy,” added Mykietyn, whose...
“First off this donkey survived,” the Polish composer told the audience, with the help of an interpreter, at Deadline’s Sound & Screen awards-season event. “I hope I don’t disturb the movie by music. … Sometimes it’s difficult to know what a donkey feels.”
Eo, by Polish veteran Jerzy Skolimowski and submitted by Poland to this year’s Oscar International Feature race, is a vision of modern Europe as seen through the eyes of a a precious mule. “In the movie, the donkey is in a lot of different places, the donkey meets different people,” said Mykietyn. “There are different situations, some tragic, sometimes funny. I tried to follow the situation, follow the emotion … add some color.”
Related: Deadline’s Sound & Screen: Full Coverage
“It’s crazy,” added Mykietyn, whose...
- 11/11/2022
- by Lynette Rice
- Deadline Film + TV
“Return to Dust,” the latest work from Chinese director Li Ruin won the top Golden Spike at the Seminci Valladolid Film Festival, Spain’s traditional arthouse platform, which this last week sold over 100,000 tickets for the second time in a row, a sign of much needed, if temporary, vitality in Spain’s desperately sagging art pic market.
“An absorbing, beautifully framed drama that makes a virtue — possibly too much a virtue — of simplicity,” stated Variety’s Jessica Kiang in her Berlinale review, “Dust” is set in a decimated Chinese village, where a downtrodden couple in an arranged marriage forge an unexpected bond as they eke out a living from the land. “Return to Dust” was released in China in September.
“Eo” director Jerzy Skolimowski (“11 Minutes”) earned the best director prize for “a damning polemic on our relationship to other intelligent species — as free labor, food and companions — as seen through the dewy,...
“An absorbing, beautifully framed drama that makes a virtue — possibly too much a virtue — of simplicity,” stated Variety’s Jessica Kiang in her Berlinale review, “Dust” is set in a decimated Chinese village, where a downtrodden couple in an arranged marriage forge an unexpected bond as they eke out a living from the land. “Return to Dust” was released in China in September.
“Eo” director Jerzy Skolimowski (“11 Minutes”) earned the best director prize for “a damning polemic on our relationship to other intelligent species — as free labor, food and companions — as seen through the dewy,...
- 11/1/2022
- by Pablo Sandoval
- Variety Film + TV
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Network TV’s fall premiere flood continues with more than two dozen shows debuting from Sept. 21-27, with Emmy winner Abbott Elementary and Law & Order: Svu opening up new seasons. A few high-profile streaming premieres, including the latest Star Wars series and Ryan Murphy’s next Netflix show, are on deck as well. (Cable outlets, however, are pretty much taking the next seven days off in terms of premieres.)
Below is The Hollywood Reporter‘s rundown of premieres, returns and specials over the next seven days. It would be almost impossible to watch everything, but let THR point the way to worthy options for the coming week. All times are Et/Pt unless noted.
The Big Show
Fresh off three Emmy wins — for creator/star Quinta Brunson’s pilot script, supporting actress Sheryl Lee Ralph and casting for a comedy series — Abbott Elementary...
Network TV’s fall premiere flood continues with more than two dozen shows debuting from Sept. 21-27, with Emmy winner Abbott Elementary and Law & Order: Svu opening up new seasons. A few high-profile streaming premieres, including the latest Star Wars series and Ryan Murphy’s next Netflix show, are on deck as well. (Cable outlets, however, are pretty much taking the next seven days off in terms of premieres.)
Below is The Hollywood Reporter‘s rundown of premieres, returns and specials over the next seven days. It would be almost impossible to watch everything, but let THR point the way to worthy options for the coming week. All times are Et/Pt unless noted.
The Big Show
Fresh off three Emmy wins — for creator/star Quinta Brunson’s pilot script, supporting actress Sheryl Lee Ralph and casting for a comedy series — Abbott Elementary...
- 9/21/2022
- by Rick Porter
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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