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Oh Yeong-su, the 79-year-old star of Netflix’s phenomenon Squid Game, is vowing to appeal the verdict after he was convicted of sexual misconduct in his native South Korea.

According to the Korea Herald, Oh was given an eight-month prison sentence, which was suspended for two years, for a 2017 incident of sexually harassing an actress.

The actor was found guilty of inappropriately touching an actress — including hugging her, kissing her cheek, and holding her hand — according to the publication. She filed charges against him four years later, when he became a global star thanks to the success of the series.

The Seongnam Branch of the Suwon District Court ruled, “The content of the victim’s journal, and the content of her counseling after the incident is consistent with what happened, and her testimonies could not have been given unless she actually experienced it.”

The elderly actor, who won an Outstanding Supporting Actor Golden Globe for playing Oh Il-nam in the series, has an otherwise clean criminal record, so it was decided he won’t receive any time behind bars. Instead, he was ordered to complete 40 hours of sexual violence treatment.

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Michael Imperioli seemed to channel some of his former Sopranos energy while dealing with a climate protestor who interrupted a Thursday night performance of his Broadway play Enemy of the People at the Circle in the Square Theatre. 

According to fan video of the incident, a man stood up during the performance and began shouting, “Governments have failed us!” and “No theater on a dead planet!” 

As a group of people, including Imperioli — who didn’t break character — surrounded the protestor, one peeved audience member drew raucous applause from patrons by shouting in reply, “You gotta write your own play, you understand that!?” 

That same quipper began chanting, “You got to go!” while Imperioli and others escorted the man out of the venue. 

According to the audience member who posted the video to X, formerly Twitter, some of the audience members initially thought the outburst was part of the show’s town hall scene because Imperioli’s co-star Jeremy Strong also didn’t break character.

After the performance, a climate group called Extinction Rebellion took responsibility for the incident, according to Variety, stating in part, “[Thursday’s] action highlights the failure of governments and corporations to treat climate and ecological breakdown as the crisis it is.”

For his part, Imperioli addressed the “wild” situation on Instagram after the show, noting while he’s concerned about the environment, his character isn’t down with the struggle. “tonight was wild….no hard feelings extinction rebellion crew,” the actor wrote. “michael is on your side but mayor stockmann is not. much love.”

Enemy of the People dates back to 1882 and has Imperioli playing the mayor of a resort town trying to tamp down a scandal revolving around the town’s contaminated spa water. 

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When a restaurant becomes a hot spot, it can be hard to get the busy staff’s attention — and that’s apparently also the case with FX’s Emmy-winning restaurant series The Bear.

Deadline reports the smash Hulu show will film both its third — and previously unannounced fourth — season back-to-back in Chicago.

FX has yet to confirm the news, but sources tell the trade that producers are getting “additional material” in the can.

The trade surmises it’s because the 10-Emmy-winning show’s cast is about to be very, very busy: After Golden Globe, SAG and Emmy wins, its three leads Jeremy Allen White, Ayo Edebiri and Ebon Moss-Bacharach are white hot in Hollywood, and the same goes for show creator Christopher Storer.

White recently appeared in the acclaimed indie The Iron Claw. Edebiri landed a voice role in Inside Out 2 and just debuted the sci-fi film Omni Loop at SXSW, and Moss-Bacharach, who also appeared in the Emmy-nominated Star Wars show Andor, scored a key role as Ben Grimm aka The Thing in Marvel’s The Fantastic Four.

Season 3 of The Bear will premiere in June.

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Lindsay Lohan says sharing a career throwback with her son was “magical.”

While on The Drew Barrymore Show on Thursday, the Mean Girls veteran talked about the moment that her young son, Luai, saw her in 1998’s The Parent Trap.

“I just wrapped a movie four days ago and I came home from work and my son was having — he was getting ready for dinner time and I opened the door and he was watching — The Parent Trap was on,” Lohan told Drew, drawing a warm reaction from the studio audience. “It was just on the TV.”

“I just started to cry cuz I’m like, he doesn’t even know that’s mommy yet,” she continued.

“And I was like, do I turn it off or do I just — and he was kind of just staring ’cause maybe my voice was still similar to how it was then so I was like maybe he knows like a little bit that it’s me ’cause it sounds like me,” Lohan said. “It was a really magical moment, I took tons of pictures of it,” she added.

And speaking of an older project, Barrymore said she’s “so excited” for Lohan’s anticipated sequel to Freaky Friday with Jamie Lee Curtis. “Will you be the mom this time?” Drew asked. “We’ll see,” Lohan smiled, and mimed zipping her lips.

For now, LiLo’s romantic film Irish Wish just dropped on Netflix.

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Isla Fisher, Greta Gerwig and Eve Hewson have joined the star-studded cast of Barbie co-writer Noah Baumbach‘s yet-to-be-titled movie for Netflix, according to Deadline. They join previously announced stars George Clooney, Adam Sandler, Laura Dern, Billy Crudup and Riley Keough in the, “funny and emotional coming-of-age film about adults,” per the outlet. Gerwig’s husband Baumbach is directing and co-producing, and he co-wrote the script with Emily Mortimer …

Modern Family alum Ty Burrell is returning to ABC in Forgive and Forget, the new sitcom ordered to pilot by the network, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The potential series follows Burrell’s character, Hank, “the perennial life of the party, who, after an unexpected diagnosis, reconnects with his responsible adult son Ben in hopes of making new memories together,” per the outlet …

Netflix has greenlit the limited series Black Rabbit, starring Jason Bateman and Jude Law, according to Variety. Law, per the streaming service, plays “the owner of a New York City hotspot” who “allows his turbulent brother (Batemen) back in his life, [opening] the door to escalating dangers that threaten to bring down everything he’s built.” …

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The new film One Life is all about how much one person can do when they’re determined to save others. It tells the true story of Nicholas Winton, a stockbroker in London in the 1930s who helped saved hundreds of mostly Jewish children from the Nazis by sending them on trains from Prague to Britain as Adolf Hitler‘s army took over Czechoslovakia. Helena Bonham Carter plays Winton’s mother in the film, and she tells ABC Audio the film shows that “an army of ordinary people” can achieve a lot if they put their minds to it.

“Actually, this man was a stockbroker,” she says. “He was a sort of ‘ordinary,’ as they say.”

Bonham Carter thinks the film will likely have people thinking about comparisons between that time and the world we live in today, explaining, “I think we all feel completely impotent and guilty and, like, are we doing enough? Are we doing anything? How do we do anything, can we? So hopefully this gives people a sense of potency, you know, and sense of agency.”

Bonham Carter got to meet some of the surviving children, who are actually part of the film — an experience she describes as touching history.

“I did meet some of them … [one woman] gave me her actual, the label that she wore,” she shares. “It’s chilling. When you actually touch history, you’re like, ‘Oh, my God, this is extraordinary.'”

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Jennifer Lopez heads to space and back in the new sci-fi flick Atlas.

In the official teaser for the futuristic film, Lopez is seen in a spacecraft in distress. Bloodied, she asks repeatedly, “Do you copy?!”

According to a synopsis of the film, the This Is Me… Now star plays Atlas Shepherd, “a brilliant data analyst with a deep distrust of AI” who “finds it may be her only hope when a mission to capture a renegade robot goes awry.”

Also featured in the teaser is Academy Award nominee Sterling K. Brown and Barbie actor Simu Liu.

Amid the action of the teaser, including a plummeting spaceship and a midair clash between two robotic suits, one of which is being piloted by Lopez, a title card reads, “The future of humanity is in her hands.”

The film was written by Leo Sardarian and Aron Eli Coleite and directed by Brad Peyton.

Atlas crash-lands on Netflix May 24.

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After the acclaimed film’s Academy Award win for Best Animated Feature, Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli’s The Boy and the Heron is flying back into theaters.

Starting March 22, the new screenings will showcase exclusive bonus content featuring an introduction from the film’s Golden Globe-winning composer, Joe Hisaishi, as well as a recorded drawing session with supervising animator Takeshi Honda.

Both the original Japanese version of the animated film and its American-dubbed version will be screened, the latter of which features the voices of Christian Bale, Dave Bautista, Gemma Chan, Willem Dafoe, Karen Fukuhara, Florence Pugh, Mark Hamill and Robert Pattinson.

The movie centers on a 12-year-old boy, Mahito Maki (Luca Padovan), who is sent by his father (Bale) to live in the country with his aunt after his mother dies. There, he follows a heron into a mysterious tunnel and finds himself in a world shared by both the dead and the living.

Heron marked Miyazaki’s second Oscar following 2002’s influential Spirited Away earned him his first Academy Award.

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At this year’s annual CinemaCon confab in April, Stranger Things‘ Joseph Quinn will receive 2024’s Breakthrough Performer of the Year Award.

The annual convention of the National Association of Theater Owners runs April 8-11 at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, and on that final day, Quinn will receive his honor.

“With two major tentpoles on the horizon in 2024 alone, with A Quiet Place: Day One and Gladiator 2, Joseph Quinn’s star is more on the rise than anyone could have anticipated,” said the annual gathering’s managing director, Mitch Neuhauser.

He continued, “And, Quinn, who really turned heads with his important role in Stranger Things, is set to become one of The Fantastic Four, it was just announced. … Certainly, receiving the 2024 Breakthrough Performer of the Year award from CinemaCon is a most timely and well-deserved accolade.”

Quinn will be playing Johnny Storm aka The Human Torch in Marvel’s 2025 release The Fantastic Four.

Meanwhile, A Quiet Place: Day One, which also stars Lupita Nyong’o, comes to theaters nationwide on June 28.

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On Thursday, AMC announced it has acquired Snowpiercer, the post-apocalyptic sci-fi series that had been canceled after three seasons on TNT. 

Its new network will not only air a fourth season of the show, but will add the previous seasons to its AMC+ library later in the year.

Starring Jennifer Connelly, Daveed Diggs and Sean Bean, the small-screen adaptation of Bong Joon Ho‘s film follows the 1,001-car titular train containing humanity’s survivors of a planet-killing event. 

The fourth season of Snowpiercer, which adds former Marvel movie mainstay Clark Gregg and Michael Aronov to the cast, will debut on AMC and AMC+ in early 2025.

In a statement, Ben Davis, executive vice president of original programming for AMC Networks and AMC Studios, said, “Snowpiercer is an edge-of-your-seat thrill ride with a loyal fanbase — similar to the passionate fandoms we serve across our biggest franchise series,” calling the show a “welcome addition” to the network and its sister streamer. 

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