Nearly a decade after receiving probation for marijuana use, Korean pop star T.O.P (aka Choi Seung-hyun) has made his public return in epic fashion. Squid Game director Hwang Dong-hyuk recently praised the BigBang alum’s performance in Season 2 of the Netflix K-drama as rapper Thanos after he was…

SPOILER ALERT: This interview contains details of Season 2 of Netflix's Squid Game. A new series of sinister games are afoot. After three years of a highly anticipated wait, the record-breaking Netflix series Squid Game has re-entered the zeitgeist with the recent debut of Season 2.   The latest…

Squid Game is back with more blood and a taste for revenge. Netflix's biggest ever series, which launched in September 2021, returns for its second season later this month and it's just as dystopian, violent and vicious as the first with more than 450 new characters to kill off. The first…

Playing Squid Game can be fatal, and it making sounds almost as dangerous — at least for your teeth. The creator of Netflix’s South Korean hit series, Hwang Dong-hyuk, laughed as told the BBC he had lost “eight or nine” teeth due to the stress of making Season 1. It had previously been reported he’d…

Squid Game creator Hwang Dong-hyuk may have been wowed during his tour of the Squid Game: The Challenge set, but he also made a secret cameo in the show itself. Daisy Lilley, director of unscripted series at Netflix in the UK, revealed that Dong-hyuk donned the iconic red uniform of a guard and was…

SPOILER ALERT: This story features details from the first five episodes of Squid Game: The Challenge EXCLUSIVE: Squid Game: The Challenge may look like a hyper-saturated fever dream, but for the contestants who plunged themselves into the world of the Korean megahit, it all felt deadly real…

Following in the footsteps of its recent special awards shows such as “The Celebration Of Black Cinema & Television,” which will be celebrating its fifth anniversary in December, and “The Celebration Of Latino Cinema & Television” which will see its second annual event later in November, the Critics Choice Association…

Major Hollywood actors including Leonardo DiCaprio will “probably” become part of Squid Game if there is a third season, according to the show’s Emmy-winning director Hwang Dong-hyuk, who said Netflix has upped budget for season two and he has now settled on the games. The director of Netflix’s most-watched show of…

Squid Game creator Hwang Dong-hyuk won an Emmy on Monday for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series, the latest win for the Korean-language drama that became Netflix’s most-watched series ever. The series won six Emmys overall from 14 nominations (the most ever by a non-English-language series), capped Monday when Le…

After a hiatus, we’re back with a new episode of Deadline Hallyuwood. Joining us is actor Jang Hyuk, star of the movie The Killer: A Girl Who Deserves to Die.  Although Jang spent much of his career as a heartthrob on some memorable series, he’s getting back into his groove as a martial arts expert in his portrayal of…

Back in 2008, Hwang Dong-hyuk never imagined that his feature script, about a group of desperate people playing a game of life or death, would see the light of day. But a decade later, his idea for Squid Game was pitched as a series to Netflix, and much to his surprise, the thriller quickly turned into a global…

Welcome to Deadline's International Disruptors, a feature where we'll shine a spotlight on key executives and companies outside of the U.S. who are shaking up the offshore marketplace. This week, we’re speaking with Korean super-agent Soyoung Lee, who represents some of the nation’s biggest stars and…