A spider crawls up the leg of 18-year-old India Stoker (Mia Wasikowska) early in Park Chan-wook’s English-language debut, “Stoker,’’ and she regards it passively, intrigued. There’s a creepy intruder in the Stokers’ handsome, isolated estate, but it’s India’s Uncle Charlie (Matthew Goode), whose existence India was unaware of until he arrived following the death of her father (Dermot Mulroney) in a mysterious car accident. Dashing, cultured and oozing melodramatic evil, he’s an homage to Joseph

Hollywood actress Jennifer Aniston plans to marry actor and director Justin Theroux in a few months, a source told media.The couple got engaged in August and it seems the wedding will take place as soon as the 44-year-old actress finishes filming a movie “Untitled Elmore Leonard Project” in Connecticut on March 8. The ceremony will be small scale, the source said. “Jennifer admires him because he is seriously intelligent and so different from most of the men you meet in Hollywood,” one of her fr

Former ‘Voice of Korea’ contestant releases debut single

Hye-rim from popular girl group Wonder Girls will star in the K-pop segment of EBS FM’s new English radio program “English Go Go.” The singer will join the show every Wednesday for the live video webcast portion of the program. According to EBS, Hye-rim will sing different genres of music including dance, ballads, and trot in English. The K-pop segment will allow listeners to participate in the program. Once every month, listeners will be able to call in to sing popular English pop songs in Kore

Artday, a sister company of The Korea Herald, will hold a spring auction that presents a variety of contemporary art by Korean artists. It features about 130 paintings by established artists, including Chon Kyung-ja, Lee Dae-won, Kim Jong-hak, Oh Yoon, Oh Chi-gyun, and Kim Jeom-seon. Online bidding is possible at the Artday website (www.artday.co.kr) or through the “Artday” mobile application, which provides real-time information on auction status.The highlight of the exhibition is Lee Dae-won’s

Fox International Productions’ first locally produced film was finally unveiled on Tuesday, featuring Park Chan-wook’s “Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance” star Shin Ha-gyun in the lead.An international production umbrella unit of America’s major film production house Fox Filmed Entertainment, FIP produces and distributes local language films around the globe. Known as one of the world’s largest producers and distributors of motion pictures, Fox blockbusters include “Avatar,” “Titanic” and “Star Wars.”T

Team H, comprised of hallyu actor Jang Geun-suk and music partner Big Brother, kicked off its first world tour “2013 Team H Party ― I Just Wanna Have Fun” in Hiroshima Sun Plaza Hall in Japan on Feb. 23-24. The concerts drew some 10,000 fans, according to Tree J Company, the group’s management agency, Monday.The team sang songs from its new EP, “Lounge H, The First Impression” and new songs from their upcoming album “I Just Wanna Have Fun,” slated to be released on Wednesday.“We staged the conce

Singer-songwriter releases EP ‘Romantica’

British actor Simon Morris was jailed for raping a 15-year-old girl in 2011, despite insisting that he had no recollection of the incident because he was fast asleep, British media reported Monday. The 42-year-old actor was sentenced on Sunday to eight years in prison by Cardiff Crown Court in southern London, after the court dismissed his claims that he had suffered from “sexsomnia,” the medical condition where people engage in sex acts while still asleep.“You told an endless number of glib lie

Janet Jackson knows how to keep a secret: The singer has been married since last year.A representative for Jackson confirmed Monday that the musician and Wissam Al Mana wed last year.This is Jackson's second secret marriage. She secretly married Rene Elizondo Jr. in 1991. They separated in 1999.The 46-year-old Jackson first tied the knot when she was 18 to singer James DeBarge, which lasted three months in 1984.In a joint statement to Entertainment Tonight, Jackson and Al Mana said their wedding

NEW YORK (AP) ― While Lorin Maazel isn’t slowing down, his tempi are based on the performance of Verdi’s “Don Carlo’’ he led to mark the 50th anniversary season of his Metropolitan Opera debut.Now 82, the former music director of the Cleveland Orchestra, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and New York Philharmonic conducted an alternately elegant and disjointed opening of the revival Friday night. The spectacle of the third act auto-da-fe was spacious, the trumpets grand. Confrontations were charged.

Ang Lee pulls off a huge upset as best director for ‘Life of Pi’