Adele, who captured the world’s heart with an album about a broken romance, emerged as the top winner at Sunday’s Grammy Awards, winning six trophies including the prestigious trifecta of record, song and album of the year.Musician Adele poses with her six trophies at the 54th Grammy Awards in Los A

Whitney Houston will star in a posthumous movie she finished working on before her death, poignantly about a singing group dealing with the troubles caused by fame and drugs. Whitney Houston (AFP)“Sparkle,” due out in August, is a remake of a 1976 film loosely based on the story of the Supremes, fol

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Whitney Houston, who ruled as pop music's queen until her majestic voice was ravaged by drug use and her regal image was ruined by erratic behavior and a tumultuous marriage to singer Bobby Brown, died Saturday. She was 48.Beverly Hills police Lt. Mark Rosen said Houston was pron

 Exhibitions"Dutch Magic Realism: Past toward Contemporary": Museum of Art in Seoul National University presents 71 Dutch paintings and sculptures from ING Banks’s collections. The show will trace 80 years of figurative art, from Dutch realism to recent works, by displaying artworks by the European country’s representative artists including Carel Willink, Wim Schuhmacher and Philip Akkerman. The exhibition runs through April 12 at Seoul National University’s Museum of Art in Sillim-dong, souther

Lim Dong-hyek“10th Anniversary Edition”(EMI)Lim Dong-hyek, one of Korea’s promising classical artists, has released the special album “Dong-hyek Lim: 10th Anniversary Edition,” to celebrate his past decade as a professional pianist.The new album consists of three CDs with pieces he had already released with EMI Classics over the past 10 years. Lim released his first CD in 2002 including compositions by Chopin, Schubert and Ravel. In 2004, Lim recorded Sonata in B minor and other small works of C

Howling (Korea) Opening Feb. 16Crime. Thriller. Directed by Yoo Ha. Detective Sang-gil (Song Kang-ho), who is desperate for promotion, gets annoyed when he is assigned to work with an inexperienced junior Eun-young (Lee Na-young) for what looks like a suicide case. Eun-young finds out that it is in fact a murder case involving a giant wolf-dog. Being the only female detective in her team, socially inept Eun-young endures the low expectations, lewd jokes and even sexual harassment by her macho te

When Universal Pictures hired Daniel Espinosa to direct its rogue CIA agent thriller “Safe House,” the studio knew it was rolling the dice. The Swedish filmmaker had never made an English-language feature, he hadn’t worked with stars near the magnitude of “Safe House” leads Denzel Washington and Ryan Reynolds, and he was graduating from a $4-million Nordic drug drama to an $85-million production.None of that prepared executives for the first batch of footage Espinosa sent back to California from

Although Asia-centric, major entertainment companies seek to reap U.S. benefitsSince Girls’ Generation appeared in two major U.S. talk shows and Wonder Girls launched their TeenNick television movie, “The Wonder Girls,” last week, the buzz has been overwhelming. Yet, underneath all the hype lies a question: Why is Korean pop looking to America? “Insofar as America is the world’s biggest music market, we, as a company and for our artists, want to take it on,”said an S,M. Entertainment representat