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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…

There can be no question that Hwang Dong -hyuk is the man of the Emmy moment. His groundbreaking Netflix series Squid Game is a certified global phenomenon and has now received 14 Emmy nominations including three for Director Hwang himself for Outstanding Directing and Writing in a Drama Series, as well as for…

Squid Game has made history again, this time by becoming the first non-English-language show to secure an Emmy nomination in the main drama category. The Korean mega-hit, which is the most-watched Netflix series of all time, picked up noms in the Outstanding Drama Series category and also for star Lee Jung-jae…

EXCLUSIVE: After being courted by every major agency in town, Squid Game writer, director and executive producer Hwang Dong-hyuk, along with his producing partner Kim Ji-yeon, also an executive producer on the mega hit Netflix series, have signed with CAA. Squid Game, which debuted in September 2021, became the…

When production designer Chae Kyoung-sun first read Hwang Dong-hyuk’s scripts for Squid Game, she found that they offered ample “food for thought”—so rich were they in the world they set up, and the characters and themes they examined. “The storyline…sparked my interest in terms of its visuals, with attractive…

After being told that his story was too grotesque and unrealistic, Hwang Dong-hyuk set aside his script for Squid Game for 10 years. When Netflix came looking for overseas content, Hwang took his shot and gave it a drama that quickly became the most-watched series in the streaming service’s history. The Season 1…