Bong Joon-ho Could Teach Hollywood A Thing Or 4 | HuffPost

Bong Joon-ho Could Teach Hollywood A Thing Or 4 | HuffPost:

There’s talk of Oscar nominations, perhaps even Best Picture — a prize that has never gone to a non-English film. Last weekend, “Parasite” was playing on 461 screens. This weekend, it will hit 600 screens. Most foreign films are lucky to cross 100.

If Bong is indeed doing great now, imagine how he’ll feel after four more months of awards-season glad-handing. He’s had success before, sure, but even his projects with big-time Hollywood stars — the 2013 dystopian drama “Snowpiercer” (featuring Chris Evans, Octavia Spencer, Ed Harris and Tilda Swinton) and the 2017 animal-rights adventure “Okja” (Jake Gyllenhaal, Steven Yeun, Paul Dano and Tilda Swinton again) — didn’t seem to elicit the widespread fervor that “Parasite” has evoked among Bong disciples.