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News18
a day ago
- Entertainment
- News18
Is Lee Min Ho Using BLACKPINK Star Jisoo's Fame To Promote Omniscient Reader?
Lee Min Ho revealed that if the world of Omniscient Reader: The Prophecy ever became real, he would choose BLACKPINK's Jisoo as his ally. Omniscient Reader: The Prophecy was one of the highly anticipated projects of 2025. Based on a popular web novel and starring big names like Lee Min Ho, Ahn Hyo Seop, Chae Soo Bin and Jisoo, the film was expected to be a massive hit. But that did not happen. Made on a budget of $21 million, the box office collection of Omniscient Reader, which was released in theatres on July 23, is slower than expected. Amid the setback, the two lead actors, Lee Min Ho and Ahn Hyo Seop, attended a press conference in Singapore's Marina Bay Sands, the film's first and only international stop for promotions, on Tuesday, July 29. Omniscient Reader's director Kim Byung Woo was also present. At the event, the duo interacted with reporters and shared their experience about working on the movie. When the trio was asked which character they would want as their ally if ever the movie's world turned into a reality, they unanimously answered Lee Ji Hye, a resilient warrior who was played by BLACKPINK's Jisoo. Lee Min Ho shared the reason behind his selection, revealing that it's not her skill set for which he would want her as an ally, but to listen to her songs. He said, 'Instead of her weapon, I'll listen to her songs. Her music will be the biggest power to me." Ahn Hyo Seop agreed, saying that she would be the best partner. After the duo's remarks surfaced on social media, Jisoo's fans started criticising the actors. Why? Because fans were excited to watch their favourite actor-singer in the film, as her picture was heavily featured on the movie's poster. But to their disappointment, she only had a small role, which almost seemed like a cameo. Hence, her fans are now accusing the team of Omniscient Reader of using Jisoo's fame to promote the film. How Jisoo's Fans Reacted To Lee Min Ho And Ahn Hyo Seop's Remarks? 'No Jisoo in the promo—but sure, mention her anyway. Gotta beg for clicks somehow," said one fan. No Jisoo in the promo—but sure, mention her anyway. Gotta beg for clicks somehow Another wrote, 'Let's put all the blame on the director for mentioning Jisoo just for clout. Love all the casts, no hate, but the way Jisoo just never being part of the film promotions just baffles me." 'Finally, they are talking about Jisoo…guess the media training has been done?" mentioned a different fan. Notably, Jisoo has been missing from the promotional events of Omniscient Reader: The Prophecy as she is on a world tour with her BLACKPINK members. First Published: July 30, 2025, 10:27 IST Disclaimer: Comments reflect users' views, not News18's. Please keep discussions respectful and constructive. Abusive, defamatory, or illegal comments will be removed. News18 may disable any comment at its discretion. By posting, you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.
Time of India
a day ago
- Entertainment
- Time of India
‘Omniscient Reader: The Prophet'; Lee Min Ho and Ahn Hyo Seop choose BLACKPINK Jisoo as their ‘ally' - comments spark mixed reactions
' Omniscient Reader: The Prophet ' has been garnering a lot of success ever since its release. The actors of the film have since made various public appearances to discuss the project. Recently, during a conference, actors Lee Min Ho and Ahn Hyo Seop 's comments about their co-star and idol BLACKPINK 's Jisoo have sparked a lot of backlash online. Lead actor's comment about BLACKPINK Jisoo goes viral The two actors had attended a press conference for the film in Singapore on July 29, where they were asked about different aspects of the film. One of the questions that was presented to them was which character from the project they would ally with. Both of them commented that they would like to ally themselves with Jisoo's character in the fantasy film. When talking about the reason, they cited that the idol-turned-actor's strong vocals would give them power and strength. Lee Min Ho had said, 'I'd choose JISOO. No need for weapons, just listening to her sing gives strength', while Hyo Seop had fully agreed with him. The comment sparked a lot of mixed reactions online as soon as videos from the event went viral. While some defended their comments, many also shared that they were using the idol's name to stay 'relevant'. Jisoo has been at the centre of controversy in the film, after rumours of her only being used for her popularity in the film went viral. Previous comments from the film's creator himself also sparked major debates when he had indirectly pointed at the singer's status as one of the reasons he cast her for the short role on the big screen. Fans and netizens react While some had defended the artists, some other fans had simply criticised and shared that her name was being mentioned for relevance, even though she was not a part of the official promo events. One person commented that. 'No Jisoo in the promo—but sure, mention her anyway. Gotta beg for clicks somehow', while another shared, 'Finally, they are talking about the media training has been done?' Many also came to the lead actors' defence as well. One fan commented, 'Jisoo's fans really need to learn how to respect other actors, they didn't do anything wrong, she will work with many other actors and what u guys said now might become a weapon against her in the future, please be mindful of your words'.
Pink Villa
a day ago
- Entertainment
- Pink Villa
Lee Min Ho and Ahn Hyo Seop using BLACKPINK's Jisoo to save Omniscient Reader: The Prophecy at Box Office? Here's what happened
Omniscient Reader: The Prophecy has been one of the most awaited films from the Korean film industry this year. With a star-studded lineup, a famed director, a superhit web novel-based storyline, and continued fan interest, it appeared to be right on path for a blockbuster release. The reality however, is far from expectations, as the film is yet to catch up to any estimates, gliding along by relying on its popular cast, including Lee Min Ho, Ahn Hyo Seop, Chae Soo Bin, Shin Seung Ho, and more. Now, the two male leads have stirred online conversation, with their comments at an event for the movie. Omniscient Reader: The Prophecy looking to rely on Jisoo for the Box Office performance? Lee Min Ho and Ahn Hyo Seop attended a press conference for the movie in Singapore on July 29 alongside director Kim Byung Woo. Aiming to promote the film and improve its ticketing status, there have been reports of using BLACKPINK's Jisoo for her fame rather than giving her a remarkable part in it. Her short screentime has already riled up the fans, who are calling out the clout-chasing, also noting the massive placement of the singer-actor on the poster, at the front of it, despite having an almost-cameo role. At the event, the two actors were asked about their biggest ally in the film, someone with whom they would partner, with both perked up with Jisoo's character of Lee Ji Hye as their suggestion. Lee Min Ho said, 'I'd choose Jisoo. No need for weapons, just listening to her singing gives me strength.' Meanwhile, Ahn Hyo Seop echoed his thoughts and shared how she would be the best one to have by their side. The answers have not gone down well with the fans of the BLAKCPINK member. They have called out the seemingly blatant attempt at using her fame to get more headlines and clicks to their movie, hoping it would boost ticket sales. The songstress has so far been absent from the promotions of the film, instead going around the world to tour with her team after 3 years. While currently briefly back in South Korea, it is unknown whether Jisoo will join the other cast members to support the movie in the coming days.
The Guardian
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Blackpink review – K-pop queens bring fun to New York with a little fatigue on the side
In 2023, the four women of Blackpink – Jennie, Jisoo, Lisa and Rosé – stood on top of the world. In the seven years since their 2016 debut, the K-pop quartet became the biggest girl group of all time, off the back of delirious hooks, hard-ass stunting, cut-glass choreography and relentless work. With billions of streams, sold-out stadiums and YouTube viewership records in their wake, the group became the female face of the boundary-annihilating force that is K-pop, taking pandemonium and hype as its calling card; with the exception of their slender physiques, everything about the band was huge. Their 2023 headliner set at Coachella – the first Asian and all-female group to headline one of North America's largest music festivals – served as a jet-fueled exclamation point on global domination. I stood in the crowd that night feeling like I'd been leveled by a sonic boom, in the best way. Much has changed in the two short years since then. The band went on unofficial hiatus for each member's respective solo careers, and the four subsequent releases – Jennie's Ruby, Jisoo's Amortage, Lisa's Alter Ego and Rosé's Rosie – all attempted to escape the Blackpink shadow with halting success; the group's two rappers, Lisa and Jennie, also launched English-language acting careers on HBO, in The White Lotus and The Idol, and returned to Coachella as solo acts with plenty of bombast but less horsepower. The once ascendant wave of K-pop, buoyed up by the massive crossover success of Blackpink and all-male peers BTS, stalled out abroad and lost traction at home, global ambition and misfiring albums costing musical identity and momentum. The pop banger remains, however, a universal, enduring language, and at New York's Citi Field on Sunday night, Blackpink flexed their mastery of the genre with a tour of their energy drink-style hits – unabashedly manufactured, relentlessly upbeat, the highs jagged, aggressive and borderline hallucinatory. Just two years after their last world tour, Blackpink is back for what is billed as a reunion, with the band in a precarious if still victorious position; the last North American stop of their Deadline World Tour (is the deadline age? Solo success? Fleeting consumer attention?), at a stadium in one of the largest Asian American communities in the US, is an undeniable celebration, a spectacular if familiar show of force. It's also evidence of the wandering focus of a band now comfortably at the top; despite the alleged urgency of the deadline, the 2.5-hour show is more slack than Blackpink standard, the girls still stunting but no longer out for the kill. (With the exception of Lisa, the group's hardest member by far, who remains lethal, her dancing never less than crisp.) Numerous times during the group's typically maximalist set – three acts and an encore, spliced with two-to-three-song solo diversions for each member – I caught the look of fatigue on their faces. A drop of the elbow here or a slip of the mean mug there, though quickly smothered by the pyrotechnics, army of industrial backup dancers, lasers, general swirl of stadium sound and camera work that largely denied the pleasure of seeing all four in formation, in favor of one or two singers at a time. And fair enough – the New York July night was so oppressively humid that I was dripping in sweat just standing there; after the head-banging bombast of Boombayah, all four were forced to acknowledge the air's palpable resistance to any movement, or as de facto spokesperson Rosé put it: 'It is REALLY hot today.' The goodwill of faithful Blinks – fittingly for the band, a stadium of many languages, diehard adults next to awed children with merch-toting parents in tow – largely covered for any lapses, and was rewarded with high-octane delights. New single Jump, making the girl power lineage explicit – 'So come up with me, I'll take you high / That prima donna, spice up your life' – layered itchy club beat, weapons-grade bass and tweaking choreography with lasers, fireworks and smoke for a full dose of undiluted, undeniable hype that got the crowd up. At their best, the siren call of 'Blackpink in your areaaaaaa' remains as potent as ever. Less so with the solo diversions, each introduced with interludes of overdone music video imagery of the luxe life – Vegas and city lights, diamonds and furs – that underscored their relative lack of precision. Jennie delivered obligatory stunting, Jisoo sensible pop, Rosé surprising ballads – her solo section, in which she went full Taylor Swift mode with the guitar, provided the most western-style pop moments of the show. If the solo sections hammered home one impression, it's that Lisa alone, in her dragon-skin suit and formidable sneer, has the jet fuel for a solo career. Also, that as a unit, the members' combined strengths covered their weaknesses like an airtight shield. It was a palpable relief, then, when they reunited following Rosé's turn for the pure force of breakout track DDU-DU DDU-DU, the wattage re-upped by camaraderie and their view of the finish line. Individually, they are pop artists in a crowded field, each neutralized and overwhelmed by the familiar elements around them. Together, they steamroll. And so it was that Sunday's finale of Like Jennie, in which all four came together to perform a song that Jennie just performed solo, briefly showed the stamp of Blackpink magic: the beat rips, the head-bopping with slick glasses is distinctly Jennie, but nothing hits quite like the four of them moving together.
The Guardian
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Blackpink review – K-pop queens bring fun to New York with a little fatigue on the side
In 2023, the four women of Blackpink – Jennie, Jisoo, Lisa and Rosé – stood on top of the world. In the seven years since their 2016 debut, the K-pop quartet became the biggest girl-group of all time, off the back of delirious hooks, hard-ass stunting, cut-glass choreography and relentless work. With billions of streams, sold-out stadiums and YouTube viewership records in their wake, the group became the female face of the boundary-annihilating force that is K-pop, taking pandemonium and hype as its calling card; with the exception of their slender physiques, everything about the band was huge. Their 2023 headliner set at Coachella – the first Asian and all-female group to headline one of North America's largest music festivals – served as a jet-fueled exclamation point on global domination. I stood in the crowd that night feeling like I'd been leveled by a sonic boom, in the best way. Much has changed in the two short years since then. The band went on unofficial hiatus for each member's respective solo careers, and the four subsequent releases – Jennie's Ruby, Jisoo's Amortage, Lisa's Alter Ego and Rosé's Rosie – all attempted to escape the Blackpink shadow with halting success; the group's two rappers, Lisa and Jennie, also launched English-language acting careers on HBO, in The White Lotus and The Idol, and returned to Coachella as solo acts with plenty of bombast but less horsepower. The once ascendant wave of K-pop, buoyed up by the massive crossover success of Blackpink and all-male peers BTS, stalled out abroad and lost traction at home, global ambition and misfiring albums costing musical identity and momentum. The pop banger remains, however, a universal, enduring language, and at New York's Citi Field on Sunday night, Blackpink flexed their mastery of the genre with a tour of their energy drink-style hits – unabashedly manufactured, relentlessly upbeat, the highs jagged, aggressive, and borderline hallucinatory. Just two years after their last world tour, Blackpink is back for what is billed as a reunion, with the band in a precarious if still victorious position; the last North American stop of their Deadline World Tour (is the deadline age? Solo success? Fleeting consumer attention?), at a stadium in one of the largest Asian American communities in the US, is an undeniable celebration, a spectacular if familiar show of force. It's also evidence of the wandering focus of a band now comfortably at the top; despite the alleged urgency of the deadline, the 2.5-hour show is more slack than Blackpink standard, the girls still stunting but no longer out for the kill. (With the exception of Lisa, the group's hardest member by far, who remains lethal, her dancing never less than crisp.) Numerous times during the group's typically maximalist set – three acts and an encore, spliced with two to three song solo diversions for each member – I caught the look of fatigue on their faces. A drop of the elbow here or a slip of the mean mug there, though quickly smothered by the pyrotechnics, army of industrial backup dancers, lasers, general swirl of stadium sound and camera work that largely denied the pleasure of seeing all four in formation, in favor of one or two singers at a time. And fair enough – the New York July night was so oppressively humid that I was dripping in sweat just standing there; after the head-banging bombast of Boombayah, all four were forced to acknowledge the air's palpable resistance to any movement, or as de facto spokesperson Rosé put it: 'It is REALLY hot today.' The goodwill of faithful Blinks – fittingly for the band, a stadium of many languages, diehard adults next to awed children with merch-toting parents in tow – largely covered for any lapses, and was rewarded with high-octane delights. New single Jump, making the girl power lineage explicit – 'So come up with me, I'll take you high / That prima donna, spice up your life' – layered itchy club beat, weapons-grade bass and tweaking choreography with lasers, fireworks and smoke for a full dose of undiluted, undeniable hype that got the crowd up. At their best, the siren call of 'Blackpink in your areaaaaaa' remains as potent as ever. Less so with the solo diversions, each introduced with interludes of overdone music video imagery of the luxe life – Vegas and city lights, diamonds and furs – that underscored their relative lack of precision. Jennie delivered obligatory stunting, Jisoo sensible pop, Rosé surprising ballads – her solo section, in which she went full Taylor Swift mode with the guitar, provided the most western-style pop moments of the show. If the solo sections hammered home one impression, it's that Lisa alone, in her dragon-skin suit and formidable sneer, has the jet fuel for a solo career. Also, that as a unit, the members' combined strengths covered their weaknesses like an airtight shield. It was a palpable relief, then, when they reunited following Rosé's turn for the pure force of breakout track DDU-DU DDU-DU, the wattage re-upped by camaraderie and their view of the finish line. Individually, they are pop artists in a crowded field, each neutralized and overwhelmed by the familiar elements around them. Together, they steamroll. And so it was that Sunday's finale of Like Jennie, in which all four came together to perform a song that Jennie just performed solo, briefly showed the stamp of Blackpink magic: the beat rips, the head-bopping with slick glasses is distinctly Jennie, but nothing hits quite like the four of them moving together.
