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Deadline — KoreaKoreaFirst-Ever ‘Saturday Night Live’ International Spin-Off Lands In Korea EXCLUSIVE: The first-ever spin-off from an international version of Saturday Night Live is landing in Korea.

Deadline — KoreaKoreaTed Sarandos Shrugs Off U.S. Troubles To Mark Netflix’s 10 Years In Korea He might be under fire in the U.S., but Ted Sarandos was all smiles in Korea this weekend. The Netflix co-CEO took to the stage at an event in Seoul marking the streamer’s tenth anniversary in Korea…

Deadline — KoreaKoreaMBC Group & CJ ENM Launch Dedicated K-Content Space On MENA Streamer MBC Shahid -MIPCOM Korean premium content platform Tving is getting a dedicated space on Middle East and North Africa streamer MBC Shahid.

Deadline — KoreaKoreaHow A+E Global Media Is Leveraging The “Extraordinary” Power Of K-Pop Stars EXCLUSIVE: A+E Global Media is leaning into the “extraordinary power” of K-pop, and has been for some time.

Deadline — KoreaKorea‘The Assassin(s)’ Tops Korea’s Chuseok Holiday Box Office With 1.5 Million Admissions Hur Jin-ho’s historical thriller The Assassin(s) topped the Korean box office over the Chuseok holiday weekend pulling in more than 1.5 million admissions since its release on September 23.

Deadline — KoreaKoreaStreaming & Local Film Propel Major Asian Markets To $15B Content Spend This Year – MPA Streaming and local film are set to send spend on content in seven major Asian markets over the $15B mark this year, according to a study.

Deadline — KoreaKoreaKorean Bestselling Thriller ‘The Kidnapping Day’ Set For Arabic-Language Movie Adaptation Korean bestselling thriller The Kidnapping Day, which was previously adapted into a hit show at home and then acquired by Amazon Prime Video for select territories, is set for an Arabic-language…

Deadline — KoreaKoreaDisney Seeking Next Big K-Pop Hit After Striking Ten-Project Deal With Kakao Could Disney be about to unearth the next big K-pop hit? Disney Korea has struck a deal with Kakao Entertainment to launch what they are calling a “K-culture fund” and the pair are aiming to pursue…

Deadline — KoreaKoreaFrance & Korea Pledge $1.16B For Global Screen Industries At South Of France Cinema Summit France and Korea pledged to invest 1 billion euros ($1.16 billion) in the global screen industries from 2027 to 2031, in a cornerstone announcement of President Emmanuel Macron’s Lumière Summit…

Deadline — KoreaKoreaLee Chang-dong On His Eight-Year Hiatus & Confident Return With Venice Competition Title ‘Possible Love’ Lee Chang-dong has finally returned to feature filmmaking. The Korean filmmaker has been on an extended eight-year hiatus, which he blames on his “pathological timidity.” “Unless I have that…

Deadline — KoreaKoreaDisney+ Korea’s Record-Setting Supernatural Reality Show ‘Battle Of Fates’ Getting Spin-Off After Battle of Fates became Disney+ Korea’s biggest series premiere to date, the team behind the show are returning with an spin-off.

Festivals

映画祭 · What's on the festival calendar — Asia first, then the world — the films each region is talking about, and what its press is covering

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On screens this week the newest stills from the region's press

The wire the region's press, translated

How Asia watches in 2026 from the industry's own reports

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About

Our mark is 銀幕, ginmaku — the silver screen, and the same two characters in Japanese, Chinese and Korean.

I came to Tokyo at twenty-three for a summer job at a Shibuya mini-theatre and the job never quite ended. Fifteen years of festivals later I still think the only review that counts is the one the room gives you: where the laugh lands, the moment three hundred people stop moving at once, whether anybody stays for the credits.

Cinepuuulse follows Asian cinema — Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Thailand — across about a hundred and twenty sources. A good number of them are Spanish, French and Portuguese, because those countries programme this work seriously and write about it better than most of the English-language trade. Genre and art-house get the same seat here. I am not ranking them, and nothing is scored out of ten.

Each story is a headline, a short excerpt, one still and a link to the outlet that did the reporting. We never republish the piece, and the still belongs to its studio or its photographer. A Korean trade paper appears in Korean, a French review in French. We point at the work; we do not put words in anyone's mouth.

— Daren Wise, Tokyo