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Screen Daily ReviewsUKTed Sarandos calls Netflix hire Peter Rice “exact right person” to lead global content Co-CEO talks of need for “better execution in the US”.

10.20

Screen Daily ReviewsUKSundance Institute names Tracy Brady head of marketing, brand, and communications Executive will be based in Boulder, Colorado, reporting to CEO David Linde.

10.20

Screen Daily ReviewsUKLuckyChap International appoints top UK exec to lead film slate The longtime Searchlight UK exec has overseen films including Martin McDonagh’s awards season hopeful ‘Wild Horse Nine’.

10.20

Screen Daily ReviewsUK‘I Play Rocky’ star Anthony Ippolito on the “weight of responsibility” playing a young Sylvester Stallone The film is playing the Rome Film Fest ahead of its US release on November 6.

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Screen Daily ReviewsUK‘Street Fighter’, ‘Forgotten Island’ battle for top spot at UK-Ireland box office ‘NAZA’ makes strong start with almost £250,000 including previews.

10.19

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