Busan Takeaways: Record Crowds Meet a Political Storm as Asia’s Producers Close Ranks

Source: www.variety.com · Section: entertainment-sports · Bias: Center · Published: Fri, 16 Oct 2026 07:44:36 GMT

The Busan International Film Festival drew its largest film audience in more than a decade at its 31st edition, which ran Oct. 6–15, while a political firestorm over a Korean box office hit and an Iranian director’s war speech kept politics in the spotlight. These are Variety’s takeaways from the festival and its Asian Contents […]

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The same story across the political spectrum (3 sources)

Center-Left: ‘Stranger than stranger-than-fiction’: how Lance Oppenheim made the year’s two buzziest films — www.theguardian.com
Right: Fired FBI agents sue Kash Patel to get jobs back — www.axios.com
Right: Report: U.S. Military Weighs ‘Mother of All Bombs’ for Potential Strikes on Iran — www.breitbart.com

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