China Cinema Closures; Blockchain; HAF Awards; Global Box Office; Middle East Festivals
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KPop Demon Hunters; India Embraces AI; Busan's ACFM Tackles Market Problems
It’s been difficult to avoid KPop Demon Hunters this week, so I’m starting with an item on this pop culture phenomenon, not least because I was surprised to read that it’s become Netflix’s most watched English-language film of all time. As I watched the animated film
OSCARS 2026: Best International Feature Submissions
Rolling list of submissions for the Best International Feature category of the Oscars from Asia, Africa and the Middle East. Sales agents are in brackets after each title, where known. JAPAN: Kokuho, dir: Lee Sang-il (Pyramide International) JORDAN: All That’s Left Of You, dir: Cherien Dabis (The Match Factory)
CHINA RELEASE SCHEDULE: Imports & Co-Productions August-Sept 2025
Adam Elliot's Memoir Of A Snail, Paolo Genovese's Madly and Bambi: The Reckoning have been added to China's release schedule.
Autumn Fest Politics & Press Coverage; Visions Sud Est & Singapore’s The Projector
Before we dig into this week’s stories, just a quick note to say that Streamlined’s upgrade is now complete. I’ve moved off Substack and both the newsletters and the website that was previously known as Streamlined Global (with an archive of ten years of industry news) are