{
  "id": 12585834,
  "title": "Singapore Film Festival Stands by ‘The Assassin(s)’ After Korean Conservatives Demand It Be Dropped",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/07/singapore-film-festival-stands-by-the-assassin-s-after-korean",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-10-07T08:25:09.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Variety",
    "slug": "variety",
    "url": "https://variety.com/2026/film/news/singapore-film-festival-stands-by-the-assassins-1236904122/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The Singapore International Film Festival (SGIFF) is keeping Hur Jin-ho’s “The Assassin(s)” as its opening film, a day after all 109 lawmakers of South Korea’s conservative People Power Party (PPP) asked the festival to pull it. The festival made no mention of the PPP in a statement issued Wednesday, saying only that it was aware […]",
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  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}