Film & television
Ray Gunn and Dead-End Job head to Busan
Netflix's festival announcement pairs Brad Bird's retro-future detective story with a Korean workplace-horror series.
Source published September 2, 2026
Busan International Film Festival · October 6, 2026
Source checked September 12, 2026
News
The announcement
Netflix's September 2 Busan announcement includes Ray Gunn, Brad Bird's animated science-fiction murder mystery with Sam Rockwell and Scarlett Johansson, and Dead-End Job, a series about a temp agency whose extraordinary pay hides nightmarish work.
Both titles are headed to the October 6–15 festival. No streaming dates were announced.
Still developing
What remains unknown
The announcement does not give streaming release dates for either title.
Festival selection is not the same as general availability; platform timing may be announced later.
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Why it caught our attention
One premise filters noir through a 1939 idea of the future; the other turns employment precarity into horror. That contrast is the draw: two familiar systems made uncanny in completely different ways.