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Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefContents Panda, the sales arm of Next Entertainment World, has added comedy horror film “Oh My Ghost” to its burgeoning Cannes Market lineup. Only the company will not physically be in Cannes, and will concentrate on the pre-Cannes online version of the market instead.South Korea’s film production sector is bouncing back to life after a hiatus caused by multiple waves of the coronavirus had caused disruption.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief“A Quiet Place Part II” topped the South Korean box office on its first official weekend of release. It made a considerably bigger splash than Disney-Pixar’s “Luca,” which dived into third place.The horror film scored $2.43 million over the weekend, having opened on Wednesday.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefCJ ENM, the South Korean entertainment giant behind “Parasite,” has struck a strategic alliance with Japanese terrestrial broadcast group Tokyo Broadcasting System.The deal, announced Tuesday, will see the joint production of content for the global market and cooperation in other new business areas.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief“F9” became the most-watched foreign film in South Korea since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic on another weekend where Hollywood and Japanese titles dominated the South Korean box office.The weekend box office chart was headed by “Cruella,” which held strong in its third frame and swapped places with newer “The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It.”“Cruella” scored $1.82 million according to data from Kobis, the Korean Film Council’s film tracking service,

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Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefTheatrical box office in the Asia Pacific region is recovering from the lows established early last year at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. But South Korea has not shared in the upswing.Data from OpusData compiled by S&P Global Market Intelligence showed a 79% increase in the first four months of 2021, compared with the same period in 2020.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefSouth Korea enjoyed its biggest weekend box office of 2021 propelled, unusually, by a trio of Hollywood titles. “The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It” topped the chart with a $2.68 million haul, ahead of “Cruella” and “F9.”Aggregate national box office for the three days from Friday to Sunday was $7.12 million, according to data from the Korean Film Council’s Kobis tracking system.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeWiip, the independent studio behind recent HBO hit “Mare of Easttown” and Apple TV Plus’ breakout “Dickinson,” has been acquired by South Korean TV drama production firm JTBC Studios.JTBC Studios will take a majority ownership in wiip, while CAA, which had previously been the majority owner of the company, will now move to a minority stake.

South Korean entertainment powerhouse CJ ENM is eyeing a bigger role on the world stage, saying it will invest more than 5 trillion won ($4.5B) in content creation over the next five years. The company behind Bong Joon-ho’s Oscar winner Parasite and Fox’s I Can See Your Voice has already set aside 800B won ($721M) for productions this year, CEO Kang Ho-sung said at a press conference in Seoul today, according to the Yonhap news agency.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefCJ ENM, the Korean corporation behind Oscar-winning film “Parasite,” and the “Snowpiercer” TV series, is to expand its investment in entertainment content to a massive $4.4 billion over the next five years.The company is already one of Asia’s largest entertainment companies, but it is now seeking to achieve global significance.“We will move on to the world stage and compete with global platforms and media powerhouses,” said CJ ENM CEO Kang Ho-sung at a press