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CJ ENTERTAINMENT ACCELERATES ADVANCING TO THE GLOBAL MARKET

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CJ Entertainment, the Korea's biggest investment/distribution company, takes a huge step to advance its position in the global marketplace. After establishing a strategic partnership with a major Hollywood production company, 1492 Pictures, in November 2009 and opening Korea's first joint corporation with Japan April this year, CJ Entertainment made a strategic partnership with the biggest Chinese private distributor, Polybona Films, in June to advance into the Chinese market.

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A GOOD START FOR CO-PRODUCTION

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KO-PRODUCTION IN PARIS 2010 was held as a section of Festival Paris Cinema for 5 days. Participating with a total of 8 films; 4 Korean films and 2 French films and 1 Czech Republic film and 1 Luxembourg film, they introduced their projects and discussed the development of their projects with 2 Korean mentors and 2 French mentors.

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KOREAN FILMS, STANDING ON THE CENTER OF ONE SOURCE-MULTI USE

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In the history of cinema, taking material from other sources and employing it to make a film is not new. Unlike novel, painting and play, cinema has a relatively short history so that it has relied on other forms of art since the beginning. Nevertheless, the recent trend in the Korean film industry seems to be different from the past.

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A BETTER TOMORROW, A style icon resurrected as a global project

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A Better Tomorrow is a remake of John WOO's seminal film of the same title, directed by SONG Hae-sung (Failan , Rikidozan: A Hero Extraordinary , Maundy Thursday). In 2006, Korea's Fingerprint production purchased the remake rights of A Better Tomorrow from Hong Kong's Fortune Star.

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IM Kwon-taek, A history engraved across the body

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The works of IM Kwon-taek that continued for the last 50 years are as unique as they are an exploration on the vast domain regarding the minds of Koreans and directionality of Korean cinema, and at the same time are studies of personal history. In Korea today, there is no one like IM Kwon-taek who can explain the colors of an artist that only build up with the passage of time.

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