Kim Jin-sun, CEO of South Korean film studio and exhibitor Megabox Plus M, is the driving force behind a partnership that would have been unthinkable just a few years ago: He has arranged for his company, which controls 20 percent of South Korea's movie screens, to become an exclusive theatrical release partner for Netflix.
As recently as 2017, when Netflix wrote South Korea's leading auteur Bong Joon-ho a blank check to produce his big-budget action film Okja, South Korea's largest cinema chains were united in their resistance to the U.S.
streaming interloper. Netflix had originally expected to release Bong's film both in local theaters and on its service, but multiplex giants CJ CGV, Lotte and Megabox refused to screen Okja because the.
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