CJ ENM Overseas Unit Picks up Pay-TV Rights to Seven CJ-Paramount Series – ATF
variety.comPatrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief CJ ENM (Hong Kong), a channels and content distributor that is part of the Korean CJ ENM conglomerate, has picked up pay-TV rights in parts of Asia to a handful of Korean series that were co-financed by streaming platform Tving and Paramount+.
The deal was struck with Paramount Global Content Distribution. The productions are part of a global strategic partnership between CJ ENM and Paramount Global that was announced in December 2021.
The deal was announced on the eve of the Asian TV Forum (ATF), which kicks off next week in Singapore. The series debut first on Tving in Korea and on Paramount+ in the U.S., Canada, U.K., Australia, Latin America, Brazil, Italy, France, Germany, Switzerland and Austria.
They then move to the CJ ENM-owned channels tvN and tvN Movies in the first window pay-TV slot in Southeast Asia. The titles that CJ ENM (Hong Kong) will represent include suspense drama “A Bloody Lucky Day,” “Yonder” and “Bargain,” along with four others to be included in the deal later. (In September, CJ ENM and Paramount Global announced their collaboration on four other titles “Dongjae, The Good or the Bastard”; “Dreaming of Cinde Fxxxing Rella,” “Pyramid Game and “Queen Woo.”) “Bargain” is a remake of 2015 Korean short film of the same title, and is the tale of a man who enters a motel not knowing that his internal organs are being auctioned off and about to be harvested.
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