Wiip-Owner, Korea’s SLL Touts 15-Title Second Half Slate
variety.comPatrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Korean production and distribution company SLL is riding high on the current box office success of “The Roundup: No Way Out,” the only local film this year to sell more than 10 million tickets.
In the larger TV production division, it is breathing a sigh of relief with the successes of “Doctor Cha” and “The Good Bad Mother,” shows which have achieved huge local ratings and placed in Netflix’s Global non-English Top 10 charts.
For the company, which rebranded last year from JTBC Studio, and which acquired U.S. producer wiip, the renewed popularity of its shows represents something of a rebound after “the underperformance of JTBC dramas in 2022.” Now the challenge is to keep things fresh and original, while producing the high volumes of Korean content demanded by clients and frenemies that include Netflix, Prime Video and TVing — the Korean streaming platform in which JTBC is a junior partner behind CJ ENM and Naver.
At an event Tuesday at Seoul’s Gwanghwamun Press Center, executives including head of production Park Joon Suh, unveiled a slate of 15 shows that it will deliver in the second half of this year.
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