Kross Pictures

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Kross Pictures, Inc.
Native name
크로스픽쳐스 주식회사
TypeFilm Production Company
IndustryMedia
Founded2003; 18 years ago (2003)
FounderHyunwoo Thomas Kim
Headquarters
Seoul, South Korea
Area served
South Korea, India, United States, Japan, Vietnam, China
Key people
Hyunwoo Thomas Kim (Co-founder, President & CEO)
Services
  • Film/TV series Production
  • Film Distribution
  • Content Licensing
  • Webtoon Platform Service
ParentKakao Entertainment
Websitehttp://krosspictures.com

Kross Pictures, Inc. is a South Korean multinational film and television production company with offices in Seoul, Los Angeles, and Mumbai.[1] The company was co-founded and is currently run by Hyunwoo Thomas Kim.[2][3] Key business areas of Kross Pictures are film production and distribution, IP licensing, book publishing, and webtoon platform service.[4]

History[]

Founded in 2003 in Los Angeles, Kross Pictures is a cross-border film and television production company. The company focuses on identifying and acquiring proven intellectual property to create localized films and TV series for their respective markets.

Its first Chinese production, The Devotion of Suspect X, became a mega hit with CNY 410,000,000 box office collection.[5][6]

Oh! Baby, its second Indian feature film production, was released on July 5, 2019 and became the number one film at the box office in the Telugu-speaking region.

On December 7, 2019, Kross Pictures launched Kross Komics, the first digital comics service in India, through its subsidiary Kross Komics, Inc.

On August 14, 2020, KakaoPage Corp. (now Kakao Entertainment) announced that it acquired 49% of Kross Pictures' shares for 5.9 billion won.[7]

The company has won two copyright infringement cases,[8] including one against the makers of the 2017 Kannada film Pushpaka Vimana, an unofficial remake of the 2013 Korean film Miracle in Cell No. 7.[9][10]

Filmography[]

Films produced

Year Film Country Director Cast Notes
2014 God's Eye View [11] South Korea Lee Jang-ho Oh Kwang-rok
2016 Te3n [12] India Ribhu Dasgupta Amitabh Bachchan, Vidya Balan, Nawazuddin Siddiqui Hindi remake of Montage
2017 The Devotion of Suspect X China Alec Su Wang Kai, Zhang Luyi, Ruby Lin Based on the novel of same name
2018 100 Days of Sunshine [13] Vietnam Phoenix Vu Jun Pham, Kha Ngan, B Tran Remake of Never Ending Story
2019 Oh! Baby [14] India B. V. Nandini Reddy Samantha Akkineni, Lakshmi Telugu remake of Miss Granny
2021 Netrikann[15][16] India Milind Rau Nayanthara, Ajmal Ameer Tamil remake of Blind
2021 Shakini Dhakini[17] India Sudheer Varma Regina Cassandra, Niveda Thomas Telugu remake of the Midnight Runners

Upcoming films

The company is currently producing the following movies which are in the various stages of production:[18][19]

TV series produced

Year TV Series Country Cast
2012 Dr. Jin South Korea Song Seung-heon, Park Min-young
2016 Cheese In The Trap South Korea Park Hae-jin, Kim Go-eun, Seo Kang-joon
2016 The Sound of Your Heart South Korea Lee Kwang-soo, Jung So-min
2017-18 Untouchable [28] China Xing Zhaolin, Zhang Yuxi
2018 The Sound of Your Heart: Reboot [29][30] South Korea Sung Hoon, Shim Hye-jin, Kwon Yu-ri
2022 A Business Proposal[31][32] South Korea Ahn Hyo-seop[33]
Key
Films that have not yet been released Denotes works that have not yet been released

References[]

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  2. ^ "Hallyu, Indian Style: Why Bollywood Is Betting on Korean Remakes". The Hollywood Reporter. 3 January 2018. Retrieved 2019-06-06.
  3. ^ www.ETBrandEquity.com. "Chhitra Subramaniam, appointed as Kross Pictures India's SVP creative and production - ET BrandEquity". ETBrandEquity.com. Retrieved 2019-06-06.
  4. ^ www.etnews.com (2015-03-17). "'크로스픽쳐스', 日 인기 소설 <내 아내와 결혼해주세요> 영화로 제작". 대한민국 IT포털의 중심! 이티뉴스 (in Korean). Retrieved 2018-10-18.
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  14. ^ 2 (2019-05-22). "Oh Baby! Who Is This Foreign Producer Samantha?". Gulte. Retrieved 2019-06-06.CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  15. ^ "Nayanthara to play visually challenged character in Netrikann, remake of 2011 Korean movie Blind- Entertainment News, Firstpost". Firstpost. 2019-09-17. Retrieved 2019-09-25.
  16. ^ "Is Nayanthara's new film, Netrikann, a remake of a Korean film?". The New Indian Express. Retrieved 2019-09-25.
  17. ^ "'Midnight Runners' Telugu remake titled as 'Shakini Dhakini'? - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 2021-08-18.
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  19. ^ https://www.indiantelevision.com/specials/event-coverage/content-hub/high-concept-simple-story-understandable-plot-are-key-to-good-movies-kross-pictures-thomas-kim-200310?amp
  20. ^ "Umesh Shukla to direct Hindi remake of Korean hit Miracle in". India Today. Retrieved 2018-08-20.
  21. ^ admin (2017-04-01). "Kross Pictures awarded injunction against producers of Kannada movie Pushpaka Vimana". Business News This Week. Retrieved 2019-06-06.
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  24. ^ "Shraddha Kapoor in the Hindi remake of Korean film Miss Granny?". 6 June 2019.
  25. ^ "Sonam Kapoor to Star in the Remake of Korean Movie Blind? - Filmibeat". 9 November 2019.
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  27. ^ "Why Kross Pictures' South Korea CEO Thomas Kim is happy with India". 5 May 2017.
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  31. ^ Park, Soo-youn (July 7, 2019). 카카오, 영상 콘텐츠 수직 계열화 시동... "콘텐츠 역량 강화" [Kakao launches integration of video content... "Content empowerment"]. MTN (in Korean). Money Today Network, Inc. Retrieved September 13, 2019.
  32. ^ 카카오페이지, 글로벌 겨냥한 드라마 '사내 맞선' 기획·제작
  33. ^ "Ahn Hyo Seop Confirmed as Male Lead in Upcoming SBS Rom-Com".

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