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"Deliver a good entertainment, and the audience will come." That's what the venerable director Robert Wise told me after defying Hollywood doubters with his hit musical West Side Story (yes, the 1961 version). Courtly and gracious, Wise also was a tough realist who, following his success, decided to turn to disaster…

ViacomCBS and CJ ENM have struck a global strategic partnership that will see the pair co-develop and co-finance scripted series and movies, while Paramount+ will launch in South Korea next year. The U.S. and South Korean conglomerates unveiled a string of ways in which they will “leverage combined global reach…

Endeavor Group Holdings is close to a deal to sell a majority interest in its content unit to South Korea media company CJ ENM, according to people familiar with the pending transaction. The CJ investment is said to be in the $900 million to $1 billion range. CJ, which gained a wider profile in Hollywood by backing…

Deadline won a SoCal Journalism Award for page design for its Awardsline 2019 Emmy-season cover story on Netflix’s Dead to Me, featuring an interview with the series’ stars Christina Applegate and Linda Cardellini. The honor for the article, a Q&A titled “Friends In Law” and penned by Deadline Television Editor Peter…

Korean entertainment powerhouse CJ ENM has entered into a strategic partnership with leading Japanese animation studio Toei Animation as it continues to expand its global footprint. Under the agreement, the two companies will collaborate across both their libraries and team to create new product including television…

With the global film industry in a state of flux amidst unprecedented shifts in the production and distribution landscape, Tom Quinn's indie label Neon isn't just weathering the storm, it's completely thriving. Currently in its fifth year of operation, the production and distribution company is quietly riding high…

It just may turn out to be that the one, maybe only, thing the 74th annual Cannes Film Festival may have in common with the Oscars is that it is most remembered for screwing up the presentation of the big winner. As you recall, in 2017 Best Picture winners Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway were handed the wrong envelope…

After years of growing one of the world's strongest local entertainment industries with high quality product, a sophisticated audience and a box office that consistently ranks among the Top 5 international markets, South Korea seemed to suddenly burst into global consciousness with Bong Joon-ho's smash 2019 hit Parasit…

South Korean entertainment powerhouse CJ ENM is eyeing a bigger role on the world stage, saying it will invest more than 5 trillion won ($4.5B) in content creation over the next five years. The company behind Bong Joon-ho's Oscar winner Parasite and Fox's I Can See Your Voice has already set aside 800B won ($721M) for…

When this is all over—Covid, unrest, financial reconstruction—will Los Angeles still be the Movie Capital? Perhaps not. This week, the Federal Emergency Management Agency put Los Angeles County at the top of its new National Risk Index, which calculates danger from natural disasters like earthquakes, fire and flood…

This has been a trying year for movies, with the closing of cinemas in the pandemic, and a pivot by many filmmakers and stars to streaming service projects. As we wait for the boom times to return once a Covid vaccine establish herd immunity and movie theaters fill again, it seemed worthwhile to reflect on what a…

On Sunday, February 9, 2020, history was made at the 92nd annual Academy Awards when, for the first time, a foreign-language film took the coveted Best Picture prize — along with three others including Best Director, Original Screenplay and the newly named Best International Feature. That movie of course was Bong…