SEOUL, Dec. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s largest multi-screen cinema chain CJ CGV said Friday it will collaborate with a Hollywood studio to co-produce the first English film for providing the ScreenX immersive experience. The company announced that it will work with the American film production company “Let It Play” to make the ScreenX [...]
SEOUL, March 29 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s largest multiplex cinema chain CJ CGV reported attendance numbers topping 10 million at its Chinese theaters in the first quarter of this year, the company said Tuesday. The chain hit the milestone on Saturday, less than three months into the year, the shortest period ever for it to [...]
SEOUL, Jan.7 (Korea Bizwire) – ‘The Himalayas’ might be a box office hit in the U.S. after its success in Korea. A screening event for the movie was held at CGV LA, located in Los Angeles. Hosted by the LA Korean Council and CJ E&M, foreigners who love Korean movies and members of the American [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – CJ Group, South Korea’s leading food and entertainment conglomerate, will step up its global expansion through mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in the bio and logistics business to foster new growth drivers, company officials said Wednesday. CJ has been grappling with stagnant growth after its chairman Lee Jay-hyun’s indictment on [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 4 (Korea Bizwire) - Choi Byung-hwan, head of CJ 4DPLEX announced that this year would be the start of a new movie platform called Screen X. Screen X is a new screening format that uses the left and right wall of the theater as additional screens. The technology was first developed by CJ [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — A subsidiary of South Korea’s largest cinema chain, CJ CGV, has added six 4DX movie theaters in Japan, the company said Tuesday. The six recently opened at multiplex theaters in six cities, including Sapporo, Maebashi and Himeji, CJ 4DXPlex Co. said in a release. The 4DX auditoriums in Sapporo [...]
SEJONG, June 18 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s antitrust watchdog said Thursday that it has started a probe to determine if local multiplex theaters engage in unfair trade practices that hurt consumers. The Fair Trade Commission (FTC) said it is trying to determine if CJ CGV, Lotte Cinema and Megabox forced customers to view extended advertisements and made [...]