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Yorgos Lanthimos’ ‘Bugonia’: How ‘Parasite’ and ‘Squid Game’ Success Led the Auteur to Remake Korean Sci-Fi ‘Save the Green Planet’
How ‘Parasite' and 'Squid Game's' global success led Yorgos Lanthimos to remake oddball Korean sci-fi film ‘Save the Green Planet’ as 'Bugonia.'
CJ ENM, which has ridden the Korean wave to become majority owner of Fifth Season — the company that was previously the scripted content division of Endeavor — has made multiple stabs at penetrating Hollywood, which it regarded as having better access to finance and global distribution. These efforts include an equity stake in Steven Spielberg and Jeffrey Katzenberg’s infant Dreamworks SKG, a multi-year pact with Chris Columbus’s 1492 Productions and a $40 million investment in TNT’s “Snowpiercer” series, which was adapted from a CJ Entertainment co-produced film by Bong Joon-ho. (It can’t hurt that the group’s visionary vice chair Miky Lee is California-based and that CJ operates a handful of U.S. multiplexes modeled on its upscale CJ-CGV chain in Korea.)
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