Next Entertainment World

Next Entertainment World
legal form	Corporation
founding	2008
Seat	Seoul , South Korea
management	Kim Woo-taek
Number of employees	80
Branch	Film industry
Website	www.its-new.co.kr

Next Entertainment World ( NEW ; 넥스트 엔터테인먼트 월드 ) is a South Korean film company that was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Seoul .

In 2008 NEW entered the saturated South Korean film market dominated by CJ Entertainment and Showbox . In 2013 NEW was able to temporarily replace the competition, led by CJ Entertainment, as the film company with the highest turnover and had a 29.5% share in the box office in South Korea. The most successful film of the year was the drama Miracle in Cell No. 7 with over 10 million viewers. The films New World and Hide and Seek were also very successful. In the following year NEW had a huge success with The Attorney with over 10 million viewers.

The 2016 zombie film Train to Busan by Yeon Sang-ho became a sensation .

In 2015, NEW founded the joint venture HUACE & NEW together with the Chinese company Huace Media to produce films for the Chinese market, including: a. Chinese remakes of The Beauty Inside and The Phone (2015). NEW is also one of the first South Korean companies to cooperate with Netflix . Starting with Pandora (2016), Netflix began to distribute NEW films internationally, e.g. Steel Rain (2017) and Telekinesis (2018).

NEW founded the division and the Contents Panda label for international distribution . They sell film productions in other countries. Not only the films from Next Entertainment World, but also from other producers. In 2017 NEW entered the cinema market and founded the multiplex chain Cine Q.

Web links

Official website

Individual evidence

^ Next Entertainment World. In: Korean Film Biz Zone. Accessed October 7, 2018 (English).
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Sonia Kil: Korea's NEW Hits 10-Year Mark With Bigger Plans in Place. In: Variety . October 5, 2018, accessed October 8, 2018 .
↑ Contents Panda. In: Korean Film Biz Zone. KOFIC , accessed on May 16, 2020 .
↑ Oh Seok Geun (Ed.): Status & Insight. Korean Film Industry 2018 . 1st edition. Korean Film Council, Busan 2018 ( Download [PDF; 1.8 MB ]).

[1] Next Entertainment World. In: Korean Film Biz Zone. Accessed October 7, 2018 (English).

[Variety-2] Sonia Kil: Korea's NEW Hits 10-Year Mark With Bigger Plans in Place. In: Variety . October 5, 2018, accessed October 8, 2018 .

[3] Contents Panda. In: Korean Film Biz Zone. KOFIC , accessed on May 16, 2020 .

[Insight2018-4] Oh Seok Geun (Ed.): Status & Insight. Korean Film Industry 2018 . 1st edition. Korean Film Council, Busan 2018 ( Download [PDF; 1.8 MB ]).