Moving Picture Company, a comprehensive content studio, is launching a full-scale drive into the global content market.
On the 4th, Moving Picture Company announced that it will co-produce the ReelShort original short drama 'UNTOUCHABLE : the billionaire and the ex-con babysitter' with global short-form platform ReelShort.
'UNTOUCHABLE : the billionaire and the ex-con babysitter' is a romance thriller in which a woman who was wrongfully convicted and imprisoned faces shocking truths about her missing child and her past after being released and becoming the babysitter for a billionaire single dad.
Actor Choi Jin-hyuk plays H Group's young chairman 'Cha Ji-hu', and actor Im Se-ju plays ex-con babysitter 'Yoo Min-ah'. The director is Lee Sa-gang, who has been noted for her stylish cinematography and delicate emotional expression.
This work is based on an original IP that recorded 230 million cumulative views on ReelShort, and it is attracting attention as a project newly produced targeting global viewers. Based on the original, which won global users' favor with a solid narrative combining family love and revenge, romance and mystery, it will be presented as a new work by adding the sensibility and direction of a Korean production team.
Moving Picture Company is a comprehensive content studio that has built a value chain covering the entire process from content planning and investment to production, distribution, global co-production and overseas distribution, focusing on actor management and drama·film production. While discovering outstanding domestic and foreign IPs and expanding co-productions with global partners, it is expanding its influence in the global content market through a production system that organically links its contracted actors and content IPs.
In particular, this co-production is part of Moving Picture Company's strategy to expand its global content business. Moving Picture Company recently signed a memorandum of understanding with the Taiwan Creative Content Agency (TAICCA) and is continuously expanding overseas partnerships, including promoting global film co-productions. One of the global co-production films currently in development is being prepared with the goal of shooting this year, and another is being developed with the goal of cranking in next year.
In addition, it strengthened its global content investment business by participating as a partial investor in the horror film 'Lầu Chú Hỏa' (Fahrenheit House), which opened in Vietnam in June this year. 'Lầu Chú Hỏa' exceeded 500,000 cumulative viewers in its opening week, ranked No. 1 at the Vietnamese box office and succeeded at the box office by surpassing the break-even point.
Moving Picture Company has produced a total of 12 BL dramas to date and has directly distributed them to the global market, expanding its touchpoints with global fandoms. Recently, it finished filming the new BL drama 'Did you experience an unfair act?' and is in postproduction, and in October it plans to begin production on a new historical BL drama.
A Moving Picture Company official said, "The co-production with ReelShort is an important starting point for expanding our global content business," adding, "We will present works in a variety of genres and formats to the global market, including short dramas, films, series and BL content." He/she added, "We will continue to actively discover competitive domestic and overseas IPs and strengthen our competitiveness as a comprehensive content studio by expanding co-productions, investments and overseas distribution with global partners."
Meanwhile, 'UNTOUCHABLE : the billionaire and the ex-con babysitter' will be produced in a total of 65 episodes and will be released worldwide through global short-form platform ReelShort.<
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