Critical Content Strikes Co-Pro Deals With Korea’s Something Special & ‘Asia’s Next Top Model’ Maker
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Exclusive: Critical Content’s plan to bolster its international presence has continued with a pair of co-production deals with Asian counterparts.
The Catfish and Celebrity Game Face producer has struck deals with Korean content house Something Special and Singapore’s Refinery Media. Both cover co-creation and co-production, and will look to expand the global reach of Critical’s formats library.
Something Special is considered one of the main players in the growing international interest in the Korean Wave of unscripted hits.
The company — launched in 2019 by former Cj Enm Head of Formats Jinwoo Hwang and ex-Managing Director of Sbs’s FormatEast, InSoon Kim — has previously struck pacts with the likes of Fremantle and Viacom International Studios. The Korea Creative Content Agency (Kocca) is funding the pact with Critical.
Refinery has credits including Asia’s Next Top Model, Axn’s Amazing Race, Netflix’s The Apprentice One Championship Edition and its own series,...
The Catfish and Celebrity Game Face producer has struck deals with Korean content house Something Special and Singapore’s Refinery Media. Both cover co-creation and co-production, and will look to expand the global reach of Critical’s formats library.
Something Special is considered one of the main players in the growing international interest in the Korean Wave of unscripted hits.
The company — launched in 2019 by former Cj Enm Head of Formats Jinwoo Hwang and ex-Managing Director of Sbs’s FormatEast, InSoon Kim — has previously struck pacts with the likes of Fremantle and Viacom International Studios. The Korea Creative Content Agency (Kocca) is funding the pact with Critical.
Refinery has credits including Asia’s Next Top Model, Axn’s Amazing Race, Netflix’s The Apprentice One Championship Edition and its own series,...
- 8/13/2024
- by Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
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CoCo Lee, the singer who performed Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon’s “A Love Before Time” at the 2001 Oscars and who voiced Fa Mulan in the Mandarin version of Mulan, died by suicide Wednesday. Her sisters, Carol and Nancy Lee, confirmed the news in an Instagram post. She was 48.
“Although CoCo sought professional help and did her best to fight depression, sadly that demon inside of her took the better of her,” the sisters wrote. “On 2 July, she committed suicide at home and was sent to the hospital. Despite the best...
“Although CoCo sought professional help and did her best to fight depression, sadly that demon inside of her took the better of her,” the sisters wrote. “On 2 July, she committed suicide at home and was sent to the hospital. Despite the best...
- 7/5/2023
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
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