Kross Pictures

Kross Pictures, Inc. is a South Korean multinational film and television production company with offices in Seoul, Los Angeles, and Mumbai.^[1] The company was co-founded and is currently run by Hyunwoo Thomas Kim.^[2][3] Key business areas of Kross Pictures are film production and distribution, web-novel and webtoon production, book publishing, and webtoon platform service.^[4]

Kross Pictures, Inc.

Native name	크로스픽쳐스 주식회사
Company type	Film Production Company
Industry	Media
Founded	2003; 21 years ago (2003)
Founder	Hyunwoo Thomas Kim
Headquarters	Seoul, South Korea
Area served	South Korea, India, United States, Japan, Vietnam, China
Key people	Hyunwoo Thomas Kim (Co-founder, President & CEO)
Services	Film/TV series Production Film Distribution Content Licensing Webtoon Platform Service
Parent	Kakao Entertainment
Website	http://krosspictures.com

History

Founded in 2003 in Los Angeles, Kross Pictures is a cross-border film and television production company. The company focuses on identifying and acquiring proven intellectual property to create localized films and TV series for their respective markets.

Its first Chinese production, The Devotion of Suspect X, became No.1 in the Chinese box office at openiing, with a total box office collection of CNY 410,000,000.^[5][6]

Oh! Baby, its second Indian feature film production, was released on July 5, 2019 and became No.1 in the box office in the Telugu-speaking region.

On December 7, 2019, Kross Pictures launched Kross Komics, the first digital comics service in India, through its subsidiary Kross Komics, Inc.

On August 14, 2020, KakaoPage Corp. (now Kakao Entertainment) announced that it acquired 49% of Kross Pictures' shares for 5.9 billion won.^[7]

The company has won two copyright infringement cases,^[8] including one against the makers of the 2017 Kannada film Pushpaka Vimana, an unofficial remake of the 2013 Korean film Miracle in Cell No. 7 ^[9][10] and another against the makers of 2019 Tamil movie Kolaigaran, an unofficial adaptation of the Japanese novel The Devotion of Suspect X.^[11]

In October 2021, Kakao Entertainment acquired the remaining 51% of Kross Pictures' shares, and in December 2021, 99% of Kross Komics' shares through Kross Pictures, thereby making both companies its wholly-owned subsidiaries.^[12]

Filmography

Films produced

Year	Film	Country	Director	Cast	Notes
2014	God's Eye View ^[13]	South Korea	Lee Jang-ho	Oh Kwang-rok
2016	Te3n ^[14]	India	Ribhu Dasgupta	Amitabh Bachchan, Vidya Balan, Nawazuddin Siddiqui	Hindi remake of Montage
2017	The Devotion of Suspect X	China	Alec Su	Wang Kai, Zhang Luyi, Ruby Lin	Based on the novel of same name
2018	100 Days of Sunshine ^[15]	Vietnam	Phoenix Vu	Jun Pham, Kha Ngan, B Tran	Remake of Never Ending Story
2019	Oh! Baby ^[16]	India	B. V. Nandini Reddy	Samantha Akkineni, Lakshmi	Telugu remake of Miss Granny
2021	Netrikann^[17]^[18]	India	Milind Rau	Nayanthara, Ajmal Ameer	Tamil remake of Blind
2022	Saakini Daakini^[19]	India	Sudheer Varma	Regina Cassandra, Niveda Thomas	Telugu remake of Midnight Runners
2023	Blind	India	Shome Makhija	Sonam Kapoor, Purab Kohli, Vinay Pathak	Hindi remake of Blind
2023	Jaane Jaan	India	Sujoy Ghosh	Kareena Kapoor, Vijay Varma, Jaideep Ahlawat	Based on the novel The Devotion of Suspect X
2023	Knuckle Girl	Japan	Chang	Ayaka Miyoshi, Hideaki Itō, Yōsuke Kubozuka	Based on the Korean webtoon of same name Knuckle Girl

Upcoming films

The company is currently producing the following movies which are in the various stages of production:^[20][21]

• Indian remake of the Korean film Miracle in Cell No. 7 in Hindi language ^[22][23]
• Indian remake of the Korean film A Hard Day in Hindi language ^[24][25]
• Indian remake of the Korean film Tunnel in Hindi language ^[26]
• Indian remake of the Korean film Midnight Runners in Hindi language
• Indian remake of the Korean film Dancing Queen in Telugu language ^[27]
• Indian remake of the Korean film Miss Granny in Hindi language ^[28]
• South Korean remake of the Indian film Kahaani ^[29]
• U.S. adaptation of the Japanese mystery novel The Devotion of Suspect X
• U.S. adaptation of the Korean webtoon July Found by Chance

TV series produced

Year	TV Series	Country	Cast	Notes
2012	Dr. Jin	South Korea	Song Seung-heon, Park Min-young	Based on the manga Jin by Motoka Murakami Co-produced by Victory Contents
2016	Cheese In The Trap		Park Hae-jin, Kim Go-eun, Seo Kang-joon	Based on the webtoon of the same title by Soonkki Co-produced by Eight Works
2016	The Sound of Your Heart		Lee Kwang-soo, Jung So-min	Based on the webtoon of the same title by Jo Seok Co-produced by The Sound of Your Heart SPC
2017-18	Untouchable	China	Xing Zhaolin, Zhang Yuxi
2018	The Sound of Your Heart: Reboot ^[30]^[31]	South Korea	Sung Hoon, Shim Hye-jin, Kwon Yu-ri	Based on the webtoon of the same title by Jo Seok
2022	Business Proposal^[32]^[33]		Ahn Hyo-seop, Kim Se-jeong, Kim Min-kyu, Seol In-ah	Based on the webtoon of the same title by HaeHwa Co-produced by Kakao Entertainment and Studio S
	Again My Life		Lee Joon-gi, Lee Geung-young, Kim Ji-eun	Based on the web novel by Lee Hae-nal Co-produced by Samhwa Networks
	Roppongi Class^[34]	Japan	Ryoma Takeuchi, Yurina Hirate, Yuko Araki, Kagawa Teruyuki	Based on the Korean webtoon Itaewon Class by Kwang Jin and the Korean drama of the same title Co-produced by Kakao Entertainment, SLL and TV Asahi

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External links

• Kross Pictures