CJ Entertainment (South Korea) Logo History

CJ Entertainment Logo History made by Icarus1585 Prod., 17/06/2024.
CJ ENM, formerly known as CJ Entertainment (CJ 엔터테인먼트) and CJ E&M, is a South Korean film and television company that acquires, produces and distributes over 3,000 titles for the Korean market and the world, and a branch of Korean food company and conglomerate CJ Group. Being South Korea's largest entertainment company, it played an important role in the rise of the South Korean film industry. The success of their own films after the 2000 film Chunhyang, most notably Joint Security Area that broke the Korean box office records previously set by Shiri, helped the company in becoming one of the two largest film companies in the country along with Kang Woo-suk's Cinema Service. The company was formed in 1995 after CJ invested in DreamWorks Pictures and acquired select distribution rights to DW's titles in Korea and Asia. Initially, the company distributed acquisitions but in 2004, the company started producing local productions. After DreamWorks was spun off into two in 2004, DreamWorks Animation would have their titles distributed by CJ in that region and distribution of DreamWorks Pictures titles would move to UIP. In 2007, CJ began distributing titles from Paramount Pictures in that region. CJ's deal with Paramount lasted until 2015 when Lotte Cultureworks took over distribution of Paramount titles in Korea and the DWA arrangement would last until late-2017 when Universal's Korean branch would take over distribution rights of DWA titles in that region from CJ due to Universal's purchase of DWA being completed the year prior.