# Kross Pictures

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

## History

Founded in 2003 in Los Angeles, Kross Pictures is a cross-border film and television production company. The company is involved mainly in the identification and acquisition of proven intellectual property to create localized films and TV series for their respective markets.
Its first Chinese production, The Devotion of Suspect X, topped the Chinese box office at opening, with a total box office collection of CNY 410,000,000.
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.
The company has won two copyright infringement cases, 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 and another against the makers of 2019 Tamil movie Kolaigaran, an unofficial adaptation of the Japanese novel The Devotion of Suspect X.
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.

## Filmography
### Films produced

| Year | Film | Country | Director | Cast | Notes |
| 2014 | God's Eye View | South Korea | Lee Jang-ho | Oh Kwang-rok | |
| 2016 | Te3n | 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 | Vietnam | Phoenix Vu | Jun Pham, Kha Ngan, B Tran | Remake of Never Ending Story |
| 2019 | Oh! Baby | India | B. V. Nandini Reddy | Samantha Akkineni, Lakshmi | Telugu remake of Miss Granny |
| 2021 | Netrikann | India | Milind Rau | Nayanthara, Ajmal Ameer | Tamil remake of Blind |
| 2022 | Saakini Daakini | 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:
* Indian remake of the Korean film Miracle in Cell No. 7 in Hindi language
* Indian remake of the Korean film A Hard Day in Hindi language
* Indian remake of the Korean film Tunnel in Hindi language
* Indian remake of the Korean film Midnight Runners in Hindi language
* Indian remake of the Korean film Dancing Queen in Telugu language
* Indian remake of the Korean film Miss Granny in Hindi language
* South Korean remake of the Indian film Kahaani
* U.S. adaptation of the Japanese mystery novel The Devotion of Suspect X
* U.S. adaptation of the Korean webtoon July Found by Chance
* Indian adaptation of the 2021 Korean movie Sinkhole.

### 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 | South Korea | 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 | South Korea | 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 | South Korea | Sung Hoon, Shim Hye-jin, Kwon Yu-ri | Based on the webtoon of the same title by Jo Seok |
| 2022 | Business Proposal | South Korea | 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 |
| 2022 | Again My Life | South Korea | Lee Joon-gi, Lee Geung-young, Kim Ji-eun | Based on the web novel by Lee Hae-nal Co-produced by Samhwa Networks |
| 2022 | Roppongi Class | 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 |