Pan Entertainment announced that it has signed a Netflix partnership contract for Racket Boys!
The eagerly-awaited SBS series will premiere on May 31 and will be available to over 190 countries worldwide, starting with Asian and English-speaking regions through Netflix.
Powered by the formidable creative team, expectations are high for this upcoming series. PD Jo Young Gwang (Innocent Defendant, Heart Surgeons) teams up with writer Jung Bo Hoon who penned Prison Playbook.
Oh Na Ra leads this new series about a badminton middle school club coach. Portraying Ra Young-ja, she is a living legend in the badminton world and the nation’s No. 1 junior high school coach for badminton. Pairing up with the actress is Kim Sang Kyung, also a middle school badminton team coach on the brink of being dismantled.
Talented young actors are also set to appear in the series including Tang Jun Sang, Kim Kang Hoon, Son Sang Yeon, Choi Hyun Wook, and Lee Jae In. Likewise, respected characters and seasoned actors Shin Jeong Geun, Kim Min Gi, Woohyun, Baek Ji Won, Jung Min Seong, and Park Hyo Joo round up the big cast.
Pan Entertainment’s IP-Owned Series
Attention is drawn to this youth series as Pan Entertainment owns 100% intellectual property rights since Winter Sonata. As a production company that has a source IP, breaking away from the existing outsourcing production system, it has created a significant moment of directly proceeding with a content export contract with Netflix, the largest global OTT service.
Pan Entertainment also backed up When The Camellia Blooms and Records of Youth. Both currently stream on Netflix, proving the company’s position in leading global Korean content.
Apart from this, Pan Entertainment, as a production company with the know-how and system that can simultaneously proceed with storytelling and visualization, plans to continuously produce tangible results from IP planning and development to production and distribution.
Additionally, the business is keen to discuss cooperation with major global OTT services including China over various content that is in the planning and development stage. It plans to build a representative content production company brand that maximizes additional profits through overseas exports and value-added reproduction.
About Pan Entertainment
Pan Entertainment has focused on diversifying content supply and demand channels in line with the increasing influence of OTT services in the global media market. As a production company that has secured IP leadership in the future, including Racket Boys, its goal is to develop a variety of IP businesses and lay a foothold for securing strong content competitiveness.
“We have accumulated more robust references and large-scale OTT services. We plan to think about a unique business model and a structure for generating revenue while conceiving a novel business,” Pan Entertainment said.
With an established position as “drama master”, Pan Entertainment has produced over 60 dramas since 2002. That includes hit dramas Moon Embracing The Sun, Kill Me Heal Me, Doctors, and Fight For My Way to name a few. It houses over 20 famous screenwriters including Jin Su-wan, Lim Sang-chun, Park Kyung-soo, Jo Seong-hee, Kwo Eun-mi, Ji Ji-young and Lee Ji-hoon.
Furthermore, it is solidifying its position as a production company with sufficient infrastructure in various fields such as OST production, actor management, and filmization of webtoons and novels.
Source: Sports Donga
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