CJ CGV to open 33 cinemas in Russia by 2020

In this photo provided by CJ CGV, Seo Jung (L), chief executive officer of the South Korean company, and Grigoriy Pecherskiy, managing partner of Russia’s ADG Group, pose for a photo after signing a contract on the establishment of a joint venture company in Seoul on Oct. 23, 2017. (Yonhap)

SEOUL, Oct. 23 (Yonhap) — CJ CGV, South Korea’s largest cinema chain, will advance to the Russian market for the first time as a foreign theater chain.

CJ CGV signed a contract Monday with Russian land developer ADG Group in Seoul to set up a joint venture in Hong Kong with registered capital amounting to US$30 million. The South Korean company will acquire a 70 percent stake.

Under the contract, the two companies will run 33 theaters and 160 screens in Moscow by 2020.

“Through this contract, we have secured a base to open theaters in Moscow in a stable manner and to expand to adjacent areas while reducing the financial burden,” the company said in a release. “We expect CJ CGV to be the largest cinema chain in Moscow in 2020.”

Russia has the world’s 14th largest cinema market, making up 1.9 percent of the world box office in 2016.

Since opening its first theater outside South Korea in Shanghai in October 2006, CJ CGV has aggressively pushed an overseas expansion that has taken it into China, the United States, Vietnam, Indonesia, Myanmar and Turkey. The fifth largest multiplex theater company in the world, CJ CGV aims to operate 10,000 screens worldwide by 2020.

“This is an important step in expanding the territory of CJ CGV, as Russia is a major base from which to enter Europe in the long term,” Seo Jung, chief executive officer of the company, said in the release. “We’ll make efforts to spread Korea’s advanced multiplex theaters and increase the world’s awareness of the superiority of Korean movies and culture.”

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