CJ Entertainment's THE SPY GONE NORTH To Be Released in U.S. Theaters This Summer

CJ Entertainment announced today that its highly anticipated espionage film, "The Spy Gone North" ("Gongjak"), is releasing in the U.S. this Summer. The film has been invited to the Midnight section of the 71stCannes Film Festival, which is taking place May 8-19. Directed by YOON Jong-bin, this is his second invitation after "The Unforgiven" in 2006. Starring HWANG Jung-min ("The Battleship Island," "The Wailing"), LEE Sung-min ("The Sheriff in Town", "A Violent Prosecutor"), CHO Jin-woong ("The Handmaiden," "Bluebeard"), and JU Ji-hoon ("Along with the Gods: The Two Worlds," "Asura: City of Madness"; this is HWANG and CHO's second invitation to the festival as well. CJ E&M now has a total of nine titles that have been invited to the Cannes Film Festival.

Director YOON ("Kundo," "Nameless Gangster") delivers a gripping, fact-based spy saga about a loyal South Korean agent caught in the political vortex plotted by the ruling classes of two Koreas. In 1993 Korea, the only country where the Cold War continues, tensions surrounding the development of nuclear weapons escalate. Seok-young Park, an army major in the South Korea military intelligence with the code name 'Black Venus' is assigned a mission to infiltrate the North Korean nuclear facility. Seok-young disguises himself as a South Korean businessman working on a collaborative project with North Korea, and approaches Myung-woon Lee, a North Korean high official based in Beijing. After laying down groundwork for years, Seok-young finally manages to win the North Korean ruling class' TRUST and secure a contract for joint advertising. However, Seok-young soon discovers that both North and South Korea are making secret deals for their own interests in the 1998 South Korean presidential election.

ABOUT CJ ENTERTAINMENT

Launched in 1995, Korea's #1 film studio, CJ Entertainment, is the film division of CJ Entertainment and Media (CJ E&M) which produces award winning content across an array of genres for theatrical and non-theatrical distribution, television broadcasts, digital download, and interactive gaming portals. To grow its presence in the film industry, CJ Entertainment has aggressively invested, developed, and distributed motion pictures both domestically and abroad. To date, CJ Entertainment has released over 505 titles and three of those titles, "The Admiral" (2014), "Ode To My Father (2014), and "Veteran" (2015), respectively, have gone on to become the top three, highest grossing films in Korean history. Moving into the future, CJ Entertainment seeks to create and popularize original, award winning Korean content across the globe. To that end it has created successful global productions including, 2013's "A Wedding Invitation" in China, Bong Joon-ho's "Snowpiercer," starring Chris Evans and Tilda Swinton, and 2014's "Let Hoi Decide," which became Vietnam's highest grossing film of all time. Visit us online at: www.cj-entertainment.com.

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