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{{Short description|South Korean film company}}
{{About|the South Korean film production and distribution company|other meanings of ''Showbox''|Showbox (disambiguation)}}
{{Expand Korean|쇼박스|date=November 2017}}
{{Infobox company
| name = Showbox Entertainment
| logo = SHOWBOX Co., Ltd. (South Korea) logo.png
| logo_caption = Showbox logo
| trading_name = 
| native_name = 쇼박스
| native_name_lang = ko
| former_name = Showbox Mediaplex Co., Inc. {{small|(쇼박스㈜미디어플렉스)}}
| type = [[Joint-stock company|Joint-stock]]
| traded_as = {{Korea Exchange|086980}} {{small|(July 7, 2006)}}
| ISIN = 
| industry = Entertainment, media
| genre = 
| fate = 
| predecessor = Media Flex Co., Ltd.
| successor = Showbox Co., Ltd.
| founded = {{Start date and age|1999|6|10}} in [[Seoul]], [[South Korea]]
| founder = Yoo Jung-hoon
| defunct = <!-- {{End date|YYYY|MM|DD}} -->
| hq_location = [[Nambusunhwan]], [[Gangnam District|Gangnam]]
| hq_location_city = Seoul
| hq_location_country = South Korea
| num_locations = 
| num_locations_year =
| area_served = Worldwide
| key_people = Yoo Jung-hoon {{small|(CEO & founder)}}
| products = 
| brands = 
| production = 
| production_year =
| services = Film distribution
| revenue = 12,327,000,000 won
| revenue_year = 2014
| operating_income = 2,086,000,000 won
| income_year =
| net_income = 20000,000 won
| net_income_year = 
| assets = 
| assets_year = 
| equity = 105,272,000,000 won
| equity_year = 2014
| owner = {{ubl|[[Orion Holdings]]: 57.50%|Lee Hwa-kyung: 0.3%|[[Kumho Asiana Group]]: 4.00%|[[Sega Sammy Holdings|Sega Sammy Group]]: 5.78%|[[China Media Capital]]: 25.00%}}
| members = 
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| num_employees_year = <!-- Year of num_employees data (if known) -->
| parent = 
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| website = {{URL|http://www.showbox.co.kr/}}
| footnotes = 
| intl = <!-- Set positively ("true"/"yes"/etc) if company is international, otherwise omit -->
}}

'''Showbox Co., Ltd.''' ({{Ko-hhrm|쇼박스}}) is a South Korean film distribution and production company. It is one of the largest [[Film distributor|film distribution companies]] in South Korea, founded in 1999.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.showbox.co.kr/comp/history.asp |language=ko |title=ShowBox 회사연혁 |website=www.showbox.co.kr |series=HOME > COMPANY |trans-title=ShowBox History}}</ref> Showbox is the film investment, production and distribution branch of Mediaplex, Inc., entertainment arm of [[Orion Confectionery|Orion Group]] and [[Kumho Asiana Group]]. Its main competitors for domestic box office are [[CJ Entertainment]], [[Lotte Entertainment]] and [[Next Entertainment World]]. Despite having very short history in the industry, they managed to have top 6 of 10 blockbusters in Korean box office history, number 1 being 2012's ''[[The Thieves]]''.

== History ==
* June 1996: Establishment of Media Flex Co., Ltd. to enter the movie business.
* November 1999: Establishment of [[Megabox (movie theaters)|Megabox]] to enter the movie theater business.
* January 2002: Establishment of ShowBox brand and start of movie distribution investment.
* December 2002: Their first film [[Sex Is Zero]] premiers and becomes the fifth most popular film of 2002; selling 4 million tickets.
* February 2004: [[Taegukgi (film)|Taegukgi]] premiers and hits a new record of 11.74 million tickets sold.
* August 2005: [[Welcome to Dongmakgol]] premiers and becomes (at the time) as the fourth highest grossing South Korean film of all time; selling 8 million tickets.
* July 2006: [[The Host (2006 film)|The Host]] premiers and setting a new record of being (at the time) the [[List of highest-grossing films in South Korea|highest grossing South Korean film of all time]]; selling 13 million tickets.
* July 2007: [[Megabox (movie theaters)|Megabox]] is sold to [[Macquarie Group|Macquarie]] Investment Fund.
* August 2007:[[D-War]] premiers and setting a new record of being (at the time) the highest-budgeted South Korean film of all time; selling 8.42 million tickets.
* February 2008: [[The Chaser (2008 film)|The Chaser]] premiers and sells 5 million tickets.
* July 2009: [[Take Off (2009 film)|Take Off]] premiers and becomes the 2nd most attended film of the year in South Korea; selling 8.39 million tickets.
* February 2010: [[Secret Reunion]] premiers and becomes one of the highest grossing Korean films of 2010; selling 5.5 million tickets.
* January 2011: [[Detective K: Secret of the Virtuous Widow]] premiers and becomes the 4th best selling Korean film of 2011; selling 4.78 million tickets.
* February 2012: [[Nameless Gangster: Rules of the Time]] premiers and sells 4.71 million thousand tickets.
* July 2012: [[The Thieves]] premiers and becomes (at the time) as the fifth highest-grossing movie in Korean film history; selling 12.9 million tickets.
* May 2013: [[Secretly, Greatly]] premiers and breaks several box office records in South Korea: the highest single day opening for a domestic film, most tickets sold in one day for a domestic film, the biggest opening weekend, the highest-grossing webtoon-based film, and the fastest movie to reach the million, two million, three million, and four million marks in audience number; selling 4.71 million tickets.<ref name=teen>{{cite web|last=Byun|first=hee-won|title=''Secretly Greatly'' Blazes Trail at Box Office by Tapping Teen Audience|url=http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2013/06/10/2013061001331.html|work=[[The Chosun Ilbo]]|access-date=June 10, 2013|date=June 10, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Yun|first=Suh-young|title=''Secretly'' success shows teen power at box office|url=https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/culture/2013/06/141_137220.html|work=[[The Korea Times]]|access-date=June 19, 2013|date=June 10, 2013}}</ref>
* September 2013: [[The Face Reader]] premiers and became one of the highest-grossing films in South Korea in 2013; selling 9.1 million tickets.<ref>{{cite web|last=Lee|first=Hyo-won|title=''The Face Reader'' Shines at South Korea's Dae Jong Film Awards|url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/face-reader-shines-at-south-652497|work=[[The Hollywood Reporter]]|access-date=November 5, 2013|date=November 1, 2013}}</ref>
* May 2014: [[A Hard Day]] premiers and sells 3.44 million tickets.<ref>{{cite web|title=A Hard Day (2014)|url=http://www.koreanfilm.or.kr/jsp/films/index/filmsView.jsp?movieCd=20130442|website=Korean Film Biz Zone|access-date=June 12, 2015}}</ref>
* February 2015: [[Detective K: Secret of the Lost Island]] premiers and the 9th highest-grossing film of 2015; selling 3.87 million tickets.<ref>{{cite web|last=Kim|first=Hee-eun|title=''Detective K'' team returns to set|url=http://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/article/Article.aspx?aid=2990322|website=[[Korea JoongAng Daily]]|date=June 10, 2014|access-date=December 15, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Tae|first=Sang-joon|title=DETECTIVE K: LABORER'S DAUGHTER to Crankin in June|url=http://www.koreanfilm.or.kr/jsp/news/news.jsp?mode=VIEW&seq=3065|website=Korean Film Biz Zone|access-date=December 15, 2014|date=June 16, 2014}}</ref>
* March 2015: entered into an exclusive partnership with one of the biggest Chinese entertainment companies, [[Huayi Brothers]], and expanding its way to China and a co-produced partnership with the [[Cinema of the United States|Hollywood]] genre movie studio [[Blumhouse Productions|Blumhouse]].<ref>{{cite news|last=Lee|first=Hyo-won|title=South Korea's Showbox and China's Huayi Bros. Ink Co-Production Deal|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/south-koreas-showbox-chinas-huayi-784546|access-date=December 4, 2017|work=[[The Hollywood Reporter]]|date=March 25, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Hand In Hand With China - Korea-Chinese Co-production Creates Global Demand|url=http://www.businesskorea.co.kr/english/news/lifestyle/9801-hand-hand-china-korea-chinese-co-production-creates-global-demand|access-date=December 4, 2017|work=Business Korea|date=March 26, 2015}}</ref>
* June 2015: Changed the company names from ''Showbox Mediaplex Co., Inc.'' to ''Showbox Co., Ltd.'', in a step to unify the brand name.
* March 2019: Showbox entered the [[Korean drama|drama]] production industry. It signed a consignment deal with generalist network [[JTBC]], being the second film company to do so (the first being [[Next Entertainment World|NEW]]).<ref name="hankyung">[https://www.hankyung.com/entertainment/article/201903192100H &#91;단독&#93; 쇼박스 첫 드라마 '이태원클라쓰'·'대세녀', JTBC에서 본다]</ref>

==Releases==
===Films===
{{See also|Category:Showbox films}}
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{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Year
! Title
! width=100|Production Country
! Release date{{efn|Release date in South Korea}}
! Production type
! Notes
|-
| rowspan="2"|2002
| ''[[Addicted (2002 film)|Addicted]]''
| rowspan="4"|[[South Korea]]
| October 25, 2002
| rowspan="30"|[[Live action]]
| rowspan="6"|[[Film distribution|Distribution]]{{efn|In South Korea}}
|-
| ''[[Sex Is Zero]]''
| December 12, 2002
|-
| rowspan="7"|2003
| ''[[Double Agent (2003 film)|Double Agent]]''
| January 24, 2003
|-
| ''[[Garden of Heaven]]''
| April 4, 2003
|-
| ''[[Adaptation (film)|Adaptation]]''
| [[United States]]
| May 5, 2003
|-
| ''[[Oh Brothers]]''
| South Korea
| September 5, 2003
|-
| ''[[Underworld (2003 film)|Underworld]]''
| United States<br>United Kingdom<br>Germany<br>Hungary
| September 26, 2003
| {{ubl|Import|Distribution}}
|-
| ''[[Silver Knife (film)|Silver Knife]]''
| rowspan="5"|South Korea
| October 24, 2003
| rowspan="3"|Distribution
|-
| ''[[North Korean Guys]]''
| December 31, 2003
|-
| rowspan="19"|2004
| ''[[Ice Rain (film)|Ice Rain]]''
| January 16, 2004
|-
| ''[[Spy Girl]]''
| January 30, 2004
| rowspan="2"|Provider
|-
| ''[[Taegukgi (film)|Taegukgi]]''
| February 5, 2004
|-
| ''[[The Human Stain (film)|The Human Stain]]''
| United States
| March 3, 2004
| {{ubl|Import|Distribution}}
|-
| ''[[Dance with Solitude]]''
| rowspan="4"|South Korea
| March 19, 2004
| rowspan="4"|Distribution
|-
| ''[[The Last Wolf (film)|The Last Wolf]]''
| April 4, 2004
|-
| ''[[The Big Swindle]]''
| April 15, 2004
|-
| ''[[The President's Barber]]''
| May 5, 2004
|-
| ''[[Ong-Bak: Muay Thai Warrior]]''
| [[Thailand]]
| May 26, 2004
| {{ubl|Import|Distribution}}
|-
| ''[[Dead Friend]]''
| South Korea
| June 17, 2004
| Distribution
|-
| ''[[One Missed Call (2003 film)|One Missed Call]]''
| [[Japan]]
| September 7, 2004
| {{ubl|Import|Distribution}}
|-
| ''[[Temptation of Wolves]]''
| rowspan="2"|South Korea
| July 22, 2004
| rowspan="2"|Distribution
|-
| ''[[To Catch a Virgin Ghost]]''
| August 13, 2004
|-
| ''[[Around the World in 80 Days (2004 film)|Around the World in 80 Days]]''
| United States<br>United Kingdom<br>Germany<br>Ireland
| September 17, 2004
| {{ubl|Import|Distribution}}
|-
| ''[[Crying Out Love in the Center of the World]]''
| Japan
| October 10, 2004
| Distribution
|-
| ''[[The Scarlet Letter (2004 film)|The Scarlet Letter]]''
| South Korea
| October 29, 2004
| Provider
|-
| ''[[The Butterfly Effect]]''
| rowspan="2"|United States
| November 12, 2004
| Distribution
|-
| ''[[Blade: Trinity]]''
| December 15, 2004
| {{ubl|Import|Distribution}}
|-
| ''[[Shinsukki Blues]]''
| South Korea
| December 30, 2004
| Provider
|-
|}

{{Hidden end}}

===Television series===
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Year
! Title
! Original title
! Network
! Associated production
! Ref.
|-
| 2020
| ''[[Itaewon Class]]''
| 이태원 클라쓰
|[[JTBC]]
| Zium Content<br>Itaewon Class Production Partners
| <ref name="hankyung" /><ref>[http://star.mt.co.kr/stview.php?no=2019071809422098116&MS1 박서준X김다미X유재명 '이태원클라쓰' 캐스팅 확정(공식)]</ref>
|-
| 2025
| ''[[The Witch (TV series)|The Witch]]''
| 마녀
|[[Channel A (TV channel)|Channel A]]
|Mr. Romance 
|<ref> {{Cite web |title=뉴스 : 네이버 엔터 |url=https://m.entertain.naver.com/article/449/0000283841 |access-date=2025-01-10 |website=m.entertain.naver.com}}</ref>
|-
| 2026
| ''[[Delusion (South Korean TV series)|Delusion]]''
| 현혹
| [[Disney+]]
| Magnum Nine
| <ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last=Kim |first=Ji-hye |date=May 23, 2025 |title=수지X김선호, '현혹'으로 다시 만났다…2026년 디즈니+ 공개 확정 |trans-title=Suzy X Kim Seon-ho, meet again through 'Hwanok'... Disney+ release confirmed for 2026 |url=https://m.entertain.naver.com/now/article/416/0000314089 |access-date=May 23, 2025 |website=SBS Entertainment News |language=ko |via=Naver}}</ref>
|-
| {{TBA}}
| ''Dolled Up''
| 대세녀
| {{TBA}}
|
| <ref name="hankyung" />
|-
|}

==Notes==
{{Notelist}}

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

{{Film distributors of South Korea}}
{{Television production companies of South Korea}}
{{Authority control}}
{{Kumho Asiana Group}}

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[[Category:Film production companies of South Korea]]
[[Category:Television production companies of South Korea]]
[[Category:Mass media companies established in 1999]]
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[[Category:Companies based in Seoul]]
[[Category:International sales agents]]