Veteran 2 / I, The Executioner I tend to talk about Chinese and Korean companies releasing their films direct to American theaters with minimal delay as a "new" thing, but Veteran was, near as I can tell, directly distributed by CJ nine years ago (although I think they were presenting as "CJ Entertainment" versus "CJ ENM" back then), so, yeah, we're looking at South Korean companies doing this for roughly a decade. The funny
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