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- Korean Viewers Eagerly Accept MISSION IMPOSSIBLE
- by Pierce Conran / Aug 04, 2015
- Tom Cruise Cements Star Status with Record Opening
Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation, the fifth installment in the 19-year-old Mission Impossible franchise, debuted on top of the charts during one of the biggest weekends of the year. Proving that his star image is only on the rise in the region, Tom Cruise scored a career-best opening in Korea with 1.99 million admissions (USD 13.79 million). As of Tuesday, the film has crossed the 3 million viewer mark.Cruise visited Korea for the seventh time with a busy press tour and audiences repaid him with an opening that exceeded the weekend start of Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol, the last installment in the franchise, by 35%. That film went on to accrue 7.58 million viewers, while last summer, Cruise’s sci-fi film Edge of Tomorrow drew 4.7 million spectators, making Korea the third largest market for the film behind the United States and China.Suffering from the competition but still drawing in enormous crowds was CHOI Dong-hoon’s local hit Assassination, which receded 37% for a second weekend haul of 1.55 million viewers (USD 10.62 million). By early Tuesday morning the film crossed the 7 million admissions mark (USD 47 million), handily becoming the top grossing Korean film of the year to date. Though more direct competition is waiting in the wings later this week, the film has remained almost flat during weekdays and boasts strong user ratings, which bode well for its prospects and a quick path to the 10 million spectator mark.Debuting in third place was Dreamworks’ Minions with a healthy 647,623 admissions (USD 4.19 million), which placed it just ahead of Pixar’s Inside Out, which added 331,184 viewers (USD 2.15 million) in its fourth weekend, for 4.06 million (USD 26.82 million) and counting. With schools on holiday, both films should continue to draw substantial crowds in the coming weeks.Meanwhile, Brian Wilson biopic Love and Mercy topped the diversity chart with 7,804 tickets (USD 55,353) sold in its first frame. RYOO Seung-wan’s action-thriller Veteran, which stars HWANG Jung-min and has garnered enormously positive reviews, will open on Wednesday. Strong word of mouth is expected but reservations indicate that it will suffer against the current pair of chart toppers initially.
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