- Box Office Reports
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- NA Hong-jin’s THE WAILING Howls in First Place
- Massive Debut for Critically-Acclaimed Thriller A week after it received a rapturous response from Korean critics, NA Hong-jin’s latest film, the Cannes Out of Competition thriller THE WAILING, bowed to huge numbers this past weekend. The thriller helped keep the box office brisk, as 2.85 million s...
- by Pierce Conran / May 18, 2016
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- TIME RENEGADES Clocks In at First Place
- Early spring remains a slow period at the box office, with admissions barely inching up to 1.16 million viewers from last week’s low. However, there was some better news for the local industry as the domestic share jumped up to 60% on the back of new releases and a strong holdover. Earning a first ...
- by Pierce Conran / Apr 20, 2016
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- Box Office Monthly Report | October 2014
- Following the hot summer months and the Chuseok holiday, October was a soft month for cinema attendance, with no major success stories and a string a low-performing titles. There were no true breakouts but most successful was the romcom My Love My Bride, a remake of LEE Myung-se’s 1990 original that...
- by Pierce Conran / Nov 03, 2014
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- Box office, July 16-31
- The month of July has been highly dramatic at the Korean box office, capped by the record-breaking opening of Korean heist film <The Thieves>. The star-studded work has even managed to outperform the hugely anticipated <The Dark Knight Rises>, although due to release dates it appears at...
- by Darcy Paquet / Aug 06, 2012