- Box Office Reports
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- THE PIRATES 2 Repeats after Lunar New Year Win
- After a slight Lunar New Year bump, admissions cooled down almost 30% following the holidays. Local releases timed for the break continued to power the charts, accounting for 75% of the 405,000 tickets sold over the past weekend. There was very little disturbance on the charts, with the top six rank...
- by Pierce Conran / Feb 08, 2022
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- Stranger Than Fiction: Politics & History Inspire Cinema
- The Korean box office has had a rocky ride through the first two trimesters of 2017, but this period was not without its success stories. Though controversies and an uneven slate of films presented some obstacles, Korean history remained a strong driver for profits, particularly in a shifting politi...
- by Pierce Conran / Oct 12, 2017
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- PIRATES Sails into Pole Position
- Disney laid claim to first place at the Korean box office as the latest installment of Pirates of the Caribbean climbed the chart and a surprise second-place debut came from a local documentary. Hollywood seized 70% of the box office loot this weekend, which amounted to 2.44 million admissions. Pira...
- by Pierce Conran / May 30, 2017
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- GET OUT Gets In Commanding First Place
- Two films jostled for the top spot over the weekend but despite a neck-and-neck start, one of the openers appears to have succumbed to an online controversy. Hollywood titles made up 61% of sales, which reached 2.09 million tickets in the spring weekend. A few months after becoming a major sleeper h...
- by Pierce Conran / May 23, 2017
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- ALIEN: COVENANT Bursts into First
- Business over the weekend spreads across several titles with new entries sharing the spoils with last week’s top three finishers. Overall, Hollywood maintained its edge with a 61% share of the 2.06 million recorded admissions. Opening with 525,000 entries (USD 3.99 million), Alien: Covenant grabbed ...
- by Pierce Conran / May 15, 2017
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- Box Office Report for the first quarter of 2017
- The first quarter of 2017 was one of few surprises at the Korean box office but one which demonstrated the industry’s stability, both as a global exhibition market and a local production industry. Though not quite reaching the highs of 2013 (55.47 million) or 2015 (54.56 million), Q1 this year handi...
- by Pierce Conran / May 08, 2017