- Box Office Reports
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- THE AGE OF SHADOWS Remains Top Draw Post-Chuseok
- Following the Chuseok festivities business cooled off significantly at the box office and with no new wide releases on deck, a new diversity release landed in the top five. Though falling just shy of a majority, Korean releases still led the country market share, accounting for 46% of the 1.96 milli...
- by Pierce Conran / Sep 28, 2016
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- THE AGE OF SHADOWS Shrouds the Competition
- Big Chuseok Weekend for KIM Jee-woon's Action-Thriller With Chuseok falling on a Thursday this year, Korean exhibitors welcomed a busy five-day holiday weekend which saw 3.91 million tickets sold. 63% of that total was reserved for local releases and despite a number of new titles the charts w...
- by Pierce Conran / Sep 19, 2016
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- THE AGE OF SHADOWS Guns Down the Competition
- Several new releases invaded the charts in the weekend before the Chuseok (Korean Thanksgiving Day) holiday, which will give us a five-day weekend this week, but there was only one real contender despite newcomers taking up the top five spots. Business rose over 50% after last week’s dip, reaching 2...
- by Pierce Conran / Sep 13, 2016
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- Box Office: May 2-15, 2013
- Hollywood blockbuster Iron Man 3 continued to dominate screens in its second and third week on release, as it has in other territories around the world. With another 3.9 million tickets added over the past two weeks, its running total now stands at a massive 7.7 million admissions, which is worth ap...
- by Darcy Paquet / May 16, 2013
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- Box Office: April 17-30, 2013
- Iron Man 3, the first Hollywood blockbuster of the summer season, burst onto screens with the biggest four-day opening in Korean box office history. From April 25-28 the film recorded 2,625,743 admissions, which is well ahead of the previous record holder The Dark Knight Rises which took 2.43 millio...
- by Darcy Paquet / May 02, 2013
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- Box Office: April 4-17, 2013
- Running Man, the first Korean film to be majority financed by Fox International Productions, got off to a decent start at the Korean box office with 1.1 million admissions in its first two weeks on release. Directed by CHO Dong-oh (The Restless), and starring the popular SHIN Ha-kyun (The Front L...
- by Darcy Paquet / Apr 18, 2013
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- Sunny Days Ahead in 2013
- Review of Korean Film Industry in 2012 The Korean film industry saw an impressive rise in terms of admissions and ticket sales in 2012. The total audience figure stood at 194.89 million, a year-on-year increase of 21.9%. Two Korean movies attracted more than ten million spectators. Let’s review th...
- by SONG Ji-hwan / Feb 04, 2013