- Box Office Reports
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- THE INCREDIBLES 2 Teams Up on the Competition
- BELIEVER Returns to Top 5 with Extended Cut Admissions were more or less steady at 2.4 million while US films stretched their market share advantage to 79%. But the tables are about to turn as the coming weeks and months should see Korean content clinch several major weekend victories. Disney took t...
- by Pierce Conran / Jul 24, 2018
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- ANT-MAN AND THE WASP Shrinks the Competition
- SUNSET IN MY HOMETOWN Goes Quietly into the Night Marvel once again laid claim to the Korean box office during the busy first frame of July, which saw admissions soar 50% to 2.81 million, while local films lost their market share advantage as Hollywood swept up 71% of sales. The 20th title in the hu...
- by Pierce Conran / Jul 10, 2018
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- THE ACCIDENTAL DETECTIVE 2 Repeats in Quiet Weekend
- A lack of major new titles led to slow weekend at the box office which unusually saw no change in the rankings in its top four titles compared to the previous weekend. Admissions were down about 20% week-on-week as 1.53 million tickets were snapped up, while the local industry scrapped its way back ...
- by Pierce Conran / Jun 26, 2018
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- THE ACCIDENTAL DETECTIVE 2 Surprises JURASSIC WORLD
- As last week’s blockbuster cooled significantly, the door was left open for new entries from home and abroad to shake up the charts in mid-June. Hollywood maintained a slight edge at 56% of sales while admissions dipped just over 20% to 1.95 million entries overall. Topping the charts by a razor-thi...
- by Pierce Conran / Jun 19, 2018
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- JURASSIC WORLD Chews Up Korean Box Office
- Business shot up 65% over the past weekend with the entry of one the summer’s most hotly anticipated global tentpoles. Consequently, Hollywood dominated the market share after a brief run of local success, accounting for 80% of all sales. Korean films fell back to 16% of the 2.51 million entries rec...
- by Pierce Conran / Jun 12, 2018
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- BELIEVER Wins More Converts in 2nd Weekend Win
- With no major releases entering the marketplace, most holdovers saw strongholds in the first week of June in Korea. With a local film over-performing in first place, the market share for Korean films rose to 66%, while the absence of fresh product caused the market to slow 25% as 1.55 million viewer...
- by Pierce Conran / Jun 05, 2018
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- BELIEVER Crushes SOLO in Korea
- The local industry scored its first market share win at the box office since early April as a Korean thriller fended off heavy Hollywood competition, including a major holdover and a big-budget non-starter. Overall, 2.01 viewers crowded into theaters, with Korean films snapping up 57% of sales. Dire...
- by Pierce Conran / May 29, 2018
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- DEADPOOL Revives Mid-May Box Office
- Mid-May crowned a new superhero at the box office as business picked up. Meanwhile, an acclaimed new local entry failed to fire up the charts, keeping the local market share down with just 15% of the 2.18 million admissions recorded over the weekend, versus the 81% share for Hollywood. Crashing into...
- by Pierce Conran / May 23, 2018
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- A Triumph for Diversity Films
- The Korean box office ended on a bang last year when December delivered by far the best results for Korean and overall sales for the month since records began. Some of that momentum carried through into the early weeks of 2018, but the first quarter of the year has been one of highs and lows, as a s...
- by Pierce Conran / May 09, 2018
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- THE CLASSIFIED FILE Marks the Highest Opening Score for 2015 Local Releases
- Local Films Expected to Recover from the Long Slump Crime drama The Classified File marked the highest opening score for all local films released this year. The KWAK Kyung-taek film opened last Thursday (June 18) and amassed $1.25 million from 181,739 admissions on the opening day alone, beating...
- by Sonia KIL / Jun 23, 2015