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- ALADDIN’s Wish Comes True Again in Week 4
- A strong holdover rose back to first place during a quiet June weekend as new releases once again struggled, bringing overall business down another 30% to 2.34 million admissions. Choices were limited for viewers in theatres as the top three releases claimed 92% of sales, while the domestic share of...
- by Pierce Conran / Jun 18, 2019
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- PARASITE Maintains Its Hold on the Charts
- As the media frenzy around Korea’s first ever Palme d’Or winner cooled down, so did the box office as business receded about 20% with 3.34 million tickets sold. The local market share also declined but maintained a razor thin 50.1% majority despite the presence of several Hollywood tentpoles. Follow...
- by Pierce Conran / Jun 10, 2019
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- PARASITE Scores Record Opening for BONG Joon-ho
- A media frenzy and national pride have set the May box office on fire, as admissions almost doubled to 4.04 million over the previous weekend, an unusually high number for this time of year. Moreover, the local share surged to 76%, despite the opening of a new Hollywood blockbuster, which is topping...
- by Pierce Conran / Jun 04, 2019
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- ALADDIN’s Wish Granted with 1st Place Debut
- Disney launched its latest tentpole while the Cannes effect kept a holdover hot on the charts. It was an even split between local and foreign films as admissions dipped slightly to 2.15 million admissions, a figure that should rise significantly this coming weekend. Though Avengers is still posting ...
- by Pierce Conran / May 27, 2019
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- THE GANGSTER, THE COP, THE DEVIL Beat Up the Competition
- Adding to some robust holdovers, a pair of new local offerings boosted business by about 20% over last week and gave the domestic industry a healthy 75% command of box office sales, which totaled 2.3 million. Earning the first place rank ahead of its international premiere at the Cannes Film Festiva...
- by Pierce Conran / May 21, 2019
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- AVENGERS Pushes Aside MISS AND MRS. COPS in 3rd Weekend Win
- Following two weeks of unprecedented blockbuster mania, courtesy of Marvel’s epic finale Avengers: Endgame, the box office has receded to normal spring levels, with 1.95 million tickets sold over the last frame. The local industry also found its way back into the mix, clinching 43% of sales over the...
- by Pierce Conran / May 14, 2019
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- AVENGERS Repeats, Cracks 10 Million in Record Time
- Though sales slowed considerably from the previous week, this past weekend remained a highly lucrative window at the Korean box office, with 3.12 million tickets sold. With Marvel’s Phase 3 culmination continuing to lord over the charts as it scaled the records book, local films were kept down to ju...
- by Pierce Conran / May 08, 2019
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- AVENGERS: ENDGAME Obliterates Box Office Records
- With the arrival of the most anticipated film in history, box office admissions rose a staggering 500% week-on-week as Marvel’s blockbuster to end all blockbusters sucked up all the air out of the market, accounting for 92.8% of the 4.51 million tickets sold over the frame. Among the casualties were...
- by Pierce Conran / Apr 30, 2019
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- BIRTHDAY Repeats during Calm Before the Storm
- In the weekend ahead of the feverishly anticipated Avengers finale, theater going slowed to a trickle in Korea, with only 739,000 tickets sold over the frame. Korea reclaimed the majority with a 51% share of sales, though of course that lead will be short lived come Wednesday’s opening day of the Di...
- by Pierce Conran / Apr 22, 2019
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- BIRTHDAY Celebrates over HELLBOY
- Despite a number of new releases, cherry blossoms and the prospect of bigger offerings in the very near future put a damper on the box office this past weekend with sales dropping about 25% week-on-week as 1.04 million admissions were recorded over the frame. The local market share posted a marginal...
- by Pierce Conran / Apr 16, 2019
