Totally anemic box office this past weekend. Call it the calm before the storm, as SPIDER-MAN 3 is set to be unleashed on Korea in just two hours from now (as of posting time, of course). With the unofficial holiday tomorrow, oodles of theaters around Seoul (and, I would presume, around Korea) will be launching the third webslinger film at 12:30 am.
My prediction? Certainly the film will top 1 million attendance on the Friday-to-Sunday cycle. But as for the week-long “weekend” opening… I would be willing to guess 1.7 million (around what RETURN OF THE KING and TAEGUKGI did). Maybe even 2 million. But I am pretty sure THE HOST’s 2.6 million record opening is safe.
PARADISE MURDERED was the No. 1 for the third week in a row, but it did so with just 80,100 tickets sold in Seoul (figure around $537,000). In nearly three weeks, PARADISE has made about $11.4 million.
SHOOTER (or DOUBLE TARGET as it is known in Korea) was the top new film, in the No. 2 spot. TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES (I am not about to call it TMNT) had a pretty weak opening, way down in sixth. MY TUTOR FRIEND 2 is definitely a big flop, with just 443,000 tickets sold in 10 days.
Outside of the top 10, Kim Ki-duk’s new film, BREATH, had a pretty tiny opening, with just 2,811 admissions (way down in 21st).
MEMORIES OF MATSUKO has now pulled in 15,765 admissions (and was in 19th last weekend). Not a runaway art-house hit, or a hit at all, I guess. But a reasonable success, which is pretty nice to see for such a quirky little film.
This Week | Title…………………………………. | Release Date | Screens Nationwide | Weekend Attendance (Seoul only) | Total Attendance |
1. | Paradise Murdered | 4.12 | 313 | 80,100 | 1,703,100 | 2. | Shooter | 4.26 | 149 | 54,000 | 191,000 | 3. | The Reaping | 4.19 | 127 | 57,900 | 439,100 | 4. | Bunt | 4.26 | 253 | 40,700 | 179,100 | 5. | My Tutor Friend 2 | 4.19 | 242 | 33,000 | 443,000 | 6. | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles | 4.26 | 243 | 19,700 | 76,000 | 7. | Meet Mr. Daddy | 4.19 | 233 | 13,400 | 264,900 | 8. | The Show Must Go On | 4.05 | 121 | 12,400 | 985,300 | 9. | The Good Shepherd | 4.19 | 81 | 10,000 | 86,000 | 10. | Meet the Robinsons | 4.19 | 97 | 7,000 | 78,400 |
(Source: Film2.0)
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