Kind of a miserable weekend at the box office, with only one movie topping $1 million, TAKEN. Everything else is mostly sputtering, waiting for the summer movie madness to begin.

(FYI, this year, summer begins April 30, with the release of IRON MAN).

Not a good weekend for Korean movies, either, with only two films in the top 10 — THE GUARD POST at No. 5 and THE CHASER down in ninth.

If it makes you feel any better, it was not even a good weekend for Hollywood. Most of the foreign films on the chart this week were from other parts — TAKEN is French (from Luc Besson’s crew), THREE KINGDOMS and EMPRESS AND THE WARRIORS are from Hong Kong.

This Week Title…………………………………….. Release Date Screens Nationwide Weekend Revenue (bil. won) Total Revenue (bil. won)
1. Taken 4.09 292 2.07 5.97
2. Street Kings 4.17 313 0.75 0.92
3. Three Kingdoms 4.03 336 0.65 6.04
4. Untraceable 4.17 252 0.57 0.68
5. The Guard Post (GP 506 – Korean) 4.03 276 0.42 5.79
6. The Bucket List 4.09 90 0.27 0.90
7. The Empress and the Warriors 4.09 268 0.18 1.13
8. Pathology 4.17 166 0.20 0.25
9. The Chaser (Chugyeokja – Korean) 2.14 150 0.17 33.43
10. Definitely, Maybe 4.09 0.15 0.91

(Source: KOBIS – Figures represent 97% of nationwide box office)

For those keeping track at home, the current overall standings are:
– Korea at 52.2 percent of the year’s box office
– United States at 36.6 percent
– Europe at 6.6 percent
– China and Hong Kong at 4.1 percent
– Japan at 1.2 percent