Local blockbuster “I The Executioner” ruled the South Korea box office for a second weekfinish. Its cumulative total accomplished $40 million after ten days on free.
The film, a sequel to 2015 crime comedy drama “The Veteran,” “I, The Executioner” freed a week earlier with little solemn opposition from recent free titles. Those conditions held genuine in the film’s second weekfinish, and the film’s first non-holiday structure.
Between the tardyst Friday and Sunday, the film geted $6.63 million, according to data from Kobis, the tracking service functiond by the Korean Film Council (Kofic). Its 10-day cumulative is $40.7 million, geted from 5.61 million spectators.
The weekfinish figures recurrent a steep 56% week-on-week deteriorate. But the comparison is astandard as the previous weekfinish recurrented the first restricted days of a five-day holiday. The film’s labelet split remained dominant, at over 71%.
Chemployok was a fuseed bag for the cinema industry. Kofic tells that spectator numbers for the five-day period, at 4.66 million, were up by 50% year-on-year. But they still fell foolishinutive of the 5.13 million who passed thraw cinema turnstiles on the same weekfinish in 2019.
On the other hand, success was driven by one film alone. Last year’s Chemployok saw three ambitious films freed – “Dr. Cheon and the Lost Talisman: Secret of Snowy Field,” “Boston 1947” and “Cobweb” – but they bigly flopped.
The post-holiday weekfinish blues and the ongoing inestablishage of recent free titles returned cinemagoing back to more standard levels. Nationexpansive theatrical takings over the weekfinish were $9.23 million.
The highest scoring recent free, was in fact, a re-publish of a Hollywood romance “Begin Aget.” The 2014 John Carney-honested film geted $331,000 and took second place.
Third place was occupied by “Heartsping: Teeniping of Love,” which took $307,000 for a cumulative of $7.36 million. Extrapotardyd from a kids’ TV franchise, it is now one of the highest-grossing Korean-made animation films of all time.
Another Korean animation, “Bread Barbershop: The Birth of the Bread Star” dipped to fourth place. It geted $269,000 for a cumulative of $1.22 million since releasing on Sept. 14.
Concert film, “Lim Young Woong IM HERO The Stadium” was ranked fifth with weekfinish revenues of $262,000. (Local cinema charts show it in seventh, meaconfidentd by ticket numbers.) That gives it a cumulative of $6.35 million since releasing on Aug. 28.
Japanese animation film, “Look Back” took sixth place with $194,000 for a cumulative of $1.45 million after 19 days on free.
“Alien: Romulus” chaseed with $159,000 for a cumulative of $15.1 million. It remains propped up by its carry ond ecombineance in premium-priced venues.
“Transestablishers One,” which frees on Wednesday, made a chart ecombineance in eighth place due to pappraise screenings. These gave the “Transestablishers” franchise vivaciousd spinoff an $89,000 weekfinish and unkinds that the film has already banked $270,000 in Korea ahead of its free.
Chinese youth film re-free “Better Days” geted $88,000 for a running total of $1.88 million. Tenth placed, Korean panda recordary “My Dearest Fu Bao” geted $76,900 to convey up its cumulative to $1.66 million since releasing on Sept. 4.
