SEOUL, Aug. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Homegrown summer blockbusters like the zombie apocalypse film “Peninsula” helped South Korean movies see their combined admissions jump nearly 70 percent in July from a month earlier, data showed Thursday. The number of moviegoers who watched South Korean films reached 4.69 million last month, up 68.4 percent from 2.78 [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean zombie blockbuster “Peninsula” topped the Canadian box office over the weekend, the film’s distributor here said Tuesday. Released in 48 theaters across Canada last Friday, the sequel to the 2016 sensation “Train to Busan” earned US$120,000 in its first week, according to NEW. Its North American distributing [...]
SEOUL, July 22 (Korea Bizwire) – Could the living dead bring withering South Korean movie theaters back to life? Two recently released zombie thrillers, “#Alive” and “Peninsula,” are attracting South Korean film buffs to movie theaters, which have been empty for months due to the novel coronavirus pandemic. According to box-office data by the Korean [...]
SEOUL, July 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of attendees at the South Korean box office during the first half of the year plunged 70 percent on-year, reaching its lowest level since 2005, as cinemas were shunned by the public over concerns of COVID-19 infections, data showed Tuesday. According to the Korean Film Council’s biannual [...]
SEOUL, July 20 (Korea Bizwire) — “Peninsula,” director Yeon Sang-ho’s new zombie apocalypse blockbuster, provided a much-needed boost to the South Korean box office over the weekend, attracting nearly 1 million viewers to cinemas hampered by the new coronavirus during the first half of 2020. According to data by the Korean Film Council (KOFIC), “Peninsula” [...]
SEOUL, June 29 (Korea Bizwire) – The new zombie thriller “#Alive” posted the highest weekend box office total in five months since the outbreak of the novel coronavirus pandemic, data showed Monday. According to the data by the Korean Film Council, “#Alive” attracted 702,000 moviegoers over the Friday-Sunday period, far outnumbering runner-up “Innocence” with 98,000 [...]
SEOUL, June 10 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of moviegoers in South Korea rebounded from a month earlier in May on the back of an extended holiday and relaxed social distancing, data showed Wednesday. A total of 1.53 million movie tickets were sold in May, up from an all-time low of 970,000 tallied in the [...]
SEOUL, June 9 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of weekend moviegoers in South Korea more than doubled from a week earlier thanks to a government-led discount event, raising hopes for a turnaround for the film industry hit hard by the novel coronavirus pandemic, data showed Tuesday. The number of moviegoers from Saturday to Sunday reached [...]
SEOUL, May 17 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of moviegoers fell to a record low last month as the coronavirus scare has kept people from going to cinemas, data showed Saturday. A total of 970,000 movie tickets were sold in April, plunging 92.7 percent from 13.3 million tallied a year ago, according to data from [...]
SEOUL, May 2 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of moviegoers in South Korea dropped to an all-time low in April, data showed Saturday, as people refrained from visiting crowded places amid the new coronavirus pandemic. A total of 972,447 people went to the cinema last month, marking the first time for the figure to hover [...]