SEOUL, May 1 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korean crime-action film “The Roundup: Punishment” has crossed the 5 million admissions mark within a week of its release, distributor ABO Entertainment said Wednesday. The achievement came three days sooner than “Exhuma,” the year’s highest-grossing film with over 11 million total admissions. The fourth installment of “The Roundup” [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korean crime-action film “The Roundup: Punishment” topped the weekend box office chart, with data showing Monday it drew nearly 3 million moviegoers during its opening weekend. According to data from the Korean Film Council, the fourth installment of “The Roundup” crime-action film franchise, starring Ma Dong-seok, attracted 2.91 [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — “Exhuma,” the Korean supernatural flick that is soon expected to be the first film to sell 10 million tickets in South Korea this year, is also making waves in other Asian countries, its local distributor said Tuesday. According to Showbox, the movie grossed US$660,000 (about 900 million won) on [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — The supernatural thriller “Exhuma” maintained its position as the top-grossing movie at present, data showed Monday. According to the data from the Korean Film Council, the film led the weekend box-office chart, attracting 1.27 million viewers from Friday to Sunday. Released Feb. 22, the movie surpassed 8 million cumulative [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — The supernatural occult “Exhuma” continued its reign as the most popular movie currently showing, data showed Monday. According to the data from the Korean Film Council, the film topped the weekend box-office chart, drawing 2.33 million viewers from Friday to Sunday. Released Feb. 22, the movie surpassed 6 million [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — The country’s box office admissions were less than 40 percent of pre-pandemic levels in January, data showed Wednesday amid a lack of box office hits. The number of moviegoers came to 7.75 million, accounting for 36.2 percent of the average January tally of 21.44 million from 2017 to 2019, [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – The mystery thriller “Exhuma” drew nearly 2 million moviegoers over the weekend, topping the local box-office chart in the first week of its release, data showed Monday. Jang Jae-hyun’s occult film attracted 1.96 million moviegoers from Friday to Sunday, according to the data from the Korean Film Council (KOFIC). [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — “12.12: The Day,” a historical saga about South Korea’s military coup in 1979, continues to dominate the local box office, data showed Monday. The cumulative ticket sales of the title topped 7 million earlier in the day, data from the Korean Film Council showed. Since its release on Nov. [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – In an unexpected turn of events, director Kim Sung-su’s film ’12.12: The Day,’ centered around the December 12, 1979 military coup in South Korea, is on the verge of surpassing the 5 million cumulative viewers mark. Released in the traditionally slow month of November and diverging from recent audience trends [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — A Korean historical film about a military coup in 1979 is rapidly gaining popularity, data showed Monday, revitalizing the local film industry that has been sluggish for some time. According to computerized data from the Korean Film Council (KOFIC), “12.12: The Day” topped the weekend box-office chart, drawing 1.49 [...]