SEOUL, Feb. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Retro fever is sweeping the Korean box office. Following the smash-hit Japanese animation “Slam Dunk,” the remastered version of the movie “Titanic” is also enjoying strong popularity. “The First Slam Dunk,” an animated Japanese film based on popular comics from the 1990s, had attracted close to 3 million viewers [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Theater admissions sharply recovered in the first 11 months of the year compared with the deep slump a year ago but remained below half of the pre-pandemic level, industry data showed Thursday. A total of 986.3 million tickets were sold in the January-November period, up 89.3 percent from a [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Walt Disney Co.’s “Avatar: The Way of Water” has surpassed 1 million cumulative viewers in South Korea within three days of its release, data showed Saturday. James Cameron’s sequel to his 2009 sci-fi epic had its world premiere in the country Wednesday. The movie had recorded a total of [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Blockbuster sequels have dominated the South Korean box office in 2022 as the film industry struggles to move past the yearslong COVID-19 pandemic. Released in May, the Korean action comedy “The Roundup,” a sequel to the 2017 hit “The Outlaws,” is the biggest box-office hit of 2022 so far. [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korean film industry saw its monthly sales soar nearly 150 percent on-year in July on the back of several box-office hits, data showed Wednesday. The industry’s total revenue amounted to 170.4 billion won (US$130.2 million) last month, up 149.4 percent from 68.3 billion won a year earlier, according [...]
SEOUL, July 4 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s box office reported 15 million admissions for June, marking the largest monthly tally for over two years, data showed Monday. A total of 15.5 million people went to theaters last month, up 6.3 percent from 14.6 million a month earlier, according to the data compiled by the [...]
SEOUL, June 16 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean box office posted a sharp rise both in monthly revenues and admissions for May thanks to the bullish run by the smash-hit action comedy “The Roundup,” data showed Thursday. According to the monthly report by the Korean Film Council (KOFIC), the local film industry posted a [...]
SEOUL, June 11 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korean action comedy “The Roundup” topped 10 million admissions in local theaters on Saturday. The sequel to the 2017 hit movie “The Outlaws” had set the record by 1:50 p.m., according to its local distributor, ABO Entertainment Co., based on a real-time box-office tally from the Korean Film [...]
SEOUL, June 2 (Korea Bizwire) — The sci-fi action adventure film “Jurassic World Dominion” has set the best opening-day record in South Korea during the COVID-19 pandemic, box office data showed Thursday. The latest installment of the “Jurassic Park” franchise garnered 763,000 viewers upon its debut Wednesday, accounting for 52.9 percent of the tickets sold [...]
SEOUL, June 1 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean film attendance numbers nearly shot back up to the pre-pandemic level in May, data showed Wednesday, with a couple of big hits leading the charge. According to the Korean Film Council (KOFIC), movies screened in the country amassed a combined 14.55 million admissions in May, the highest [...]