BOSS BABY 2 Debuts in First Place

ESCAPE FROM MOGADISHU Tops Reservations Chart Ahead of OpeningBoss Baby: Family Business (2021)Despite the hot weather and summer holidays, increased COVID protocols and a lack of major new releases kept the box office cool as sales slowed over 20% week-on-wee...

Strong Debut for THE MEDIUM as BLACK WIDOW Claims 2nd Weekend Win

Sales Remain Strong Despite Toughened Social Distancing RegulationsThough still a far cry from where it would normally be in the mid-summer season, the Korean box office remained resilient after slowing down 25% from last week, despite the Greater Seoul area, ...

BLACK WIDOW Scores Best Pandemic Opening for Foreign Film at Korean Box Office

Marvel Hit Revives Exhibition Market Ahead of Toughened Covid RestrictionsA long-awaited tentpole in a beloved Hollywood franchise revived the market over the weekend, boosting sales 65% to 1.24 million admissions, the highest total seen this year to date. How...

A Good Enough Year, but the Best Year for Korean Films

Box Office Report of 2016 After five years of consecutive growth, the Korean film industry remained healthy in 2016, though the half-decade streak of gains came to an end as the industry essentially remained flat. Admissions reached 217.02 million, which was d...

Review of the first three quarters for 2016

After a few years of major growth at the beginning of the decade, the Korean box office has remained flat once again, with this year’s total to date staying at the same level as 2015. However, where gains have been made is in the local industry, which has chur...

THE JUNGLE BOOK Swings onto the Top

The back and forth tussle between local and foreign fare continues at the Korean box office as a large amount of new Hollywood tentpoles swung the market share back in their favor with US releases accounting for 73% of the marketplace during a very busy frame....

PARK Chan-wook Serves Up 1st Place with THE HANDMAIDEN

PARK Chan-wook’s new film The Handmaiden, his first film in Korea since 2009 and his third Cannes Competition invitee, opened in first place at the Korean box office, affording the Korean cineaste his biggest ever opening. The period thriller boosted the Korea...

20th Century Fox Posts One-Two Punch with X-MEN: APOCALYPSE, THE WAILING

Following the dominance of local title THE WAILING, which has had an unusually strong showing for a Korean film in May, a new Hollywood tentpole has reclaimed the top spot at the box office as it continued its massive global rollout. At the end of the hottest ...

THE WAILING Continues to Drown Out the Competition

After its remarkable debut last week, NA Hong-jin’s latest film THE WAILING, which debuted out of competition at the Cannes Film Festival on May 18th, continued to lord over the charts, largely contributing to a weekend where 2.33 million viewers bought ticket...

NA Hong-jin’s THE WAILING Howls in First Place

Massive Debut for Critically-Acclaimed Thriller A week after it received a rapturous response from Korean critics, NA Hong-jin’s latest film, the Cannes Out of Competition thriller THE WAILING, bowed to huge numbers this past weekend. The thriller helped keep...