Avatar: The Way of Water, Topped the Weekend Box Office for 2 Weeks with 5.57 Million Viewers in Total

James Cameron's Avatar: The Way of Water also maintained its overwhelming No. 1 spot at the box office on the 2nd weekend of its release. Avatar: The Way of Water, which was released on December 14, has topped the box office for 12 consecutive days.Accordi...

ALONG WITH THE GODS Threepeats as It Rises Through All Time Chart

Business remained brisk during the first weekend of the year as two homegrown hits continued to draw big crowds, with one of those rising on the all-time box office list. All told, 3.64 million tickets were sold with local releases accounting for 69% of sales....

Box Office Report for the first quarter of 2017

The first quarter of 2017 was one of few surprises at the Korean box office but one which demonstrated the industry’s stability, both as a global exhibition market and a local production industry. Though not quite reaching the highs of 2013 (55.47 million) or ...

CONFIDENTIAL ASSIGNMENT Knocks Down THE KING

Fortunes changed at the box office as the two major local releases for the Lunar New Year switched places over the holiday. 4.19 million viewers bought tickets over the weekend, with 1.39 million of those selling on Lunar New Year day, which fell on Saturday. ...

THE HIMALAYAS Climbs All Over STAR WARS in Debut

The hotly anticipated new Star Wars, or Episode VII: The Force Awakens, was a global phenomenon this weekend, setting weekend records in the US, UK, Germany and Russia, among others, and powering to a USD 517 million bow worldwide, which is second all time beh...

Review of the First Quarter of 2015 Box Office

1. Another Film Draws Over 10 Million ViewersJK YOUN’s Ode to My Father, released on December 17th last year, surpassed ten million viewers in 28 days on January 13. The film was the 11th Korean film to cross the milestone and the 14th including foreign films....

ODE TO MY FATHER Becomes 2015‘s First 10 Million Admissions Film

JK YOUN Will Be First Director with Two 10 Million Films Ode to My Father is about to become the first 10 million admissions film of the New Year. According to the Korean Film Council’s Integrated Ticket Sales network, the film has sold 9.69 million tickets a...

Hollywood Blockbusters Continue Dominance

Hollywood blockbuster flicks continue to dominate the Korean box office by taking the top spot. After five weeks of Interstellar in the spot, a new Hollywood title took over the throne. Upon its release on November 6th, Interstellar hardly had competition unti...

Box Office: February 6-19, 2014

Frozen and Miss Granny are still dominating Korean cinemas in February. The Korean Film Council (KOFIC – Chairman, KIM Eui-suk) announced on the 16th that Disney’s animation Frozen and the family comedy Miss Granny by HWANG Dong-hyuk (Silenced, 2011), are stil...

Box office, August 1-15

The first half of August was witness to a record-breaking performance by CHOI Dong-hoon’s The Thieves, which became the sixth Korean film in history to pass the 10 million admissions mark. Originally released on July 25, the film sold more than 6 million ticke...