# Films Week-end
2010.12.10 ~ 2010.12.12 Total
1 The chronicles of Nania: The Voyage of The Dawn Treader 469,842 619,692
2 The Tourist 372,421 457,777
3 Petty Romance (쩨쩨한 로맨스) 2010/12/01 340,617 1,196,410
4 Finding Mr. Destiny (김종욱 찾기) 2010/12/08 303,761 411,586
5 The Warrior's Way (워리어스 웨이) 2010/12/01 42,051 417,167
6 Buried 29,319 45,370
7 Villain and Widow (이층의 악당) 2010/11/24 25,760 588,453
8 Skyline 25,110 863,632
9 Sammy’s adventure (Sammy’s avonturen: De geheime doorgang) 10,976 10,976
10 The Unjust (부당거래) 2010/10/28 10,022 2,746,057

Any idea how big potter will be this weekend. Can it crack 1M admissions.

HP opening history (all in admission)

1 620k (3 day)
2 1.01M (3 day)
3 1.04M (3 day)
4 853k (3 day) / 995k (5 day)
5 1.47M (3 day) / 1.86M (5 day)
6 1.21M (3 day) / 1.70M (5 day)

# Films Week-end
2010.12.24 ~ 2010.12.26 Total
1 The Yellow Sea (황해) 2010/12/22 815,177 1,056,933
2 Hello Ghost (헬로우 고스트) 2010/12/22 738,696 888,519
3 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I 716,042 2,136,870
4 Sammy’s adventure (Sammy’s avonturen: De geheime doorgang) 233,446 499,921
5 Petty Romance (쩨쩨한 로맨스) 2010/12/01 157,936 1,948,037
6 Pokémon: Diamond Pearl Gen-ei no hasha zoroark (劇場版ポケットモンスター ダイヤモンド・パール 幻影の覇者 ゾロアーク) 138,139 168,444
7 The chronicles of Nania: The Voyage of The Dawn Treader 126,907 1,105,507
8 The Next Three Days 125,443 158,461
9 Finding Mr. Destiny (김종욱 찾기) 2010/12/08 124,313 1,045,820
10 The Tourist 22,979 899,454

So ROARING CURRENTS opened with $35m this weekend breaking all opening records...

3.3m admissions during the weekend vs. the old record holder TRANSFORMERS 3 with 2.4m admissions.
4.7m admissions since Wednesday...

After just 18 days ROARING CURRENTS (14m admissions) surpassed AVATAR (13.6m) to become the new all-time champ...

1 out of 4 South Koreans saw the movie already...

BTW, TITANIC had about 5m admissions - just amazing how this market has grown...

It's the first SK film to pass $100 m USD. Big, big achievement for a country with a population of just 50 million.

South Korea Daily Box Office (August 26)

-Admissions (total) gross (Drops from LW) [screens] <Title>

01. 122,457 (6,178,474) $0.885M (-32.8%) [719] <The Pirates>
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02. 88,435 (16,450,670) $0.635M (-61.7%) [699] <Roaring currents>
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03. 43,325 (416,070) $323K (+106%) [279] <Begin again>
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04. 25,421 (591,720) $185K (-34.6%) [301] <The Fault in our stars>
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05. 25,211 (1,395,715) $187K (-65.8%) [364] <Sea Fog>
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06. 9,623 (137,655) $69K (--) [296] <The Expendables 3>
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07. 7,133 (94,477) $52K (--) [214] <The Giver>
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08. 5,458 (58,548) $48K (--) [180] <Deliver us from evil>
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09. 4,391 (1,289,305) $32K (--) [70] <Guardians of the Galaxy>
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10. 3,984 (53,660) $29K (--) [170] <Magic in the moonlight>

It will pass the 17M admissions and beat Avatar's $ total until sunday or perhaps before.

South Korea Daily Box Office (August 31)

-Admissions (total) gross (Drops from LW) [screens] <Title>

01. 236,486 (7,035,299) $1.822M (-37.2%) [679] <The Pirates>
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02. 234,087 (711,109) $1.823M (--) [582] <Into the storm>
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03. 128,891 (16,928,390) $0.999M (-57.7%) [492] <Roaring Currents>
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04. 103,644 (809,690) $849K (+40.1%) [372] <Begin again>
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05. 97,966 (312,799) $817K (--) [457] <Teenage mutant ninja Turtles>
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06. 27,523 (719,607) $252K (-53.6%) [257] <The Fault in our stars>
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07. 11,117 (65,681) $86K (--) [269] <Brick Mansions>
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08. 9,941 (1,457,917) $81K (-82.0%) [217] <Sea Fog>
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09. 8,085 (309,774) $59K (-59.4%) [128] <Planes: Fire and rescue>
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10. 7,547 (49,775) $62K (--) [186] <The Purge: Anarchy>

South Korea has weird taste.

# Films Week-end
2014.09.12 ~ 2014.09.14 Total
1 Tazza: The High Rollers 2 (타짜-신의 손) 2014/09/03 540 529 3 107 417
2 Begin Again 351 523 1 862 520
3 Into the Storm 225 121 1 887 517
4 Lucy 225 063 1 795 522
5 Pirates (해적: 바다로 간 산적) 2014/08/06 205 439 8 362 217
6 My Brilliant Life (두근두근 내 인생) 2014/09/03 194 269 1 481 136
7 Step Up: All In 95 684 491 460
8 The Admiral: Roaring Currents (명량-회오리바다) 2014/07/30 71 115 17 517 516
9 Maya the Bee 3D 50 554 212 313
10 Sin City: A Dame to Kill For 45 246 60 396

Not weird taste, their own. Would you prefer a world where everybody watches the exact same movies? No, thanks...

The success of The admiral: Roaring currents, the biggest film of all time in South Korea (in $, in their local currency, and, most importantly, in tickets sold), which has stomped over The host and Avatar, is simply gigantic. A little more than 33% of the population has seen that movie.

I wouldn't. But that doesn't change that South Korea has weird taste.

Some strange totals this years (admissions)

3.2m BEGIN AGAIN (still in Top Ten)
2.2m MAZE RUNNER (still in Top Ten)
2.1m INTO THE STORM
1.3m GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY

150k THE EXPENDABLES 3

Seems like King Arthur is not getting a lot of love from Koreans as well.

May 18, 2014

1. Get Out - $740,871 ($1,369,296)
2. The Merciless - $612,420 ($1,451,680)
3. King Arthur: Legend of the Sword $209,363 ($868,124)

Maybe all that text makes it a genius poster, but just visually it stinks.

Sad how this thread died off.