[HanCinema's Box Office Review] 2017.06.23 - 2017.06.25
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Michael Bay's "Transformers: The Last Knight" capitalises on big opening screen count...
The fifth instalment in the "Transformers" series of films, "The Last Knight", arrived in Korea on Wednesday to a massive 1,727 screens. The film, reportedly Michael Bay's final Transformers film, however, only managed to attract 1.2 million admissions (64.13%), or $12.86 million, which was enough to dislodge Alex Kurtzman's "The Mummy" at the top. Critics have largely slammed Bay's latest, and so far it has grossed just $265.3 million worldwide; the film was produced for $217 million and is expected to reach around $400 million. That would make it the lowest-grossing film in the series by some margin.
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Jo Seon-ho's "A Day - 2017" (starring Kim Myung-min and Byun Yo-han) remained unmoved in second for its second weekend out. From 665 screens, down from 781, "A Day - 2017" claimed 11.19% of the sales (226,299 admissions) and moved its bottom line to $7 million (988,929 admissions). Last weekend's number one, "The Mummy" starring Tom Cruise-a popular actor in Korea-slid to third having managed just 161,756 admissions (8%). With a total gross of $25.5 million (3.5 million admissions), Kurtzman's reboot is currently the fourth highest-grossing foreign film of the year and sixth overall.
"The Villainess", Jung Byung-gil's third feature film, fell one place to fourth during this, its third weekend out. Jung's action thriller captured 4.76% of the box office pie from 463 screens (down from 629), growing its total tally to 1.12 million ($8 million). Far behind in fifth enter "The Circle", an American techno-thriller based Dave Eggers' novel of the same name. "The Circle" earned 38,652 admissions (1.97%) from 169 screens and was followed by Lee Chang-jae's documentary about the former president Roh Moo-hyun, "Our President". Lee's 109-minute true story (now in its fourth weekend out) moved its ticket count to 1.79 million admissions ($12.4 million). "Our President" is also the highest-grossing nonfiction film of the year so far.
The critically acclaimed "Wonder Woman"-directed by Patty Jenkins and starring Gal Gadot-has been flying high on the international cinema circuit since its release Shanghai in May. With a production budget of $149 million, DC Comics' "Wonder Woman" has made over $650 million worldwide. In Korea, it has banked a modest 2.1 million admissions ($15.1 million), 23,490 of which came from this past weekend.
Two new foreign films from America were up next: Evan Tramel's "Fishtales" (2016) and the horror film "Abattoir" earned 21,153 (0.97%) and 20,200 (1.01%) respectively. The final spot fell to the German animation "Richard the Stork", down two places from last weekend. Toby Genkel and Reza Memari's computer-animated adventure added 18,971 admissions (0.84%) to bring its total gross in Korea now to $366,251 (55,517 admissions).
Korean Box Office - Admissions for the Weekend 2017.06.23 - 2017.06.25 (www.kobis.or.kr)
# | Films | Release date | Week-end | Total |
1 | "Transformers: The Last Knight" | 1 265 964 | 1 750 492 | |
2 | "A Day - 2017" (하루) | 2017/06/15 | 226 493 | 989 123 |
3 | "The Mummy" | 161 894 | 3 562 417 | |
4 | "The Villainess" (악녀) | 2017/06/08 | 95 453 | 1 127 463 |
5 | "The Circle" | 38 687 | 50 118 | |
6 | "Our President" (노무현입니다) | 2017/05/25 | 36 353 | 1 798 027 |
7 | "Wonder Woman" | 23 526 | 2 141 539 | |
8 | "Fishtales" | 21 153 | 22 351 | |
9 | "Abattoir" | 20 242 | 28 960 | |
10 | "Richard the Stork" (Überflieger - Kleine Vögel, großes Geklapper) | 18 978 | 55 524 | |
Korean movies only | ||||
"The Merciless" (불한당: 나쁜 놈들의 세상) | 2017/05/17 | 1 577 | 928 882 | |
"Jane" (꿈의 제인) | 2017/05/31 | 1 147 | 21 127 | |
"Suh-Suh Pyoung, Slowly and Peacefully" (서서평, 천천히 평온하게) | 2017/04/26 | 862 | 113 403 | |
"Blue Butterfly Effect" (파란나비효과) | 2017/06/22 | 814 | 3 478 | |
"Warriors of the Dawn" (대립군) | 2017/05/31 | 716 | 833 852 | |
"Anarchist from Colony" (박열) | 2017/06/28 | 582 | 15 939 | |
"Yongsoon" (용순) | 2017/06/08 | 553 | 11 669 | |
"I Am a Cat" (나는 고양이로소이다) | 2017/06/08 | 550 | 7 676 | |
"The Sheriff In Town" (보안관) | 2017/05/03 | 450 | 2 587 624 | |
"Beat Back" (격퇴, 1956) - Re-release | 401 | 401 |
- Christopher Wheeler