Ridley Scott’s Gladiator II conquered all-comers on the Korean field workplace on its opening weekend.
The anticipated sequel claimed 40% of ticket gross sales and $2.3m from Friday and Sunday (November 15-17). The movie, starring Paul Mescal and Denzel Washington, has amassed a cumulative whole of $3.2m in its first 5 days.
Regardless of being pushed to second place, Hear Me: Our Summer season held sturdy with $1.2m, mirroring its efficiency from final weekend. The romance drama options rising actor Hong Kyung as a younger deliveryman who falls in love with a hearing-impaired lady portrayed by Roh Yoon-seo. The movie is a remake of Cheng Fen Fen’s 2009 Taiwanese field workplace hit Hear Me.
Supernatural horror Devils Keep debuted in third place with $711,000. Directed by Hyun Moon-seop, the movie follows a coronary heart specialist (Park Shin-yang) who enlists a priest (Lee Min-ki) to exorcise his possessed daughter. The movie is introduced by Showbox, the outfit behind this yr’s blockbuster thriller Exhuma.
Venom: The Final Dance secured fourth place with $508,000, lower than half of the earlier weekend’s $1.2m. Since its launch, the most recent instalment within the Sony franchise has earned $12m, making it the 15th highest-grossing movie in Korea this yr to this point.
Barunson E&A’s Amazon Bullseye got here fifth with $137,000 over the weekend, bringing its cume to $3.7m since its October 30 launch. The comedy marks the reunion of the writers and stars of Excessive Job, Korea’s highest-grossing movie to this point with greater than $100m in income.
Common Footage animation Wild Robotic adopted in sixth place with $87,000. The movie has grossed $4.4m since releasing on October 1.
In seventh was a re-release of 2016’s Arrival, incomes $66,000. The screening of Villeneuve’s sci-fi epic is a part of a particular programme unique to Megabox theatres celebrating Columbia Footage’ a hundredth anniversary. The lineup of re-releases was chosen via viewers surveys and in addition contains Edgar Wright’s Child Driver.
Showbox’s Love In The Huge Metropolis claimed eighth place with $43,000. Tailored from Park Sang-young’s Booker Prize longlisted novel and starring Kim Go-Eun from Exhuma, the movie has earned $5.9m to this point.
A particular fifth-anniversary re-release of Makoto Shinkai’s 2019 Japanese animation Weathering With You claimed $41,000, rating ninth. Shinkai’s newest work, Suzume, was the fourth highest-grossing movie in Korea final yr with a cume of $41m.
Rounding out the highest 10 was Hong Kong drama Time Nonetheless Turns The Pages with $36,000. Directed by Nick Cheuk (Paradox), the movie follows a instructor who uncovers repressed childhood recollections after discovering an nameless suicide observe in his classroom. It premiered at Shanghai Worldwide Movie Competition final yr and had earned a number of nominations throughout Asia, together with a greatest new director win at Taiwan’s Golden Horse Awards.
This weekend’s earnings had been roughly $5.7m, marking it because the tenth slowest weekend of the yr. The Korean field workplace has earned $447.5m in 2024 to this point.
Trying forward, Depraved presently leads pre-sales figures with 37% of bookings forward of its launch on November 20.
