[HanCinema's Film Review] Korean Weekend Box Office 2012.08.10 ~ 2012.08.12
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HanCinema's Korean Box Office Review
(2012.08.10~ 2012.08.12)
Choi Dong-hoon's "The Thieves" has been smashing the record books as the Korean public are still scrambling to catch this star-studded heist flick. "The Thieves" is already the highest grossing film released in Korea this year, with a phenomenal admissions count of almost 10 million! That's more that 2 million past its closest rival "The Avengers". All the while undermining "The Dark Knights" climb to 6 million admissions as well as nullifying the initial impact of Kim Joo-ho's "The Heist" which entered the race this past week.
Cha Tae-hyun, Oh Ji-ho, Sung Dong-il. Lee Moon-sik, Ko Chang-seok, Kim Jung-tae, Seo Shin-ae, Cheon Bong-geun and more. It will be interesting to see if "The Thieves" surrenders some of its glory so that Kim Joo-ho's latest can step into the limelight. In third is another Korean film "I am King", up two places from five. Still, the film might be moving up in the world but it held that position with only 271,001 admissions, that's only 8.30% of the ticket sales. Into a string of foreign entries now, the first of which is the big budget comic adaptation "The Dark Knight Rises" with 240,354. This the final film in the "Dark Knight" trilogy has been the focus of much public interest and its star power in Korea has only slightly been softened as the local hits are timing their entry into the charts to perfection. Still this Hollywood beast has more than 6 million admissions to its name and is still going.
"Step Up Revolution" is at 7 with 21,029, providing with a small break in the charts before yet another animation claims a position in the top ten. The Japanese film "Detective Conan The Eleventh Striker" came into the charts mid-July and is still around grabbing money, but it seems to have exhausted its pull; topping out at 499,976 total admissions during its time on circuit. Finally, at number ten is the omnibus film "Horror Stories" which peaked at number four when it came out, but since then it has made a steady decline towards the wrong end of the chart.
Korean Box Office - Admissions for the Weekend 2012.08.10 - 2012.08.12 (www.kobis.or.kr)
# | Films | Release date | Week-end | Total |
1 | "The Thieves" (๋๋๋ค) | 2012/07/25 | 1 138 584 | 9 237 515 |
2 | "The Grand Heist" (๋ฐ๋๊ณผ ํจ๊ป ์ฌ๋ผ์ง๋ค) | 2012/08/08 | 961 810 | 1 343 506 |
3 | "I Am a King" (๋๋ ์์ด๋ก์์ด๋ค) | 2012/08/08 | 271 095 | 490 594 |
4 | "Dark Knight Rises" | 240 450 | 6 073 570 | |
5 | "Sammy's Adventures 2 (์๋ฏธ์ ์ด๋๋ฒค์ณ 2)" | 218 639 | 967 254 | |
6 | "Ice Age 4" | 118 629 | 1 453 213 | |
7 | "Animals United (Konferenz der Tiere, 2010)" | 86 564 | 123 247 | |
8 | "Step Up 4" | 21 029 | 22 245 | |
9 | "Detective Conan : The Eleventh Striker (ๅๆขๅตใณใใณ 11ไบบ็ฎใฎในใใฉใคใซใผ, 2012)" | 18 046 | 499 976 | |
10 | "Horror Stories" (๋ฌด์์ด ์ด์ผ๊ธฐ) | 2012/07/25 | 13 955 | 315 775 |
Korean movies only | ||||
"Emperor Penguins Peng-yi and Som-yi" (ํฉ์ ํญ๊ท ํญ์ด์ ์์ด) | 2012/08/08 | 3 492 | 6 986 | |
"R2B: Return to Base" (R2B: ๋ฆฌํดํฌ๋ฒ ์ด์ค) | 2012/08/15 | 3 273 | 6 806 | |
"Deranged" (์ฐ๊ฐ์) | 2012/07/05 | 2 525 | 4 510 950 | |
"2 Doors" (๋ ๊ฐ์ ๋ฌธ) | 2012/06/21 | 672 | 66 638 | |
"PADAK" (ํ๋ฅํ๋ฅ) | 2012/07/25 | 501 | 11 148 | |
"Neighbors" (์ด์์ฌ๋) | 2012/08/23 | 290 | 290 | |
"Two Weddings and a Funeral" (๋ ๋ฒ์ ๊ฒฐํผ์๊ณผ ํ ๋ฒ์ ์ฅ๋ก์) | 2012/06/21 | 282 | 49 865 | |
"The Flower on the Equator ( ์ ๋์ ๊ฝ, 1983)" | 129 | 555 | ||
"Punch" (์๋์ด) | 2011/10/20 | 94 | 5 311 072 | |
"Don't Click" (๋ฏธํ์ธ ๋์์ : ์ ๋ํด๋ฆญ๊ธ์ง ) | 2012/05/30 | 78 | 865 190 |
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