Korea Box Office: ‘I, The Executioner’ Kills It With $15 Million Debut, Dominates Early Holiday Season
variety.comPatrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Crime action film ‘I The Executioner” topped the South Korea cinema box office weekend with an utterly dominant $15 million haul.
The session represented the first half of a long holiday in Korea. Data from Kobis, the tracking service operated by the Korean Film Council (Kofic) showed that the film enjoyed a market share of 86% between Friday and Sunday.
It was watched by 2.09 million spectators.That represented the second biggest opening weekend score by any film this year in Korea, behind the $20.8 million attained by “The Roundup: Punishment” in late April.
Nationwide, the latest weekend was the third-highest Friday-Sunday session of 2024, at $17.5 million, behind the first two weekends of release of “Punishment.” The film known locally as “Veteran 2,” is a sequel to “Veteran,” which released in August 2015 and shares the same writer-director Ryoo Seung-wan and lead actor Hwang Jung-min as the new picture. “Veteran” earned $78.4 million from 13.4 million spectators, making it the fifth highest grossing Korean film of all time in its home market and the seventh highest scoring film of any nationality in the country.
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