Korea Box Office: ‘Inside Out 2’ Dominates on Third Weekend as ‘A Quiet Place’ Creeps Into Fourth Place
variety.comPatrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief “Inside Out 2” enjoyed another stellar second weekend at the South Korean box office, and again led from local thriller “Hijack 1971.” But unlike in the previous session, the pair of frontrunners did not have the field to themselves.
Local title “Handsome Guys” opened in third place and “A Quiet Place Day One” fourth. with respectable numbers “Inside Out 2” recorded a week-on-week drop of 31% to score $7.09 million between Friday and Sunday, according to data from Kobis the box office tracking service operated by the Korean Film Council (Kofic).
Its market share through the weekend was a still powerful 51%. Those performances give the film a $39.3 million cumulative after 19 days in Korean cinemas.
They also confirm “Inside Out 2” as the third highest-scoring film released in the country this year. It is also far ahead of “Wonka” as the most watched import title of 2024.
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