Korea Box Office: ‘Uncharted’ Opens on Top With $2 Million Take
variety.comPatrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefThe U.S.-made action adventure film “Uncharted” took a comfortable first place a the South Korean box office on its first weekend of release.“Uncharted” took $2.12 million between Friday and Sunday, grabbing 53% of the total Korean market, according to data from Kobis, the tracking service operated by the Korean Film Council (Kofic).
Over five days since its Wednesday opening, the film earned $3.00 million. Second place belonged to another new release, Japanese animation “Jujutsu Kaisen Zero: The Movie.” The TV to film adaptation took $802,000 over the weekend and $1.29 million over its opening four days since Thursday.The performance of the foreign-made new release titles lifted the overall Korean box office over the weekend period to $4.00 million, up from the previous $3 million session total.
Numbers, however, remain deeply depressed and are likely to remain low for as long as Korean films stay on the sidelines of their home market.
The only other new release titles in the top ten at the weekend were eighth-placed “Octonauts: Octonauts and the Caves of Sac Actun” and ninth-placed “Licorice Pizza.” They earned $56,500 and $48,400, respectively.Over the latest weekend, the previous chart topper “Death on the Nile” dropped from first to fourth place.
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