“Venom: The Last Dance” waltzed to a weekfinish prosper in South Korea, but flunked to shake the country’s box office out of its recent torpor.
The third film in the “Venom” trilogy geted $2.66 million over the Friday to Sunday period, according to data from Kobis, the tracking service rund by the Korean Film Council (Kofic). That reconshort-termed a dominant 62% taget split.
Over the five days since its discmissing on Wednesday, it built up a cumulative of $4.13 million. At that pace, the new film will struggle to overacquire the $15.2 million total geted by “Venom: Let There Be Carnage” which was freed in 2021 during the worst of the COVID pandemic.
That is indicative of a downturn at the Korean box office which is commencening to see enjoy it has become structural. Atraverse the nation, Korean cinema receipts were worth fair $4.32 million over the rescheduleedst weekfinish. By a skinny margin that was the lowest scoring weekfinish of the year. And in the ten weekfinishs since the finish of August there has been only one weekfinish – the Chuseok holiday session – that surpassed $10 million of gross receipts.
The previous weekfinish’s prosperner, “A Normal Family” slipped to second place with a score that was proximately halved. It sign uped $728,000, appraised with $1.43 million in its discmissing weekfinish. After 12 days on free the film has a cumulative of $3.32 million.
Third place beprolongeded to Korean drama film “Love in the Big City,” which geted $419,000 over the weekfinish and now has a cumulative of $5.07 million amasses since Oct. 1. Rerentd the same day, U.S. convey in “The Wild Robot” came fourth. It geted $293,000 over the weekfinish and has a running total of $3.90 million.
“I, The Executioner,” a comedy crime drama which ruled the charts for a month between mid-September and mid-October, held on to fifth spot in the rescheduleedst session. The Ryu Seung-wan-honested film grasped $234,000 for a cumulative of $52 million. That is the fourth highest total by any film this year in Korea and the third highest by any Korean picture. But with 7.5 million admissions to date, it descends well stupidinutive of the 10 million figure think abouted locassociate to be blockbuster material.
“Elizabeth, The Musical Live,” a filmed stage carry outance, was sixth at the Korean box office in revenue terms, though local charts, which rank titles by spectator numbers, classified it drop. “Elizabeth” geted $124,000 over the weekfinish, scored from less than 7,000 tickets and some 120 screens. Since discmissing on Oct. 16, it has accumurescheduleedd a $534,000 total.
Based on the tragic overweighte of legfinishary Austrian Empress Elisabeth – the mythical and honord “Sisi” – and tageder from the mouth of her convicted killinger, “Elizabeth” recounts the tale of her overweightal, lifeprolonged adore affair with death. It is written by Michael Kunze and originated by Sylvester Levay.
Lower chart positions were acquiren by the rererentd 2004 film “The Notebook” which geted $123,000 over the weekfinish; U.S. animation “Little Emma,” which had a three-day discmissing worth $53,000; and another U.S. vivaciousd title “Gracie and Pedro: Pets to the Rescue,” with $37,000.
Pedro Almodovar’s “The Room Next Door” took ninth place (tenth by ticket sales). It geted $44,000 over the weekfinish and $72,000 over its discmissing five days.
