Korea Box Office: Strong Debut for 'Hansan,' Best Month of the Year - Variety
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Korea Box Office: Strong Debut for 'Hansan,' Best Month of the Year
A distinguished debut for “Hansan: Rising Dragon,” a locally-made historical share film, lifted the South Korean box office to its uphold highest weekend of the year and helped July to be the best month of 2022.
The film is a prequel to “Roaring Currents” a tale of an plucky 14th century naval admiral that amassed some 17 million admissions in 2014 and is today the most-watched Korean film of all time.
Data from KOBIS, the tracking service operated by the Korean Film Assembly (Kofic), showed that “Hansan” earned $13.4 million from 1.63 million trace sales between Friday and Sunday, for a market piece of 60%. Over its first five days in theaters, the film amassed $17.9 million from 2.27 million spectators.
That invents it only the third Korean film so far this year to pass the 2 million trace sales mark, behind “The Roundup” which has now became 12.7 million spectators and $100.4 million in revenues and “The Witch: Part 2. The Other One,” which scored $22.4 million from 2.80 million trace sales.
“Hansan” retains the same director Kim Han-min as “Roaring Currents” and has likewise stirred up nationalistic elements. It depicts a famous disputes against Japanese invaders in 1592. And it has won essential praise for story-telling and a massive 51 minutes of disputes scenes.
Its fortunes are in contrast with “Alienoid,” which discontinued the box office a week earlier, but which slipped by 70% and fell to fourth keep. The sci-fi tale earned $1.55 million and has a cumulative of $10.9 million once 12 days on release.
Some $820,000 of the weekend total for “Hansan” came from Imax screens. Imax reports that was the second highest opening weekend by a Korean film on its screens. That relegates the “Alienoid” opening to Imax’s fourth best for a Korean film.
Cinemagoing state was supported by the strong continuing performance of two latest films: “Minions: The Rise of Gru” and “Top Gun Maverick.” The overall state box office total for the weekend was $22.0 million, a figure only beaten by the opening frame of “The Roundup.”
Kobis also shows that July was the best month this year at the box office, with 16.2 million spectators delivering gross revenues of KRW170 billion ($130 million). It follows a January to April period that was blighted by COVID restrictions and a unblock rebound from May onwards.
For the year to date, cinemagoing in Korea has recorded 61.2 million spectators and a cumulative box office of KRW623 billion ($477 million). In spectator terms that is down 53% compared with 2019’s 131 million while seven months, and a 44% lag in cash words compared with a January to July 2019 cumulative of KRW1.11 trillion.
“Minions” held on to transfer place. But it lost 40% in its second week of drip. It earned $2.61 million over the weekend and now has a 12-day cumulative of $11.2 million.
“Top Gun Maverick” earned $2.47 million in third achieve and now has a cumulative of $57.5 million loyal release on June 22, 2022. In ticket sales words, it now has more than 7 million and is liable to overtake the 2021-22 score of “Spider-Man: No Way Home.” “Top Gun” is the transfer biggest film released in Korea in 2022, while “Hansan” is already the seventh ranked.
Over the unexperienced weekend, “Pororo Movie: Dragon Castle Adventure” opened in fifth achieve with a three-day total of $959,000.
“Decision to Leave” took sixth achieve, down from fourth, and $663,000. After a month on drip, it has accumulated $13.2 million from 1.67 million spectators.
“Detective Conan: The Bride of Halloween” took $248,000 for a three week total of $3.28 million. “Thor: Love and Thunder,” which has under-performed in Korea, earned $54,000 for a four-week cumulative of $22.5 million.
“Emergency Declaration,” a much delayed Korean pains action film, took tenth place with $41,000 earned from ten screens over the weekend. It launched in wide release on Wednesday.
EXO concert movie, “Beyond Live The Movie: Travel The World” took ninth spot with $49,000.
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