South Korea’s field workplace obtained a significant enhance on the weekend as Bong Joon Ho’s Mickey 17 landed the most important opening of the yr thus far with $6.67m from almost one million cinemagoers.
The sci-fi function starring Robert Pattinson dominated the chart with 980,549 admissions from 2,153 screens, accounting for 69% of the full income share from February 28 to March 2, based on the Korean Movie Council.
For comparability, second place title Captain America: Courageous New World took $722,000 and generated a 7.5% rev share from 110,888 admissions and 732 screens. The Marvel movie was the earlier larger opener of 2025 and has a cume of $10.5m since its launch on February 12.
Mickey 17 is Bong’s first movie since Parasite, which opened with $20.8m and grossed $59.8m on the native field workplace following its launch in Could 2019 and was the primary Korean movie to win the Cannes Palme d’Or and first non-English-language movie to win greatest image on the Oscars.
His newest is a US-South Korea manufacturing distributed by Warner Bros. and screened on the Berlinale final month. Launched broadly in Korea first, it should roll out in main territories together with China, France, the UK and US this week.
The movie’s robust opening in Korea was helped by a non-traditional Friday launch and can surpass a million admissions at present, which is an Unbiased Day Motion vacation throughout the nation. Some $600,000 of the weekend takings got here from simply 27 Imax screens, representing 9% of the full, and Warner Bros is reporting a four-day opening whole of $9m.
It’s already the fifth largest title on the Korean field workplace of 2025 to date, which is led by native action-comedy Hitman 2 on $16.4m from 2.5 million admissions.
The weekend noticed the highest 10 movies in Korea generate $9m, greater than double the $4.4m recorded on the earlier weekend.
Additional titles included Korean animated horror Exorcism Chronicles: The Starting, which ranked third and added $569,000 on its second outing for a cume of $1.78m.
In fourth, Korean romantic drama It’s Okay! took $186,000, taking its whole to $337,000; whereas Studiocanal’s Paddington In Peru ranked fifth, including $159,000 on its third outing for a cume of $571,000.