Interval motion characteristic Harbin held its lead on the South Korea field workplace on the primary weekend of 2025, claiming 42% of ticket gross sales from January 3-5, whereas Sonic The Hedgehog 3 landed in fourth place.
Harbin added $3.2m from 483,917 admissions for a cume of $23.9m and three.67 million admissions since its launch on December 24, in keeping with Kobis, the Korean Movie Council’s field workplace monitoring service. Directed by Woo Min-ho, the movie stars Hyun Bin as an activist who plots to assassinate Ito Hirobumi, the primary prime minister of Japan, in 1909.
Following the aircraft crash at Muan Airport on December 29, the movie’s distributor CJ ENM introduced cancellations within the movie’s first week.
The field workplace efficiency marked a barely slower begin to the 12 months, with total ticket gross sales down by 11.5% in comparison with 2024.
In distant second was Firefighters, incomes $847,000 in its fourth weekend for a cume of $22.7m, marking a stunning success amid manufacturing challenges and controversies.
Bogota: Metropolis of the Misplaced debuted with $700,000, inserting it in third. Set within the Nineteen Nineties, the noir thriller follows a younger man who strikes to Colombia in hopes of bettering his household’s lives, solely to seek out himself deeply entrenched in Bogota’s black market. The movie stars Track Joong-ki of Cannes 2023 title Hopeless alongside Lee Hee-joon from final 12 months’s motion comedy Good-looking Guys.
From the US, Sonic The Hedgehog 3 debuted in fourth with $561,000 for a cume of $1.26m since its launch on January 1. The primary movie within the Paramount Photos franchise took $644,000 when it was launched in February 2020, shortly earlier than the pandemic lockdown, whereas the second instalment made $1.96m after opening in April 2022.
Korean animation Pororo: Underwater Journey positioned fifth with $490,000. It marks the newest movie within the household franchise, which has additionally included greater than 300 TV episodes. Earlier instalments Pororo: Dragon Citadel Journey took greater than $3m on the South Korea field workplace in 2022 whereas Pororo Popstar Journey made $2.5m in 2023.
Japanese anime Crayon Shin-chan: Our Dinosaur Diary earned $318,000, securing sixth place and a cume of $4.1m.
Mufasa: The Lion King, prequel to Disney’s 2019 live-action remake, took seventh with $278,000 for a cume of $5.1m.
Disney animation Moana 2 adopted in eighth with $254,000, bringing its cume to $21.7 m.
Rounding out the highest 10 had been Alex Garland’s dystopian thriller Civil Conflict, which earned $228,000 in its first full weekend, and musical adaptation Depraved, which claimed $225,000 in its seventh weekend bringing its cume to $14.2 m.
