Motion comedy Hitman 2 rose to the highest of the Korea field workplace throughout the Lunar New 12 months holidays, claiming 39% of ticket gross sales.
The sequel earned $2.8m from greater than 450,000 admissions from Friday to Sunday (January 31 to February 2). Launched on January 22, it has generated a cume of $12.7m from practically 2 million admissions to this point, in line with Kobis, the Korean Movie Council’s field workplace monitoring service.
Kwon Sang-woo reprises his position as a secret agent-turned-webtoon artist. The primary movie, Hitman: Agent Jun, took $14.1m when launched in January 2020, a few months earlier than the pandemic lockdown.
After main the field workplace the earlier weekend, supernatural thriller Darkish Nuns dropped to second with takings of $1.55m for a cume of $9.6m since its launch on January 24. It marked a 60% decline from its opening weekend.
Directed by Kwon Hyeok-jae, the movie is a spin-off from 2015’s The Clergymen, which was directed by Exhuma’s Jang Jae-hyun and proved a field workplace hit with takings of $29m.
Debuting in third place with $1m was Secret: Untold Melody, an adaptation of the Taiwanese fantasy romance Secret, starring Do Kyung-soo, a member of Ok-pop boy band EXO.
Putting fourth was historic thriller Harbin with $387,000, bringing its cume to $32m since releasing on December 24.
In fifth was Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance, grossing $246,000. This satirical thriller from Mubi was up 40% on the earlier weekend and has earned $2.5m on the Korean field workplace since opening on December 11.
In sixth was The Successful, a live performance movie from Ok-pop singer IU, with $214,000. In its second week on the field workplace, the movie’s cume stands at $1m.
The rest of the highest 10 comprised 4 animated movies, all from well-known franchises.
In seventh was a remastered launch of the 2005 movie Pokémon: Lucario And The Thriller Of Mew, which earned $182,000.
Pororo Film: Underwater Journey ranked eighth with $88,000, reaching $2.3m after 5 outings.
In ninth was Octonauts: Above And Past: Operation Polar Areas, a UK animation, with $67,000.
Japanese anime Crayon Shinchan The Film: Our Dinosaur Diary rounded out the highest ten, including $62,000 to its cume for a complete of $5.1m.