After a troublesome six months, the South Korea field workplace has obtained a lift as My Daughter Is A Zombie scored the largest opening weekend of the 12 months up to now.
The native comedy-drama took $8.3m from 1.17 million admissions from August 1-3, in response to Korean Movie Council (Kofic) monitoring service Kobis. It has earned $12.5m from 1.87 million admissions because it opened on July 30.
It marks the very best opening weekend figures for a movie in South Korea to this point this 12 months, topping the $7.12m made by Bong Joon Ho’s Mickey 17 in February and the $5.64m taken by Jurassic World Rebirth when it opened final month.
My Daughter Is A Zombie is already the tenth highest grossing movie of 2025 in South Korea and there’s hypothesis the movie might change into the primary of the 12 months to hit 10 million admissions – extensively thought of the benchmark for main success on the Korean field workplace.
Set within the wake of a zombie outbreak, the story follows a father who takes his contaminated daughter to a quiet seaside village. There, he attracts on his expertise as a wild animal coach to do the unattainable – tame a zombie.
The daddy is performed by Cho Jung-seok (Exit) and the forged reunites stars Lee Jung-eun and Cho Yeo-jeong from Oscar-winner Parasite. Primarily based on a webtoon of the identical title by Lee Yun-chang, it marks the second characteristic of director Pil Gam-sung after 2021’s Hostage: Lacking Superstar.
South Korea’s Contents Panda has already offered the characteristic to distributors throughout Asia and in North America.
The efficiency delivered some much-needed confidence to the theatrical enterprise in South Korea, which recorded a serious downturn within the first six months of 2025.
In response to a current report by Kofic, field workplace income declined 33% year-on-year to $293m (KRW480bn) within the first half of 2025, with attendance down 32.5%. The highest performers had been US blockbuster Mission: Unimaginable – The Last Reckoning, which earned $24m from 3.39 million admissions and native crime motion title Yadang: The Smith, which made $23.1m from 3.37 million admissions.
In a bid to draw viewers again to theatres, the Korean authorities not too long ago issued 4.5 million cinema vouchers, presents a KRW6,000 ($4.34) discount on tickets.
The weekend’s field workplace noticed Brad Pitt’s F1 proceed to carry robust after greater than a month on launch, including $3m from 384,964 admissions for a cume of $23.8m from 3.1 million admissions.
Korean animation The King Of Kings rose to 3rd of its third outing, including $966,000 over the weekend for a cume of $6.9m. The religion-based characteristic opened in most different territories in mid-April and has taken greater than $70m worldwide, of which $60m is from the US.
After a powerful begin, native fantasy motion fantasy Omniscient Reader: The Prophecy fell to fourth place on its second weekend with $708,000 and 116,475 admissions taking its cume to $6.7m (973,990 admissions).
On its opening weekend, US animation sequel The Dangerous Guys 2 took $770,000 from 115,377 admissions for a cume of $1.3m (201,134 admissions) since opening on July 30.
In whole, the highest 10 movies took $15.2m from August 1-3 to attain the very best weekend whole of 2025 up to now.
