Disney’s Moana 2 surged to the highest of the Korean field workplace on its opening weekend, commanding 58% of ticket gross sales on one of many busiest weekends of the yr.
The animated sequel earned a powerful $7.1m from Friday by means of Sunday (November 29 – December 1), in keeping with knowledge supplied by Kobis, the Korean Movie Council’s field workplace monitoring service.
The robust efficiency seems to have revitalised a sluggish Korean field workplace that had seen weekend earnings dip under $10m for 10 consecutive weeks. Inside its first 5 days in theatres, the movie has racked up a cume of $8.9m, already positioning it because the 20th highest-grossing movie of the yr. Its 2016 prequel’s earnings stand at round $12.8m.
Trailing far behind was Depraved with $2.4m in its second weekend. Jon M. Chu’s musical adaptation has taken $8.4m within the territory to this point.
In third was NEW’s thriller thriller Hidden Face with $1.4m. Directed by Kim Dae-woo (The Servant, Obsessed) and starring Cho Yeo-jeong of Oscar-winner Parasite, the movie has grossed $4.8m since opening on November 20.
In fourth place was Ridley Scott’s Gladiator II with $432,000, a pointy drop of 56% in comparison with its earnings from final weekend. Now in its third weekend, the historic epic has accrued $6m.
The Korean remake of Taiwanese romance Hear Me: Our Summer time took fifth place with $228,000, pushing its cume to $5.2m.
Forward of its opening on Wednesday (December 4), One Win landed at sixth place with $82,400 price of pre-sales. Directed by Cobweb’s Shin Yeon-shick, the movie stars Parasite actor Track Kang-ho because the coach of an underdog ladies’s volleyball staff. Dealt with by Ok-Film, the sports activities drama premiered at Rotterdam in 2023.
Seventh and eighth place had been taken by two stay live performance movies: Yorushika Stay 2024 “Moon and Cat Dance” and Baekhyun’s Lonsdaleite Dot with $70,000 and $66,000 respectively. Regardless of the premium-priced tickets, live performance movies seem to persistently appeal to devoted followers of musicians and Ok-pop idols.
In ninth was My Hero Academia: You’re Subsequent from the favored Japanese manga sequence with $58,000.
About Household scraped into the highest ten in its debut weekend with $39,000. The movie marks the return of director Wooseok Yang, greatest identified for his Metal Rain sequence and The Legal professional, and its forged is led by Kim Yoon-seok – from Mogadishu and Netflix’s The Frog – who performs the proprietor of a dumpling restaurant whose son, performed by Lee Seung-ki, turns into a monk.