Korean-made crime-comedy-thriller “I, The Executioner,” a sequel to 2015 hit ‘Veteran,” continued its spree on the high of the South Korea weekend box office. It earned $1.68 million in its fourth full weekend session, forward of top-ranked new launch “Joker: Folie a Deux.”
“I, The Executioner” noticed its market share slip to 29%, based on knowledge from Kobis, the monitoring service operated by the Korean Movie Council (Kofic). The most recent weekend increment offers the movie a $49.97 million working complete since releasing on Sept. 13. That makes it the fourth highest grossing movie of the yr within the nation, behind “Exhuma,” “The Roundup: Punishment” and “Inside Out 2,” which remains to be a ways forward on $64 million.
“Joker: Folie a Deux” opened with $1.17 million between Friday and Sunday and achieved a 21% market share, based on Kobis. Over its full five-day opening run, which included Thursday’s Nationwide Basis Day public vacation, it amassed $3.60 million.
Launched the identical day (Oct. 1), Korean-produced “Love within the Massive Metropolis” earned $897,000 over the weekend and $1.88 million over 5 days. The drama stars Kim Go-eun, star of “Exhuma” and TV hits “Cheese within the Lure” and “Yumi’s Cells.”
One other new launch, “The Wild Robotic” was the best ranked of 5 animated movies on this week’s high ten. It earned $741,000 over the weekend and $1.69 million over its 5 opening days.
“Transformers One,” the earlier weekend’s highest opener, slipped to fifth place. It earned $251,000 for a complete of $2.16 million.
“Detective Conan: The Time-Bombed Skyscraper” earned $152,000 for sixth place. Having opened on Thursday, it earned $412,000 over 4 days.
The re-released “Start Once more” got here seventh. It earned $127,000 over the weekend for a cumulative together with its 2014 first run of $21.7 million.
“Heartsping: Teenieping of Love” continued to make its case as the best grossing Korean-made animation movie of all time. Over the weekend it earned $118,000 for a cumulative of $7.91 million earned since Aug. 3.
“Lim Younger Woong: IM Hero The Stadium took ninth slot by advantage of its premium-priced tickets. The live performance movie earned $94,500 for a working complete of $6.63 million.
Tenth place went to new launch Japanese animation “Butt Detective the Film Farewell, My Pretty Accomplice, Butt Detective.” It earned $62,900 over the weekend and $226,000 over 5 days.
Total weekend cinema revenues have been disappointing at $5.54 million. By a slender margin, that was the second slowest weekend of the yr.
