Korea Box Office: ‘12.12: The Day’ Takes Fourth Weekend Win, Advances to $63 Million
17.12.2023 - 16:29
/ variety.com
Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Fact-based action drama “12.12: The Day” won a fourth weekend at the South Korea box office and became the second highest grossing film of the year.
The political thriller incurred a steep week-on-week drop in takings, managing only $5.89 million in its fourth weekend, compared with $11.4 million in its third. But it still hogged a 72% market share, according to data from Kobis, the tracking service operated by the Korean Film Council (Kofic).
After releasing on Nov.
22, the film now has a cumulative box office of $62.9 million earned from 8.50 million ticket sales. That total means it has overtaken “Elemental” to become the number two film of the year in Korea.
The year-to-dater table is still lead by behind summer hit “The Roundup: No Way Out,” with $80.3 million earned from 10.7 million spectators.
The reduced pace of the frontrunner brought the nationwide weekend box office total to a more humdrum $8.18 million, after three weekends above $10 million. Still, that is better than seven of the previous ten weekends in a difficult late autumn-early winter period.
“Our Season” placed second in the latest weekend chart with $512,000 in its second weekend of release.
After 12 days of exploitation, it has accumulated $2.81 million. The film is a fantasy drama about a woman temporarily brought back from the dead and who tries to fix her daughter’s unhappy life.
Korean-made children’s animation “Pororo Popstar Adventure” was the weekend’s highest-ranking new release.
It earned $398,000 over the weekend and $762,000 over its full five-day opening.
Japanese drama “Monster,” by Kore-eda Hirokazu, took fourth place a the Korean box office over the weekend. It earned $226,000 for a cumulative total
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