Korea Box Office: ‘Alienoid 2’ Takes Top Spot on Opening Weekend
15.01.2024 - 04:19
/ variety.com
Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Sci-fi fantasy comedy “Alienoid 2” opened on top of the South Korean box office with $3.57 million on a weekend that otherwise saw five animation titles and a political documentary in the top ten.
The big-budget, time-traveling “Alienoid 2” earned $3.57 million between Friday and Sunday with a market share of 39% and $4.77 million over its opening five days, according to data from Kobis, the tracking service operated by the Korean Film Council. Imax reports that some $370,000 of the film’s total was earned from 24 Imax screens.
The film was made as a two-parter.
The first instalment of “Alienoid” was one of the biggest flops of 2022. It opened with a $5.19 million weekend in July that year. But it suffered terrible reviews and word of mouth and finished with just $12.2 million.
Director Choi Dong-hoon has recently spent several weeks pushing the message that the second part is better than the first.
Its opening performance was enough to push last week’s winner, U.S. animation, “Wish” into second place. It earned $1.58 million, a drop of $52% compared with its opening weekend.
After 12 days on release in Korea, “Wish” has a cumulative of $7.25 million.
Historical-political thriller “12.12: The Day” took a 48% week-on-week drop for a weekend of $1.03 million. But that was good enough to keep it in third place and advance its cumulative total to $94.6 million.
“Noryang Deadly Sea,” which had been the Christmas and New Year chart leader, dropped 55% week-on-week and recorded $894,000 in fourth place. Since releasing on Dec.
20, 2023, it has built a total of $32.8 million.
Illumination Entertainment’s U.S. animation film “Migration” opened in fifth place with $722,000 over the weekend. It
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