podo Posted January 1, 2014 Share Posted January 1, 2014 Podo, do you have release schedules for some major Hollywood releases like Noah, Cap 2, ASM2, Godzilla, DOFP, etc... yet? The release schedules aren't officially announced yet, but I found them in a certain blog managed by blogger whom is working in film industry. 300: Rise of an Empire - March 6 Noah - March 20 Captain America: The Winter Soldier - March 27 The Amazing Spider-Man 2 - April 30 Godzilla - May 15 X-Men: Days of Future Past - May 22 Maleficent - May 29 Edge of Tomorrow - June 5 Transformers: Age of Extinction - June 26 Dawn of the Planet of the Apes - July 17 How to Train Your Dragon 2 - July 24 Guardians of the Galaxy - July 31 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fullbuster Posted January 2, 2014 Share Posted January 2, 2014 Box Office Records2013 marked yet another record year for Korean cinema, with theater admissions surpassing 200 million for the first time. In 2012, the total came to only 195 million. With the release of more box office hits in December alone, the number of theatergoers in Korea stood at 211 million as of Dec. 30. This makes Korea, which has a population of 50 million, the country that watches the most movies per person in the world with an average Korean seeing about four films each year. The box office record can be attributed to the success of a string of homegrown films, as eight of the year's top 10 grossing films were Korean, and the growth of multiplex theaters. http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/korea-2013-review-psy-dennis-667882 Gosh South Korea (50 million inhabitants) beats France (65 million inhabitants) for the first time in admissions! It's completely crazy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
podo Posted January 2, 2014 Share Posted January 2, 2014 Thursday The Attorney (변호인) 261,127 (828 Screens/3990 Showtimes) The Suspect (용의자) 112,823 (570/2319) The Secret Life of Walter Mitty 44,863 (345/1568) The House of Magic 44,813 (346/728) Ender's Game 39,554 (451/2002) About Time 32,882 (272/792) Justin and the Knights of Valour 21,650 (305/630) The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug 13,890 (171/374) Walking with Dinosaurs 11,406 (237/357) Way Back Home (집으로 가는 길) 9,394 (147/320) Total The Attorney (변호인) 6,620,860/$45.6M About Time 2,952,156/$20.6M The Suspect (용의자) 2,555,940/$17.5M The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug 2,156,236/$16.0M Way Back Home (집으로 가는 길) 1,792,061/$12.0M The House of Magic 587,402/$3.8M Walking with Dinosaurs 544,637/$4.2M Ender's Game 366,115/$2.6M The Secret Life of Walter Mitty 270,838/$1.9M Justin and the Knights of Valour 110,474/$710K 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chasmmi Posted January 3, 2014 Share Posted January 3, 2014 Before 2013 no Korean film had ever broken 9 million admissions without going on to break 11m. The Attorney could be the 3 time it happens this in a year - all Song Kang Ho. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
podo Posted January 3, 2014 Share Posted January 3, 2014 Friday The Attorney (변호인) 251,098 (851 Screens/4127 Showtimes) The Suspect (용의자) 112,960 (603/2406) The Secret Life of Walter Mitty 48,606 (346/1580) The House of Magic 44,509 (346/745) Ender's Game 38,009 (452/1983) About Time 34,316 (274/806) Justin and the Knights of Valour 23,127 (307/637) The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug 12,644 (170/382) Walking with Dinosaurs 10,110 (237/346) Way Back Home (집으로 가는 길) 9,396 (147/318) Total The Attorney (변호인) 6,874,283/$47.2M About Time 2,986,810/$20.8M The Suspect (용의자) 2,670,219/$18.3M The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug 2,168,989/$16.1M Way Back Home (집으로 가는 길) 1,801,609/$12.0M The House of Magic 631,901/$4.1M Walking with Dinosaurs 554,745/$4.3M Ender's Game 404,604/$2.9M The Secret Life of Walter Mitty 319,913/$2.2M Justin and the Knights of Valour 133,601/$850K 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeeCee Posted January 4, 2014 Share Posted January 4, 2014 What's the story with About Time in SK? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yjs Posted January 4, 2014 Share Posted January 4, 2014 What's the story with About Time in SK? People generally like Richard Curtis and its family-friendly and kind of educational theme is immediately appealing to the general audience here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
podo Posted January 4, 2014 Share Posted January 4, 2014 Saturday The Attorney (변호인) 511,573 (924 Screens/4526 Showtimes) The Suspect (용의자) 222,606 (613/2529) The Secret Life of Walter Mitty 96,266 (370/1577) Ender's Game 81,087 (440/1904) The House of Magic 64,611 (396/893) About Time 58,001 (276/813) Justin and the Knights of Valour 36,920 (330/663) The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug 25,196 (171/383) Way Back Home (집으로 가는 길) 14,205 (133/307) Walking with Dinosaurs 13,690 (241/365) Total The Attorney (변호인) 7,389,765/$50.9M About Time 3,045,367/$21.2M The Suspect (용의자) 2,895,029/$19.9M The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug 2,194,346/$16.2M Way Back Home (집으로 가는 길) 1,816,018/$12.1M The House of Magic 696,508/$4.5M Walking with Dinosaurs 570,307/$4.4M Ender's Game 486,445/$3.5M The Secret Life of Walter Mitty 417,189/$2.9M Justin and the Knights of Valour 170,521/$1.1M 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
podo Posted January 5, 2014 Share Posted January 5, 2014 (edited) Sunday The Attorney (변호인) 462,393 (914 Screens/4379 Showtimes) The Suspect (용의자) 199,566 (608/2416) The Secret Life of Walter Mitty 88,518 (373/1553) Ender's Game 67,743 (431/1808) The House of Magic 57,978 (392/888) About Time 48,150 (273/781) Justin and the Knights of Valour 34,345 (331/679) The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug 20,940 (170/372) Walking with Dinosaurs 13,627 (239/361) Way Back Home (집으로 가는 길) 11,519 (133/294) Weekend The Attorney (변호인) 1,234,246 (-18.0%) The Suspect (용의자) 540,660 (-32.5%) The Secret Life of Walter Mitty 235,751 (New) Ender's Game 188,483 (New) The House of Magic 167,089 (-8.0%) About Time 141,731 (-45.2%) Justin and the Knights of Valour 94,392 (New) The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug 59,178 (-64.3%) Walking with Dinosaurs 37,456 (-61.7%) Way Back Home (집으로 가는 길) 35,605 (-70.9%) Total The Attorney (변호인) 7,857,427/$54.2M The Suspect (용의자) 3,097,917/$21.3M About Time 3,094,225/$21.6M The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug 2,215,523/$16.4M Way Back Home (집으로 가는 길) 1,827,815/$12.2M The House of Magic 754,481/$4.9M Walking with Dinosaurs 583,934/$4.5M Ender's Game 555,078/$4.0M The Secret Life of Walter Mitty 507,058/$3.5M Justin and the Knights of Valour 204,866/$1.3M The Suspect looks like finishing around 4m total. With its big budget, it's good but not great. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty opened well and WOM is good. Over 1m total is likely. Ender's Game started strong on NYE/NYD but dropped a lot after. With bad WOM, It might not even reach 1m. The House of Magic is doing really great for low-profile animation. Very impressive. Probably About Time is gonna have big drop next weekend due to the opening of local rom com and expected big screen loss. It will finish around 3.3m, which makes it one of the most impressive runs of 2013. I feel bad for Way Back Home. It's moving and crowd-pleasing film (actually it had great WOM) but completely crushed by The Attorney. It should've done at least 2.5m imo. Edited January 5, 2014 by podo 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
podo Posted January 5, 2014 Share Posted January 5, 2014 The Attorney entered all time top 20 by Sunday. 1. Avatar (2009) 13,772,426 2. The Host (2006) 13,019,740 3. The Thieves (2012) 12,983,330 4. Miracle in Cell No.7 (2013) 12,810,355 5. Masquerade (2012) 12,321,459 6. King and the Clown (2005) 12,302,831 7. Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War (2004) 11,746,135 8. Haeundae (aka Tidal Wave) (2009) 11,453,338 9. Silmido (2003) 11,081,000 10. Snowpiercer (2013) 9,341,572 11. The Face Reader (2013) 9,134,386 12. Iron Man 3 (2013) 9,001,312 13. Take Off (2009) 8,652,105 14. D-War (2007) 8,426,973 15. Scandal Makers (2008) 8,245,523 16. Friend (2001) 8,180,000 17. Welcome to Dongmakgol (2005) 8,008,622 18. The Attorney (2013) 7,857,427 19. Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011) 7,784,807 20. Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (2011) 7,551,454 And it will be the tenth film to hit 10 million admisssions. 11m is also possible if it holds well next week. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chasmmi Posted January 6, 2014 Share Posted January 6, 2014 Which also means that Song Kang ho has as many films in the top 20 as the whole of Hollywood Combined. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
podo Posted January 6, 2014 Share Posted January 6, 2014 Monday The Attorney (변호인) 164,143 (827 Screens/3974 Showtimes) The Suspect (용의자) 74,261 (589/2374) The Secret Life of Walter Mitty 36,644 (352/1559) About Time 21,871 (272/815) The House of Magic 18,393 (349/752) Ender's Game 17,825 (420/1676) Justin and the Knights of Valour 9,851 (296/563) The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug 7,402 (171/391) Way Back Home (집으로 가는 길) 5,795 (140/318) Walking with Dinosaurs 3,815 (204/298) Total The Attorney (변호인) 8,024,206/$54.8M The Suspect (용의자) 3,175,750/$21.6M About Time 3,116,488/$21.5M The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug 2,230,006/$16.4M Way Back Home (집으로 가는 길) 1,833,769/$12.1M The House of Magic 772,871/$4.9M Walking with Dinosaurs 587,747/$4.5M Ender's Game 573,386/$4.1M The Secret Life of Walter Mitty 544,359/$3.7M Justin and the Knights of Valour 214,769/$1.4M 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catlover Posted January 7, 2014 Share Posted January 7, 2014 (edited) Can I ask something? It seems that South Korean box office for local movies has exploded in the last 2 years. I mean before 2012, there were only 5 local movies above 9 million admissions, and the last one was in 2009. Now there will be 11 soon. 3 of them had more than 12 million admissions in the span of 7 months. How did that happen? Since South Korea is a developed country, I don't think the market is expanding. Or is it? Anyway, I love Korean movies. They are really really good. I've seen all Korean movies in the top 20, except The Face Reader and The Attorney (I hope they will be released here), and I love ALL of them (except D-War). Some of them are among the best movies I've ever seen in my life. Edited January 7, 2014 by catlover 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yjs Posted January 7, 2014 Share Posted January 7, 2014 Can I ask something? It seems that South Korean box office for local movies has exploded in the last 2 years. I mean before 2012, there were only 5 local movies above 9 million admissions, and the last one was in 2009. Now there will be 11 soon. 3 of them had more than 12 million admissions in the span of 7 months. How did that happen? Since South Korea is a developed country, I don't think the market is expanding. Or is it?Anyway, I love Korean movies. They are really really good. I've seen all Korean movies in the top 20, except The Face Reader and The Attorney (I hope they will be released here), and I love ALL of them (except D-War). Some of them are among the best movies I've ever seen in my life.I would say the market has been Japanized. People started to find more appeal from local titles rather and also have developed their own tastes and standards for choosing foregin films. (e.g. the explosion of About Time) I can't precisely explain why tho. Korean multiplexes are strongly connected with Korean studios/distributors so obviously Korean films are marketted much more aggresively and take more screens, film budget in general has become higher, the general audience also tend to prefer local movies more and more.. Think the overall transition has occurred gradually. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chasmmi Posted January 7, 2014 Share Posted January 7, 2014 Korea was a developed country but government censorship was huge up until 1997 ish (and even a little bit after that) which means that it is still behaving like a developing market. When Shiri was released in 1999 it was the first film to pass 4, 5 and 6 million admissions and I think it was only something like 1993 or 4 when the first Korean film ever broke 1 million. After that the scene exploded with great directors releasing awesome films like JSA, Friend, Silmido, Taegukgi, the king and the Clown and finally The Host in 2006. So in the 7 years from Shiri to Host the record went from 6 to 13 million admissions (and if you go b ack before Shiri then over the course of little more than a decade the admissions record rose 13,000%. Then D War happened. It may be overreacting but D War almost killed Korean cinema as a potential major world player. It came at the prime time for an English Language Korean production to come out and show subtitle-phobes why people were raving about Korean film and it was an abomination of cinema. It killed the chance for Korean Productions to reach Bollywood level grosses at least in the States and UK as well as in some other markets. Between D-War and Sunny (2007-2011) only 5 films surpassed Shiri's 1999 gross compared to 9 before D War. Because there is no secondary market for films in Korea (nobody buys DVDs), big budget movies had to be scaled back and mid buddget 4 million admission target films became the focus. Now finally Korean Cinema has rebounded and everyone is the winner again, and hopefully snowpiercer can possibly succeed where D War miserably failed. tl,dr: It's D War's fault. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yjs Posted January 7, 2014 Share Posted January 7, 2014 When Shiri was released in 1999 it was the first film to pass 4, 5 and 6 million admissions and I think it was only something like 1993 or 4 when the first Korean film ever broke 1 million. tho back in the early 90s' they only counted admission numbers in Seoul area so 1 mil then would be somewhat equivalent to 2~3 mil nationwide and there were some reports that Killing Fields broke the 1 mil record back in 1985.. btw I also hoped that despicable D war had never even existed from the beginning. but it did show some interesting aspects of Korean movie-going habits. A) Koreans sometimes (or more often than we think) like to be quite nationalistic. Lots of people just felt the need to "support" this D war film since it was heavily advertised as the first major-distributed Korean film in Hollywood and stuff. hell the film itself knew it and even played our national anthem at the end and that was kinda gross. if a film wants to be a monster hit it needs to lure the older audience as well as the key demo. (but this point was already repeatedly proven by some former hits, like, Chingu for example) personally, I think year 2003 was one of the best - if not the best - years for Korean films. It had the memoirs of murder from Bong Joon-Ho, the indie gem Save the Green Planet, A Tale of Two Sisters, Scandal - which was a 18th century Korean adaption of les liaisons dangereuse - , and of course, Old Boy. All of these were either a huge box office hit or a critic phenomenon, or even both. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yjs Posted January 7, 2014 Share Posted January 7, 2014 (edited) Can I ask something? It seems that South Korean box office for local movies has exploded in the last 2 years. I mean before 2012, there were only 5 local movies above 9 million admissions, and the last one was in 2009. Now there will be 11 soon. 3 of them had more than 12 million admissions in the span of 7 months. How did that happen? Since South Korea is a developed country, I don't think the market is expanding. Or is it? Anyway, I love Korean movies. They are really really good. I've seen all Korean movies in the top 20, except The Face Reader and The Attorney (I hope they will be released here), and I love ALL of them (except D-War). Some of them are among the best movies I've ever seen in my life. I think the most relevant factor to this recent dominance of Korean films is that while the certain ties between Korean multiplexes, studios and distribution companies (CGV-CJ, Megabox-Showbox, Lotte cinema-Lotte..) have been stronger and stronger it has been like the vicious cycle for the foreign distribution companies. That's why they had major conflicts this year regarding Thor 2 and the Hobbit. Studios invest more money in their movies because they are assured to have more screens than foreign competitors since the studio and the multiplex chain are affiliated. Obviously Korean films tend to do better than foreign competitors unless they are Avatar or the Avengers and then multiplexes want to show more Korean films and now they bring a new distribution deal to the table that gives less profits to foreign distribution companies, which will again lead the foreign films' share of the market to shrink. another minor contributing factor I found is that it's become a fashion over the past few years that people in their thirties or forties seem to see movies more often than, say, a decade ago. Some of the current hits were specifically designed for this target demo (Architecture 101, Sunny) although they did have universal appeal. In a nutshell, more and more Korean films are now trying to engage wider audience. Edited January 7, 2014 by yjs 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chasmmi Posted January 7, 2014 Share Posted January 7, 2014 tho back in the early 90s' they only counted admission numbers in Seoul area so 1 mil then would be somewhat equivalent to 2~3 mil nationwide and there were some reports that Killing Fields broke the 1 mil record back in 1985.. btw I also hoped that despicable D war had never even existed from the beginning. but it did show some interesting aspects of Korean movie-going habits. A) Koreans sometimes (or more often than we think) like to be quite nationalistic. Lots of people just felt the need to "support" this D war film since it was heavily advertised as the first major-distributed Korean film in Hollywood and stuff. hell the film itself knew it and even played our national anthem at the end and that was kinda gross. if a film wants to be a monster hit it needs to lure the older audience as well as the key demo. (but this point was already repeatedly proven by some former hits, like, Chingu for example) personally, I think year 2003 was one of the best - if not the best - years for Korean films. It had the memoirs of murder from Bong Joon-Ho, the indie gem Save the Green Planet, A Tale of Two Sisters, Scandal - which was a 18th century Korean adaption of les liaisons dangereuse - , and of course, Old Boy. All of these were either a huge box office hit or a critic phenomenon, or even both. I remember the D War promotion as I was an exchange student in Seoul at the time. The director (who is one of the biggest jokes and arseholes in the Korean film industry) was flat out telling people that if they didn't see D War then they hated Korea and were not true Koreans and something stupid. I am so happy that The Last Godfather Failed (possibly objectively worse than D War but will never be objectively so). 2003 was a great year yes. It also had Silmido I believe. It's just nice that the relative doldrums of 2008-2011 are seemingly over now. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chasmmi Posted January 7, 2014 Share Posted January 7, 2014 another minor contributing factor I found is that it's become a fashion in the past few years that people in their thirties or forties seem to see movies more often than, say, a decade ago. Some of the current hits were specifically designed for this target demo (Architecture 101, Sunny) although they did have a universal appeal. In a nutshell, more and more Korean films are now trying to engage wider audience. I noticed this with Snowpiercer, there was a lot of people in the audience I would not normally see going to a Hollywood production and I think that's where some of the lesser reviews come from is people not realising how little Korean is in the film and not being happy about having to read a film for 2 hours. Not everyone of course, but some at least. But yes a lot of older people go to the cinema here. Hence how a documentary film about an old man and a cow (Old Partner), managed to get over 2 million admissions in 2009 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yjs Posted January 7, 2014 Share Posted January 7, 2014 I remember the D War promotion as I was an exchange student in Seoul at the time. The director (who is one of the biggest jokes and arseholes in the Korean film industry) was flat out telling people that if they didn't see D War then they hated Korea and were not true Koreans and something stupid. I am so happy that The Last Godfather Failed (possibly objectively worse than D War but will never be objectively so). 2003 was a great year yes. It also had Silmido I believe. It's just nice that the relative doldrums of 2008-2011 are seemingly over now. and he was a real-life scammer even. haha. what a jerk. The Last Godfather should have tanked harder. It still managed to attract about 2.5 mil admissions.. why people... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
