keysersoze123 Posted August 10, 2014 Share Posted August 10, 2014 sometime next week it should overtake avatar. I hope it hits 20M admissions or more. Its fantastic when a local movie breaks out this big. Only recent comparable run is Transformers in china. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KushAboveAll Posted August 10, 2014 Share Posted August 10, 2014 Is there any films this year that have the chance of hitting like 8m admissions? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rsyu Posted August 10, 2014 Share Posted August 10, 2014 Is there any films this year that have the chance of hitting like 8m admissions?Among local films <My brilliant life> has the highest potential. It is being released next month. Tazza 2 also if it can build on the 6.8 million of the original.Among foreign releases, Interstellar maybe has the best chance of a breakout but even then it's an outside chance at best. Other foreign releases to look out for include lucy (includes Choi min-sik from roaring currents) and the battle of the 5 armies. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chasmmi Posted August 10, 2014 Share Posted August 10, 2014 Other foreign releases to look out for include lucy (includes Choi min-sik from roaring currents) and the battle of the 5 armies. I did not know that! If it's a big role that coule push it to a Red 2 Gross Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rsyu Posted August 10, 2014 Share Posted August 10, 2014 (edited) I did not know that! If it's a big role that coule push it to a Red 2 Gross as far as I know he plays the baddie Edited August 12, 2014 by Rsyu Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fmpro Posted August 10, 2014 Share Posted August 10, 2014 Whats so special about this movie? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chasmmi Posted August 10, 2014 Share Posted August 10, 2014 Whats so special about this movie?Yi sun shin is the biggest badass in Korean history basically. I'll hopefully post my thoughts on the film later this evening Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rsyu Posted August 10, 2014 Share Posted August 10, 2014 Several reasons for Roaring Currents' record breaking run [*]Summer weekdays/weekends [*]2nd highest number of screens of all time and high seat saturation to match. [*]Event feel to the film. For better or for worse, most Koreans are extremely patriotic (or at least want to be perceived as such) and right now there's a general feeling that if you're a Korean you must watch the film. Even the President has watched it. [*]The country is in political turmoil with many people distrustful of the current regime and government system causing them to seek the leadership qualities that Yi Sun-sin possesses. [*]Relationship with Japan is at an all time low. [*]Yi sun-sin is a foremost figure in Korean history and highly respected too. [*]The weather sucks. For a while it was too hot which caused people to seek the cool cinemas. Then there was the typhoon which prevented people from taking vacations and go to the cinemas as an alternative. The film isn't without it's detractors though with several critics criticizing roaring currents as "trash" that relies on the popularity of Yi sun-sin for it's success. So far though, it's not having much of an effect of the number of people that are going to see it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xSabrinax Posted August 10, 2014 Share Posted August 10, 2014 So, Roaring Currents already became number 1 movie of the year?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rsyu Posted August 10, 2014 Share Posted August 10, 2014 So, Roaring Currents already became number 1 movie of the year?? Yeah, Frozen's 6 month reign comes to an end. At least no foreign release this year will come close to frozen's numbers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xSabrinax Posted August 10, 2014 Share Posted August 10, 2014 Yeah, Frozen's 6 month reign comes to an end. At least no foreign release this year will come close to frozen's numbers. Nah, It doesn't matter. I'm happy for RC. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KushAboveAll Posted August 10, 2014 Share Posted August 10, 2014 Before release, what was the predicted range for Roaring Currents? Should be like 2x over that range already. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chasmmi Posted August 10, 2014 Share Posted August 10, 2014 Several reasons for Roaring Currents' record breaking run [*]Summer weekdays/weekends [*]2nd highest number of screens of all time and high seat saturation to match. [*]Event feel to the film. For better or for worse, most Koreans are extremely patriotic (or at least want to be perceived as such) and right now there's a general feeling that if you're a Korean you must watch the film. Even the President has watched it. [*]The country is in political turmoil with many people distrustful of the current regime and government system causing them to seek the leadership qualities that Yi Sun-sin possesses. [*]Relationship with Japan is at an all time low. [*]Yi sun-sin is a foremost figure in Korean history and highly respected too. [*]The weather sucks. For a while it was too hot which caused people to seek the cool cinemas. Then there was the typhoon which prevented people from taking vacations and go to the cinemas as an alternative. The film isn't without it's detractors though with several critics criticizing roaring currents as "trash" that relies on the popularity of Yi sun-sin for it's success. So far though, it's not having much of an effect of the number of people that are going to see it. Do you imagine sewol had any effect on the box office considering the bodies of water for each event are so close and similar maybe people were happy to watch s positive sorry centered around that part of the coast? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chasmmi Posted August 10, 2014 Share Posted August 10, 2014 If I was a gambling man, I would say that Roaring Currents is winning. Lee sun-shin + Choi Min-sik just screams to me 'King and the Clown' or Masquerade level interest. It may not get anywhere near that sort of gross, but if anything is breaking 10M I would go for that one. Will be very interesting to see if a Bong joon-ho produced film has anything in common with his directed films or whether its just some added name recognition for somebody he has worked with in the past. (It helps that memories of Murder had a pretty good screen play so this may well do too.) Kundo has the advantage of coming first and Apes will be in its second week (and Transformers will already be long dead). So I think Pirates is in the biggest danger of being the one that dies, but we shall see. As for the 3 Hollywood films... Apes will do well in its opening week and if its good will remain strong for a couple of weeks. Dragon is animated and so shouldn;t be affected/have too much affect. Guardians is the biggest danger of bombing, it will all depend on how much it gets associated with Marvel, Avengers and Ironman amongst the general Audience. If the connection isn't clear, it may not reach 1 million.Don't think those predictions turned out too bad 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rsyu Posted August 10, 2014 Share Posted August 10, 2014 Do you imagine sewol had any effect on the box office considering the bodies of water for each event are so close and similar maybe people were happy to watch s positive sorry centered around that part of the coast? There was a news article about that but it was more about how the sewol disaster would negatively affect Roaring currents since the common theme is people dying in water. As it is I don't think it affected the box office results to a huge degree. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rsyu Posted August 10, 2014 Share Posted August 10, 2014 Before release, what was the predicted range for Roaring Currents? Should be like 2x over that range already. It's pretty hard to predict local film box office results before release because so much depends on the kind of word of mouth it generates. Opening week mostly depends on the theme, actors and to an extent directors, but the legs after that rely heavily on word of mouth. We already saw what happened to Kundo (died after just 2 weeks), but it had a huge Opening week. If it had positive word of mouth it could have gone much much higher. Same with roaring currents, no matter how popular Yi sun-sin may be if the movie was crap like Kundo, then no way could it have done as well as it has. From a studios perspective, they mostly want the film to generate a profit or at least break even, which is probably the bottom line of their perceived range. Anything over that is, as they say, gravy. From this viewpoint, Kundo has failed to break even (it needed 5.5 million admissions) and Roaring currents started making profit after 6 million admissions. The pirates needs 4.75 million admissions to break even. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rsyu Posted August 10, 2014 Share Posted August 10, 2014 (edited) South Korea Daily Box Office (August 10)-Admissions (Adm total) Gross (weekly %) [sc] Title 01. 1,019,853 (10,773,811) $7.89m (-18.6%) [1,301] <Roaring currents> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 02. 463,436 (1,799,381) $3.52m (--) [822] <The Pirates> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 03. 88,352 (2,689,532) $0.70m (-55.8%) [408] <How to train your Dragon 2> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 04. 60,603 (1,032,980) $546K (-62.6%) [322] <guardians of the Galaxy> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 05. 56,504 (290,218) $390K (--) [297] <Detective Conan: Dimensional Sniper> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 06. 19,473 (4,738,405) $146K (-88.6%) [195] <Kundo: Age of the Rampant> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 07. 14,190 (68,414) $110K (--) [240] <Hercules> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 08. 5,184 (78,458) $43K (-7.5%) [42] <Atilla Marcel> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 09. 3,602 (14,921) $25K (--) [88] <T-Pang rescue> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 10. 2,684 (103,286) $19K (-82.9%) [42] <Free Birds> Total admissions: 1,742,677Total Gross: $13.406 million Roaring Currents Cume: $79.951 million Kundo: Age of the Rampant cume: $35.329 million How to train your dragon 2 cume: $20.931 million Guardians of the Galaxy cume: $8.387 millionCurrent Presales (midnight local time) Roaring Currents 55.6% (131,183) The Pirates 16.3% (38,389) Sea fog 8.3% (19,491) How to train your dragon 2 4.6% (10,777) Guardians of the galaxy 3.6% (8,474) Edited April 26, 2015 by Rsyu 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rsyu Posted August 10, 2014 Share Posted August 10, 2014 Biggest single day admissions 01. 1,253,621 <Roaring Currents> 02. 1,228,955 <Roaring Currents> 03. 1,095,324 <Roaring Currents> 04. 1,018,881 <Roaring Currents> 05. 989,834 <Roaring Currents> 06. 956,500 <Transformers: Dark of the moon> 07. 942,277 <Transformers: Dark of the moon> 08. 919,010 <Secretly, Greatly> 09. 894,377 <Iron Man 3> 10. 870,279 <Kundo: Age of the Rampant> 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rsyu Posted August 10, 2014 Share Posted August 10, 2014 (edited) 2014 Top 10 films Rank-admissions-Gross-Title 01. 10,773,438 - $79.91 million Roaring currents 02. 10,295,483 - $76.93 million Frozen 03. 8,656,417 - $58.26 million Miss Granny 04. 5,295,937 - $43.34 million Transformers: Age of extinction 05. 4,738,495 - $35.30 million Kundo: Age of the rampant 06. 4,697,004 - $37.84 million Edge of Tomorrow 07. 4,313,446 - $33.72 million X-men: Days of future past 08. 4,164,946 - $33.80 million The Amazing Spider-man 2 09. 4,001,008 - $30.73 million Dawn of the planet of the apes 10. 3,962,812 - $30.18 million Captain America: The winter Soldier 10. 3,849,300 - $29.04 million The Fatal Encounter Edited April 26, 2015 by Rsyu 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fake Posted August 10, 2014 Share Posted August 10, 2014 (edited) It seems Roaring Currents will fly past 15 million. Amazing! Too bad Guardians got massacred. It deserved and would have got 2m admissions, if not for Roaring currents. Edited August 10, 2014 by Fake Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
