South Korea Box Office

[Lordmandeep]

so 14 million admission finish?

 

 

[Cooper Legion]

5 minutes ago, Lordmandeep said:

so 14 million admission finish?

 

 

14-15 looking

[LexJoker]

2 hours ago, TalismanRing said:

I know it'll go up and this one is behind .... but charts!

 

May 03, 2019

 

Rank	Title		Release Date	Daily Gross (Total)	Admissions (Total)	Number of Screens	Revenue Share
6		Pan's Labyrinth Mexico,Spain	Nov 30, 2006	$12,594 ($2,424,012)	1,706 (477,667)	38	0.24%

Why has Pan's Labyrinth been re-released now? Superb movie though.

[TalismanRing]

6 minutes ago, LexJoker said:

Why has Pan's Labyrinth been re-released now? Superb movie though.

38 screens is more than usual but SK does a lot of re-releases of older films - especially classics

 

Also from today

 

 

 

21

Casablanca U.S.

Apr 03, 1999

$583 ($31,306)

341 (15,393)

1

0.01%

 

 

31

The Great Dictator U.S.

Nov 19, 1988

$309 ($15,879)

181 (2,759)

1

0%

 

43

The Bells Of St. Mary's U.S.

$164 ($4,293)

96 (2,043)

1

0%

 

52		Gentlemen Prefer Blondes U.S.		$89 ($14,988)	52 (7,488)	1	0%
53		For Whom The Bell Tolls U.S.	Mar 18, 1972	$87 ($27,796)	51 (18,030)	1	0%

[charlie Jatinder]

Was Friday some holiday? Because otherwise it's very impressive, just 46% down from 1st Friday.

 

Edit: I checked it's similar to IW. Just mixed up couple of things. So we good for $105-110mn.

Edited May 4, 2019 by Charlie Jatinder

[Fish&chips]

I love the old reruns they do at the theaters. A few years ago I went to see It's a wonderful life on Christmas in a small packed theater and it was amazing to see. Definitely a tradition I would want to see continue

 

Some random thoughts on the box office; Endgame is going to be the most uneventful 10M admission film ever in that nothing would have prevented it from crossing that milestone except maybe war or some kind of natural disaster. Even with local blockbuster summer/winter films with an allstar cast, it can sometimes go wrong when the WoM is toxic. 

 

Also, Endgame currently holds a netizen rating of 9.43/10, an audience rating of 9.52/10 and a favorability score of 95% on Korea's biggest portal site Naver. To gauge how impressive this is, not only is it the highest rated MCU film to date, it's also (surprisingly) the only Marvel film to come in above 9.0 netizen rating, the previous highest being Infinity War with a netizen rating of 8.95/10. Feel free to fact check me on that but Endgame seems to be a fitting finale to the current phase of the MCU.

 

Finally, there's a lot of rumblings recently from the ministry of culture and people in the film industry about the negative impact of how many screens Endgame is taking and the possibility of putting a cap on the number of screens a movie can take is rearing its ugly head once again. Some politicians are even saying the cap should be at 50% of the total number. 

They pretty much do this every year when a popular foreign release opens and takes a large percentage of the screens/showtimes. Never mind the hypocrisy of being their being mostly silent when a local blockbuster film does the exact same thing, I don't see how regulation is the answer. I sympathize with the films that are up against such a behemoth but when the demand for a film is there, it seems like the supply should try to meet it. 
Films that are of real quality will survive the initial onslaught and can thrive if they receive good word of mouth, and even if they don't the VOD market in Korea has now grown to a point where they can do good business even outside of the box office. 

 

[Fish&chips]

Also, Next monday is a public holiday (Children's day) in Korea so the Next three days should have great numbers

[Fish&chips]

Am I the only one that think it's crazy Bohemian Rhapsody ended its run with 9,948,386 admissions? Apparently we don't know how to fudge here 

 

Anyway some more box office stats for Endgame. 

 

Biggest April Releases (2004~)

01. 11,211,880 Avengers: Infinity War (2018)

02. 10,494,499 Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)

03.   9,186,593 Avengers: Endgame (2019)*

04.   9,001,309 Iron Man 3 (2013)

05.   8,677,249 Captain America: Civil War (2016)

06.   7,074,867 The Avengers (2012)

07.   4,498,335 Iron Man 2 (2010)
08.   4,316,003 Iron Man (2008)
09.   4,168,350 The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014)
10.   4,088,799 My Girlfriend is an Agent (2009)
*denotes still in theaters

 

One more film before Top 10 April releases are all Marvel films. 

Also, how high can Endgame go in the [biggest 2nd week (3 day) admissions] chart? RC seems untouchable here. 

 

Biggest second weekend admissions (2004~: 3-day)

01. 2,823,600 Roaring Currents (2014)

02. 2,484,110 Extreme Job (2019) 

03. 2,465,002 Along with the gods: The two worlds (2017)

04. 2,347,472 Age of Ultron (2015)

05. 2,254,106 Veteran (2015)

06. 2,220,550 Face Reader (2014)

07. 2,062,914 Age of Shadows (2016)

08. 1,974,387 Avengers: Infinity War (2018)

09. 1,935,045 Confidential assignment (2017)

10. 1,864,779 Iron Man 3 (2013)

 

[Cooper Legion]

3 minutes ago, Fish&chips said:

Biggest second weekend admissions (2004~: 3-day)

01. 2,823,600 Roaring Currents (2014)

02. 2,484,110 Extreme Job (2019) 

03. 2,465,002 Along with the gods: The two worlds (2017)

04. 2,347,472 Age of Ultron (2015)

05. 2,254,106 Veteran (2015)

06. 2,220,550 Face Reader (2014)

07. 2,062,914 Age of Shadows (2016)

08. 1,974,387 Avengers: Infinity War (2018)

09. 1,935,045 Confidential assignment (2017)

10. 1,864,779 Iron Man 3 (2013)

What is Age of Ultron doing at 18% above IW? Anyway, I think Endgame should be able to beat Veteran at least but 2.5 seems tough.

[Fish&chips]

2 minutes ago, Thanos Legion said:

What is Age of Ultron doing at 18% above IW? Anyway, I think Endgame should be able to beat Veteran at least but 2.5 seems tough.

 

Its friday was Labour day, before heading into the weekend and a lot of people took monday off the next week since tuesday was children's day leading to inflated sunday numbers. 

Edited May 4, 2019 by Fish&chips

[Cooper Legion]

6 minutes ago, Fish&chips said:

 

Its friday was Labour day, before heading into the weekend and a lot of people took monday off the next week since tuesday was children's day leading to inflated sunday numbers. 

Ah, should have figured it would be the May 1 calendar configuration. 

[Sam]

4 minutes ago, Thanos Legion said:

Ah, should have figured it would be the May 1 calendar configuration. 

Ultron is the only Avengers movie having the May 1st holiday falling on weekend instead of weekdays (much less beneficial BO boost). It truly is a red headed stepchild in the Avengers family lol. 

[troyand]

It seems that today’s presales are showing a lower performance than expected. I hope it will recover in the afternoon and the evening.

[charlie Jatinder]

29 minutes ago, Thanos Legion said:

What is Age of Ultron doing at 18% above IW? Anyway, I think Endgame should be able to beat Veteran at least but 2.5 seems tough.

@Stewart sheet put realistic expectations at 2.486mn. The optimistic expectations are 2.614mn. I will go with realistic. 

 

[pepsa]

At this point in time saturday isn't looking good, it's tracking at 900k only. Thats only 80k above IW's second saturday, hopefully walk ups ge better now but it's meh atm. 

[titanic2187]

14 minutes ago, pepsa said:

At this point in time saturday isn't looking good, it's tracking at 900k only. Thats only 80k above IW's second saturday, hopefully walk ups ge better now but it's meh atm. 

I am lost, if it is tracking 900k, it is still a lower than 50% from last Saturday right? How is it a meh figure?

[troyand]

3 minutes ago, titanic2187 said:

I am lost, if it is tracking 900k, it is still a lower than 50% from last Saturday right? How is it a meh figure?

That’s because last year IW dropped only 38%(increased nearly x2 from friday) at the same point. Of course still outpacing IW is a good thing but I expected at least +70% increase today.

Last year saturday was children’s day so it may helped IW increase nearly 100%... that’s only a guess. This year tomorrow is children’s day so let’s hope EG will show a lower drop

[pepsa]

10 minutes ago, titanic2187 said:

I am lost, if it is tracking 900k, it is still a lower than 50% from last Saturday right? How is it a meh figure?

Because IW did 820k comming from 1.333m.

So IW's drop was 38.3% and EG is looking at a 45.9% but EG's bigger but 900k is a harsh drop.

Also this would mean EG would only go up 59% on Sat, IW increased 95.7% on sat so EG's jump woudn't be good.

Edited May 4, 2019 by pepsa

[Stewart]

3 hours ago, Charlie Jatinder said:

@Stewart sheet put realistic expectations at 2.486mn. The optimistic expectations are 2.614mn. I will go with realistic. 

 

Lower it, 2.25-2.3 much more likely now

 

12 minutes ago, troyand said:

That’s because last year IW dropped only 38%(increased nearly x2 from friday) at the same point. Of course still outpacing IW is a good thing but I expected at least +70% increase today.

Last year saturday was children’s day so it may helped IW increase nearly 100%... that’s only a guess. This year tomorrow is children’s day so let’s hope EG will show a lower drop

That would explain a lot actually, thanks.

[troyand]

According to articles EG officially surpassed 10m admissions today, which means the fastest record in history(11 days).