South Korea Box Office

[chasmmi]

I don't understand how a movie can be doing what Roaring Currents is. Could it double the admissions record?

 

It's never going to double it, but it could come close(ish) to the (unadjusted) ratio of how much Titanic broke the US record by.

[Blackout]

Since Rsyu is not here yet and I have too much time 

 

Wednesday:

 

#  Admissions (Total) Gross (Drops from LW) [screens] Title (Cumulative Total Gross)

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01. 366,088 (12,112,778) $2.643 million (-47.7%) [932] Roaring Currents ($90.486 million)

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02. 226,353 (2,547,936) $1.62 million (-15.8%) [742] The Pirates ($18.796 million)
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03. 173,837 (185,928) $1.28 million (--) [574] Sea Fog NEW ($1.379 million)
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04. 29,436 (34,313) $215K (--) [249] The Fault in Our Stars NEW ($0.253 million)
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05. 17,516 (2,775,420) $115K (-74.4%) [220] How To Train Your Dragon 2 ($21.608 million)

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06. 13,611 (1,123,436) $100K (-70.6%) [133] Guardians of the Galaxy ($9.318 million)

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07. 12,302 (14,405) $82.4K (--) [262] Planes: Fire & Rescue NEW ($99.5K)

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08. 11,824 (21,039) $85.6K (--) [182] Begin Again NEW ($0.157 million)

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09. 10,873 (266,489) $70.8K (-54.6%) [164] Detective Conan: Dimensional Sniper ($1.787 million)

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10. 6,356 (7,113) $41.6K (--) [117] Pokémon: Jirachi Wish Maker (2003) NEW ($47.5K)

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Edited August 13, 2014 by Sky™

[tupek]

lol at planes and gotg

[Rsyu]

Roaring currents is pretty much locked to beat avatar by Sunday at the latest and possibly as soon as Saturday. It needs an average 377,460 admissions daily over the next four days and considering yesterdays hold, it looks pretty much certain to happen. Tomorrow (Friday) is liberation day, a national holiday in Korea so admissions for all films will be largely inflated. 

 

New releases, most notably Sea Fog hit the old holdovers pretty hard. Kundo especially is no where to be seen in the top 10. The initial ratings for sea fog from naver isn't that good, just 7.73/10. The biggest demographic group for this film are females in their 20s. 

 

Average start for The fault in our stars, which only received 252  screens on it's opening day. It's rating is very high at the moment, 9.10/10 on Naver so it could have good legs, but the overall performance will still be pretty bad. Unsurprisingly the biggest Demo for TFIOS are teenage girls. 

Edited August 14, 2014 by Rsyu

[Rsyu]

Big hero 6 is going to be released on January, 2015 in SK. It's smart, they're going for a similar release frame to Frozen. Specific day is to be determined.

[Rsyu]

South Korea Daily Box Office (August 14)

-Admissions  (total)           gross      (Drops from LW)    [screens] Title

01. 423,961 (12,559,463)   $3.099M          (-35.0%)                 [942] <Roaring currents>
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02. 276,096   (2,832,952)   $1.995M          (+7.6%)                 [785] <The Pirates>
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03. 154,794      (341,725)   $1.154M              (--)                      [573]<Sea Fog>
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04.   36,922        (71,497)      $271K              (--)                       [259] <The Fault in our stars>
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05.   19,861        (34,366)      $130K              (--)                       [286] <Planes: Fire & Rescue>
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06.   18,389   (2,794,573)      $123K          (-68.4%)                  [226] <How to train your Dragon 2>
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07.   16,641   (1,141,105)      $125K          (-58.2%)                  [129] <Guardians of the Galaxy>
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08.   16,077        (37,324)      $117K              (--)                       [188] <Begin Again>
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09.   11,177      (278,145)        $72K          (-71.3%)                  [153] <Detective Conan: Dimensional Sniper>
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10.     7,627        (14,738)        $50K              (--)                       [120] <Pokemon: Jirachi Wish-maker> 

Total admissions: 1,004,570
Total Gross: $7.284 million

Roaring Currents Cume: $93.585 million
How to train your dragon 2 cume: $21.731 million
Guardians of the Galaxy cume: $9.443 million

Current Presales (midnight local time)
Roaring Currents 46.5% (392,840) 
The Pirates 24.5% (207,235) 
Sea fog 9.0% (76,476)
Planes: Fire and rescue 4.8% (40,900) 
How to train your dragon 2 3.5% (29,393)

Edited December 6, 2014 by Rsyu

[Rsyu]

Roaring Currents Countdown: 1,063,690 admissions until it surpasses Avatar

[tupek]

Yep. Avatar's going down on Saturday.

[TalismanRing]

Roaring Currents is going to cross $100m, maybe by Saturday and be near 14m admissions by Sun.  WOW.

[Rsyu]

Nice recovery by Roaring currents today. It's similar to the tuesday number which is surprising since it has 300 screens less since then. The weak start by Sea Fog likely had something to do with it's recovery

 

Great hold from The pirates. It increased from last week and has great word of mouth at the moment. I watched it the other day and while it's one of those films you forget a day after you watch it, it was still pretty funny and a great film for the younger generation.

 

Sea Fog still has a sub- 8.0 score on Naver and with it's +19 and older restriction, it could struggle going forward. This weekend will be very important to spread some good word of mouth. 

 

Pretty decent start by Begin again, it should beat Once's score of 232,459 admissions

Edited August 14, 2014 by Rsyu

[efialtes76]

Friday:

 

Roaring Currents:736,402/13,300,952.

Tomorrow Roaring Currents will be the all-time number 1!

Edited August 15, 2014 by efialtes76

[Rsyu]

South Korea Daily Box Office (August 15)-liberation day

-Admissions    (total)             gross     (Drops from LW) [screens] Title

01. 742,566 (13,307,107)      $5.770M           (+6.3%)            [1,007] <Roaring currents>
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02. 508,427   (3,346,683)      $3.895M          (+41.5%)               [860] <The Pirates>
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03. 221,900      (568,310)      $1.789M               (--)                   [541] <Sea Fog>
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04.   60,798        (95,163)         $441K               (--)                   [325] <Planes: Fire & Rescue>
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05.   51,030      (123,416)         $400K               (--)                   [281] <The Fault in our stars>
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06.   43,440   (2,838,015)         $336K           (-18.6%)              [238] <How to train your Dragon 2>
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07.   27,680      (305,825)         $190K           (-26.5%)              [189] <Detective Conan: Dimensional Sniper>
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08.   23,951   (1,165,658)         $192K           (-48.8%)              [135] <Guardians of the Galaxy>
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09.   21,432        (59,186)         $169K               (--)                   [180] <Begin Again>
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10.   18,641        (33,379)         $131K               (--)                   [123] <Pokemon: Jirachi Wish-maker>
 

Total admissions: 1,736,201
Total Gross: $12.432 million

Roaring Currents Cume: $99.355 million
How to train your dragon 2 cume: $22.067 million
Guardians of the Galaxy cume: $9.635 million

Current Presales (midnight local time)
Roaring Currents 45.6% (308,185) 
The Pirates 25.7% (173,848) 
Sea fog 8.3% (55,672)
Planes: Fire and rescue 4.5% (30,496) 
How to train your dragon 2 3.5% (23,770)

Edited December 6, 2014 by Rsyu

[Rsyu]

Highest attended films (Official record)

01. 13,624,328 Avatar
02. 13,301,970 Roaring Currents (Biggest local film of all time)

03. 13,019,740 The Host

04. 12,983,330 The Thieves

05. 12,811,206 Miracle in cell no.7

06. 12,319,542 Masquerade

07. 12,302,831 King and the clown

08. 11,746,135 Taegukgi: Brotherhood of war

09. 11,453,338 Haeundae

10. 11,375,944 The Attorney

11. 11,081,000 Silmido

12. 10,295,591 Frozen

[Fullbuster]

$99m...That's crazy

I hope The Avengers 2 will be able to reach that

[Rsyu]

$99m...That's crazy

I hope The Avengers 2 will be able to reach that

 

Since part of the film was shot in Korea and it has a Korean actress, I'd say it has a decent shot at 10 million admissions. 

But as you can see from the all time list, it's harder for foreign films to break out that big compared to local films. 

[Rsyu]

Avatar took over half a year (theatrical run of 8 months) to overcome The Host as the most attended film in South Korea. It was a very leggy run. Sometime today Roaring Currents will become the most attended film after just 18 days of being released. Should be close to 14.5 million admissions at the end of this week. Summer holidays are coming to an end for many school students so numbers in general should see a decrease starting next week. 

[druv10]

Rsyu, do you think TA:AoU can hit 100M? 

[Rsyu]

Rsyu, do you think TA:AoU can hit 100M?

It probably won't. Assuming currency exchange rates stays around the same it would need around 13 million admissions (similar to roaring currents now) or maybe less depending on the 3D ratio to make $100 million. I can see 10 million admissions because IM3 hit 9 million with a similar release date but beyond that the weekdays won't be big enough I think to carry it. Most 10 million admission films (barring 2) were released during or just before winter/summer holidays too which shows the importance of big weekdays. If Hulk smashes the blue house though things could get interesting..

[Rsyu]

To reach $100 million AoU would need- very good word of mouth- decent competition. Having zero competition is as bad as having too many- high 3D/4D percentage- decent footage length of scenes shot in Korea.- screens and a lot of them. Having a major distribution chain distributing will help- favourable exchange ratesIt's going to be released at the start of a 7 day holiday so massive OW shouldn't be a problem.

Edited August 15, 2014 by Rsyu

[chimpo]

Roaring Currents - are f***ing kidding me!!! That is just beyond anything I've seen in box office. Holy crap!