tupek Posted August 15, 2014 Share Posted August 15, 2014 Massive juggernaut. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rsyu Posted August 16, 2014 Share Posted August 16, 2014 Roaring Currents passed Avatar (11:30 AM local time: CJ entertainments) to become the biggest film of all time in South Korea. Avatar's Gross will be broken too by Sunday at the latest. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keysersoze123 Posted August 16, 2014 Share Posted August 16, 2014 Awesome. I am hoping it can gross 20M admissions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fake Posted August 16, 2014 Share Posted August 16, 2014 Congrats on Passing Avatar and $100m gross.This definitely is the most impressive box office run of the year, surpassing Frozen's run in Japan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tupek Posted August 16, 2014 Share Posted August 16, 2014 For a long time I thought South Korea would be one of the markets where Avatar would never be outgrossed (like Russia or Australia)... but that's going to happen at last!Awesome , really really awesome and it still has a lot of run! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rsyu Posted August 16, 2014 Share Posted August 16, 2014 Roaring currents gross in local currency (KRW) is 102.48 billion KRW. It needs an additional 25.97 billion won or 3.4 million admissions to pass Avatar in local currency. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
efialtes76 Posted August 16, 2014 Share Posted August 16, 2014 Roaring currents gross in local currency (KRW) is 102.48 billion KRW. It needs an additional 25.97 billion won or 3.4 million admissions to pass Avatar in local currency. No so easy imo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keysersoze123 Posted August 16, 2014 Share Posted August 16, 2014 I think its lock. It would probably gross another 1.4/1.5M admissions sat/sun. Another 2 million after this sunday is not that difficult. It just needs to hold not too bad for next 2 weeks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peludo Posted August 16, 2014 Share Posted August 16, 2014 Congrats on Passing Avatar and $100m gross.This definitely is the most impressive box office run of the year, surpassing Frozen's run in Japan. Sure. 2014 is definitely a year where it is more interesting to follow BO runs outside US: Frozen in Japan, Transformers 4 in China, Qu'est-ce qu'on a fait au Bon Dieu? in France, 8 apellidos vascos in Spain or this beast in South Korea. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rsyu Posted August 16, 2014 Share Posted August 16, 2014 (edited) South Korea Daily Box Office (August 16)-Admissions (total) gross (Drops from LW) [screens] Title 01. 674,980 (13,982,087) $5.304M (-38.8%) [996] <Roaring currents> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 02. 485,502 (3,838,827) $3.756M (+1.3%) [860] <The Pirates> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 03. 187,013 (760,291) $1.517M (--) [503] <Sea Fog> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 04. 51,916 (176,389) $416K (--) [310] <The Fault in our stars> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 05. 50,044 (145,211) $369K (--) [340] <Planes: Fire & Rescue> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 06. 37,658 (2,875,673) $295K (-57.3%) [245] <How to train your Dragon 2> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 07. 22,610 (1,188,953) $184K (-67.8%) [334] <Guardians of the Galaxy> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 08. 22,480 (328,305) $152K (-59.9%) [180] <Detective Conan: Dimensional Sniper> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 09. 20,564 (80,385) $165K (--) [191] <Begin Again> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 10. 11,165 (44,542) $79K (--) [120] <Pokemon: Jirachi Wish-maker> Total admissions: 1,583,375 Total Gross: $12.379 million Roaring Currents Cume: $104.659 million How to train your dragon 2 cume: $22.362 million Guardians of the Galaxy cume: $9.819 millionCurrent Presales (midnight local time) Roaring Currents 47.3% (246,173) The Pirates 25.0% (130,420) Sea fog 7.5% (39,314) Planes: Fire and rescue 4.1% (21,519) The Fault in our stars 3.4% (17,836) Edited December 6, 2014 by Rsyu 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rsyu Posted August 16, 2014 Share Posted August 16, 2014 As of Saturday, 28.5% of South Korea's population has watched Roaring Currents. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackout Posted August 16, 2014 Share Posted August 16, 2014 (edited) Pirates doing really well too!May I ask why the 2003 Pokemon movie is in the top 10? Edited August 16, 2014 by Sky™ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rsyu Posted August 16, 2014 Share Posted August 16, 2014 Pirates doing really well too!May I ask why the 2003 Pokemon movie is in the top 10? Pirates will pass Kundo for sure. Just goes to show how important word of mouth can be I guess Don't quote me on this but apparently the it's is being released as a dubbed version to advertise the remake versions of pokemon games (Ruby and Sapphire) that are being released around November this year. Anyway this marks the 6th official pokemon film to be released in Korea, I have no idea why they didn't release the others since Pokemon is pretty popular here. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KATCH-2D2 Posted August 16, 2014 Share Posted August 16, 2014 Are there any Hollywood movies opening soon or in the next few weeks? Good luck taking the audience away from the local movies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rsyu Posted August 16, 2014 Share Posted August 16, 2014 (edited) Are there any Hollywood movies opening soon or in the next few weeks? Good luck taking the audience away from the local movies. Yeah there's a few 8/20 Magic in the moonlight TE3 The Giver 8/28 TMNT Into the Storm Tazza and Brilliant Life (local films) drops on 9/03 though so competition will be pretty tough for these releases too. Edited August 16, 2014 by Rsyu 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KATCH-2D2 Posted August 16, 2014 Share Posted August 16, 2014 Yeah there's a few 8/20 Magic in the moonlight TE3 The Giver 8/28 TMNT Into the Storm Tazza and Brilliant Life (local films) drops on 9/03 though so competition will be pretty tough for these releases too. TE1&2 did less than $3m in 2012 so TE3 is screwed in SK regardless. Why did the movies do so badly here? Hope TMNT wouldn't get killed by RC like a few movies before it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rsyu Posted August 16, 2014 Share Posted August 16, 2014 TE1&2 did less than $3m in 2012 so TE3 is screwed in SK regardless. Why did the movies do so badly here? Hope TMNT wouldn't get killed by RC like a few movies before it. The major target audience for films in korea are people in the 20-30 age group and while most people certainly know of the actors that appear in the Expendables series, they haven't really watched their major films such as Rambo, Commando, Once upon a time in China and universal soldier etc. So yeah basically the nostalgia factor that appeared in other markets was non-existent here. 90's style action films in itself lost popularity big time, the most notable bomb being Rambo 4 (2008) which managed a mere 108,473 admissions ($706K) As for TMNT, as shown by the Pirates, if a film has good word of mouth then it can survive no matter how big the competition is Roaring currents should start slowing down big time too next week onwards. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rsyu Posted August 17, 2014 Share Posted August 17, 2014 I must sound like a broken record saying this but Roaring currents passed 14 million admissions today (6 AM local time: CJ entertainments) basically during the first showing of the day. The pirates will pass 4 million admissions during today also, to become the 10th film to pass that mark during 2014. HTTYD2 will cross over 2.9 million adm with sundays numbers. 3 million should happen as long as it doesn't completely collapse on monday. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rsyu Posted August 17, 2014 Share Posted August 17, 2014 (edited) 13 Million admissions films comparison [Graph] X: Days Y: admissions As you can see, the angle of the slope is completely different between Roaring currents and The host/Avatar. Another key variation is how each film behaved after reaching 10 million admissions. Avatar and The host both lost a lot of momentum after reaching 10 million, taking an extra 36 and 74 days respectively to add 3 million more admissions after that. In contrast, Roaring currents took just 5 days to reach 13 million after hitting 10 million admissions. There's no way of telling in what way or form Roaring currents will slow down from here on out but if it behaves anything like The host or avatar, I can see it adding another 3-4 million to it's current score. If it manages better holds and remains strong until Chuseok (A week-long national holiday starting from the second week of september) then it could go even higher. Edited August 17, 2014 by Rsyu 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peeta Tong Karanasios Posted August 17, 2014 Share Posted August 17, 2014 Sure. 2014 is definitely a year where it is more interesting to follow BO runs outside US: Frozen in Japan, Transformers 4 in China, Qu'est-ce qu'on a fait au Bon Dieu? in France, 8 apellidos vascos in Spain or this beast in South Korea. Yeah! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
