chasmmi Posted June 19, 2015 Share Posted June 19, 2015 Terminator Salvation somehow did 4.5 million admissions here so there is potential for Genisys. Also, I imagine that while Lee Byung-hun's reputation has nosedived, the movie can sell itself without relying on him as a draw. I don't think he's hated so much that a large percentage of moviegoers would actively avoid his movies. That's a fair assumption. Especially considering the majority of my daily interaction is with children who will constantly tell me how bad Japan is and that they hate Japan but then their favourite films include Doraemon and Detective Conan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rsyu Posted June 19, 2015 Share Posted June 19, 2015 (edited) That's a fair assumption. Especially considering the majority of my daily interaction is with children who will constantly tell me how bad Japan is and that they hate Japan but then their favourite films include Doraemon and Detective Conan Haha yeah that's probably true. Japan still has a considerable cultural influence in Korea despite the ill will most have towards them. But then again, most normal Koreans probably have no problem going to Japan on holiday or having Japanese friends etc. It's just the Japanese government that most have a problem with. Edited June 19, 2015 by Rsyu Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rsyu Posted June 19, 2015 Share Posted June 19, 2015 Friday Box Office (June 19) -Admissions (Total Adm) Daily% Gross (weekly%) [sC] {wk} <Title> 1. 198,356 (386,766) +9.14% $2.75M (--) [769] {Wk1} <The Classified File> NEW---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------2. 174,979 (2,525,589) +45.6% $1.45M (-43.6%) [990] {Wk2} <Jurassic World>---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------3. 53,248 (109,663) +00.0% $383K (--) [469] {Wk1} <The Silenced> NEW --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4. 19,076 (1,592,862) +27.1% $139K (-66.4%) [353] {Wk3} <San Andreas> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5. 11,348 (3,755,596) +40.6% $86K (-62.8%) [229] {Wk6} <Mad Max: Fury Road> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total admissions: 487,029Total Gross: $3,728,902June Total: $52,995,254 Cumulative Gross Mad Max: Fury Road: $29.67 million Jurassic World: $20.05 million The Classified FIle: $4.05 million Current presales (Midnight) 01. 54.6% (142,108) Jurassic World02. 23.7% (61,628) The Classified File03. 4.7% (12,170) The Silenced04. 3.3% (8,528) Northern Limit Line05. 2.8% (7,289) San Andreas 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dropsicaldackel Posted June 19, 2015 Share Posted June 19, 2015 Haha yeah that's probably true. Japan still has a considerable cultural influence in Korea despite the ill will most have towards them. But then again, most normal Koreans probably have no problem going to Japan on holiday or having Japanese friends etc. It's just the Japanese government that most have a problem with. The potential problem with TERMINATOR (and the rest of Lee Byung-hun's films this year) is that celebrity scandals have a negative effect of Korean box office which is far more pronounced than anything else I've ever seen. Just to mention a few recent examples, MY BRILLIANT LIFE massively underperformed last Chuseok despite two huge stars, a big director and actually being pretty damn good. The problem was that Song Hye-kyo was involved in a tax scandal and netizens tore here to shreds and definitely had a massive impact on the film's returns. Same this year with CASA AMOR: EXCLUSIVE FOR LADIES, not exactly a tentpole, but Clara's massive unpopularity following her 'lying' scandals (not sure what else you'd call them) led to a distressing 149k total. And then again during the Lunar New Year with C'EST SI BON, which was expected to do very well, but Han Hyo-joo's brother's involvement in a military bullying scandal badly tarnished her reputation. To be clear, I think all these reactions are really extreme as I think a film should speak for itself and these vendettas against celebrities are really small-minded, but it's been a pretty consistent trend. It's not like in the rest of the world, where all publicity is good publicity. In Korea, bad publicity for a star is bad for business, while inversely, negative publicity around a film's theme can sometimes turn it into an unexpected hit (SILENCED, 26 YEARS, UNBOWED, etc.). Lee Byung-hun is huge and people are really angry with him here. I bet we'll see a witch hunt mount against him in the coming weeks. I imagine it will have some effect on the box office of his films, but hopefully won't shoot them down completely. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
efialtes76 Posted June 19, 2015 Share Posted June 19, 2015 The potential problem with TERMINATOR (and the rest of Lee Byung-hun's films this year) is that celebrity scandals have a negative effect of Korean box office which is far more pronounced than anything else I've ever seen. Just to mention a few recent examples, MY BRILLIANT LIFE massively underperformed last Chuseok despite two huge stars, a big director and actually being pretty damn good. The problem was that Song Hye-kyo was involved in a tax scandal and netizens tore here to shreds and definitely had a massive impact on the film's returns. Same this year with CASA AMOR: EXCLUSIVE FOR LADIES, not exactly a tentpole, but Clara's massive unpopularity following her 'lying' scandals (not sure what else you'd call them) led to a distressing 149k total. And then again during the Lunar New Year with C'EST SI BON, which was expected to do very well, but Han Hyo-joo's brother's involvement in a military bullying scandal badly tarnished her reputation. To be clear, I think all these reactions are really extreme as I think a film should speak for itself and these vendettas against celebrities are really small-minded, but it's been a pretty consistent trend. It's not like in the rest of the world, where all publicity is good publicity. In Korea, bad publicity for a star is bad for business, while inversely, negative publicity around a film's theme can sometimes turn it into an unexpected hit (SILENCED, 26 YEARS, UNBOWED, etc.). Lee Byung-hun is huge and people are really angry with him here. I bet we'll see a witch hunt mount against him in the coming weeks. I imagine it will have some effect on the box office of his films, but hopefully won't shoot them down completely. His role is too small to affect the movie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chasmmi Posted June 19, 2015 Share Posted June 19, 2015 His role is too small to affect the movie. But he is being pushed as a major part of the film (same happened wioth AOU). I actually know the editor of an English Language newspaper here and he told me how his Korean sister newspaper editors were pushing him to run a story about how Japan had airbrushed out Lee from the Japanese posters for Terminator. When he researched the issue, he found that the Japanese poster was identical to the USA one, the Korean poster had added Lee as a major attraction for seeing the film. So yeah, his popularity or lack of, could have an affect on box office. Hard to tell if it has got that far yet though, Shame really as he is a pretty great actor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rsyu Posted June 19, 2015 Share Posted June 19, 2015 Lee Byung-hun is a good actor and he could have potentially been a strong marketing point in Korea but promoting him now would probably only have adverse effects. That being said, I don't think he's the main marketing point here with Emilia Clarke and Arnold Schwarzenegger being pretty well known. They're also scheduled to visit Korea to promote the movie which should help negate the negative publicity surrounding it somewhat. I'm not convinced that it will follow the path of My Brilliant Life either, at least not yet. The scandal was completely different for one. What Lee Byung-hun did with those two girls was pretty sickening but he was pretty infamous for already that and no one was really hurt from it outside of the related people. With Song Hye-gyo, she had a really clean image so it came as a shock to people when they learned she had evaded taxes and the extent she carried it out to. Also that actually did hurt the general public in a financial sense so I think people were less forgiving. It didn't help that she denied that she had any knowledge of it and basically tried to transfer the blame to different parties etc. Image tarnished forever. The timing was unfortunate for My Brilliant Life too coming not long after the scandal erupted. Quite a bit of time has elapsed for Lee Byung-hun so that could another thing that acts in it's favor. But yeah, it's all guesswork until we see how the movie plays. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rsyu Posted June 20, 2015 Share Posted June 20, 2015 (edited) Saturday Box Office (June 20) -Admissions (Total Adm) Daily% Gross (weekly%) [sC] {wk} <Title> 1. 456,918 (2,987,274) +154.% $3.68M (-29.2%) [1,011] {Wk2} <Jurassic World> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------2. 404,097 (798,079) +96.6% $3.00M (--) [893] {Wk1} <The Classified File> NEW---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------3. 81,754 (193,267) +48.4% $600K (--) [488] {Wk1} <The Silenced> NEW --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4. 39,390 (1,632,935) +99.4% $287K (-67.5%) [342] {Wk3} <San Andreas> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5. 18,758 (3,774,588) +62.0% $142K (-67.9%) [224] {Wk6} <Mad Max: Fury Road> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total admissions: 1,045,402Total Gross: $8,016,481June Total: $61,011,735 Cumulative Gross Mad Max: Fury Road: $29.81 million Jurassic World: $23.73 million The Classified FIle: $7.05 million Current presales (Midnight) 01. 52.9% (107,105) Jurassic World02. 23.5% (46,683) The Classified File03. 4.8% (9,611) Northen Limit Line04. 3.3% (6,727) The Silenced05. 3.2% (6,569) San Andreas Edited June 21, 2015 by Rsyu 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rsyu Posted June 20, 2015 Share Posted June 20, 2015 Great increase for Jurassic World, proving once again that it's a weekend film. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abra Posted June 20, 2015 Share Posted June 20, 2015 very nice growth and small decline compared to last Saturday 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rsyu Posted June 20, 2015 Share Posted June 20, 2015 (edited) very nice growth and small decline compared to last Saturday Indeed Not a like for like comparison but it looks like Jurassic World will pass the 1,063,352 admissions in Seoul that Jurassc Park achieved back in 93. JW currently has 813,523 admissions in Seoul. Also 4M admissions looks like a lock. Edited June 21, 2015 by Rsyu 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rsyu Posted June 21, 2015 Share Posted June 21, 2015 (edited) Sunday Box Office (June 21) -Admissions (Total Adm) Daily% Gross (weekly%) [sC] {wk} <Title> 1. 421,619 (3,414,098) -8.76% $3.36M (-26.8%) [1,022] {Wk2} <Jurassic World> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------2. 359,063 (1,165,641) -13.0% $2.66M (--) [887] {Wk1} <The Classified File> NEW---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------3. 62,383 (257,233) -25.1% $443K (--) [475] {Wk1} <The Silenced> NEW --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4. 35,752 (1,669,426) -10.9% $258K (-66.8%) [356] {Wk3} <San Andreas> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5. 17,669 (3,792,607) -7.53% $133K (-64.8%) [222] {Wk6} <Mad Max: Fury Road> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total admissions: 936,226Total Gross: $7,136,875June Total: $68,148,610 Cumulative Gross Mad Max: Fury Road: $29.94 million Jurassic World: $27.09 million The Classified FIle: $9.71 million Current presales (Midnight) 01. 26.3% (15,637) Jurassic World02. 19.3% (11,205) Northern Limit Line03. 15.9% (9,472) The Classified File04. 9.0% (5,206) Minority Opinion05. 3.2% (1,916) The Silenced Edited June 21, 2015 by Rsyu 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rsyu Posted June 21, 2015 Share Posted June 21, 2015 (edited) Good hold from Saturday for Jurassic World and a 30.5% drop from it's opening week. If it holds well during the upcoming week, we could be talking about 5 million admissions. Edited June 21, 2015 by Rsyu 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
efialtes76 Posted June 21, 2015 Share Posted June 21, 2015 Sunday Box Office (June 21) -Admissions (Total Adm) Daily% Gross (weekly%) [sC] {wk} <Title> 1. 421,619 (3,414,098) -8.76% $3.36M (-26.8%) [1,022] {Wk2} <Jurassic World> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. 359,063 (1,165,641) -13.0% $2.66M (--) [887] {Wk1} <The Classified File> NEW --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. 62,383 (257,233) -25.1% $443K (--) [475] {Wk1} <The Silenced> NEW --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4. 35,752 (1,669,426) -10.9% $258K (-66.8%) [356] {Wk3} <San Andreas> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5. 17,669 (3,792,607) -7.53% $133K (-64.8%) [222] {Wk6} <Mad Max: Fury Road> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total admissions: 936,226 Total Gross: $7,136,875 June Total: $68,148,610 Cumulative Gross Mad Max: Fury Road: $29.94 million Jurassic World: $27.09 million The Classified FIle: $9.71 million Current presales (Midnight) 01. 26.3% (107,105) Jurassic World 02. 19.3% (46,683) Northern Limit Line 03. 15.9% (9,611) The Classified File 04. 9.0% (6,727) Minority Opinion 05. 3.2% (6,569) The Silenced Current presales are wrong. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rsyu Posted June 21, 2015 Share Posted June 21, 2015 Current presales are wrong. Unhh always leave something out thanks 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
efialtes76 Posted June 21, 2015 Share Posted June 21, 2015 Unhh always leave something out thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
efialtes76 Posted June 21, 2015 Share Posted June 21, 2015 Current presales (Midnight) 01. 26.3% (107,105) Jurassic World02. 19.3% (46,683) Northern Limit Line03. 15.9% (9,611) The Classified File04. 9.0% (6,727) Minority Opinion05. 3.2% (6,569) The Silenced 06. 2.7% (1,581) Terminator Genisys 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rsyu Posted June 22, 2015 Share Posted June 22, 2015 (edited) Monday Box Office (June 22) -Admissions (Total Adm) Daily% Gross (weekly%) [sC] {wk} <Title> 1. 150,684 (1,320,495) -58.5% $1.03M (--) [807] {Wk2} <The Classified file> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------2. 113,725 (3,529,967) -73.2% $885K (-24.5%) [935] {Wk3} <Jurassic World> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------3. 25,781 (283,811) -59.2% $175K (--) [466] {Wk2} <The Silenced> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4. 14,219 (1,683,909) -60.5% $95K (-55.9%) [355] {Wk4} <San Andreas> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5. 9,662 (3,802,404) -45.7% $66K (-47.4%) [225] {Wk7} <Mad Max: Fury Road> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total admissions: 343,365Total Gross: $2,444,920June Total: $70,935,530 Cumulative Gross Mad Max: Fury Road: $30.01 million Jurassic World: $27.27 million The Classified FIle: $10.74 million Edited June 24, 2015 by Rsyu 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
efialtes76 Posted June 23, 2015 Share Posted June 23, 2015 (edited) Tuesday: 1.The Classified File-137.186/1.457.689 2.Jurassic World-102.231/3.632.206 3.The Silenced-22.804/306.615 4.San Andreas-14.708/1.698.617 5.Mad Max:Fury Road -10.011/3.812.417 Current Presales: 01. 27.1% (37.729) Jurassic World02. 24.7% (34,331) Northern Limit Line03. 20.6% (28,606) The Classified File04. 7.4% (10,269) Minority Opinion05. 6.3% (8,740) Terminator Genisys Edited June 23, 2015 by efialtes76 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rsyu Posted June 24, 2015 Share Posted June 24, 2015 The Martian is set to be released on October 8 (thursday) in Korea. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
