South Korea Box Office

[yjs]

1 hour ago, Rsyu said:

Just saw 곡성 (The Wailing).

 

What a horrible little film.

 

I was actually worried about its chance of having been overpraised by the pretentious stans. hmm.. 

or about the possibility that I personally don't like it at all. like Kim Ki-Duk's films. No matter how much those film critics go all coo coo over him I just can't agree with his aesthetics or point of view or whatsoever. Feel neutral about Na Hong-Jin tho. 

[yjs]

@Sam didn't know there was a trailer with eng sub out for the Wailing.

 

 

[Rsyu]

1 hour ago, yjs said:

 

I was actually worried about its chance of having been overpraised by the pretentious stans. hmm.. 

or about the possibility that I personally don't like it at all. like Kim Ki-Duk's films. No matter how much those film critics go all coo coo over him I just can't agree with his aesthetics or point of view or whatsoever. Feel neutral about Na Hong-Jin tho. 

 

The critic score is ridiculous. The ending made no kind of sense whatsoever and some of the plot devices were downright baffling. Maybe I just didn't "get it"  

A far cry from his debut project "The Chaser" which I very much enjoyed

[bartonfink]

The Wailing was terribly creepy & intriguing experience. I think Na Hong Jin is Korea's William Friedkin.

[abra]

 

 

Edited May 13, 2016 by abra

[Olive]

Weekend numbers:

The Wailing 1,823,370       (new)    2,308,942    

Civil War         526,698  (-66.8%)    8,234,717 

Allegiant           59,481       (new)    75,825

Zootopia           19,898   (-69.6%)    4,694,811

[fmpro]

I am ???? to why we see such a big crash for CW 2 weeks in a row

[Olive]

Well it doesn't have legs elsewhere, so no surprise.

[abra]

[Dementeleus]

Just out of curiosity for my entry in the summer game, does CIVIL WAR still have a chance at crossing 10m admissions? I don't have a good grasp at how leggy movies tend to be in SK.

[Olive]

8 minutes ago, Telemachos said:

Just out of curiosity for my entry in the summer game, does CIVIL WAR still have a chance at crossing 10m admissions? I don't have a good grasp at how leggy movies tend to be in SK.

No chance at all.

[Dementeleus]

1 minute ago, Olive said:

No chance at all.

 

 

I hope another Hollywood movie breaks out big time, then.

[Olive]

	Age of Ultron			Iron Man 3			Captain America 3
WK1							727,912	NEW	729,178
	622,165	NEW	625,666	422,504	NEW	423,201	474,022	-34.9%	1,203,200
	649,804	4.4%	1,275,470	486,637	15.2%	909,838	638,980	34.8%	1,842,180
	1,155,761	77.9%	2,431,231	894,377	83.8%	1,804,215	1,142,369	78.8%	2,984,549
	1,013,207	-12.3%	3,444,438	821,041	-8.2%	2,625,256	949,643	-16.9%	3,934,192
WK2	295,125	-70.9%	3,739,563	282,271	-65.6%	2,907,527	262,243	-72.4%	4,196,435
	258,186	-12.5%	3,997,749	325,124	15.2%	3,232,651	249,610	-4.8%	4,446,045
	321,740	24.6%	4,319,489	550,990	69.5%	3,783,641	424,319	70.0%	4,870,364
	344,644	7.1%	4,664,133	224,628	-59.2%	4,008,269	885,276	108.6%	5,755,640
	772,772	124.2%	5,436,905	385,024	71.4%	4,393,293	675,227	-23.7%	6,430,867
	826,765	7.0%	6,263,670	774,176	101.1%	5,167,469	524,662	-22.3%	6,955,529
	747,935	-9.5%	7,011,605	705,579	-8.9%	5,873,048	386,429	-26.3%	7,341,958
WK3	608,983	-18.6%	7,620,588	171,173	-75.7%	6,044,221	118,602	-69.3%	7,460,560
	712,523	17.0%	8,333,111	123,264	-28.0%	6,167,485	101,525	-14.4%	7,562,085
	133,587	-81.3%	8,466,698	122,878	-0.3%	6,290,363	80,502	-20.7%	7,642,587
	106,327	-20.4%	8,573,025	112,535	-8.4%	6,402,898	65,426	-18.7%	7,708,013
	146,621	37.9%	8,719,646	195,262	73.5%	6,598,160	109,110	66.8%	7,817,123
	344,605	135.0%	9,064,251	454,671	132.9%	7,052,831	236,101	116.4%	8,053,224
	313,171	-9.1%	9,377,422	389,880	-14.3%	7,442,711	182,419	-22.7%	8,235,643
WK4	74,553	-76.2%	9,451,975	78,626	-79.8%	7,521,337	46,692	-74.4%	8,282,335
	73,593	-1.3%	9,525,568	70,067	-10.9%	7,591,404
	70,348	-4.4%	9,595,916	99,869	42.5%	7,691,273
	44,369	-36.9%	9,640,285	82,281	-17.6%	7,773,554
	76,976	73.5%	9,717,261	277,521	237.3%	8,051,075
	165,492	115.0%	9,882,753	228,559	-17.6%	8,279,634
	142,770	-13.7%	10,025,523	194,918	-14.7%	8,474,552
WK5	33,900	-76.3%	10,059,423	40,305	-79.3%	8,514,857
	29,921	-11.7%	10,089,344	34,969	-13.2%	8,549,826
	29,516	-1.4%	10,118,860	27,435	-21.5%	8,577,261
	19,112	-35.2%	10,137,972	24,429	-11.0%	8,601,690
	26,631	39.3%	10,164,603	36,176	48.1%	8,637,866
	65,107	144.5%	10,229,710	95,405	163.7%	8,733,271
	81,852	25.7%	10,311,562	85,656	-10.2%	8,818,927
	77,346	-5.5%	10,388,908	22,431	-73.8%	8,841,358
Final total	10,494,499			9,001,309

[Rsyu]

Horrible legs for CW. 

[abra]

[abra]

[druv10]

CW legs have been atrocious and much worse than AoU, even with much higher ratings. I guess at this point Marvel has set fanbase and expecting great legs for sequels are out of the question. It'll interesting to see how big Infinity movies get with farewell of RDJ, Evans and Hemsworth.

[yjs]

On 2016. 5. 16. at 4:06 AM, Telemachos said:

Just out of curiosity for my entry in the summer game, does CIVIL WAR still have a chance at crossing 10m admissions? I don't have a good grasp at how leggy movies tend to be in SK.

 

yeah, no chance at all like @Olive said. I'm quite shocked too, even with the fact that Korean audience sometimes go cold turkey real fast.

 

compared to the north american market it's either more volatile or more leggy I guess, since the country is smaller and very heavily/easily affected by WOM plus the market has relatively less variety of options for the audience each week with the much extreme winner-takes-it-all nature.

 

The three dominant cinema chains have the almost complete control over the theater counts and they allocate like 90% of the whole screens of Korea to the one or two "big movies" and they change very rapidly and immediately based on the performance, while there's really no place for the mid-sized movies unless they prove themselves and show exceptional WOM/legs and play like a big player and join the big league. (i.e. About Time, The Intern, Begin Again...)

 

Take BvS for example, it opened to 1,600 screens but the bad WOM hit it and the screen counts immediately plummeted to 1,100 the weekend after, then to 540, 270, each weekend. Zootopia on the other hand, only started with about 580 screens but had a way more consistent run and didn't lose almost any of the screens by weekend 11 or something and even expanded at times after the good WOM. Think the theater counts peaked on its wkd 5-7, at around 700. Korea's favorite indie from the recent years, Begin Again, started with merely 180 screens then one and a half month later it expanded to 530.

Edited May 19, 2016 by yjs

[Dementeleus]

Thanks for the insight, @yjs.  

[yjs]

so I think the Wailing really cut off CW's late legs.. It's the current go-to movie and the fact that it's a very controversial one got Korean audience very excited too. Because of a slight totalitarianism that we have here you just have to be up to date and join "the debate" everywhere you go, at work, on TV/the internet: "Haven't you seen it yet? I think this was this and that was that..." CW on the other hand was more like a unanimous crowd pleaser which ironically made it a little less interesting.

 

another thing about CW is that,

 

 

 

it seems many of the Korean audience couldn't relate to Captain's motive to support Bucky and thought Bucky was despicable to murder Tony's parents, even though it wasn't under his free will. Since patricide is like the biggest taboo here and obeying to parents/respecting the elderly is such an important issue people just couldn't root for Cap/Bucky anymore and the most of the reactions were like "poor, Tony.. I hate Captain now!"

 

Edited May 19, 2016 by yjs