South Korea Box Office

[Rsyu]

Biggest animated movies in SK: admissions (2003-)
1. 10,279,829 Frozen (2014)
2.   5,062,722 Kung-fu Panda 2 (2011)
3.   4,969,735 Inside Out（2015）

4.   4,703,058 Zootopia (2016)
5.   4,673,009 Kung-fu Panda (2008)

6.   3,984,530 Kung-fu Panda 3 (2016)
7.   3,300,533 Shrek 2 (2004)
8.   3,015,165 Howl's moving Castle (2004)
9.   3,000,056 How to train your dragon 2 (2014)
10.  2,844,159 Shrek 3 (2007)

11.  2,801,949 Big Hero 6 (2015)

12.  2,625,572 Minions (2015)
13.  2,603,857 How to train your Dragon (2010)
14.  2,344,700 Shrek (2001)
15.  2,224,118 Shrek Forever After

....   1,286,412 Finding Nemo (2003)

[yjs]

Tuesday admission numbers

 

#2. The Legend of Tarzan                       47,790       (646,643 total)

#4. Independence Day: Resurgence        22,982     (1,437,046 total)  -63.4% 

#5. The Conjuring 2                              21,195     (1,846,367 total)    -5.4% (hmm.. don't know what's with this)

#8. The Jungle Book                             10,327     (2,497,020 total)  -56.2%

         

presales

 #1. Finding Dory                                      43,093

 #2. Seondal: The Man Who Sells the River  38,155 

 #4. The Legend of Tarzan                           3,650

 #5. Bourne Ultimatum (reissue)                   2,901 (July 14th)

 #6. The Train to Busan                               2,875 (July 20th)

 #7. Now You See Me 2                               2,617 (July 13th)

 #9. Independence Day: Resurgence            1,727

 

now I think Dory could take the weekend! don't know what took it so long to take the #1 at presales. 

Edited July 5, 2016 by yjs

[Rsyu]

Early naver ratings for Finding Dory

Audience: 9.50

Netizen: 9.03

critics: 6.17

 

finding Nemo has a rating of 9.28 on naver

[yjs]

CGV midday report 2PM

Seondal: 25.7k   Dory: 18.2k

 

think Dory will reprise TJB kind of family film performance. Much stronger weekends, somewhat deflated weekdays. 

 

other summer animated OD numbers

Inside Out: 68k (5M total. July 2015)

Minions: 193k (2.6M total. August 2015, during school vacation)

HTTYD2: 72k (3M total. July 2014)

 

so I would say 60-70k would be satisfying enough, and it seems reachable.

 

 

[Rsyu]

Midday report? They do those now?

[yjs]

9 hours ago, Rsyu said:

Midday report? They do those now?

yup yup, more like real-time report, on the website and on the app. mostly you multiply by 1.5 to 2 then you get the rough numbers from the all multiplexes included that time. Some movies show stronger performance at CGV, some are stronger at Lotte. It depends but I could probably say Hollywood films and CJ-distributed Korean films tend to do better at CGV and Korean films that are not distributed by CJ do better at Lotte.

[chasmmi]

My middle schoolers are very excited about some Zombie film coming out soon. I have no idea what they are talking about though and am worried the zombie will be a kpop star that falls in love after some hilarious hijinks.

[yjs]

Wednesday admission numbers 

 

 #1. Seondal (local)                               135,025       (147,418 total)

 #3. Finding Dory                                   76,441          (79,095 total)   

 #4. The Legend of Tarzan                      24,972        (672,232 total)  -70.5%

 #6. The Conjuring 2                                8,883     (1,855,568 total)  -52.8% 

 #7. ID4                                                  8,626     (1,446,040 total)  -82.2%

#13. The Jungle Book                               3,624     (2,500,670 total)  -82.0%

         

presales

  #1. Finding Dory                                      67,674

  #2. Seondal (local)                                   41,657 

  #4. Now You See Me 2                               6,525 (July 13th) 

  #5. The Train to Busan (local)                     5,787 (July 20th)

  #6. The Legend of Tarzan                           3,931

 #10. Independence Day: Resurgence            2,064

 

good enough start for Dory. Seondal must have strong walk-ins. But it has bad WOM so Dory might pass it by the weekend. Similar with TJB's debut week. 

[yjs]

correction: I think Dory WILL pass Seondal by the weekend, not "might"

[Rsyu]

10 hours ago, chasmmi said:

My middle schoolers are very excited about some Zombie film coming out soon. I have no idea what they are talking about though and am worried the zombie will be a kpop star that falls in love after some hilarious hijinks.

 

The zombie film is Train to Busan I think, one of the tentpole summer films for this year.

[yjs]

12 hours ago, chasmmi said:

My middle schoolers are very excited about some Zombie film coming out soon. I have no idea what they are talking about though and am worried the zombie will be a kpop star that falls in love after some hilarious hijinks.

 

2 hours ago, Rsyu said:

 

The zombie film is Train to Busan I think, one of the tentpole summer films for this year.

 

 

yup, the zombie film was screened at Cannes, out of competition. The director Yeon Sang-Ho used to make R-rated indie animations and this one's his first live-action debut.

[chasmmi]

Oh if my Middle Schoolers are anything to go by Sing and Miss PEregrine will be huge here.

 

Sing because it looks like Zootopia

 

Peregrine because it looks awesome

[yjs]

Thursday admission numbers 

 

 #1. Seondal (local)                               118,925       (267,940 total)

 #2. Finding Dory                                   82,960        (162,554 total)   

 #4. The Legend of Tarzan                      20,769        (693,341 total)  -64.8%

 #6. ID4                                                  7,995     (1,454,132 total)  -75.3%

 #7. The Conjuring 2                                6,762     (1,862,605 total)  -56.6% 

#13. The Jungle Book                               2,696     (2,503,369 total)  -80.8%

         

presales

  #1. Finding Dory                                     104,934

  #2. Seondal (local)                                   54,353 

  #4. Now You See Me 2                              12,267 (July 13th) 

  #5. The Train to Busan (local)                     7,837 (July 20th)

  #6. The Legend of Tarzan                           5,873

 #10. Independence Day: Resurgence            2,139

[Aristis]

1 hour ago, yjs said:

Thursday admission numbers 

 

 #1. Seondal (local)                               118,925       (267,940 total)

 #2. Finding Dory                                   82,960        (162,554 total)   

 #4. The Legend of Tarzan                      20,769        (693,341 total)  -64.8%

 #6. ID4                                                  7,995     (1,454,132 total)  -75.3%

 #7. The Conjuring 2                                6,762     (1,862,605 total)  -56.6% 

#13. The Jungle Book                               2,696     (2,503,369 total)  -80.8%

         

presales

  #1. Finding Dory                                     104,934

  #2. Seondal (local)                                   54,353 

  #4. Now You See Me 2                              12,267 (July 13th) 

  #5. The Train to Busan (local)                     7,837 (July 20th)

  #6. The Legend of Tarzan                           5,873

 #10. Independence Day: Resurgence            2,139

FD increasing on Thursday from a Wednesday is a good sign? Good WOM?

[yjs]

8 hours ago, Aristis said:

FD increasing on Thursday from a Wednesday is a good sign? Good WOM?

more like less frontloaded-ness than the effect of good WOM in immediate action, but yeah it does seem to have a good WOM at the moment and looking VERY good to take #1 this weekend. Its main competitor having terrible WOM also helps. The last time a Wednesday debut saw a Thursday increase was with Me Before You on June 2nd.

[cannastop]

19 hours ago, chasmmi said:

Oh if my Middle Schoolers are anything to go by Sing and Miss PEregrine will be huge here.

 

Sing because it looks like Zootopia

 

Peregrine because it looks awesome

Do your middle schoolers know about Sing already?

[chasmmi]

15 minutes ago, cannastop said:

Do your middle schoolers know about Sing already?

 

Well I did a class on trailers and included it as a trailer I showed.

 

But surprisingly for Korea, it had a big trailer push in front of YouTube videos a month or so back which is rare for a film that is 6 months away. Even Star Wars didn't exist until about 6 weeks before release.

[cannastop]

2 hours ago, chasmmi said:

 

Well I did a class on trailers and included it as a trailer I showed.

 

But surprisingly for Korea, it had a big trailer push in front of YouTube videos a month or so back which is rare for a film that is 6 months away. Even Star Wars didn't exist until about 6 weeks before release.

That's interesting. I'm not sure if many audience members are going to make a connection to Zootopia, though, especially by the time Christmas comes.

 

Also, a class on trailers? What do you teach?

Edited July 8, 2016 by cannastop

[yjs]

Friday admission numbers 

 

 #1. Seondal (local)                               153,032       (422,224 total)

 #2. Finding Dory                                  106,568       (269,553 total)   

 #4. The Legend of Tarzan                       27,232        (720,838 total)  -62.2%

 #5. ID4                                                  9,798     (1,464,209 total)  -76.3%

 

presales

  #1. Finding Dory                                     182,195

  #2. Seondal (local)                                   82,155 

  #4. Now You See Me 2                              25,037 (July 13th) 

  #5. The Legend of Tarzan                          11,066

  #6. The Train to Busan (local)                      9,746 (July 20th)

  #7. The Jungle Book                                   4,388

[yjs]

13 hours ago, cannastop said:

That's interesting. I'm not sure if many audience members are going to make a connection to Zootopia, though, especially by the time Christmas comes.

 

Also, a class on trailers? What do you teach?

 

think @chasmmi teaches english.