After a three-week break, MAY 18 is back on top of the box office, proving to be the tortoise to D-WAR's hare. Or something like that. Anyhow, CJ Entertainment's big movie of the summer, about the Gwangju Massacre, has now pulled in 6.61 million admissions, or about $45 million. D-WAR may be declining fast, but it is still raking in the money. As of the end of Sunday, it had topped 8 million admissions (or about $54 million). D-WAR is now the sixth-biggest film in Korean history and is a lock to pass FRIEND to become No. 5. But considering how quickly D-WAR is falling now (down by over 50% from last weekend, which was over 50% from the weekend before that), it looks like it will not make the magical 10 million admissions level. Even better than last week, Korean films accounted for the entire top-5 and eight of the top-10 movies this week. Impressive. Also impressive was the staying power of STARDUST. Despite a mediocre opening and plenty of competition, Neil Gaiman's fairytale dropped barely 11% from its opening weekend. As I said in yesterday's post, the Art Reon theater in Shinchon actually moved STARDUST from the smallest screen to the second-largest. SIMPSONS - THE MOVIE had a less than impressive debut, with just over 140,000 admissions. At the screening I attended over the weekend, everyone seemed to enjoy the film a lot, and very few jokes got lost in translation. credit : korea pop wars
D- war is also showing in the US in September looks like a really cool action movie. Does anyone else know the other biggest film in Korean history ?
