Box Office Archives
| 07/16/2007 |
Korea Weekend Box Office (2007.07.13~2007.07.15) Title - Weekend Admissions - Total Nationwide Admissions 1. Harry Potter 5- 1,427,700- 1,815,100 2. Transformers- 815,000- 5,606,900 3. The Cut - 257,400- 328,100 4. Black House- 51,000- 1,291,300 5. The Descent- 37,100- 214,100 6. Taxi 4- 16,100- 144,700 7.... (0 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 07/06/2007 |
[Korean Film News] Black House [검은 집] To Haunt Japan in October Korean horror film Black House [검은 집], the sophomore effort by director Sin Tae-ra [신태라], and starring Hwang Jeong-min [황정민] (You Are My Sunshine), is scheduled to open in 250 theatres in Japan this October. In the picture, based on... (2 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 07/03/2007 |
Korean Box Office for 2007.06.29~2007.07.01 Title Release Date Weekend Seoul Total Korean Tickets sold. Tickets sold. 1 Transformers- 06.28- 337,209 1,313,278 2 Black House- 06.21- 39,820 825,034 3 Oceans 13- 06.14- 24,920 1,153,541 4 Shrek 3- 06.06- 16,295 2,677,564 5 Pirates of the Caribbean... (2 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 06/15/2007 |
There'll be less Chow in the Chinese cut of At World's End Well, it's been a while since we've witnessed the silliness that is the film censorship board in China. But they have struck again, bring a version of At World's End with less, among all things, scenes involving Chow Yun-fat, one... (1 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 06/15/2007 |
Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer REVIEW In the wake of 2005’s shockingly successful first film comes the bigger and better sequel, “Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer”. An awkward title perhaps, but nonetheless accurate. Marvel’s popular angst-ridden gleaming soarer of the spaceways makes his big... (10 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 05/24/2007 |
[Korean Film News] Kim Ji-hoon’s Upcoming Historical Drama May 18 [화려한 휴가] Arriving in theatres in June, May 18, a film dealing with the Kwangju uprising in 1980, is interesting as much for the circumstances surrounding the film’s production as it is for some questions it raises concerning historical films, Korean cinema... (1 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 05/16/2007 |
[Korean Film News] Filmmakers Band Together to Trim Costs What do the films My Scary Girl [달콤, 살벌한 연인], The Customer is Always Right [손님은 왕이다], Like a Virgin [천하장사 마돈나] and Family Ties [가족의 탄생] all have in common? If you answered that they all star Baek Yoon-sik... (0 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 05/11/2007 |
[Korean DVD News] Park Jin-pyo's Faction-Drama Voice of a Murderer [그놈 목소리] Up For Pre-Order We reported a few months back conflicting predictions concerning the eventual box office success of Park Jin-pyo's (You Are My Sunshine, 2005) docudrama Voice of a Murderer, which opened on February 1, 2007. One critic foretold a huge flop, while... (1 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 05/04/2007 |
Spider-Man 3 REVIEW It’s hard to criticize the previous “Spider-Man” films without sounding like a whiny fanboy. In this day and age of big-budget cookie-cutter comic book movies coming out one after another, Sam Raimi’s “Spidey” series has stood up as the pinnacle... (7 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 05/03/2007 |
[Korean Film News] Summer Looks Bleak for Local Film Industry An article published today in the online version of the Korea Herald warns that the Korean film industry faces a serious crisis as a slew of Hollywood blockbusters is poised to hit local screens this summer. After a period of... (1 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 05/03/2007 |
[Korean Film News] CGV Opens 5-Star Theatre Thursday Tired of long lines at the cinema, uncomfortable seating, munching on dried squid and popcorn? Well, for moviegoers with big pockets, a new movie house run by CGV, the largest theatre chain in Korea, might be just the answer. The... (3 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 04/17/2007 |
[Korean Box Office] Korea Braces For Hollywood Onslaught The next three months will prove crucial to the Korean film industry as competition from a slew of Hollywood blockbusters slated for release in May, June and July threaten to prolong the slump in box office performance by local productions.... (4 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 04/15/2007 |
DVD Review: Johnnie To's 'Justice My Foot' R3 starring Stephen Chow and Anita Mui Stephen Chow is Sung Sai Kit, a brilliant, but somewhat shifty lawyer who uses his verbal dexterity in the pursuit of cash, not justice. His kung-fu kicking wife (Anita Mui) frowns on his success as it has had a terrible... (1 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 04/06/2007 |
Grindhouse REVIEW By now everyone probably knows that the movie “Grindhouse”, Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino’s two-fisted ode to the exploitation films of yore, is actually two movies, plus fake trailers. Each director has created a full-length feature that fits into the... (32 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 04/04/2007 |
[Korean Box Office News] Weekend March 30 - April 1 At the number one spot over the weekend was Jang Gyoo-seong's (My Teacher, Mr. Kim, 2003) dramatic comedy Small Town Rivals, pairing up actors Cha Seung-won and Yoo Hae-jin as two old classmates who haven't seen one another for 20... (0 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 04/02/2007 |
2007 SFIFF50—Ticket Prices I'm probably about as shocked as anyone else regarding the Tribeca Film Festival's hiking of ticket prices by 50%, now ranging in the $18 per ticket range, and I don't even live in New York. indieWIRE reports on the fracas... (0 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 03/28/2007 |
[Korea Box Office] The Host Passes The $1 M Barrier In US The Host has passed the US $1 million barrier in the United States just three weeks after its release, according to it producer Chungeorahm. Released in 71 theatres on March 7, the film took in $320,000 the first week, rising... (5 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 03/27/2007 |
[Korean Box Office] Hollywood Films Dominate In March It comes as no surprise that Hollywood productions outdid local films this month, as March is typically a slack season for the local industry. But given the strong box office performance of late, the slump might have come as a... (0 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 03/26/2007 |
[Korean DVD News] Documentary "Between" [사이에서] (2006) Available For Preorder Between, a documentary about Korean shamanism by Lee Chang-jae, is available for pre-order on DVD. The digitally-shot work received enthousiastic praise last spring at the Jeonju International Film Festival, an event which showcases digital, independent and art films, and attracted... (1 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 03/16/2007 |
[Korean Film News] Foreign Films Get Top Billing The month of March is considered an off-peak season for the Korean film industry. Among the 34 films which have been or are about to be released this month, only four are Korean. And among the foreign films, many are... (0 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 03/15/2007 |
[Korean Film News] "The Host” Tops Chinese Box-office Bong Joon-ho's "The Host" dominated the Chinese box-office last week, grossing some 5.2 million yuan (US $671,574) to become the first Korean film to top the Chinese box-office in the first week since its opening. "The Han River Ghost," as... (5 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 03/09/2007 |
'Hot Fuzz' dominates UK box office "Hot Fuzz" has held on to the number one spot in the UK Box Office for the third week in a row, even beating out the Marvel action hit "Ghost Rider," to boot, which is not doing bad in the numbers game itself. (1 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 03/09/2007 |
{Korean Box Office News] Korean Films Dominate In February Korean films dominated the box office in February, led by Park Jin-pyo's kidnapping drama "Voice of a Murderer" that sold 3.1 million tickets, the major multiplex cinema operator CGV said. Six films in the top 10 box office rankings were... (0 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 02/28/2007 |
MARTIN SCORSESE TO TEAM UP WITH MICK JAGGER TO DIRECT AND PRODUCE ”THE LONG PLAY” Another press release - this one sounds like it could be a VERY cool project. Of course, if you stop to consider Jagger's cinematic track record... well, hopefully Scorsese's winning streak can offset that. Here's the big news: ACADEMY AWARD... (3 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 02/28/2007 |
J.J. ABRAMS TO DIRECT STAR TREK FEATURE FILM Just got this press release, making it official. I actually thought this was official a long time ago, but then I read just last week that Abrams was merely "considering" directing this. Well, it's fianlly set to be a reality,... (1 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 02/22/2007 |
Half of Korean Women Have Undergone Plastic Surgery 200 Pound Beauty, the Korean plastic surgery comedy, has sold over 6,561,800 tickets, making it the single most successful comedy in Korea. The popularity of the film is a reflection of Koreans' obsession with physical appearance which has resulted in... (2 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 02/08/2007 |
[Korean Film News] Korean Film Observatory No.21 Now Available The latest edition of the Korean Film Council's (KOFIC) Korean Film Observatory is now available for download. The spotlight of issue No.21 is on the 8 Korean films to be screened at this year's Berlin Film Festival, but also includes... (1 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 02/06/2007 |
[Korean Film News] "Voice of a Murderer" A Success The big box office news this week is the overwhelming success of Park Jin-pyo's docudrama "Voice of a Murderer." We reported back in December that Darcy Paquet over at Koreanfilm.org predicted that the film would be one of the year's... (0 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 02/01/2007 |
[Korean Film News] Critic Predicts "Voice of a Murderer" Will Flop A film critic predicts that the docudrama "Voice of a Murderer," which opened today in theatres, will do poorly at the box office. One of the most highly anticipated films of the year, Park Jin-pyo's (You Are My Sunshine) latest... (1 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 01/25/2007 |
[Korean Film News] '200 Pound Beauty' Enters Top 10 Hit List The Korean romantic comedy "200 Pound Beauty" starring actress Kim Ah-jung entered the country's accumulated top ten box office hit list on its 42nd day of release. Production agency KM Culture says 5.83 million moviegoers watched the movie since it... (2 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 01/23/2007 |
2007 OSCARS—Quick Takes & Initial Responses The Oscar nominations are set and Kurt has done a great job of getting the Twitch buzz going on today's announcements! As questionably cruel as the Oscar elimination process might be—according to Florian Henckel Von Donnersmarck—he must be exhaling a... (7 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 01/22/2007 |
[Korean Box Office] Weekend January 19-20 #, Title, Release Date, Screens Nationwide, Weekend Attendance (Seoul only), Total Attendance 1. Mapado 2 Jan. 18 [385] 110,000 (737,000) 2. 200-Pound Beauty Dec. 14 [262] 101,400 (5,718,700) 3. Herb Jan. 11 [275] 80,000 (951,800) 4. Deja Vu Jan. 11... (0 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 01/20/2007 |
[Korean Film News] Korean Films Saw More Screens, Less Profits In 2006 According to data released by the Korean Film Council regarding last year’s domestic film market, ticket sales and the number of movies and screens increased, but the industry saw profitability and exports decline. Released on January 18, the data shows... (0 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 01/19/2007 |
Pan’s Labyrinth REVIEW With so much having already been said about this film, on this site in particular, it’s easy to feel very redundant offering up yet another critical take on “Pan’s Labyrinth.” However, with the film only now going into wider release... (5 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 01/18/2007 |
[Korean Film News] 'Korean Wave' Breaks As Film Exports Slump Korean films suffered a 68% drop in international sales in 2006, according to a report released on Thursday by the Korean Film Council (KOFIC). Worldwide exports amounted to $24.5 million in 2006, down from $76 million the previous year. A... (0 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 01/16/2007 |
MidnightEye's Year's Best 2006 & End of Year Poll. It's the time you find out about lots of things you managed to miss during the year... Visit MidnightEye; (End of Year Poll also linked from this page).... (0 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 01/16/2007 |
[Korea Box Office] Weekend Jan. 12-14 Once more, we have the weekend box office results thanks to Mark Russell at Korea Pop Wars. If you haven't already done so, you should check out his site. As expected, 200 Pound Beauty broke the 5 million mark, making... (1 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 01/10/2007 |
[Korean Film News] Korean Film Distributors Fight For Top B.O. Spot Official 2006 box office figures for South Korea are not in yet, but some early estimates have provided a mixture of good news and controversy. Leading distributors CJ Entertainment and Showbox are engaged in a public spat over which of... (0 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 01/08/2007 |
[Korean Box Office News] Weekend Jan. 5-7 The comedies "200 Pound Beauty" and "Night at the Museum" finished neck-and-neck this weekend, with the third installment of the "My Wife Is A Gangster" franchise holding on to 3rd place. Im Sang-soo's "The Old Garden" not doing so hot,... (1 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 01/07/2007 |
Japanese Top Box-Office 2006 The site Hoga Central just posted the translation of the Top Japanese Box Office results for 2006, initially published on the Japanese site eiga.com. The results in parenthesis are in billions of yen. For the equivalent in American dollars, US... (5 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 01/02/2007 |
[Korean Box Office] Weekend Box Office Dec 29 - Jan 1 Mark Russell points out that Night at the Museum is set to become the most successful foreign comedy screened in Korea, while 200 Pound Beauty might end up reaching 5 million admissions. #, Title, Title, Release Date, Screens Nationwide, Weekend... (1 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 01/02/2007 |
Malaysian Cinema 2006: An Overview A total of 24 local films had wide general release in 2006, an increase from 20 films in 2005. This is excluding four digital films that were released exclusively on limited screens at Golden Screen Cinemas’ International Screens in Kuala... (3 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 01/01/2007 |
[Korean Film News] What The Host Can Learn From Tae Guk Gi With the DVD release of The Host just a few weeks away (Jan 16), many of us will have the opportunity to see first-hand what all the fuss was about. For those craving still more of the the Han River... (7 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 12/29/2006 |
[Korean Film News] Production Up, Profits Down In Korean Film Industry The number of Korean movies released this year surpassed 100 for the first time. At 108 films, this marks a steady increase from 65 produced in 2003, 74 in 2004 and 83 in 2005. According to box office data, Korean... (1 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 12/29/2006 |
[Korean Film News] Darcy's Predictions for 2007 Darcy Paquet, writing in his blog over at Koreanfilm.org, looks into his crystal ball and shares his visions with fellow Korean film lovers. Prediction numero uno -- Park Jin-pyo's Voice of A Murderer will be a huge critical and box... (3 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 12/27/2006 |
[Korean Box Office] Weekend Dec. 21 - 24 NOTE: This week's numbers include the Monday holiday. #, Title, Release Date, [Screens Nationwide], Weekend Attendance (Seoul only), Total Attendance 1) Night at the Museum Dec. 21 [357] (301,200) 1,355,100 2) 200-Pound Beauty Dec. 14 [444] (268,100) 2,553,100 3) The... (1 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 12/22/2006 |
[Korean Box Office] I'm A Cyborg, But That's OK To Be Pulled Acclaimed South Korean director Park Chan-wook's new movie will be pulled from most local screens before the lucrative Christmas holiday due to disappointing box office results in its first two weeks, its distributor said Thursday. The romantic comedy "I'm a... (9 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 12/20/2006 |
[Korean Box Office] “The Restless” to Be Released in 450 Theaters The fantasy blockbuster “The Restless” will be shown in as many as 450 theaters across the nation on Friday. CJ Entertainment, the film’s distributor, said Wednesday that the exact number of theaters has yet to be decided, but it has... (0 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 12/18/2006 |
[Korea Box Office] Weekend December 15-17 Competition should be heating up this week as several films battle it out for holiday viewership. The Restless will most likely gobble up 450-500 screens, Casino Royale will have to content itself with a mere 400, and the Ben Stiller... (5 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 12/17/2006 |
CICAK-MAN makes Malaysian cinema history This lizard's sure good at climbing ... the box-office charts, that is. Cicak-Man ("cicak" is "lizard" in Malay), Malaysia's first big-screen superhero, broke the opening-day record in the country by grossing RM350,000 on its first day of release on... (3 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 12/14/2006 |
[Korean Film News] Korean box office takes surprise tumble in November Korea's all-important theatrical B.O. took a worrying dip in November. The recent termination of discount schemes and a poor line-up of local movies have both been blamed. Admissions in the Seoul metropolitan region totaled 2.788 million, an 11% drop compared... (0 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 12/12/2006 |
[Korean Film News] Korea Weekend Box Office - Dec. 8-10 #, Title, Release Date, [# Screens Nationwide], Weekend Attendance (Seoul only), Total Attendance (Nationwide) 1) I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK [싸이보그지만 괜찮아] Dec 7. [332] 112,000. (472,000) 2) Seducing Mr. Perfect [Mr.로빈 꼬시기] Dec 7. [351] 93,300. (390,700) 3)... (3 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 12/05/2006 |
[Korean Film News] Weekend Box Office - Dec. 1-3 and 4 Upcoming Films Park Chan-wook's comedy romance aside, what other movies can we look forward to in the coming weeks? Here are four of 'em: two rom - coms, one action fantasy and one action comedy, along with selected filmographies and release dates.... (0 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 12/02/2006 |
[Korean Film News] Box Office: November 24- 26, 2006 Four new releases opened the top ten chart last weekend, with first place going to local action-drama Sunflower [해바라기], directed by Kang Seok-beom [강석범] and starring Kim Rae-won [김래원]. Opening in second place was The Departed, Scorsese's remake of Internal... (0 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 11/27/2006 |
[Korean Film News] Mass of Resignations at Cinema Service Recently in these pages we've written about the virtual explosion of films being produced in South Korea, so many in fact, that as much as 20% of this year's crop may not be shown until next year, if at all.... (0 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 11/25/2006 |
Japanese Films On Track to Conquer 2006 Box Office According to figures published by the Nikkei newspaper, Japanese films are on track to grab a majority share of the 2006 box office -- for the first time in over 20 years! In the first 10 months of 2006, domestic... (0 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 11/22/2006 |
[Korean Film News] Korean producers reject funding, call for return to screen quota Quotas and regulations remain a hot topic in South Korea, as filmmakers and politicians debate the future of the local film industry. On November 21, the Korea Film Directors Society issued a statement rejecting a $674 million support package proposed... (2 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 11/21/2006 |
[Korean Film News] No Regrets [후회하지 않아] (2006) Gay-themed Korean drama "No Regrets," which was picked up by Fortissimo for world sales at this fall's Pusan Intl., is off to a strong start at the Korean box office. Despite opening on only six screens, the low-budget film sold... (3 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 11/17/2006 |
[Korean Film News] Chungmuro's Most Popular Stars The Chosun Ilbo asked 12 producers and PR executives to rank the top 20 Korean actors according to drawing power. Unsurprisingly, Song Kang-ho [송강호] ranked first among all actors and actresses. Coming in at first place in 2003 and capturing... (0 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 11/09/2006 |
[Korean Film News] "War of Flower 2"? With admissions at well over 6 million since its theatrical release September 27, "War of Flower" [타짜] has gone on to become one of the ten most successful films in Korean history. Costing US $5.5M, the film is based on... (0 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 10/30/2006 |
[K-Film Weekend Box Office Top Ten] October 27-29, 2006 New Films: The Devil Wears Prada, Traces of Love, Hearty Paws, One Piece. The box office is still in a post-Chuseok lull. For this weekend’s Top Ten, only seven titles made it on the list, as Koreans chose to do... (0 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 10/29/2006 |
Korean Film "War of Flowers" Joins Top Ten The movie "War of Flowers," based on the same-titled cartoon by cartoonist Heo Young-man, has joined the ranks of top-10 domestic movies. Since its opening September 28, the film had drawn 5.68 million viewers as of October 22, according to... (2 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 10/29/2006 |
"Our Happy Times" Beats Record For Melodramas The film « Our Happy Times » [Maundy Thursday], which was released in theatres September 14th, tells the story of love between a young man condemned to die and a young woman who has attempted to commit suicide several times.... (0 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 10/26/2006 |
Top 10 Thai Films Box Office 2006 [Part 2] Just came back from Hua-Hin, one of the most beautiful beach city in the world. Now I have lots of power to write about Thai Film!! Here is the second part of Top 10 Thai Films Box Office 2006.... (2 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 10/21/2006 |
Top 10 Thai Films Box Office 2006 [Part 1] I got some E-mail asking me why Thailand has produced only few films a year. Actually is, we already released more than 30 films this year. But It's too difficult for me to show you all of them so I... (5 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 10/17/2006 |
KOREAN BOX OFFICE REPORT. Market share record domestic films Korea's leading film exhibitor CGV reported a record breaking market share of Korean films last September. Korean films dominated the domestic market with 82.7% of the sold tickets, edging over February 2004's record, when... (1 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 10/04/2006 |
[K-Film Weekend Box Office Top Ten] September 29-October 1, 2006 Coming in at #1 of this weekend's Top Ten (er... Top Eight!) is War of Flowers (타짜), based on a popular manhwa by Heo Young-Man (허영만), and directed by Choi Dong-Hoon (최동훈) of The Big Swindle (범죄의 재구성) fame. According... (4 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 09/25/2006 |
[K-Film Weekend Box Office Top Ten] September 22-24, 2006 New films: Marrying the Mafia 3 (가문의 부활-가문의 영광 3), The Banquet, Mudori (무도리), and Volver. Marrying the Mafia 3 takes up the top spot in its opening weekend, while Song Hye-Seong’s Our Happy Time - whose new English title... (0 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 09/23/2006 |
The U.S. vs. John Lennon REVIEW More than just the latest political documentary, and not just another Beatle-relate retrospective, “The U.S. vs. John Lennon” attempts to weave the two topics while slyly implying a relevance to today’s world. It is a documentary that swirls around a... (5 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 09/19/2006 |
[K-Film Weekend Box Office Top Ten] September 15-17, 2006 New films: Our Happy Time (우리들의 행복한 시간) and The Puzzle (두뇌유희프로젝트, 퍼즐). Ranking / Title [country] - Seoul weekend admissions (Total national admissions): 1. Our Happy Time (우리들의 행복한 시간) [Korea] - 297,800 (1,204,400) 2. The Puzzle (두뇌유희프로젝트, 퍼즐)... (2 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 09/15/2006 |
The Black Dahlia REVIEW Once upon a time, the prospect of a new film from Brian De Palma was considered something to look forward to along the lines of a new film from his Film School Generation contemporaries, Scorsese, Spielberg, and Lucas. But as... (1 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 09/14/2006 |
[K-Film Weekend Box Office Top Ten] September 8-10, 2006 New films: Between Love and Hate (연애, 그 참을 수 없는 가벼움), Riverbank Legends (뚝방전설), The Sentinel, and United 93. After spending its opening weekend at the top of the Korean box office, and ranking as the second-highest opening for... (0 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 09/10/2006 |
[K-Film Box Weekend Box Office Top Ten] September 1-3, 2006 New films: Shinji Higuchi’s The Sinking of Japan (taking away the top spot from The Host), Like a Virgin (천하장사 마돈나), Hong Sang-Soo’s Woman on the Beach (해변의 여인), and The Lake House. Ranking / Title [country] - Seoul weekend... (3 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 08/30/2006 |
Korean Box Office Results, for the weekend of August 25-27, 2006 The Host still dominates the box office, and it has now passed the 12 million admissions mark. Shin Ha-Gyun (신하균) vehicle, No Mercy for the Rude, opened in second place, but with only 381,500 admissions and mixed critical response. Lump... (0 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 08/16/2006 |
The Host (괴물) Hits the 10 Million Admissions Mark As of Wednesday, 5pm (Korean time), The Host has surpassed the 10 million admissions mark at the box office, after only 21 days. Tuesday was a national holiday in Korea (August 15, Liberation Day), so it really gave the... (2 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 08/16/2006 |
Korean Box Office Results, for the Weekend of August 11-13, 2006 Ranking / Title [Country] - Seoul weekend admissions (Total national admissions): 1. The Host (괴물) [Korea] - 328,500 (9,129,400) 2. Monster House [USA] - 105,500 (395,600) 3. Lump of Sugar (각설탕) [Korea] - 84,000 (338,000) 4. Dasepo Naughty Girls (다세포소녀)... (1 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 08/09/2006 |
World Trade Center REVIEW Politics. Conspiracy. Patriotism. War. If ever there were a topic that seemingly lent itself to Oliver Stone’s mold of filmmaking, the events of September 11, 2001 would be it. The filmmaker has a lot of strong opinions, some of them... (0 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 07/31/2006 |
[Chungmuro Daily (K-Film News/Box Office)] Updated July 31 Don't want to wait a week to read K-film related news? Want to see the latest box office listings, or preorder sales, updated daily? Here's your chance. Although we'll continue dedicating single posts to major news, it's much more efficent... (6 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 07/28/2006 |
괴물 (The Host) Breaks Opening Day Record I could have used another lame 'monster' related double entendre, but this thing started so well we might be dealing with Bong Joon-Ho's latest film for quite a while. And you need to save ammunition, in that case. Anyhow. Numbers... (0 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 07/27/2006 |
괴물 (The Host)... DVD? ...it's not what you think. You know by now 괴물 (The Host) is out in Korea, and to realize that you'd need just a peek at most major Korean Message Boards (like DC), filled with thousands of posts about the... (6 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 07/12/2006 |
한반도 (Hanbando) Ends Hollywood's Box Office Domination? Kang Woo-Suk strikes again... or at least that's how things are looking like at the moment. If you've been checking our Chungmuro Daily, we reported how negatively the critics have received 한반도 (Hanbando), the latest work from the director of... (1 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 06/19/2006 |
[K-Film News & Box Office] June 19 Heo Young-Man continues to be the favourite manhwa artist in Chungmuro, as after 다모 (Damo) and 형사 (Duelist), along with Choi Dong-Hoon's upcoming 타짜 (War of Flowers), two other projects have appeared on the radar. And, just like for the... (0 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 06/13/2006 |
[K-Film News & Box Office] June 13 After the disappointment (on both the commercial and critical fronts) of 데이지 (Daisy), many people are interested what Jeon Ji-Hyun will choose as her next project. There was a rumour she'd star in a Drama written by Lee Kyung-Hee of... (2 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 06/05/2006 |
[K-Film News & Box Office] June 5 After finding success (in varying degrees) at the box office on their previous efforts -- respectively 왕의 남자 (The King and The Clown) and 흡혈형사 나도열 (Vampire Cop Ricky) -- Gam Woo-Sung and Kim Soo-Ro will come back to the... (3 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 05/29/2006 |
[K-Film News & Box Office] May 29 More good news regarding the increasingly intriguing Omnibus SF project 인류멸망 보고서 (Doomsday Book). The film features three parts directed by Kim Ji-Woon, Im Pil-Sung and Han Jae-Rim respectively, and has already cast Ryu Seung-Beom and Kim Gang-Woo. But here's... (3 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 05/22/2006 |
[K-Film News & Box Office] May 22 After the monster success of last Summer's 내 이름은 김삼순 (My Lovely Sam-Soon), box office queen Kim Seon-Ah has finally chosen her next project, and it's a little surprising. Usually starring in comedies, Kim will star in her first thriller,... (0 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 05/15/2006 |
[K-Film News & Box Office] May 15 After turning down the leading role for the upcoming SBS Drama 스마일 어게인 (Smile Again) -- to focus on her film activities -- it seems like Ha Ji-Won will have to postpone her return to TV for a while, as... (4 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 05/12/2006 |
What Will You Watch This Weekend? POSEIDON attempts to flood America this weekend, but Michael Guillen already boarded that ship, so what else in the world is there to see? Screen Daily reports that gambling drama TWO FOR THE MONEY (a slumming Al Pacino and a... (5 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 05/09/2006 |
K-Film News & Box Office [2006, May 9] ======================== NEWS ======================== It promised well, enough to perhaps reverse the trend: it had one of the few surefire box office draws in the country, Cha Seung-Won; reviews were quite good, dispelling fears that it would just be a huge,... (0 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 05/05/2006 |
What Will You Watch This Weekend? Tom's Magic Carpet Ride will attempt to conquer the world this weekend in the biggest day-and-date release in the history of Paramount Studios: 55 territories via 9,500 prints, according to Screen Daily. Whether you live in Argentina, France, Hong Kong,... (12 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 05/04/2006 |
K-Film News & Box Office [2006, May 4] ======================== NEWS ======================== Just like every year around this time, Cine21 got together some of the most important names in the industry, and asked them their top 50 most important figures in Chungmuro. Gone are the days when Kang Woo-Suk,... (7 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 04/17/2006 |
Korean Box Office Report - April 14/16 너도 키스할때 혀넣고 하니??어? 넣었어 며칠전에 ... 허허허 (Do you? Use your tongue when kissing? Uh? I did it, a few days ago... hahaha) 박용우 (Park Yong-Woo) - 달콤, 살벌한 연인 中 (from My Scary Girl) Mi-Na and Dae-Woo strike... (6 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 04/10/2006 |
Korean Box Office Report - April 7/9 He never had a serious relationship, so anyone nice would have been fine. But then he (Park Yong-Woo) meets her (Choi Kang-Hee). Oh... she's nice, and really pretty too. But there's a little problem, a little bloody secret she's hiding,... (6 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 04/04/2006 |
Korean Box Office Report - March 31/April 2 Once again, Hollywood's 'instincts' were a little too basic, as Sharon Stone's return to the screen with Basic Instincts 2 ended up disappointing (them), and the Kwon Sang-Woo/Kim Ha-Neul couple showed once again their drawing power. The romcom 청춘만화 (Almost... (0 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 03/31/2006 |
Slither REVIEW Alien slugs, creeping tentacles, and alien-possessed zombies… What more could anyone want from a movie?? Those drawn to such content will be oozing with happiness to know that James Gunn’s “Slither” is just about as much fun as one can... (6 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 03/29/2006 |
Korean Box Office Report - March 24/26 In Korea they call it 대박, that big hit every actor, producer and director in the country would like to experience at least once in their career. For people like Kim Ha-Neul and Kwon Sang-Woo, that feeling is nothing new,... (3 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 03/21/2006 |
Korean Box Office Report - March 17/19 Although sexy comedies like 색즉시공 (Sex is Zero) started a mini-trend pushing the buttons of the new teenager audience in Chungmuro, finding a mature, 'adult' sexy comedy in today's Korean Cinema is not that easy, mostly because producers tend to... (4 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 03/13/2006 |
Korean Box Office Report - March 10/12 The box office war between domestic films continues. As expected, Andrew Lau's 데이지 (Daisy) took the lead on its opening weekend, but it certainly didn't have the impact (some) people expected, as it boasts a huge cast (Jeon Ji-Hyun, Jung... (1 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 03/06/2006 |
Korean Box Office Report - March 3/5 68 Days, 11.8 Million people, and a little flick about Clowns and a tyrant King. If at the beginning of 2005 you told me a Historical Drama without stars would become the top grossing Korean film of all time, I... (2 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 03/05/2006 |
The Clowns Become Kings March 5, 2006 has become a little more than your average Sunday. OK, we have the Oscars, but I'd rather watch snails in slow motion than that eulogy of self-congratulatory masturbation. No, this day will be remembered for something else:... (4 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 02/28/2006 |
Korean Box Office Report - February 24/26 For years, 사극 (sageuk, Historical Dramas) was a genre mostly confined to the educational (showing certain cultural and sociological aspects of a period, telling the story of a famous historical figure), or the re-discovering of Korean's traditional customs. A good... (0 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 02/21/2006 |
Korea Falls in Love With Historical Dramas... Again Beautiful costumes, lavish sets, the chance to rediscover your own history without having to go through hours and hours of boring lectures... 사극 (sageuk, Historical Dramas) always had that strange charm. And from time to time, Chungmuro tries to go... (5 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 02/20/2006 |
Korean Box Office Report - February 17/19 Speechless. What else can you say about 왕의 남자 (The King and The Clown)? It's pretty obvious by now even those who never look at box office stats in Korea know 'that' number, the 11 plus Million scored by 태극기... (3 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 02/14/2006 |
Korean Box Office Report - February 10/12 It was 1993, the year when Im Kwon-Taek's 서편제 (Sopyonje) started its legendary run, to usher in the era of the 'Million seller' films in Chungmuro. Yet, for someone who seemed to be destined to remain an eternal (yet memorable)... (4 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 02/10/2006 |
10 Million for 왕의 남자 (The King and The Clown) It was early 2004, when Eagle Pictures finalized all the details for their new project, the historical Drama 왕의 남자 (The King and The Clown): it would be an adaptation of the popular play 이 (爾, Yi), and would... (12 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 02/03/2006 |
Offending Angels. £70k Budget, £89 Box Office. 8 DVD Sales to Double its Takings. One of the thoughts running through my mind when people are talking about co-productions and (non-actor) talent within film production is the happenings here in the UK with our film studios and our film production as a result. Don't know... (0 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 02/02/2006 |
Chungmuro Hits 78% Share in January Quite a strange January we had... the long running screen quota was finally reduced, creating protests amongst film people as expected. Then the government threw a last minute dagger in Hollywood's back -- 친구 (Friend) style -- announcing from now... (0 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 01/31/2006 |
Korean Box Office Report - January 27/30 Enter the Clown... They've done it. 8 Million, top film of the year, 3rd most successful of all time. Lee Joon-Ik's 왕의 남자 (The King and The Clown) continues its incredible box office run, which started a mere month... (12 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 01/27/2006 |
Dr. Chungmuro, or how I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love The Holiday(s) Ahhh... 설 연휴 (Lunar New Year) holidays, finally. The moment when Koreans take a step back, enjoy time with their families back in their hometowns, and eat as if the end of the world was coming. A time when we're... (5 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 01/24/2006 |
Korean Box Office Report - January 20/22 Sequels. Almost universally detested when they come from Hollywood, strangely successful when it comes to Chungmuro. 가문의 위기 (Marrying The Mafia 2: Enemy in Law) was both better and more successful than the original 가문의 영광 (Marrying The Mafia); and,... (0 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 01/23/2006 |
왕의 남자 (The King and The Clown) Says Bye-Bye to 쉬리 (Shiri) Lee Joon-Ik's 왕의 남자 (The King and The Clown) is on fire. We've covered its box office run in depth, if anything because it's such an inspirational success story, and the kind of film Chungmuro needs to focus on... (6 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 01/20/2006 |
투사부일체 (My Boss, My Student) Opens Big The 'Jung Trio' strikes again? Seems like it, as the comedy 투사부일체 (My Boss, My Student) had a record-breaking opening day at the Korean box office. Starring Jung Joon-Ho, Jung Woong-In, Jung Woon-Taek (the 'Jung Trio) and Kim Sang-Joong, the... (7 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 01/17/2006 |
Korean Box Office Report - January 13/15 Ahhh... the smell of success. What does it taste like? Go ask Lee Joon-Ik, because after years of struggling, he's finally found the film which made it all worth it. Lee, whose company Cineworld lost Billions of Won when the... (0 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 01/12/2006 |
왕의 남자 (The King and The Clown) Nearing 4 Million Those clowns... Who could ever expect it: a film with no stars about court jesters, competing with big apes, 20 Billion Won blockbusters and costly melodramas with big stars... beating them all. Lee Joon-Ik's tour de force 왕의 남자 (The... (5 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 01/10/2006 |
Korean Box Office Report - January 6/8 Feels good being right. No, I don't mean us, for picking Lee Joon-Ik's 왕의 남자 (The King and The Clown) as a possible sleeper hit of the Christmas Season, but the director himself. His pragmatic mentality of not wasting money... (0 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 01/02/2006 |
Korean Box Office Report - January 1 Clear skies... no clouds or wind in sight. Ideal weather you'd say, especially when a good portion of the world is going through a pretty damn cold Winter. But for some filmmakers, those skies should have been populated by either... (4 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 12/31/2005 |
왕의 남자 (The King and The Clown) = Super Hit in the Making? Lee Joon-Ik strikes again? Too early to tell, but it seems his latest work 왕의 남자 (The King and The Clown) set the box office on fire on its first day of release. After doing great in pre-order sales all... (0 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 12/28/2005 |
Korean Box Office Report - December 23/25 Ahhh... the big ape. The cuddly, sweet, gigantic ape which is setting the world box office on fire. It's so big, it even fights typhoons. Word of mouth still reigns supreme amongst Korean viewers, as the buzz about Peter Jackson's... (4 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 12/26/2005 |
태풍 (Typhoon) Already Past 3 Million Tickets It might not be the kind of Christmas gift Kwak Kyung-Taek wants -- that would be reaching the break even point at 5 Million tickets sold -- but his latest blockbuster 태풍 (Typhoon) is quickly reserving its place at the... (1 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 12/19/2005 |
Korean Box Office Report - December 16/18 They promised a typhoon, and it eventually came, hitting the Korean box office all week long. Kwak Kyung-Taek's latest blockbuster 태풍 (Typhoon) destroyed competition on its first week on release, performing just as well as people in the industry expected.... (3 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |
| 12/16/2005 |
태풍 (Typhoon): 560,000 Tickets in Two Days It was very likely Kwak Kyung-Taek's latest blockbuster 태풍 (Typhoon), starring Jang Dong-Gun and Lee Jung-Jae, would do well. With a budget of 18 Billion Won (over 4 for marketing only) -- the largest in Korean film history -- and... (1 Comments) / Digg This / Add To del.icio.us |