[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 other things instead of going to the movies. With no major domestic releases, a Hollywood film with “Prada” in its title ended up in the first place. The opening film of the 2006 Pusan International Film Festival, Kim Dae-seung’s melodrama Traces of Love (가을로) came in 2nd, but with only 420,100 admission.

Title [country] - Seoul weekend admissions (total national admissions / # of screens):

1. The Devil Wears Prada [USA] – 129,800 (479,000 / 239)
2. Traces of Love (가을로) [Korea] – 101,900 (420,100 / 315)
3. Tazza: The High Rollers (a.k.a. War of Flower) (타짜) [Korea] – 84,000 (6,181,100 / 367)
4. Righteous Ties (거룩한 계보) [Korea] – 79,000 (1,217,000 / 381)
5. Hearty Paws (마음이… ) [Korea] – 76,700 (400,700 / 309)
6. Radio Star (라디오 스타) [Korea] – 39,400 (1,733,700 / 190)
7. One Piece [Japan] – 9,500 (36,300 /140)

Source: [FILM 2.0]