Korean Box Office 2007.08.17~2007.08.19
Title - Weekend Admissions - Total Nationwide Admissions
1. D-War (Korean)-580,846- 6,902,034
2. May 18-(Korean)-416,747 5,609,005
3. Underground Rendezvous-309,768- 609,807
(Korean)
4. Changing Partners (Korean)-227,538-435,770
5. Stardust (USA)-180,388-315,243
6. Return (Korean)-72,013-539,493
7. Zodiac (USA)-55,367-107,619
8. Mr. Bean's Holiday(UK)-50,359-91,977
9. Fantastic Four: (2)(USA)-43,930-553,889
10. Surf's Up (USA)-43,403-243,525
For another week it was D-WAR and May 18th leading the charge. With both of these films soon to enter the all time top 10 in tickets sold in Korea, the talk has been will the break the 11million ticket mark.
Not a good showing for FF 2, here in Korea. Stardust did somewhat, OK, for a small release here. "The Simpson's' Movie" opens up this week, I am looking forward to see how the film will do here. The drawing are done here in Korea, so will we see another nationalism rush as we have with the top 2 or will the Korean audience think that this is a USA only feature.
Transformers is now off the top 10 and its total tickets sold is now at about 7,358,837.
ADDED 8-21-07
Wow, talk about allot of comments over one little comment.
May I please add why I stated this.
http://mikemcstay.blogspot.com/2007/08/all-of-this-on-85-because-of-d-war.html
This is a little bit of my blog that I dedicated to telling why my readership had a one day spike. It was due to me posting my D-War review, that I also posted here on twitch. The one comment was also posted in English and the Original Korean that it was sent to me. It was very weird but, this person sent it and I posted it.
Now lets look at what has been going on with D-War.
http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&FriendID=92563892&blogMonth=8&blogDay=21&blogYear=2007
When this all went down on MBC, I could not believe it. Please look at the rational of why "D-War" is doing good in this article.
Now lets look at "May 18th" I also did the review. Once again, I received allot of complaints, and the most were from people who had not even seen the film yet.
(Here is the review, in case you want to review it) http://mikemcstay.blogspot.com/2007_07_01_archive.html
What really sent me of about it was was CJ (The film company that released the movie) http://www.rjkoehler.com/2007/06/26/former-usfk-commander-denies-us-involvement-in-gwangu-uprising/
Once again they were trying to blame the US for what happened and to play on it to increase the tickets sold. It was a bad film and the nationalism was just too much.
Now with the Transformers, it has been the exception and not the rule, realize the film had its world premier here in Korea. Some of the work was done in Korea and my students have told me that also.
My comment was, will the Korean public claim "The Simpson's" film as a Korean one and rush to see it or will they claim this is an USA film and stay away.
This summer the 143 day Korean film quota was done away with and replaced with a 73 day one, this has helped the sales of foreign films here in Korea. I knew this but I should have added that when I made the above comment. If you are upset, deal with it. I am only commenting on what I have seen and have been told by my Korean friends and the TV Shows.
