Korea Weekend Box Office - Nov. 10-12

A VERY quiet weekend for the movies this past weekend. Box office we way down and spread out, with nothing really capturing people's attention. Moon Geun-young once again was able to open her film in the top spot, with her melodrama LOVE ME NOT (Sarang Ttauin Piryo Eopseo). But with just 327,000 admissions, that was not a huge accomplishment.

(Funny to think that we now live in an age where 327,000 admissions in three days is mediocre. I remember when Moon's film TALE OF TWO SISTERS broke records with an opening weekend of something over 700,000 admissions. At the time, it was pretty outstanding. Then the 1-million barrier fell. Then 1.6 million (a bunch of films). Then THE HOST scored 2.6 million in its opening weekend in July.)

DEVIL WEARS PRADA and THE PRESTIGE are continuing to do fairly well, with modest dropoffs from last week, and DEATH NOTE still doing okay, too (all were down about 33%).

This Week	Title........................................	Release Date	Screens Nationwide	Weekend Attendance (Seoul only)	Total Attendance
1.	Love Me Not	11.09	341	82,000	327,000
2.	The Devil Wears Prada	10.26	193	68,500	1,255,300
3.	The Prestige	11.02	130	60,400	434,500
4.	Cruel Winter Blues	11.09	296	56,900	260,900
5.	Death Note	11.02	200	48,000	555,000
6.	Silent Hill	11.09	165	33,900	115,700
7.	Tazza: The High Rollers	9.27	176	32,000	6,684,000
8.	Hearty Paws	10.26	210	25,000	901,000
9.	Educating Kidnappers	11.02	241	14,000	394,000
10.	The Guardian	11.02	101	11,700	150,700

(Source: Film2.0)
Next week looks like it will be similarly slow, but the week after that, things should start improving, with some big holiday releases beginning to roll out, starting with Martin Scorsese's THE DEPARTED (which, of course, I am quite nerded up about seeing).