Korea Weekend Box Office - March 16-18 Hong Kong Edition

Greetings from Hong Kong! The Hollywood Reporter has graciously sent me to the Hong Kong Filmart, to spend the week writing about movie deals and industry schmoozing and the like. For my money, the Pusan International Film Festival is more fun, but HK Filmart has perhaps more in terms of movie business. This week is always incredibly busy, but I will try to check in once or twice to comment on how things are going.

Meanwhile, back in the world of Korean movies, 300 had the big opening, just like we suspected -- took in just over $7 million, counting from the early Wednesday night opening.

MUSIC AND LYRICS BY continues to chug along, once again in second place.

Otherwise, not a whole lot to note. 300 kind of overpowered most of the competition... plus I need to get some sleep for a long day tomorrow. Cheers.

This Week	Title........................................	Release Date	Screens Nationwide	Weekend Attendance (Seoul only)	Total Attendance
1.	300	3.14	353	262,800	1,031,500
2.	Music and Lyrics By	2.28	131	60,600	837,500
3.	The Illusionist	3.08	240	39,700	467,100
4.	Big Bang	3.14	224	34,300	210,100
5.	The Painted Veil	3.14	105	28,000	76,000
6.	Pursuit of Happiness	2.28	140	21,900	573,600
7.	Miracle on 1st Street	2.14	222	14,000	2,683,000
8.	Dreamgirls	2.22	66	11,000	700,000
9.	Little Runner	3.14	135	8,900	29,200
10.	Smokin' Aces	3.08	133	5,200	147,000

(Source: Film2.0)