NOTES ON ENTERTAINMENT, CULTURE AND MORE FROM KOREA (OR WHEREVER)

Thursday, June 21, 2007

Korea Weekend Box Office - June 15-18
(Mini Edition)

Sorry the box office was late this week. Busy busy.... but I just finished another chapter on my book (and there was much rejoicing).

Title - Weekend Seoul Admissions - Total Nationwide Admissions

1. Ocean's 13 - 166,800 - 510,100
2. Shrek 3 - 134,000 - 2,198,000
3. Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End - 47,000 - 4,717,800
4. Hwang Jinyi - 46,300 - 1,044,700
5. Love and Trouble - 38,400 - 115,300
6. Secret Sunshine - 24,700 - 1,538,400
7. The Messenger - 8,000 - 240,500
8. Kiiroi Namida - 7,500 - 17,000
9. The Girl Who Leapt Through Time - 7,400 - 12,300
10. The Wonder Years - 700 - 3,000

Kind of a fun week for disproportionate results. OCEANS 13 was the top film, despite appearing in many fewer theaters than the Nos. 2-4 films (249 screens for the Steven Soderberg film, vs. 450, 350, and 424 for the next three). Heck, even SECRET SUNSHINE was in 246 screens, despite doing less than 20% of the business OCEANS did.

3 comments:

Jon Allen said...

what's Love and Trouble called in the rest of the world?
When I searched for it at IMDB the only match was a silent B/W movie from 1915!

Jon Allen said...

cancel that!
thepicca.co.kr had the full title
Love and other disasters.
It sounds like a good laugh.

Mark Russell said...

Thanks for the catch. I did not have the time to track down the proper title this week.