Korea Weekend Box Office - Oct. 12-14 (and Oct. 5-7, too)

At long last, Hur Jin-ho lands on the top of the box office. Not just once, but two weeks in a row, with his latest melodrama HAPPINESS. Sure, 967,000 admissions in 10 days is not so impressive, but HAPPINESS has made Hur quite happy anyway because he has never led the box office in Korea before. Good for him. And good for Zip Cine, the company that produced the movie.

Otherwise, the most notable thing about this week's box office to me is how egalitarian it is. The No. 10 movie, THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM, is in nearly 200 theaters! And it made around $350,000. I do not recall the No. 10 films doing 50 percent as well as the No. 3 movie before. Kind of unusual.

Also surprising is that a new Jodie Foster thriller and a new Clive Owen action film were both bested by a couple of fairly small films -- BECOMING JANE and COPYING BEETHOVEN. I am not sure what that all means, but it is kind of nifty.

This Week	Title............................................	Release Date	Screens Nationwide	Weekend Attendance	Total Attendance
1.	Happiness (Haengbok - Korean)	10.03	341	217,117	967,790
2.	Rush Hour 3	10.03	270	167,384	621,617
3.	Nanny Diaries	10.03	229	98,177	405,779
4.	Love (Sarang - Korean)	9.20	263	97,350	1,966,448
5.	Becoming Jane	10.11	238	88,135	104,719
6.	Copying Beethoven	10.11	165	86,527	99,366
7.	Brave One	10.11	169	81,014	95,473
8.	Shoot 'Em Up	10.11	172	55,947	66,932
9.	The Happy Life (Jeulgeoun Insaeng - Korean)	9.12	149	52,994	1,177,938
10.	Bourne Ultimatum	9.12	199	49,801	1,976,069

(Source: KOBIS - Figures represent 94% of nationwide box office)


Last Week's Box Office (Oct. 5-7)
Title - Weekend Admissions - Total Nationwide Admissions

1. Happiness (Korean) - 322,400 - 583,565
2. Rush Hour 3 - 211,069 - 354,381
3. Love (Korean) - 143,991 - 1,770,649
4. The Nanny Diaries - 139,852 - 238,029
5. The Bourne Ultimatum - 98,780 - 1,878,427
6. The Happy Life (Korean) - 77,188 - 1,084,124
7. Kidnapping Granny K (Korean) - 58,219 - 1,458,958
8. Crank - 39,171 - 68,027
9. The Mafia, The Salesman (Korean) - 31,982 - 867,188
10. Invasion - 23,316 - 544,173