▲This photo, provided by Lotte Entertainment, shows, a scene from the movie TOP Gun : Maverick. (PHOTO NOT FOR SALE) (Yonhap)

▲ This photo, provided by CJ ENM, shows, a scene from ' Decision to leave'. (PHOTO NOT FOR SALE) (Yonhap)

SEOUL, July 1 (Yonhap) -- “Top Gun : Maverick” (shortened for Top Gun2) and director Park Chan-wook’s “Decision to leave” will be going head to head against one another at theatre this weekend.

According to the integrated network of movie tickets by the Korean Film Council, “Top Gun2” secured it’s top position after attracting 146 thousand viewers.

It has been 9 days since “Top Gun2” topped the movie chart with total of more than 2.18 million viewers.

The audiences have remained the same, despite the slight decrease in number of screens leading up to long term Korean box office hit.

“Decision to leave” which premiered on Wednesday placed second on the chart with 63 thousand viewers a day. Some of the audiences left polar opposite comments such as “it left a long lasting impression” or “the movie is way too complex, it is very hard to understand the plot”.

According to the reservation rate, “Top Gun2” which has higher demand in IMAXs reached 45.1 percent where as “Decision to leave” was only at 13.7 percent as of this morning.

“The Witch: Part 2 The Other One” and “The Roundup” continued on with their performance with 32 thousand viewers a day for “The Witch Part 2 The Other One” and 35 thousand viewers for “the Roundup”. “The Roundup” successfully surpassed “A Taxi Driver” which was placed number 17th on the rank of total viewers by achieving total viewers of over 12.21 million viewers.

“Prisoners of the Ghostland” starring Nicolas Cage and drama film “Come on Come on” starring Joaquin Phoenix awaits for its viewers this weekend.

Meanwhile the total number of movie viewers reached 15.447 million from 14.55million last month, which is in total of 6.3 percent increase. Compare to before COVID-19 the total number of movie viewers are less than June of 2019 when Aladin and Parsite drew incredible amount of people to the theater, and similar to June of 2018.


(This article is translated from Korean to English by Joonha Yoo.)


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