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SEOUL, July 18 (Yonhap) -- Blockbuster film “Top Gun: Maverick” starring Tom Cruise returned to its thrown on South Korean box office by topping the chart this weekend.
According to the integrated network of movie tickets by the Korean Film Council, “Top Gun: Maverick” attracted total of 702 thousand people within 4 days from July 15 to July 17, which was total of 43.2 percent of people who watched movie in the theater during that 4 days. This resulted in “Top Gun: Maverick” resurfacing back to the top of South Korean box office after 2 weeks. The total accumulated viewers for “Top Gun: Maverick” is at 5.733 million people.
“Top Gun: Maverick” which premiered on July 22 was pushed down to the second place after its continued fame at the top of South Korean box office for 2 weeks after “Thor: Love and Thunder” premiered on to the screen. However within a week “Top Gun: Maverick” regained its fame and continued on with its fame by topping the reservation rate.
“Thor: Love and Thunder” which attracted total of 309.8 thousand people which is 25 percent of the viewers during the weekend, was ranked second on the South Korean box office. Compare to the accumulate number of viewers for “Thor: Ragnarok”, 2.493 million people “Thor: Love and Thunder” is only at the half way mark.
“Decision to Leave” by director Park Chan-wook, attracted over 207 thousand people, total of 12.9 percent of the total tickets sold during the weekend, safely passed its expected break even point of 1.2 million viewers
Some of the movies premiered on July 13 had success as well.
Animation “Detective Conan: The Bride of Halloween” attracted over 14.8 thousand people, taking over the position of “The Roundup” and took 4th on the South Korean box office
Moreover, movie about Rock n Roll god Elvis, “Elvis” and South Korean actor Jang Hyuk’s action movie “ The killer: A Girl Who Deserves To Die”, South Korean horror movie “Contorted” and Netflix Original film “Gray Man” took 6th to 9th on the South Korean box office.
(This article is translated from Korean to English by Joonha Yoo.)
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