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| ▲ This still from "The Match," provided by BY4M Studio, captures the face-off between Cho Hoon-hyun (Lee Byung-hun) and Lee Chang-ho (Yoo Ah-in). (PHOTO NOT FOR SALE) (Yonhap) |
SEOUL, April 7 (Yonhap) -- The Go-themed film The Match, starring Lee Byung-hun and Yoo Ah-in, maintained its No. 1 position at the weekend box office for the second consecutive week.
According to the Korean Film Council’s box office data released on Sunday, The Match, directed by Kim Hyung-joo, attracted over 427,000 moviegoers from April 4 to 6, accounting for 54.8 percent of total weekend ticket sales.
Since its release on March 26, the film has remained atop the daily box office chart without yielding the top spot, bringing its cumulative audience total to approximately 1.35 million.
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| ▲ This still from "The Match," provided by BY4M Studio, captures the face-off between Cho Hoon-hyun (Lee Byung-hun) and the young Lee Chang-ho (Kim Kang-hun). (PHOTO NOT FOR SALE) (Yonhap) |
The movie is based on the true story of legendary Go master Cho Hun-hyun (played by Lee Byung-hun) and his protégé Lee Chang-ho (played by Yoo Ah-in), who repeatedly faced off in major finals during the 1990s.
Lobby, a black comedy directed by and starring Ha Jung-woo, debuted in second place with about 100,000 viewers over the weekend, securing 13.3 percent of box office revenue. The film, Ha’s first directorial effort in a decade since Chronicle of a Blood Merchant, follows a startup CEO who begins playing golf to win a government contract.
In third place was the Japanese animated feature Attack on Titan: The Final Chapters – The Last Attack, which drew an additional 60,000 viewers, pushing its cumulative total past 640,000.
Rounding out the top five were Latvian animated film Flow and Bong Joon-ho’s Hollywood sci-fi feature Mickey 17, which each drew around 19,000 viewers (2.6 percent), placing fourth and fifth respectively by a narrow margin.
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