“ Alien: Romulus ” emerged on top of the South Korean box office on a weekend with five new-release titles in the top ten chart. The U.S.
horror-thriller franchise film earned $3.47 million between Friday and Sunday, with a 28% market share, data from Kobis, the tracking service operated by the Korean Film Council (Kofic) showed. Over its full five-day opening “Alien Romulus” earned $5.
46 million. Those figures were enough to push “Pilot,” the Korean comedy-drama film that had topped the box office for the past two weeks, into second position. And the generous crop of newcomers lifted the nationwide weekend box office aggregate to $12.
4 million. Incurring a 45% week-on-week loss of altitude, “Pilot” earned $2.73 million over the latest weekend, giving it a three-weekend cumulative of $26.
7 million. That is the fourth highest total by any film In Korea so far this year and relegates “Wonka” to 2024’s fifth position. Korean-produced new release film “Land of Happiness” opened in third place with a $1.
57 million weekend. Over five days, it earned $3.12 million.
The film is the latest cinema examination of Korea’s political turmoil in the late 1970s, the same ground as was explored by last year’s number one film “12.12: The Day.” “Twisters” was the weekend’s third-ranked new release.
It scored a modest $1.61 million and 9.3% market share between Friday and Sunday.
It has a cumulative of $2.17 million from its five-day opening run and previe.