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‘Fantastic Beasts 3’ Wins Another Weekend as Korea Box Office Is Slow to Respond to Reduced Restrictions

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Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefCinemas in South Korea received the good news last week that anti-COVID measures, including reduced seating capacity and bans on consumption of food and drink, were to end.

But audiences reacted gingerly.“Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore” led the box office for a second weekend with $1.63 million, a drop of 44% from its opening weekend, and a 12-day cumulative of $6.55 million.

Its three-day score represented 42% of the total weekend market and was more than $1 million more than the second placed film.

It pointed to a continuation of a market that is hit driven and propelled by specific titles, rather than a mass return to cinemas.The nationwide aggregate for the weekend was $3.89 million, down on the previous weekend’s $4.07 million, and still within a deeply depressed range that has persisted through all of February and March.

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