Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief “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.
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