Korea Box Office: ‘Furiosa’ Holds Soft Second Weekend Lead Over ‘The Plot’
variety.comPatrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga” maintained a narrow win at the South Korea weekend box office in its second week of release.
The highest new release was local crime drama “The Plot.” Total weekend revenues in Korean cinemas were a modest $8.91 million.
That figure keeps a post-COVID recovery on course, but progress is slow and incomplete. “Furiosa” earned $2.24 million between Friday and Sunday, according to data from Kobis, the tracking service operated by the Korean Film Council (Kofic).
That gives it a 12-day cumulative total of $7.90 million. With some thematic resemblance to Soi Cheang’s celebrated Hong Kong film “Accident,” the story of “The Plot” involves a gang who design murders to look like everyday occurrences.
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