Korea Box Office: ‘I, The Executioner’ Reaches $40 Million After Second Weekend, as ‘Begin Again’ Enjoys Return
variety.comPatrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Local blockbuster “I The Executioner” dominated the South Korea box office for a second weekend.
Its cumulative total reached $40 million after ten days on release. The film, a sequel to 2015 crime comedy drama “The Veteran,” “I, The Executioner” released a week earlier with little serious opposition from new release titles.
Those conditions held true in the film’s second weekend, and the film’s first non-holiday frame. Between the latest Friday and Sunday, the film earned $6.63 million, according to data from Kobis, the tracking service operated by the Korean Film Council (Kofic).
Its 10-day cumulative is $40.7 million, earned from 5.61 million spectators. The weekend figures represent a steep 56% week-on-week decline.
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