Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief“Spider-Man: No Way Home” shrugged off new health restrictions in South Korea to earn the biggest box office opening weekend since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.The film earned $15.0 million between Friday and Sunday, according to data from Kobis, the tracking service operated by the Korean Film Council.
Over the full five days from its Wednesday debut the film amassed $23.5 million.The success comes despite the introduction of social distancing measures with effect from Saturday that limit social gatherings to a maximum of four people and require a 10pm curfew at cinemas, in response to rapidly rising numbers of COVID cases.The Korean film industry petitioned government against the new.
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