Korea Box Office: ‘The Roundup’ Reaches $54 Million in Second Weekend
variety.comPatrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefLocally-produced action franchise movie “The Roundup” continued to stomp its way across the South Korean box office for a second weekend, giving theatres their best month of the year.Over the weekend. “The Roundup” rounded up $15.4 million from 2,520 screens nationwide, according to KOBIS, the tracking service operated by the Korean Film Council (Kofic).
That was a 27% drop compared with its opening weekend.Its twelve-day cumulative (including previews) is an astonishing $54.8 million, which makes it the biggest film of the year, ahead of “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” with $49.5 million and “Spider-Man: No Way Home” which was released in December but earned $15.8 million in 2022.
The film is a sequel to 2017 hit “The Outlaw” in which Don Lee (aka Ma Dong-seok) inhabits the role of a tough guy policeman, nicknamed a beast cop.
In “The Roundup” Lee’s character travels to Vietnam for an extradition, but once there discovers a trail of other murders.The box office recovery in South Korea began at the beginning of this month when COVID restrictions were significantly reduced nationwide and anticipated blockbuster “Doctor Strange” hit Korean screens.May has been by far the highest-scoring month of the year.
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