Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief “Venom: The Last Dance” waltzed to a weekend win in South Korea, but failed to shake the country’s box office out of its recent torpor.
The third film in the “Venom” trilogy earned $2.66 million over the Friday to Sunday period, according to data from Kobis, the tracking service operated by the Korean Film Council (Kofic).
That represented a dominant 62% market share. Over the five days since its opening on Wednesday, it built up a cumulative of $4.13 million.
At that pace, the new film will struggle to overtake the $15.2 million total earned by “Venom: Let There Be Carnage” which was released in 2021 during the worst of the COVID pandemic.
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