News: ROARING CURRENTS Becomes All-Time Most Successful Korean Film

By Pierce Conran

Just shy of midnight on Friday, August 15th, period blockbuster Roaring Currents surpassed Avatar (2009) to become the all time most successful film at the Korean box office. The film reached 13.31 million admissions in only 17 days and after adding 742,576 viewers on the 15th, Liberation Day in Korea, it seems poised to go much further before all is said and done.

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News: ROARING CURRENTS Lays Waste to Korean Box Office Records

By Pierce Conran

Roaring Currents has turned the Korean opening weekend record to rubble with 3.34 million admissions ($25.65 million) during its first weekend, which accounted for 65.7% of the marketplace. That represents a 41% increase over the former record, set by Transformers 3 in 2011 (2.37 million). The film has already banked 4.75 million viewers and $35.4 million since its debut five days ago.

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KBO: The Thieves Continues to Smash Records (08/03-08/05, 2012)

The Thieves Continues to Smash Records

	Title	Release Date	Market Share	Weekend	Total	Screens
1	The Thieves	7/25/12	54.50%	2,002,862	6,877,785	1,092
2	The Dark Knight Rises (us)	7/19/12	17.10%	615,196	5,522,967	630
3	Sammy's Asventures 2 (bl)	8/1/12	10.40%	358,903	549,644	486
4	Ice Age 4 (us)	7/25/12	8.50%	301,481	1,194,354	425
5	The Grand Heist	8/8/12	1.60%	58,736	84,095	160
6	Detective Conan (jp)	7/19/12	1.30%	54,623	459,069	146
7	Rock of Ages (us)	8/2/12	1.30%	48,525	67,444	243
8	Horror Stories	7/25/12	1.30%	48,210	267,632	150
9	Piranha 3DD (us)	8/1/12	1.10%	34,938	58,916	266
10	Doraemon (jp)	7/25/12	0.70%	27,769	141,060	109

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