Movie "The Thieves" beat Hollywood blockbuster "The Dark Night Rises" and took over the box office on its first day of release.

According to the Films Commission, "The Thieves" gathered a number of 435,891 audiences and took over first place on the 25th. The accumulated number is 451,740...More

HanCinema's Korean Box Office Review 

(2012.07.20~ 2012.07.22)

The third film in Christopher Nolan's Batman series has arrived in Korea and was welcomed by a massive reception of 1,992,257 admissions! "The Dark Knight Rises" was flagged to challenge the likes of Marvel's "The Avengers" for the 2012 crown; But despite this amazing admissions count, can "The Dark Knight Rises" continue with this first weekend momentum all the way to the top? In the face of Mr. Nolan's much anticipated blockbuster, Park Jeong-woo's "Deranged" was convincingly shoved off the podium; claiming just 15.70% (494,866) of the total tickets sales at the weekend...More

The number one movie this week is "The Dark Knight Rises"...More

HanCinema's Korean Box Office Review 

(2012.07.13~ 2012.07.15)

This past weekend saw "Deranged" enjoy a second week at the top, with "Spiderman" still right behind it in second. Park Jeong-woo's disaster film was the only film to breach the million admissions mark, claiming 1,151,314 (43.60%) admissions and moving its total up to 3,229,597. The weekend top ten contains only two other Korean entries, Kim Dong-bin "Two Moons" and Koo Ja-hong "Dangerously Excited" both made their entry into the chart but only managed a little over 330,000 between them...More

Though his first film flopped, Shinhwa's Kim Dong-wan proved critics wrong with "Deranged", which beat "The Amazing Spider-man" at the box office on debut weekend. "Deranged" tells the story of two brothers desperately trying to discover the source of a parasite that drives human to suicide. By Kwon Hyuk-jae

The newly released Korean disaster film "Deranged" is the talk of the town, as it attracted more than 1.1 million viewers during its first box office weekend between July 6 and 8, topping even Hollywood blockbuster "The Amazing Spider-Man"...More