Published July 4, 2021, 6:47 AM
(Clockwise from top left) ‘Fast & Furious 9,’ ‘Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba the Movie-Mugen Train,’ ‘Soul,’ “Cruella’ and ‘Minari’ (KOFIC)
“Fast & Furious 9” emerged as the No. 1 film in South Korea in the first half of 2021 based on data from the Korean Film Council (KOFIC).
For the first half of the year, Korean cinemas sold 20.02 million tickets, down 38 percent from 32.41 million tickets sold in the same period last year.
Movies shown in Korea from January to June grossed 186.35 billion won ($164.8 million), compared to 273.8 billion won ($242.14 million) in the same period last year, or a decrease of 31 percent.
The cinema industry in Korea has been hit hard by the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) as social distancing rules prevented movie houses from operating at 100 percent seating capacity.
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The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It has taken the top spot at the box office from A Quiet Place Part II. The race between the two horror films was tight, but The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It the third movie in The Conjuring series and the eighth installment of The Conjuring universe [.]
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Saw franchise past $1 billion grossed worldwide. The new film, starring Chris Rock, earned $4.55 million in its second weekend. That brings its box office total to $15.8 million, and the combined gross of all nine
Saw movies to greater than $1 billion worldwide. The rest of the box office chart looks much as it did last weekend, with Jason Statham s
Wrath of Man in second place in its third weekend and Angelina Jolie s neo-Western
Those Who Wish Me Dead in third place in its second frame (the film is also streaming on HBO Max).
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The anime action fantasy will be, as of today or tomorrow, the biggest-grossing movie released in all of 2020.
While Warner Bros. has not been releasing Mon-Thurs updates for
Mortal Kombat, I can report that last weekendâs other big release,
Demon Slayer: The Movie Mugen Train, has earned $1.348 million on Thursday in just 1,247 theaters. That brings its seven-day total up to $27.705 million. That also brings its global cume, not counting anything itâs earned elsewhere since Sunday, to $462 million. That means
Demon Slayer: The Movie will soon pass Chinaâs