"Resistance: The Story of Liu Kuanshun" climbed to the top on the weekend of Trinity Festival
<b>This weekend</b> (3.1-3.3) coincided with the "Trinity Independence Movement Anniversary", one of South Korea's National Day, and the biographical film "Resistance: The Story of Yoo Kuan-soon" starring Gao Xing topped the weekend box office with 600,000 viewers. The local suspense thriller "Shu Po Ha" and the feature film "Witness" are listed two and three. "Extreme Occupation" fell to fourth, with a cumulative number of moviegoers exceeding 16 million.
"Resistance: The Story of Yoo Kwan-soon" tells the story of what happened to South Korean female independent activist Yoo Kwan-soon around the outbreak of the Trinity Movement in 1919. The film was released on the spot, and after the first weekend, the audience rating on NAVER was as high as 9.45, and the media rating was 6.2. Another local film with an independent sports background, "Bicycle King Yan Futong", also made the fourth place in the first week, starring Zheng Zhixun, telling the story of the bicycle king Yan Futong, who won the first bicycle race held in North Korea during the Japanese occupation and brought hope to the gloomy North Korea. The film currently has an audience rating of 7.86 and a media rating of 4.17 at NVAER.
Zheng Zhixun led the fourth week of "Bicycle King Yan Futong"
The supernatural thriller "Shu Po Ha" starring Lee Jung Jae and the feature film "Witness" starring Jeong YuSheng ranked second and third on the weekend list, respectively. The cumulative number of moviegoers in the former has exceeded 2 million. The cumulative number of viewers of the latter is approaching 2.3 million.
"Extreme Occupation" fell from last week's runner-up position to fourth place, the cumulative number of moviegoers has officially exceeded 16 million, although the number of moviegoers is still lagging behind the first place in the calendar year", but the total box office of 137.69673 million won (about 826 million yuan) has caught up with the "Mingliang Naval Battle" of 135.74888 million won to leap to the first place in Korean film history.
"What's it, got married" made the eighth on the list in its first week
This week, another South Korean romantic comedy film, "How to Get Married," debuted in its eighth place with 34,000 viewers, starring Kim Dong-wook and Park So-jin, and currently has a NAVER audience rating of 7.89 and a media rating of 4.5.
Riding on the Oscars, the two award-winning films "Darling" and "Green Book" have both improved their first mates compared with the previous week. The former appreciated from 11 last week to ninth, while "Green Book," which won the Oscar for Best Picture, returned to the top 10 after nearly two months after its release in South Korea on January 9.
<b>March 1 - March 3 (Week 9 of 2018) Weekend box office top 10</b>
<b>(Audience unit: 10,000 people / Box office unit: 100 million won).</b>
Korean poster for Captain Marvel
<b>New film of the week:</b>
The Marvel superhero blockbuster "Captain Marvel", which will be officially released in South Korea on March 6, has a pre-sale share of 87.8% as of press time, ranking first in the pre-sale list, and the number of pre-sale viewers has exceeded 280,000.
This result not only broke the pre-sale result of "Beauty and the Beast", the highest box office owner in March of the Korean calendar year, but also <b>set a new pre-sale result for Marvel superhero single-player movies in South Korea. Previously, the highest results were "Spider-Man: Homecoming" (80,000 times), "Doctor Strange" (110,000 times) and "Black Panther" (180,000 times). </b>