The South Korean box office experienced a leadership shift during the weekend of Jun. 19–21, as Disney and Pixar’s “Toy Story 5” captured the number one position.
According to data from KOBIS, the tracking service operated by the Korean Film Council, the Hollywood heavy-hitter generated $4.8 million from 713,071 admissions over the three-day frame, securing a powerful 57.64% share of the weekend market. Since its wide theatrical rollout on Jun. 17, the family blockbuster has pulled in a swift cumulative gross of $5.9 million from 872,552 admissions.
The arrival of the animated heavyweight pushed local action-horror feature “Colony” down to second place after a month-long residency at the peak of the charts. The Yeon Sang-ho zombie thriller drew $1.2 million from 188,674 admissions over the frame, taking its cume to $37.8 million from 5,527,523 total tickets. Starring Jun Ji-hyun, Koo Kyo-hwan, and Ji Chang-wook, the movie documents an intense breakout attempt inside a mall overrun by a fast-evolving hive-mind virus.
1990s retro music comedy “Wild Sing” captured third place on the chart, pulling in $863,871 from 133,556 admissions over the three-day window. Directed by Son Jae-gon and starring Gang Dong-won, Uhm Tae-goo, and Park Ji-hyun, the film tracks a faded first-generation K-pop co-ed dance trio making a reckless attempt to stage a comeback two decades after a plagiarism scandal dissolved their careers. The title has crossed the one-million-admissions milestone, accumulating a total local gross of $6.9 million from 1,100,567 tickets since its June 3 release.
“Backrooms” placed fourth, filtering in $473,822 from 65,895 admissions. Directed by Kane Parsons, the horror feature has extended its local footprint to a total cume of $7.5 million from 1,086,767 admissions.
Horror-thriller “The Shrine” opened in fifth place, drawing $144,325 from 20,311 admissions. Helmed by Japanese filmmaker Kazuyoshi Kumakiri, the cross-border co-production stars Kim Jae-joong as a stylish urban shaman who travels to an abandoned place of worship in Kobe, Japan, alongside a partner played by Gong Seong-ha to investigate the mysterious disappearance of three university students. Since its mid-week premiere on Jun. 17, the thriller has earned a total cumulative gross of $224,835 from 33,421 tickets.
Steven Spielberg’s “Disclosure Day” was in sixth place, pulling in $121,777 from 18,093 admissions over the weekend to take its local total tracking cume to $1.7 million from 243,252 viewers.
Musical biopic “Michael” claimed seventh place with $80,830 from 11,507 admissions, pushing its South Korean gross to $11.5 million.
Rounding out the bottom rungs of the top 10 were a re-release of John Carney’s 2014 musical romance “Begin Again” in eighth place, which drew $82,976 for a historic local cume of $19.3 million, the Kore-eda Hirokazu drama “Sheep in The Box” in ninth place with $56,176 for a total cume of $376,865, and Carney’s 2016 musical feature “Sing Street” in 10th place, which added $39,905 to stretch its historical local lifetime cume to $3.1 million.
The overall market collective gross for the weekend was $8 million, a marked improvement over last week’s $5.4 million.