Korea Box Office: ‘Fast X’ Enjoys $5 Million First Weekend

Fast Furious 10 (aka Fast X) drove off with the top prize at the South Korean box office on its opening weekend.

It earned $4.99 million between Friday and Saturday, according to data from Kobis, the tracking service operated by the Korean Film Council (Kofic). And over its full five-day run, from a Wednesday opening, it earned $6.76 million. Kobis showed the film claiming a 48% market share.

The speedy start for Fast X was enough to depose Guardians of the Galaxy 3, which had ridden atop the Korean chart for the two previous weekends. In its third weekend on release GOTG 3 earned $3.04 million, a 48% week-on-week decline, giving it a cumulative of $26.9 million after 19 days on release in Korea. That is the fourth highest total for any film that has played in Korean cinemas this year.

Making it a top three for Hollywood, The Super Mario Bros. Movie held on to third place albeit a long way behind in Korea over the weekend. It earned $722,000 for a cumulative of $16.3 million.

Crayon Shin-chan: Mononoke Ninja Chimpuden, the Japanese anime which debuted in Korea two weeks earlier, fell to fourth place. It earned $523,000 for a three-weekend total of $4.52 million.

Suzume, the years top film in Korea, took fifth place over the latest weekend. It earned $294,000 for a cumulative of $42.3 million since release on March 8.

The top-ranked Korean film was sixth placed This is the President. It earned $131,000 on its second weekend on release for a cumulative total of $771,000 since release on May 10.

Previous Cannes festival winner Triangle of Sadness opened with $98,000 between Friday and Sunday and $188,000 over its opening five days.

The First Slam Dunk, still ranking as the second highest grossing film of the year, is still in the top ten chart. It earned $120,000 for a total of $36.9 million.

Korean film, Dream occupied ninth spot. (Korean charts based on admissions show it in seventh.) It picked up $87,000 from the latest weekend, for a running total of $8.07 million since release on April 26.

John Wick: Chapter 4 continued its vengeful ways. It earned $78,000 over the weekend and now has accumulated $15 million in Korea. That total makes it the sixth biggest film of the year to date.

The nationwide weekend total box office was $10.4 million. That was the fourth successive weekend with a total over $10 million and gives May a rosier outlook than the first four months of the year.