Korea Box Office: ‘Elemental’ Takes Weekend Win, as ‘Spider-Verse’ Lands in Third

Pixar animation Elemental rose to the top of the South Korean box office over the latest weekend. It overtook The Roundup: No Way Out and kept new release Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse at bay, in third place.

Released a week earlier, Elemental rose from second place to first and grew its revenue by 19% in its second frame. According to data from Kobis, the tracking service operated by the Korean Film Council, Elemental earned $3.86 million between Friday and Sunday for a 12-day cumulative of $9.47 million.

The Roundup: No Way Out, which had dominated the sector for the previous three weekends, slipped to second position. It earned $3.34 million over the weekend, a 34% week-on-week decline. Since releasing on May 31, it has amassed $73.2 million, from 9.67 million ticket sales, by far the biggest haul of any film released this calendar year.

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse opened in third place with $2.01 million over the weekend proper and $2.93 million of its five opening days. It enjoyed a 16% market share over the weekend, a margin ahead of Korean drama The Childe with a 13.6% market share and $1.68 million in fourth place. The Childe is the story of a young boxer from the Philippines who travels to Korea to meet the father who abandoned him while an infant.

The Flash which opened in third spot a week earlier, slipped to fifth. It earned $626,000 for a 12-day total of $4.78 million.

Japanese animation, Detective Conan: The Story of Ai Habara: Black Iron Mystery Train opened on Friday and scored $300,000 in three days enough for sixth place.

Transformers: Rise of the Beasts slipped to seventh place with a $120,000 third weekend haul. Since releasing on June 6, it has accumulated $5.86 million.

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3 earned $46,000 over the weekend for a cumulative of $33.9 million since release at the beginning of May.

New release Korean nature documentary, Sura: A Love Song opened in ninth with $33,000. Pokemon: Arceus to the Conquering of Space Time earned $23,200 in tenth spot.

In the week that the countrys largest exhibition chain CJ CGV said that it was raising some $800 million of new capital, nationwide box office over the weekend was an unchanged $12.4 million.