Yeon Sang-ho’s Peninsula, tracking your 2016 zombie smash, Train to Busan, made a meal from the international box office this weekend, in Korea and four other markets. The sequel to the thriller Train to Busan presents: Peninsula) already registered the highest opening day score of the year in its local market on Wednesday and then ruled over the weekend with what Kobiz estimates to be a $ 13.2M Korean arc. Industry sources think that teens or even $ 20 million might be possible across the board from Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, and Vietnam. Of that, $ 750K comes from just 45 IMAX displays; Combined with other movies that IMAX is playing globally, this is the first time the format has had a $ 1M session since mid-March.
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Wherever the official issue arrives this weekend (and we will update it tomorrow), this is excellent news for the international box office that has plummeted during the coronavirus crisis, and is another clear sign of audience hunger for new titles. It also comes before China returns to business tomorrow, outside of Beijing and its immediate surroundings, though also as Spain has seen some movie closings this weekend (however, Spain has generally been in a slow reopening deployment with only 40% of movie theaters open the last session).
the Korea Peninsula the session is $ 13.2 million through Sunday, according to local reports. There was a 95% jump from Friday to Saturday and only a slight decrease of 15% on Sunday; Screens were added throughout the frame. The film crossed 1M admissions on Saturday, just the second image from the landmark since February, and it came faster than the recent Korean hit. #Live. PeninsulaTicket sales estimated at 1.8 million this weekend are a 420% increase over all last session admissions for all movies.
In Taiwan, we are hearing a possible $ 5M start later Peninsula open bigger than Train to Busan on Wednesday. Around another $ 1M is expected to come from Malaysia, Singapore and Vietnam (the movie was previewed in the latter).
For IMAX, Peninsula It competed $ 750K in all five markets and on just 45 screens. Released by Next Entertainment World in Korea, the horror title took $ 365K from 18 IMAX screens. This is the fourth best opening weekend for a local Korean language title on IMAX, despite capacity limitations in the market and the ongoing pandemic. The gross IMAX weekend represents 2.6% of the total box office in Korea from just 0.7% of the 2,600 screens.
In Taiwan, Peninsula contributed $ 310K from 10 IMAX screens, 6.5% of the national box office of 3% of the approximately 300 screens. This is the second best IMAX opening weekend for a Korean movie on the market.
The 17 combined IMAX displays from Singapore, Malaysia and Vietnam contributed an additional $ 75K. As for the other $ 250K that take the entire IMAX weekend to $ 1M, part of that is from classic title relaunches, meaning The dark knight in Japan and others.
Peninsula It has been one of the most anticipated Korean films of the year and picks up four years after the original. It focuses on Jung-seok (Gang Dong-won), a soldier who previously escaped from the diseased wasteland, and relives the horror when assigned to an undercover operation with two simple goals: to recover and survive. When your team unexpectedly stumbles upon survivors, their lives will depend on whether the best, or the worst, of human nature prevails in the worst of circumstances.
The film was part of this year’s Cannes Film Festival official selection, and is slated to hit North American theaters via Well Go on August 7. It also landed an exclusive streaming deal with Shudder, AMC’s horror streaming site. Contents Panda has sold the film to 190 countries.
Peninsula It will add Thailand, Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Cambodia in the coming weeks.
