Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning comfortably led the weekend box office in South Korea, earning $5.46m from 759,358 admissions and recor
Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning comfortably led the weekend box office in South Korea, earning $5.46m from 759,358 admissions and recording the highest opening day of the year to date.
The Hollywood action sequel, starring Tom Cruise, drew 423,945 admissions on Saturday (May 17), according to the Korean Film Council. This surpassed the year’s previous opening-day high of 248,047 set by Bong Joon-ho’s Mickey 17, and was also comfortably ahead of Exhuma, the biggest hit of 2024, which began with 330,118.
The eighth instalment in the blockbuster franchise also managed to top the opening day of previous film Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning, which recorded $1.63m from 229,753 admissions on July 12, 2023 and ended on $29m from 4 million admissions.
Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning, which screened out of competition at the Cannes Film Festival last week, has opened in South Korea earlier than most territories, where it is set to release from May 21-23. China will open the film on May 30.
It toppled local crime thriller Yadang: The Snitch, which had led the South Korea box office for the previous four weekends. The film added $818,600 from 116,864 admissions from May 16-18 for a cume of $21.82m (3.2 million admissions). It ranks as the biggest film of the year to date at the local box office.
US fantasy feature A Minecraft Movie took $420,000 from 63,479 admissions over the weekend for a cume of $8.85m (1.3 million admissions); while bloody Korean action film The Old Woman With The Knife took a further $339,000 from 46,746 admissions, reaching $3.39m (493,941 admissions) on its third outing.
Marvel superhero film Thunderbolts* rounded out the top five with $270,000 from 38,873 admissions for a total $6.43m (889,250 admissions) since its release on April 30.
New US release Final Destination: Bloodlines opened in sixth with $201,000 from 27,557 admissions for a cume of $332,000 (46,392 admissions) following its release on May 14.
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