'The Odyssey' Overwhelms 'Spider-Man: Brand New Day'
Variety • • entertainment
Key Points:
- Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” maintained its top position at the South Korean box office for the fifth consecutive weekend, earning $5.9 million and surpassing 10 million admissions with a total gross of $83.2 million since its August 5 release.
- “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” held second place in its sixth weekend, generating $942,178 and raising its cumulative South Korean gross to $67.9 million from over 8.7 million ticket sales.
- New releases included the horror film “Obsession” debuting third with $1.1 million, and local dramas “The Journey to Gyeongju” and “Portrait of a Family” placing fourth and fifth, respectively, with moderate earnings.
- Animated and family films like “Teenieping: Legend of the Whale Heartstone” and the upcoming comedy-drama “The Intern” also featured in the top ten, alongside anime mystery “Detective Conan the Movie” and “The End of Oak Street.”
- The overall box office gross for the weekend was $9.8 million, reflecting a decline from the previous week’s $13.5 million and indicating a typical post-summer slowdown in movie attendance.
