Don Lee-starring ‘The Roundup’ blasts to a $21 million opening weekend at the Korea box office, setting the scene for a theatrical recovery.
Locally-produced action franchise movie “The Roundup” blasted its way into the record books and elevated Korean box office to levels not seen for more than two years. The film enjoyed record levels of pre-sales, significant teaser activity the previous weekend and opened officially on Wednesday. Over the weekend proper it rounded up $21.1 million from 2,500 screens nationwide, according to KOBIS, the tracking service operated by the Korean Film Council (Kofic). Its five-day cumulative (including the previews) is an astonishing $29.1 million, which makes it the second biggest film of the year, behind only “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” and by far the highest grossing Korean film of the year to date.
