[HanCinema's Box Office Review] 2016.11.25 ~ 2016.11.27
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"Fantastic Beasts" holds out against "My Annoying Brother"...
The British-American fantasy flick "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" narrowly maintained pole position over Kwon Soo-kyeong's incoming family comedy, "My Annoying Brother". Last weekend J.K. Rowling's adaptation of her own work appeared and captured 68% of the sales (1.4 million admissions), and during its second week out this Harry Potter spin-off added another 895,990 stubs (45%) to bring its bottom line now to $24.7 million (3.4 million admissions). Worldwide, this week's number one has grossed $473.7 million.
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Kwon Soo-kyeong directed "Barefoot Ki-bong" (2006) and, along with Kim Hee-seong, the drama "The Flatterer!" (2015). His latest film, "My Annoying Brother", stars Cho Jung-seok and Do Kyung-soo as feuding brothers Doo-sik and Doo-yeong who start living together. From 993 screens around the country, the film claimed 37.5% of the sales (804,498 admissions) along with second place.
Marvel's "Doctor Strange" remained unmoved in third; the 103,774 admissions (4.9%) the film scored over the last weekend of November moved its total admission count in Korea now to 5.4 million ($39.9 million). According to Kobiz, "Doctor Strange" is currently the tenth highest-grossing film of the year just behind Heo Jin-ho's "The Last Princess" (5.6 million).
Last weekend's silver medalist, Eom Tae-hwa's "Vanishing Time: A Boy Who Returned" (starring Gang Dong-won), fell two places to fourth with 43,755 (2%), followed by a new foreign release from Germany: "The Little Medic: Secret Mission of the Bodynauts" by Peter Claridge. Claridge's animated feature opened its Korean account by attracting 30,780 filmgoers (1.4%) from 291 screens around the country.
Sixth place went to the third instalment in the "Blair Witch" series of films, simply "Blair Witch"; Adam Wingard's psychological horror hit Korean screens last Wednesday and banked $263,215 (25,650; 1.2%). Choi Gook-hee's debut "Split" (starring Yoo Ji-tae, Lee Jung-hyun, Lee David and Jung Sung-hwa) slipped three places to seventh with a little over a percent (24,726 admissions), followed by the 25th-anniversary performance of the musical "Miss Saigon" with 13,730 admissions.
The Japanese animation "GAMBA" (ガンバと仲間たち), released in Korea November 10, moved its total tally to 108,656 ($696,315), and the final spot went to Lee Gye-byeok's comedy drama, "Luck.Key" starring Yoo Hae-jin. Lee's latest (he also directed "The Beast and the Beauty") is not only the seventh highest-grossing film of the year, it's also the Yoo's best box office performance in a leading role. The 10,315 admissions the film gained over the weekend was not enough to push it to 7 million admissions; since its release mid-October, "Luck.Key" has grossed an impressive $47.9 million.
| Films | Release date | Week-end | Total | |
| 1 | "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" | 896 099 | 3 394 049 | |
| 2 | "My Annoying Brother" (형) | 2016/11/23 | 804 571 | 1 037 841 |
| 3 | "Doctor Strange" | 103 787 | 5 380 066 | |
| 4 | "Vanishing Time: A Boy Who Returned" (가려진 시간) | 2016/11/16 | 43 766 | 489 038 |
| 5 | "The Little Medic: Secret Mission of the Bodynauts" (Der Kleine Medicus) | 30 787 | 32 688 | |
| 6 | "Blair Witch" | 25 656 | 38 525 | |
| 7 | "Split" (스플릿) | 2016/11/09 | 24 734 | 746 698 |
| 8 | "Miss Saigon : 25th Anniversary Performance" | 13 791 | 17 347 | |
| 9 | "GAMBA" (ガンバと仲間たち) | 13 380 | 108 656 | |
| 10 | "Luck.Key" (럭키) | 2016/10/13 | 10 312 | 6 969 199 |
| Korean movies only | ||||
| "Moo-hyun, the Story of Two Cities" (무현, 두 도시 이야기) | 2016/10/26 | 9 969 | 174 359 | |
| "Obedience" (순종) | 2016/11/17 | 7 668 | 31 153 | |
| "Our Love Story" (연애담) | 2016/11/17 | 3 621 | 13 998 | |
| "Missing Woman" (미씽: 사라진 여자) | 2016/11/30 | 2 666 | 4 805 | |
| "Spy Nation" (자백) | 2016/10/13 | 1 890 | 136 075 | |
| "GOGURYEO" (나의 살던 고향은) | 2016/11/24 | 1 731 | 3 775 | |
| "DongJu, The Portrait of A Poet" (동주) | 2016/02/17 | 1 274 | 1 170 609 | |
| "Yourself and Yours" (당신 자신과 당신의 것) | 2016/11/10 | 977 | 16 668 | |
| "The Bacchus Lady" (죽여주는 여자) | 2016/10/06 | 836 | 119 587 | |
| "Oh! My Papa" (오! 마이 파파) | 2016/11/10 | 771 | 10 389 | |