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"Shrek Forever After" enters local box office at No. 1

Movie poster of "Shrek Forever After" [DreamWorks]

Animated comedy "Shrek Forever After" entered the Korean box office at No. 1 over the weekend, pushing back former week's winner "Knight & Day" down the chart.

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Figures from the Korean Box Office System (KOBIS) released on Monday revealed that "Shrek", which opened in local theaters on July 1, sold 674,763 tickets during the weekend of July 2 to 4.

The movie, voiced by big Hollywood stars Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy and Cameron Diaz, is about how Shrek, bored with his life, makes a deal with Rumpelstiltskin on living his life as a real ogre and later finds himself living in a twisted version of Far Far Away. Shrek must find a way to turn things to the way they were.

Hollywood action film "Knight & Day", starring Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz, slipped down one spot from last week attracting 421,810 moviegoers, while Korean war film "71-Into the Fire" also dropped a slot from the previous week to third place selling 367,007 tickets.

Newly released Korean drama "Man of Vendetta" bowed into the No. 4 spot with 341,158 admissions followed sequentially by "The Servant" with 116,601 tickets sold.

Other movies on the top 10 included "Splice", "Barefoot Dream", "I Love You Phillip Morris", "The A-Team" and "Sex and the City 2".

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