“Alien: Romulus” topped the South Korean box office in a weekend that saw five new titles enter the top ten.
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The American horror-thriller franchise film earned $3.47 million between Friday and Sunday, with a market share of 28 percent, according to data from Kobis, the tracking service managed by the Korean Film Council (Kofic). Over its full five-day opening, “Alien Romulus” earned $5.46 million.
Those numbers were enough to bump “Pilot,” the Korean comedy-drama that has topped the box office for the past two weeks, to the No. 2 spot. And the generous crop of newcomers lifted the domestic weekend box office total to $12.4 million.
With a week-over-week loss of 45% from its high, “Pilot” earned $2.73 million in its final weekend, giving it a cumulative three-weekend haul of $26.7 million. That’s the fourth-highest total of any film in Korea so far this year, relegating “Wonka” to the fifth position for 2024.