'Toy Story 5' Tops Korea Box Office, Ends 'Colony' Run
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- Toy Story 5 captured No. 1 in South Korea with $4.8M from 713,071 admissions and a dominant 57.64% market share; its cumulative since the June 17 wide release stands at $5.9M from 872,552 admissions.
- Colony, the Yeon Sang-ho zombie thriller starring Jun Ji-hyun, Koo Kyo-hwan and Ji Chang-wook, fell to No. 2 after a month at the top, drawing $1.2M and pushing its cumulative to $37.8M from 5,527,523 tickets.
- Wild Sing, the 1990s K-pop nostalgia comedy directed by Son Jae-gon and starring Gang Dong-won, landed at No. 3 with $863,871 and crossed the one-million-admissions milestone, with a cumulative gross of $6.9M since its June 3 release.
- The Shrine, a Japan–Korea co-production directed by Kazuyoshi Kumakiri and starring Kim Jae-joong as a stylish urban shaman, opened in fifth place with $144,325 from 20,311 admissions since its June 17 mid-week premiere.
- Steven Spielberg's Disclosure Day placed sixth with $121,777, lifting its South Korean cumulative to $1.7M from 243,252 viewers.
- The overall Korean weekend market grossed $8M, a sharp improvement over the prior weekend's $5.4M.
Why it matters: Toy Story 5 didn't just swap places with Colony — the Pixar title effectively expanded the market, lifting weekend grosses from $5.4M to $8M week-over-week, a roughly 48% jump driven largely by its 57.64% share. For South Korean exhibitors, the data point to watch is whether that opening-momentum tail holds or whether homegrown genre fare like Colony reclaims share in week two.
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