'Thor: Love and Thunder' tops Korean box office with $10 million opening weekend

The latest Marvel film "Thor: Love and Thunder" opened at the top of the South Korean box office with a convincing $10.0 million take that accounted for half of domestic cinema revenue over the past of the weekend.

“Thor” has played on more than 2,000 screens according to data from Kobis, the tracking service run by the Korean Film Council. In its five days of operation, it raised $14.8 million.

The score was enough to fly over "Top Gun Maverick" even though the latter still accelerates strongly and controls 33% of the total market. The Tom Cruise vehicle earned $6.58 million in its third weekend at the Korean box office for a total of $38.5 million.

The power play of the two American tentpoles kept the overall score for the weekend at $20.1 million, which is at the upper end of a range where the Korean box office is falling. has been installed since mid-May.

But the polarization is clear. Behind the first two, all the other titles had to fight for the remaining sixth of the total.

Park Chan-wook's 'Decision to Leave', for which high hopes appear to have been dashed, grossed $1.71 million in its second weekend. It was a 32% drop from its first picture, and after 12 days in theaters, it raked in $6.88 million.

“The Roundup” continued to slow down. He won $714,000 in fourth place, eventually pushing his tally above the symbolic $100 million mark. Since May 18, it has grossed $100.3 million from 12.6 million tickets sold.

In fifth place, "The Witch: Part 2. The Other One" grossed $461,000 for a cumulative $22.0 million.

The Chinese animation "Happy Little Submarine: Journey to the Center of the Deep Ocean" was the second biggest opening of the weekend with $302,000 over the five days since its launch on Wednesday.

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