Korean comedy film “Luck-Key,” starring Yoo Hae-jin as a killer, drew more than 2 million viewers during its premiere weekend to hit No. 1 at the box office, data showed on Monday.
The movie sold 1,642,824 tickets, which is 68.2 percent of all ticket sales, over the Oct. 14-16 weekend, keeping the Hollywood fantasy film “Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children” in a distant second, according to the real-time box office tally from the Korean Film Council.
Released on Thursday, “Luck-Key” surpassed the 2-million mark in the accumulated number of viewers on Sunday, its fourth day of running. This is the fastest pace for a comedy film that opened in South Korea.
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Actor Yoo Hae-jin (foreground) stars as an assassin for hire who suffers memory loss after a head injury, in the comedy flick “Luck-Key” directed by Lee Kye-byeok. (Showbox) |
Directed by Lee Kye-byeok, the remake of a Japanese movie is about a hired killer who loses his memory after slipping and banging his head on the floor of a public bath. After the memory loss, he believes somehow that he is a no-name actor.
The Tim Burton movie came in second, attracting 272,281 viewers, followed by American horror and romantic comedy films “Don’t Breathe” and “Bridget Jones's Baby” with 156,860 and 57,034, respectively.
American-French action flick “Bastille Day” ranked No. 5, selling 54,359 tickets. (Yonhap)
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