Monday, September 11, 2017

[NEWS] Memoir of A Murderer ranks #1 at the box office + the fastest movie to reach 1M viewers among korean's thriller

[T/N : i'm not translating the whole article]


Acording to Korean Film Council, the movie 'Memoir of A Murderer' ranks #1 at the box office on September 6 with 142,182 audience and with a total cumulative of 146,902 audience .

Memoir of A Murderer successfully attract people's attention and took the top spot at the box office on the first day of release, surpassing box office hits such as  'The Hitman's Bodyguard' and 'Taxi Driver'.

On the other hand, 'IT' which was released on the same day placed second at the box office with 75,706 audience and a total of 78,697 audience 

'The Hitman's Bodyguard' came in the third place with 47,446 audience and a total cumulative of 957,815  audience  . 'Taxi driver' came fourth with 22,200 audiences and a total of  11,941,720 audience.




According to Korean Film Council, the movie 'Memoir of A Murderer' gathered 144,357 audience on September 7 and placed first at the box office. With a total of 291,760 audience, Memoir of A Murderer is so close to reach 300,000 audience.

'IT' came second and successfully gathered 75,819 audience on the same day with a total of 158,405 audience.

'Memoir of A Murderer' is in the first place for the second time in a row surpassing the hollywood movie 'The Hitman's Bodyguard' which has been in the top of the box office.

This movie, which is gaining high expectations for seolkyunggu's acting ability and the famous original novel is building anticipation on how much audience will be recorded on the weekend.



Movie 'Memoir of A Murderer' surpassed 500,000 audiences in the fourth day of release, stays at the top of box office. 

Memoir of A Murderer recorded 187,971 audience on September 8 with the total cumulative of 479,733 audience on the third day of release, staying at the top of box office in the past few days. This movie surpassed 500,000 audiences on the fourth day of release (September 9)  

After summer market is over, it's a low season for movie theater, the possibility to hit big in this season is pretty low. However, this movie is staying at the top so far and successfully leading south korea's box office.



Memoir of A Murderer recorded a total of 1,001,003 on September 10 at 2 pm. This movie is the fastest movie to  reach 1M viewers among korean's thriller which was released in 2017 and becoming hot issue in September . It seems like the popularity will continue after it hits 1M viewers, it stays at the first place in pre-sale.  

Seol Kyunggu x Kim Seolhyun x Oh Dalsu x Kim Namgil's standee x Director Won Shinyeon  1M certification shot

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