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Domestic Box Office

Posted in Box Office, NYC on November 26, 2008 by illdielaughing

Mindless, repressed teenagers and really bored, wasteful young adults flooded the theaters this weekend to make the embarrassment of a film, Twilight, number one. The general consensus? It’s sucks. But it still got 69 million bucks at the box office so it’s already covered it’s budget, almost two-fold. That means we will, unfortunately, be seeing a sequel.

Quantum of Solace, in it’s second week, only got 26.7 million.

Animated feature about that dog starring John Travolta and Miley Cyrus, in it’s first week, gets 26.2 million. (The movies name is Bolt, by the way.)

Another animated film is number 4, Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, with 15.6 million. And R-rated comedy Role Models rounds out the top 5 with 7.3 million.

I’m still amazed that Twilight is actually number one. Man, there’s nothing wrong with being young, mindless and repressed (when your young) but this is ridiculous. 

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Japan’s Box Office

Posted in Box Office, Tokyo with tags , , on November 26, 2008 by illdielaughing

November 22-23

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  1. Red Cliff – John Woo film starring Tony Leung and Takeshi Kaneshiro, based on the events of the Battle of Red Cliffs. This film raked in 3.2 million
  2. I Want to Be a Shellfish – Remake of a 1959 film and book adaptation starring Gokusen lead Nakama Yukie. –> 2.6 million
  3. Happy Flight – Shinobu Yamaguchi comedy film about flight attendants –> 1.6 million dollars
  4. Suspect X – The film extension of the drama Galileo gets just over a million dollars.
  5. Yes! Precure 5 GoGo! Okashi no Kuni no Happy Birthday (2008) – The bubbly cutesty anime films rakes in .974 million

Interestingly all the films in the top five spots are Toho productions, except for Red Cliff which is a joint Toho-Towa project. 

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Korea’s Box Office

Posted in Box Office, Seoul with tags , , , , on November 26, 2008 by illdielaughing

November 21st to the 23rd.

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This week the film Portrait of a Beauty (미인도), starring Kim Min Seon and Kim Yeong Ho, is number one at the box office with 1.8 million dollars in revenue. The film is about the artist Shin Yun-bok and the hypothesis that he was in fact a SHE. Historically Shin Yun-bok is one of the most prolific painters of the Joseon dynasty and according to the film, she cross dressed as a man to paint.

Antique Bakery (Joo Ji Hoon, Yoo Ah in, Kim Jae Wook) came in at number two with just under a million dollars and the James Bond film Quantum of Solace (Daniel Craig, Dame Judy Dench) was number three with .9 million. Quantum was not as good as the first film but there were things about this one that I liked better than the second. I liked the female character better in this film and I liked the flow better. But overall it was not as fun to watch as the first so my expectations weren’t met but I enjoyed myself.

Coming in at 4th was sci-fi drama Blindness (Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo, Gael Garcia Bernal) with $902,000 and Mark Whalberg’s Max Payne was fifth with $465,000.

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Seven Days is taking names

Posted in Box Office, Movies, Seoul on December 14, 2007 by illdielaughing

I can’t really remember the first part of that saying.  photo44000.jpgAnyway, now that I have my computer I will be posting more news. Woohoo. Onto the main topic of the post. In the beginning Kim Yun Jin’s thriller, Seven Days was just barely in the top ten at Korea’s Box office but for the past month it has been resting comfortably at number one or two (currently it is at number two, just behind the disappointment August Rush). Seven Days has raked in 1.7 million dollars since it’s release and Ang Lee’s Lust, Caution has been doing very well also, earning 1.6 million dollars since it’s release. (I always find it so interesting that a movie doing well in Korea makes so much less money than a movie doing well in the United States). Le Grand Chef is at number 5 and has earned nearly 2.9 million dollars. This movie looks intense. I really want to see it! Joo Jin Mo’s Sarang is coming out on DVD (with english subs!) on December 22nd.  Are You Living With the Person You Love Now?is already out on DVD. christmas gifts, anyone?

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Le Grand Chef takes Korea’s Box Office

Posted in Box Office, Movies, Seoul on November 17, 2007 by illdielaughing

Number in Korea’s Box office is Sik-Gaek or Le grand Chef a movie that’s gotten alot of buzz over the past several weeks. The movie is about a cooking competition to win a knife with alot of history and alot of personal feelings attached to it.

Number 2 is Lust, Caution (yay!) and 3 is a movie I haven’t heard of called Balegue Salja or Going by the Book. It’s about a “naive traffic cop” that has to infilitrate a group of robbers that are responsible for a sting of robberies that’s been making the public panic.
Lions for Lambs is number five, which makes me really happy, because anyone living in a democratic country needs to see that movie. Even though it’s about the United States, there are things that ring true and stay consistent with other democratic countries.

Goong Nyeo or Shadows in the Palace was number seven. This film is a historical, mystery drama set in, when else, the choseon dynasty. Trailer is pretty intense.

Number Nine was Seven Days.

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October 12-14 Box Office

Posted in Box Office, Movies on October 16, 2007 by illdielaughing

Alas, I was wrong in my last post (Look Down).
Sarang has been pushed down to number 4 because of the two Hollywood films Rush Hour 3 and The Nanny Diaries. Coincidentally, both of these movies are crap. Thankfully, the Korean movie Haengbok or Happiness is still dominating with over 6 million dollars in revenue. Woohoo!

And nothing has changed in Japan at number one with Hero still taking the top spot. Hero will be realeased in Korea next weekend. I wonder how it will do.

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October 5-7 Box Office

Posted in Box Office, Movies, Seoul with tags , , on October 15, 2007 by illdielaughing

In Japan, Hero starring Takuya Kimura is still dominating the box office, but the revenue is going down.

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In South Korea film, Haengbok has taken over the 2 week reign of Sarang (a Love) with Joo Jin Mo.

Haengbok or Happiness stars Hwang Jeong Min and Im Soo Jeong. They play patients that meet at a sanitorium and fall in love. Hwang Jeong Min is a city boy and Im Soo jeong is a residnet at the sanitorium. They move ot together to the country and get healthier. After Hwang Jeong Min’s friends from the city visit, he wonders if he should return to his old life in the city.
You may have heard the buzz about this movie because of the sex scene and how Im Soo Jeong grows up in the film.

Also bumping out Sarang is the sucky movie Rush Hour 3. Well, this will change very soon. I predict that Sarang will be back in the number two spot next week, due mostly to Joo Jin Mo’s hotness.

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Korea’s Box Office

Posted in Box Office, Movies, Seoul with tags , on September 27, 2007 by illdielaughing

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This week I am happy to annouce that the Joo Jin Mo film, Sarang or A LOVE is number one at the South Korean box office, coming in front of the Hollywood movie, The Bourne Ultimatum. Woo Hoo

The Comedy Mission Possible: Gidnapping Granny K is holding it’s own at number three. Yoo Gun is in it… I may have mentioned it before….
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Here are the numbers.

Sarang’s Gross-to-Date: 3,681,579
The Bourne Ultimatum’s Gross-to-Date: 3,508,636
Kidnapping Granny K’s Gross-to-Date: 2,842,261

How long with Sarang stay strong?

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Japan’s Box Office

Posted in Anime, Box Office, Movies, Tokyo with tags , on September 20, 2007 by illdielaughing


Trailer for Hero(2007)

The movie Hero(2007) is number one at the Box Office in Japan. The film, which stars Kimura Takuya (who you may have seen in the Wong Kar Wai film 2046), is a movie sequel to the 2001 drama of the same name. Hero the drama was about a brilliant yet casually-dressed and offbeat prosecutor that is transfered to a Tokyo office. In the drama he falls in love with his assisstant who eventually become a prosecutor as well as fall in love with him. Okay, typical drama set up but it was very, very popular. The movie invloves him reprising his role (obviously) and he makes a trip to Korea to do some investigating.
Interestingly, this movie stars Hallyu star Lee Byung Hun. You may have seen him in the drama All In or his 2004 movie Everybody has Secrets

Number two in the box office is the anime film Eva: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone. It’s the first of four Evangelion movies. The next one Evangelion: 2.0 will be released in 2008.
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Number four was Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (which underwhelmed me at best).

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Korea’s Box Office

Posted in Box Office, Movies, Seoul with tags , on September 20, 2007 by illdielaughing

This week My Father moved down to the number five spot and the Hollywood film The Bourne Ultimatum took the number one spot. Now, if you haven’t seen this movie, it’s awesome, so please… go see it. Moving on, the comedy Kidnapping Granny K was number two.
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This movie is about three guys who kidnap “Granny K” and ask her four rich children for a ransom of 50,000 dollars. Granny K raises the ransom to 50 million to get the money that her kids refuse to pay. Sounds simple. Maybe it’s funny? But the reason I’d see this movie? The hottie Yoo Gun. I fell in love with him after watching the ajumma drama Bad Couple.
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Isn’t he a cutie? :)

At number three was the Jung Ryeo Won comedy about a girl with a split pesonality disorder who tortures her boyfriend called Two Faces of my Girlfriend
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And thankfully, D-War has moved to the ten spot… why oh why are people seeing this horrible movie?

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