Supernatural Occult Film Maintains Top Spot on Korean Box Office, Outperforming Recent Releases

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Data from the Korean Film Council revealed that the supernatural occult film "Exhuma" maintained its position as the most popular movie currently showing, topping the weekend box-office chart with 2.33 million viewers from Friday to Sunday.

Released on February 22, the film achieved a milestone of surpassing 6 million cumulative viewers on Sunday. It took "Exhuma" a total of 11 days to reach this mark, a week shorter than last year's highest-grossing film, "12.12: The Day," which depicted Korea's military coup in 1979.

 

▲ A scene from "Exhuma" / Courtesy of ShowboxStarring Choi Min-sik and Kim Go-eun, "Exhuma" follows the story of two shamans, a feng shui expert, and a mortician who collaborate to unravel a series of mysterious events affecting a wealthy U.S.-based family. The plot revolves around the exhumation of the family's ancestor's grave in a remote Korean village.

Securing the second position on the weekend box office chart was the Hollywood blockbuster "Dune: Part Two," drawing 552,000 moviegoers. The fantasy film "Wonka" claimed the third spot with an audience of 173,000 people.

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