Hollywood disaster flick San Andreas debuted at the top of the chart and was the only strong box office performer over the weak weekend. The Warner Bros. release earned $7.18 million between Wednesday and Sunday, marking actor Dwayne Johnson’s best ever opening in Korea. It surpassed the opening weekend score of Fast & Furious 7. Second placed, Mad Max: Fury Road earned $2.07 million between Friday and Sunday with a week-on-week decline of 53.8%. The action film has amassed $26.4 million after four weekends. Taking week-on-week drop of 45.4%, Hollywood comedy Spy earned $1.84 million over three days, expanding its total to $14.1 million since 21 May.

 

Local films showed weak performance over the weekend.

Yoon Jae-gu's crime drama Perfect Proposal opened in fourth place, amassing $679,000 between Thursday and Sunday. Representing a huge week-on-week plummet of 80%, Cannes crime drama The Shameless earned $267,500 from 35,200 admissions between Friday and Sunday, extending its total to $2.63 million from 374,500 admissions. The Jeon Do-yeon starring noir film will be in competition at next week’s Shanghai International Film festival.

 

Fresh from Japan, horror film Fatal Frame opened eighth-placed, earning $193,000 from 28,200 admissions between Thursday and Sunday.

 

Partly influenced by the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) concern, total weekend box office admissions took a week-on-week drop of 21.5%, from 1.97 million last weekend to 1.55 million this weekend.

The outbreak of MERS made local distributors extra cautious; promotion events and vip screenings planned for Assassination, My Friendly Villains, and Northern Limit Line have been cancelled and/or postponed.