By the weekend of 24-26 August , The Thieves was officially becomes the third most watched Korean movie ever with total of 12,095,090 admissions. Astonishing !
But, unfortunately The Thieves failed to record itself as #1 movie for five straight consecutive week. The movie placed at number 3 for the entire weekend with 513.819 attendances.
Taking #1 spot was new movie , a thriller titled Neighbors, starred by Kim Yun Jin (‘Lost‘ actress) and teenage actress Kim Sae Ron (The Man from Nowhere).
Kim Yun Jin plays Kyung Hee, a mother who’s in despair after her daughter was kidnapped and murdered. She then starts to suspect her neighbor, a man living next door. With the help of her another neighbors, they try to stop that man to do another crime.
Neighbors collected 782,227 admissions during the weekend and Cha Tae Hyun’s comedy movie The Grand Heist took #2 spot with 537,461 admissions for total of more than 4 million admission since its debut date. Such a great result for Cha Tae Hyun !
Source : KOFIC