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Yeon Sang-ho’s Cannes Midnight Title β€˜Colony’ Passes 3 Million Admissions On Korean Release

1 June 2026 at 08:25
Zombie thriller Colony, directecd by Korea’s Yeon Sang-ho, has flown past three million admissions during its second weekend of release in its home market, following its world premiere in the Midnight Screenings section at Cannes film festival.Β  Released in Korea on May 21, the film has so far racked up 3,475,000 admissions and grossed $24.84M, […]

Korea Box Office: Yeon Sang-ho’s Cannes Midnight Screener β€˜Colony’ Rockets to No. 1 With Dominant Opening

25 May 2026 at 07:45
Fresh from its world premiere in the Midnight Screenings section of the Cannes Film Festival, Yeon Sang-ho’s action-horror zombie extravaganza β€œColony” re-energized the South Korean box office during the weekend of May 22–24. According to data from KOBIS, the tracking service operated by the Korean Film Council, the big-budget feature grossed a spectacular $9.4 million […]

Korea Box Office: β€˜Colony’ Retains Top Spot as β€˜Wild Sing’ Debuts Strong

8 June 2026 at 07:10
Local action-horror thriller β€œColony” held onto its position at the top of the South Korean box office during the weekend of June 5–7. According to data from KOBIS, the tracking service operated by the Korean Film Council, the film generated $4 million from 603,868 admissions, capturing a 44.35% revenue share during its third weekend on […]

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  • Korea Forms Committee to Hammer Out Six-Month Theatrical Window Deal Naman Ramachandran
    South Korea’s Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the Korean Film Council (KOFIC) have launched a public-private consultative body to negotiate a voluntary theatrical holdback agreement, aiming to finalize terms by August without waiting for pending legislation. The committee – formally titled the Public-Private Consultative Body for Improving Korean Film Distribution Structure – held […]
     

Korea Forms Committee to Hammer Out Six-Month Theatrical Window Deal

29 May 2026 at 09:37
South Korea’s Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the Korean Film Council (KOFIC) have launched a public-private consultative body to negotiate a voluntary theatrical holdback agreement, aiming to finalize terms by August without waiting for pending legislation. The committee – formally titled the Public-Private Consultative Body for Improving Korean Film Distribution Structure – held […]

β€˜Colony’ Review: Mob Mentality Can Be a Grisly Good Time When the Mob Is Zombies

29 May 2026 at 10:14
With the global craving for Korean genre entertainments showing no sign of abating, it can’t be easy to be a filmmaker tasked with feeding the beast with ever bigger, better, bonecrunching-er novelties. And that must go double for a director like Yeon Sang-ho who, with 2016’s β€œTrain to Busan,” previously gnawed into the throat of […]

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