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Zombie thriller Colony, directecd by Korea’s Yeon Sang-ho, has flown past 3 cardinal admissions during its 2nd play of merchandise successful its location market, pursuing its world premiere successful nan Midnight Screenings conception astatine Cannes movie festival.
Released successful Korea connected May 21, nan movie has truthful acold racked up 3,475,000 admissions and grossed $24.84M, according to information from nan Korean Film Council (KOFIC), making it nan 2nd highest grossing movie of nan twelvemonth truthful acold down The King’s Warden pinch $108M.
Colony hit nan 3 millions admissions people connected its tenth time of merchandise connected Saturday (May 30), faster than nan 14 days it took The King’s Warden to scope that benchmark. In KOFIC’s play chart, A24’s Backrooms, which opened connected May 27, is presently ranking 2nd aft grossing $2.19M successful its first weekend, followed by Michael with $998,000 connected its 3rd weekend.
Showbox is distributing some The King’s Warden and Colony, on pinch nan 3rd biggest movie of nan year, scary movie Salmokji : Whispering Water, which has 3.24 cardinal admissions and grossed $22M since its April 8 release. Project Hail Mary is nan 4th highest grossing movie of 2026 truthful acold pinch $21.8M.
In total, six retired nan apical 10 films of nan twelvemonth are Korean productions, besides including Once We Were Us, Humint and Choir Of God, signalling a revival for section cinema which has struggled astatine nan container agency successful caller years. The different imported films successful nan apical 10 see Avatar: Fire And Ash, The Super Mario Galaxy Movie and The Devil Wears Prada.
Colony stars Gianna Jun (My Sassy Girl) arsenic a biotechnology professor attending a convention successful Seoul erstwhile a microorganism breaks retired and starts transforming nan different attendees into zombies. The movie is produced by Wow Point, Smilegate, Midnight Studio and Showbox, pinch nan second handling world and trading nan movie to much than 120 territories, including Well Go USA for North America.
