The movie Boss (director Ra Hee-chan, produced by HYBEmediacorp, distributed/provided by HYBEmediacorp and Mindmark) ranked first at the box office on its opening day.
On the 4th, according to the Korean Film Council's integrated box office portal, Boss, which opened on the 3rd, drew 238,895 viewers in one day and topped the overall box office.
Boss is a comic action film that depicts the conflicting intentions of organization members who, ahead of selecting the next boss that will determine the organization's future, try to yield the boss position to one another for the sake of their own dreams. The unusual chemistry among actors Jo Woo-jin, Jung Kyung-ho, Park Ji-hwan and Lee Gyu-hyung and the pleasant setups led audiences to choose the film.
In particular, this result was recorded as the highest opening score among Korean films released in October since the 2020 pandemic. It far surpassed the first-day audience figure of 171,979 for 30 Days, which opened in the same period in 2023. The light humor suitable for family audiences during the Chuseok season is believed to have been a factor in its success.
At the theaters, a variety of genre films are greeting audiences alongside Boss. No Other Choice continued steady success even on its 10th day after release, surpassing 1.57 million cumulative viewers and ranking second.
Following in third place was the animation Chainsaw Man the Movie: Reze Arc (138,340), and in fourth place was Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train (41,485), both occupying top spots and broadening their audience base.
Meanwhile, Boss is being shown at theaters nationwide.<
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