The film Avatar: The Seed and the Flame (Avatar 3, director: James Cameron, distributor/importer: Walt Disney Company Korea) surpassed 4 million admissions today (12/28, Sun), its 12th day since release, the fastest pace among films released in 2025.
As Avatar: The Seed and the Flame continues its unwaning box office craze and remains a daily topic of conversation, according to the integrated computer network for movie theater admissions, on its 12th day since release today (12/28, Sun) as of 4 p.m. it had accumulated 4,000,040 admissions, surpassing 4 million viewers and vaulting into the top five of the 2025 overall box office.
This is the fastest box office pace among releases this year, and it drew attention by reaching 4 million admissions one day faster than Zootopia 2, which recently drew 7 million admissions and ranked first in the 2025 overall box office.
Rising as the box office star to carry on the baton from Zootopia 2, Avatar: The Seed and the Flame has not lost the No. 1 spot at the domestic box office for 11 consecutive days since its release, and it has received unanimous praise from actual viewers at South Korea's three major theater chains, recording a CGV Golden Egg index of 95%, Lotte Cinema actual viewer rating of 9.4, and Megabox actual viewer rating of 9.1 (as of 12/28), including comments such as "the storytelling and action are both amazing" (CGV wan***), "I'm happy to be able to see a movie like this at year-end!! This is how movies should be made!!" (CGV wan***), "a movie that makes you feel the power of family" (Lotte Cinema Kwon**), "it proves the reason cinemas exist" (Lotte Cinema Lim**), and "as expected, it's the best. Both the visuals and the story were great" (Megabox zr***), and it is expected to carry its overwhelming box office momentum into the coming new year. In particular, reactions such as "I went in expecting it to be good and it was so funㅠㅠ I will watch it again" (Megabox ky***), and "on the second viewing I noticed scenes I hadn't seen before, it was great" (Megabox yh***) have continued, fueling a full-fledged multiple-viewing craze, and attention is focused on how far the amazing records Avatar: The Seed and the Flame will newly set.
Avatar: The Seed and the Flame is the third installment of the Avatar series, which drew 13.62 million admissions in Korea and achieved worldwide box office success; it tells a larger-scale crisis unfolding on a Pandora covered in fire and ash when the Ash tribe led by Barang appears before the Sully family, grieving the death of Jake and Neytiri's first son Neteiyam, and it is now being widely screened at theaters nationwide.
[Photo] Avatar 3 poster
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