Can Hope, which faces a crisis over its lead actor's private life controversy, succeed in regaining audiences over the weekend?
According to the integrated box office system for movie theater tickets, director Na Hong-jin's film Hope drew 81,496 viewers on the 31st alone and rose to No. 2 at the box office. Its cumulative audience is 3,856,271. No. 1 is Spider-Man: Brand New Day, which drew 526,084 viewers in one day and recorded an overwhelming figure.
Hope's daily audience number rose slightly ahead of the weekend. Earlier, with the release of Spider-Man: Brand New Day as a turning point, weekday audiences this week fell from the 100,000s to the 60,000s.
Moreover, Hope faced compounded headwinds as a competing release opened just before it was poised to surpass 4 million viewers, and its leading actor Hwang Jung-min was embroiled in private life allegations. Hwang Jung-min has fully denied the private life allegations and will proceed with stage greetings as scheduled this weekend, so attention is focused on whether this will affect audience numbers.
Hope is a work that begins when Beom-seok, the station chief of Hopohang stationed in the demilitarized zone, hears from local youths that a tiger appeared, and the whole village is put on alert and confronts an unbelievable reality.
[Photo] Movie poster.
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