‘Fantastic Beasts 3’ Wins Another Weekend as Korea Box Office Is Slow to Respond to Reduced Restrictions

Cinemas in South Korea received the good news last week that anti-covid measures, including reduced seating capacity and bans on consumption of food and drink, were to end.

But audiences reacted gingerly.“Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore” led the box office for a second weekend with 1.63 million, a drop of 44 from its opening weekend, and a 12-day cumulative of 6.55 million.

Its three-day score represented 42 of the total weekend market and was more than 1 million more than the second placed film.

It pointed to a continuation of a market that is hit driven and propelled by specific titles, rather than a mass return to cinemas.The nationwide aggregate for the weekend was 3.89 million, down on the previous weekend’s 4.07 million, and still within a deeply depressed range that has persisted through all of February and March.While Korean audiences remain cautious, the country’s film distributors are beginning to set

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