Bong Joon Ho’s Oscar contender Parasite continues to feed on impressive numbers as it widens its reach at the U.S.
box office in advance of the Feb.
9 Academy Awards ceremony, where it will compete for the best picture prize.Through Feb.
2, the genre-bending thriller’s domestic gross rested at $33.2 million, one of the best showings of all time for a foreign-language film.
When Parasite first opened in select theaters in October, it scored a massive per-location average of $131,000 — the best showing of 2019.
Still, even the most seasoned box office analysts said that …
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