▲ This file photo shows the poster of "The Roundup" in the theater. (Yonhap)

 

 

SEOUL, June 10 (Yonhap) -- The Korean action comedy "The Roundup," starring Ma Dong-seok and Son Suk-ku, is expected surpass 10 million cumulative viewers this weekend.

The detective action flick garnered 111,000 more audiences on Thursday, topping 9,686,000 in cumulative attendance, according to data from the Korean Film Council on Friday.

“The Roundup,” which is in the fourth week of its release, stepped down to the second place following Kore-eda's latest family-themed drama “Broker,” which was released on June 8, but topped the box office again in one day.

“Broker” recorded 105,000 daily viewers, which was decreased by 27.7 percent, in one day and stepped down to the second place.

The screening of “Jurassic World Dominion”(Jurassic World 3), which was released on June 1, has nearly halved due to the release of “Broker,” attracting only 36,000 viewers on Thursday.

The cumulative audiences of “Jurassic World 3” has been maintaining in around 2 million. “Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom,” the previous film in the Jurassic World trilogy, has recorded 5,660,000 viewers in the end.

Ahead of the weekend, family-themed drama “2037,” French movie “The Rose Maker,” and “Missing Yoon” starring Lee Joo-young have been newly released. However, as “The Roundup” and “Broker” has swept the theaters, each of the latest films garnered less than 1,000 viewers.

(This article is translated from Korean to English by Kim Sun Min.)

 

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