▲This photo, provided by Lotte Entertainment, shows movie "Hansan: Rising Dragon" (PHOTO NOT FOR SALE) (Yonhap)

 

▲This photo, provided by Lotte Entertainment, shows movie "Top Gun: Maverick." (PHOTO NOT FOR SALE) (Yonhap)

 

SEOUL, August 8 (Yonhap) -- “Hansan: Rising Draon,” which depicts Admiral Yi Sun-sin's Battle of Hansan, topped S.Korean box office for two weeks in a row.

“Hansan” got ahead of new movie “Emergency Declaration” by adding an audiences of 1,156,000 over the last weekend (Aug. 5 to Aug. 7), according to the integrated network of movie tickets by the Korean Film Council on Monday,

The cumulative viewers of “Hansan,” which was released on July 27, is 4,598,000.

Aircraft disaster film “Emergency Declaration,” which topped the box office for two days since its open date on Aug. 3, handed over the lead to “Hansan” in the last weekend. The number of audienc“ (es was 324,000 on last Saturday (Aug. 6), which was less than that of its open date (Aug. 3)

“Top Gun: Maverick,” starring Tom Cruise, ranked No.3 on box office, continuing its long run.

It gathered cumulative view of 7,448,000 since its release on June 22. It is on the verge of becoming the most-watched foreign movie (“Spider-Man: No Way Home,” 7,550,000) after pandemic and Tom Cruise’s most-watched movie (“Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol,” 7,570,000).

The popularity of animation is continuing with summer break and vacation season. 4 animations made the top 10: “Minions: The Rise of Gru” (4th), “Pororo Movie_Dragon castle Adventure” (5th), “Doraemon: Nobita's Little Star Wars 2021” (8th), “Detective Conan: The Bride of Halloween.” (9th)

(This article is translated from Korean to English by Jiwon Woo.)

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