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SEOUL November 11 (Yonhap) -- Whether marvel’s super hero movie “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” will be able to successfully attract audiences during the first weekend of its premiere is draws attention of the public.
According to the integrated network of movie tickets by the Korean Film Council on Friday, “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” which premiered on November 9, attracted over 293 thousand audiences within 2 days of its screening, placing the movie at the top of South Korean box office.
Current reservation rate of the movie is accounted at 68.4 percent, and the total counted tickets purchased is at 227 thousand.
Second movie of its series “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” withholds a storyline of Wakanda which suffers the loss of their leader T’Challa’s death struggles with foreign nation’s trying to invade Wakanda and the new threat emerges from the hidden undersea nation Talocan.
Although the actor Chadwick Boseman who acted out the protagonist T’challa will not be appearing in the movie, due to his unfortunate death due to cancer in 2020, the sequel will show fancy dynamic aspects, and bold action throughout the movie which will amuse their fans.
Second on the South Korean Box office is “Confession” featuring So Ji-sub and Kim Yoon-jin which attracted over 590 thousand audiences within 26 days since its premiere.
Third on the list is director Michelle Yeoh’s Hollywood debut commercial movie “Everything,” and the musical movie “Life is Beautiful” took the fourth place.
“Life is beautiful” which premiered on September 26 continued on with its fame after it became popular through word of mouth. The total accounted audience for the movie “Life is Beautiful” is at 1.1 million audiences.
South Korean action movie “Remember” featuring actor Lee Sung-min which premiered on October 26 was ranked 6th on the box office.
(This article is translated from Korean to English by Joonha Yoo)
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