TRAIN TO BUSAN IS THE TOP-GROSSING ASIAN MOVIE IN 2016!
TRAIN TO BUSAN is now the top-grossing Asian movie in Singapore this year! The movie collected SGD $460,258 over its 5th weekend (1st – 4th September) and accumulated an amazing SGD $4.41 million as of 4th September! The movie opened in Singapore on 4th August on 25 prints!
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TRAIN TO BUSAN CLAIMED THE NO. 1 SPOT AT THE LOCAL WEEKEND BOX OFFICE CHART!
TRAIN TO BUSAN claimed the No.1 spot at the local weekend box office chart, despite its third weekend of release, beating Hollywood blockbusters including BEN-HUR, LIGHTS OUT, DISNEY’S THE BFG (first-week titles), THE SHALLOWS (second-week title) and SUICIDE SQUAD (third-week title). TRAIN TO BUSAN grossed $668,000 over its third weekend and accumulated an astonished SGD $2.94 million as of 21st August.
Managing Director of Clover Films, Mr Lim Teck says, “It is remarkable that a three-week-old movie can climb to the top of the weekend box office chart! TRAIN TO BUSAN continues to amaze us and there is no stopping for this movie. We are very grateful to the Singapore audience for supporting and embracing the movie and now we aim for the SGD $3.5 million mark!”
Besides holding its position at the current box office chart, TRAIN TO BUSAN stands at the 4th position at the 2016 Top 10 Asian Movies box office chart after MERMAID (1), LONG LONG TIME AGO (2) and LONG LONG TIME AGO 2 (3)! _____________
TRAIN TO BUSAN HITS THE $2 MILLION-MARK IN SINGAPORE!
TRAIN TO BUSAN hits the $2million mark at the local box office in less than 2 weeks! The movie grossed a stunning $836,000 over its 2nd weekend (11th August to 14th August), 36% or $225,000 higher as compared to its 1st weekend (4th August to 7th August) at $611,000!
Distributors of the film in Singapore, Clover Films and Golden Village Pictures, are extremely overwhelmed by TRAIN TO BUSAN’s performance at the box office.
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TRAIN TO BUSAN IS THE TOP-GROSSING KOREAN MOVIE IN SINGAPORE!
TRAIN TO BUSAN is officially the top-grossing Korean movie in Singapore! Till date, after a week at the cinemas since its release on 4th August, the movie has accumulated SGD $1.17 million on 25 prints island wide! TRAIN TO BUSAN is the first Korean movie in Singapore to hit the million-dollar mark at the box office. The performance also puts the movie at the top of the local box office chart for Korean movies, surpassing the result (SGD $980,000) held by 200 POUNDS BEAUTY in 2007. With the fantastic box office results, it definitely encourages and open up the Singapore market to better and more Korean movies in future.
Movie distributors for TRAIN TO BUSAN in Singapore, Clover Films and Golden Village Pictures, are confident that the movie will collect more than SGD $1.5 million at the end of its film run.
TRAIN TO BUSAN not only broke records locally, the movie also broke record in South Korea, being the first movie to reach 10 million admissions in the shortest span of time, and the first Korean movie to clock 10 million admissions this year.
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RECORD-BREAKING! TRAIN TO BUSAN SCORES THE BIGGEST OPENING WEEKEND BOX OFFICE FOR KOREAN MOVIES IN SINGAPORE!
TRAIN TO BUSAN scores the biggest opening weekend box office for Korean movies in Singapore, grossing a stunning $611,000 over its first four days (4th to 7th August) since releasing in cinemas on 4th August!
TRAIN TO BUSAN has already surpassed the final box office of TALE OF TWO SISTERS which ended at $490,000 when it was released in 2003. The distributors of TRAIN TO BUSAN are confident that its final box office will overtake record holder 200 POUNDS BEAUTY, which grossed $980,000 at the end of its film run in 2007.
Mr. Lim Teck, Managing Director of Clover Films says, “We are so happy to have delivered a record-breaking opening weekend for TRAIN TO BUSAN in Singapore. Right from the onset when we signed the movie from Contents Panda before Cannes Film Festival, we knew we had a winner on hand. We worked on an extensive marketing campaign for the movie and we are glad that our efforts have been rewarded. Yet, there can be no greater credit than to the filmmakers for making this great movie! We hope to achieve more good results for Korean movies in Singapore in the near future!”
Ms. Clara Cheo, Chief Executive Officer of Golden Village Multiplex and Golden Village Pictures adds, “We are delighted that TRAIN TO BUSAN is performing so well at the local box office! I’m confident that this fantastic Korean zombie blockbuster will have strong word-of-mouth and continue its strong run at our cinemas over the National Day holiday and the weeks to come!”
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TRAIN TO BUSAN SETS RECORD-BREAKING OPENING DAY BOX OFFICE FOR KOREAN MOVIES IN SINGAPORE WITH A STUNNING $75,000!
Korean zombie blockbuster TRAIN TO BUSAN sets a record-breaking opening day box office for Korean movies in Singapore! The highly anticipated movie, rated NC16, grossed a stunning $75,000 when it opened yesterday, 4th August 2016, on 25 screens!
Horror film WISHING STAIRS is the previous record holder when it collected $64,000 on its first day of release in 2003. The movie eventually finished with a total of $840,000 at the end of its film run. All-time top-grossing Korean movie in Singapore is romantic-comedy 200 POUNDS BEAUTY which collected a total of $980,000 at the end of its run in 2007.
All-Time Top 5 Korean Movies in Singapore
1. 200 Pounds Beauty $980,000 19th April 2007
2. Wishing Stairs $839,448 13th November 2003
3. The Host $685,452 7th September 2006
4. Brotherhood $585,227 15th July 2004
5. My Sassy Girl $507,545 11th April 2002
Mr. Lim Teck, the local distributor of TRAIN TO BUSAN is very pleased with the movie’s opening day results, “It’s been a long time since Korean movies have done themselves proud at the Singapore box office. We hope that TRAIN TO BUSAN will continue to perform during the National Day holidays and surpass 200 POUNDS BEAUTY, setting a new record for Korean movies in Singapore! The great support, coupled with the encouraging news of TRAIN TO BUSAN doing fantastic at the Korean box office shared by the Producers are surely instrumental in making the movie a hit locally.”
TRAIN TO BUSAN stars a stellar cast of Gong Yoo, Ma Dong-seok & Jung Yu-mi and illustrates how an unidentified virus sweeps the country, whereby the government declares martial law. Passengers on an express train to Busan, a city that has successfully fended off the viral outbreak, must fight for their own survival. The movie also broken a few box office records in its domestic market. It garnered more than 10 million admissions since its release on 20th July in Korea.
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TRAIN TO BUSAN - The highest opening admissions score in Korean cinema history!
The First Korean Zombie Blockbuster TRAIN TO BUSAN recorded 872,389 admissions (Total Admissions: 1,438,003) on the first day of its domestic release. Comparing it with previous largest opening of Captain America: Civil War (Opening Admissions: 727,901) and The Admiral: Roaring Currents (Opening Admissions: 682,701), TRAIN TO BUSAN
After the Midnight Screening in the 69th Festival de Cannes, TRAIN TO BUSAN received countless offers and inquiries on international sales and remake rights from various buyers and Hollywood studios. With epic interests from all over the world, TRAIN TO BUSAN
In a blaze of publicity, TRAIN TO BUSAN is replacing all the previous scores in Korean film history and is ready to set the all-time high records!
Knowing its popularity and a huge buzz in Cannes, TRAIN TO BUSAN’s success was highly predicted with no doubt.
Even in weekdays,
With immense VIP screening with Korea’s top celebrities, words of mouth are spreading very quickly on TRAIN TO BUSAN
