2017.05.12 - 2017.05.14

Ridley Scott's new "Alien" bursts into first...

Starring Michael Fassbender, Katherine Waterston, Billy Crudup, Danny McBride and Demián Bichir, "Alien: Covenant"-Ridley Scott's sequel to the 2012 sci-fi horror "Prometheus"-arrived in Korea on Tuesday to 832 screens around the country. The film, the sixth in the "Alien" series, claimed 520,635 admissions (25.79%) during its first weekend out to secure the top spot, outplaying last weekend's top two films,"The Sheriff In Town"and "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2".

Last weekend, with over a thousand screens,Kim Hyeong-joo-II's 115-minute directorial and screenwriting debut,"The Sheriff In Town"(starringLee Sung-min,Cho Jin-woong, andKim Sung-kyun), arrived and captured 25.91% of the box office pie (837,429 admissions). Week two for Kim's comedy drama saw that figure drop to 422,692 (20.62%), bringing its bottom line now to $15.8 million (2.2 million admissions). Still,"The Sheriff In Town"was once again the highest local film, with other local features making up the other 10% that went to local films as foreign features grabbed close to 70% of the weekend action.

DreamWorks' "The Boss Baby" (voiced by Alec Baldwin) has already grossed $140.5 million worldwide since it was released in America late March. In Korea, "The Boss Baby" added 347.530 stubs (16.16%) from 722 screens (down from 1,116) to pushed its total tally to 1.9 million, or $13.1 million. Not far behind was last weekend's number one; Marvel's "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2" fell three places in a closely contested weekend: from 733 screens, the second volume in Marvel's popular "Guardians of the Galaxy" series scored 16.73% of the sales (323,562). Since its release on May 3, the film has grossed $18.5 million in Korea alone; worldwide, the film has now made over half a billion dollars (currently $525.4 million).

Directed byJeong Sik("Epitaph") andKim Hwi, "The Tooth and the Nail" is a dark drama based on Bill S. Ballinger's 1955 novel of the same name and starsKo SooandKim Joo-hyeok. The film attracted the attention of 7.2% of the filmgoing public, 148,992 admissions, and was followed in sixth by the Japanese animation "A Silent Voice: The Move" by Naoko Yamada. "A Silent Voice" (based on the manga of the same name) has already grossed just over $19.5 million since being released in its home country late last year; its first weekend out in Korea yielded 94,132 admissions (4.41%).

Guy Ritchie's "King Arthur: Legend of the Sword" (starring Charlie Hunnam) was the only other new arrival to make it into the top ten this week. Since Friday, Richie's rendition earned $365,113 (46,714 admissions) for seventh. A local king occupied eight;Moon Hyeon-seong's "The King's Case Note(starringLee Sun-kyunandAhn Jae-hong) has been out since April 26, and with the 34,835 admissions it claimed over this past weekend, the film moves its total earnings to $11.07 million (1.6 million).

The final two places went to the eight installments in the "Fast and the Furious" series of films, "Fate of the Furious", and Sony Pictures Animation's "Smurfs: The Lost Village" by director Kelly Asbury; they claimed 17,139 (0.84%) and 13.619 (0.59%) admissions respectively.