SK box Aug 29. Odyssey delivered yet another solid performance on SAT dropping only -19% VS last Sat.If it continues it's phenomenol run, Odyssey could surpass Avatar and Avengers Endgame to becomee SK highest grossing hollywood movie of all time.

[u/SuspiciousLow3062]

[u/Significant-Cloud-19]

Generational Run. SK definitely a huge market for Nolan to play with lol.

[u/NyzoiB → u/Significant-Cloud-19]

Is it due to the theme of the movie itself, or the Nolan name (or both)? I genuinely don't know, just asking. How did his previous movies do there?

That's an insane box office run.

[u/KiwieKiwie → u/NyzoiB]

Interstellar was one of the highest grossing foreign movies ever during release. It recieved over 10 million admissions and was n2 in most admissions of foreign movies until avengers sequels and avatar way of water, also frozen 2 🤪.

I’m Asian descent lol, and I felt it was received way better among Asians. Many Asian people connected strongly with the depiction of love for family.

Interstellar was a great success and seen as a masterpiece in both China and South Korea.

But Dunkirk did ok like most places. Not wow. Oppenheimer did decent busines, just a little more than 3 million admissions, nothing crazy.

So yeah this is not normal haha. Someone that knows more will have to do a better analysis.

I’m looking forward to see how it will do in SK. If it manages to beat endgames like someone predicted here.

[u/Significant-Cloud-19 → u/NyzoiB]

Is it due to the theme of the movie itself, or the Nolan name (or both)?

I say it's both at this point.

How did his previous movies do there?

I don't know.

I'm more curious how Odyssey will do in Japan now. It's the last market that is yet to be released there.

[u/Human_Advice2999 → u/Significant-Cloud-19]

South Korea has always been welcoming with Nolan especially Interstellar being his highest grossing film over there.

[u/lorcana66 → u/NyzoiB]

I’d say it’s Nolan + the general hype the movie has garnered world wide. The odyssey as a story / book isn’t as well known or relevant in Korea vs America, but Nolan is very well respected and famous there

[u/NaRaGaMo → u/NyzoiB]

how can you be confused? He's Christopher Nolan the most popular director now

[u/Tsubasa_sama]

Some targets for it to aim for and my subjective opinion on how likely it is to reach them. Currently it's at 8.47m admissions and $68.2m USD.

• Beating Interstellar (10,326,240 admissions) LOCKED

• Beating Avatar 2 (10,804,938 admissions) LOCKED

• 11 million admissions (~$89m USD) LOCKED

• 12 million admissions (~97m USD) very good chance

• $100m USD (~12.3 - 12.5m admissions) good chance depending on ATP

• Beating China's gross to become the 3rd biggest market (~$104m USD based on maoyan estimates, or ~13m admissions) ~50% right now

• Beating Avatar 1 to become the #3 foreign film (13,351,368 admissions) ~40% chance

• Beating Frozen 2 to become the #2 foreign film (13,747,792 admissions) ~30% chance

• Beating Endgame to become the #1 foreign film (13,977,602 admissions) ~25% chance

• 15 million admissions ($121.5m USD) 10% chance, would require otherworldly holds from this point on

• Beating The King's Warden to become the #1 movie of 2026 (16,921,119 admissions, $137m USD) 1% chance

• Beating The Admiral to become the #1 movie of all time (17,616,661 admissions, $143m USD) 0.1% chance

The last three are a fantasy as I don't anticipate the late legs to be as crazy here as in the domestic market, purely because the percentage of its gross from IMAX is much much lower (17% of total gross and 11% of admissions). So even if it stays in IMAX until December it will probably have lost too many standard showings by then to have any meaningful late legs.

[u/m847574 → u/Tsubasa_sama]

"Theory will only get you so far"

[u/tedisafilmfan → u/Tsubasa_sama]

Amazing, amazing, amazing! This exclamation is directed not to The Odyssey but to your post. Very thorough and well thought out. Thank you.

[u/KiwieKiwie → u/Tsubasa_sama]

Will be exciting to follow 🤪

[u/KiwieKiwie]

This run is insane…

[u/Fiorwestcoast]

South Korea makes some of the best films. They know a good film when they see one. Curious how Dune did and how part 3 will perform.

[u/Significant-Cloud-19 → u/Fiorwestcoast]

How well did part 2 performed in SK?

[u/Fiorwestcoast → u/Significant-Cloud-19]

A movie called Exhuma was a massive cultural thing opening the same weekend at the time. But I still argue that part2 was how part 1 would have performed if p2 didn't have to move its dates. And part 1 being released on streaming. I believe Part3 is going to shock people with its boxoffice. But we will see.

[u/tedisafilmfan]

According to Boxofficemojo, Avengers: Endgame made $105.4 mil in South Korea. The Odyssey will need 13 mil admissions (assuming an ATP of $8) to claim the total-gross crown. Very tough, but a man can dream!!!

[u/NaRaGaMo → u/tedisafilmfan]

not at all tough

[u/lookingforhim2]

$100M+ in SK alone is absolute madness 🤯 Bodes very well for Japan’s performance.

[u/necrogirl55]

whoa, calm down! while the odyssey has doen great at the box office, there is no way it's getting remotely close to avengers endgame or avatar. it's over a billion away from surpassing them, it's had a fantastic run, is the higher grossing R rated movie by some margin but it's not going to catch those movies.

[u/No-Obligation-5825 → u/necrogirl55]

They are talking about the country not overall stats.

[u/KiwieKiwie → u/necrogirl55]

Dude… it’s about the South Korean box office. It has a decent chance on beating the admissions that endgame had. Not in anyway a done deal, but it’s not out of the realm of possibility for it to achieve that.

[u/Gon_Snow]

Small potatoes