'Frozen 2' tops 4 million ticket sales in four days
“Frozen 2.” Courtesy of Walt Disney Company Korea
The Walt Disney animation film "Frozen 2" has topped 4 million ticket sales within four days since its release in South Korea, data showed Sunday.
"Frozen 2" sold 1,661,967 tickets on Saturday alone after it was released here last Thursday to top Korean box office sales, according to Korean Film Council data
Saturday sales were only 502 tickets less than the highest local one-day record of 1,662,469 set by "Avengers: Endgame" on April 28.
Since release day, when 606,816 ticket sales were registered, "Frozen 2" has sold more than 4 million tickets as of early Sunday afternoon, less than four days since its release, according to the data.
As of Saturday, the film dominated 2,642 local movie screens, screening 16,220 times on the day.
This means slightly more than 73 out of every 100 films screened on Saturday were "Frozen 2."
Meanwhile, the overwhelming domination of local screens by "Frozen 2" is rekindling a local controversy over blockbuster titles' screen domination after the latest "Avengers" film with a corresponding domination rate of 73.4 percent led to government policy efforts to put a cap on the number of screens that can be allotted to one film.
At a press conference on Friday, Chung Ji-young, director of "Black Money," attacked the princess movie for its distributor's monopolistic business practices.
Since its release on Nov. 13, his crime film was allowed up to 900,000 screen seats per day, or 31 percent of all the screen seats, before the release of "Frozen" cut the number down to about 10 percent.
Regarding this as an unfair business practice, Chung and a group of filmmakers protested against the film industry's monopolistic film distribution practices, which allow a few blockbuster titles to monopolize local screens.
Well aware of such recurring protests, South Korea's Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism said last month it was seeking to limit the number of movie screens a single film can take up at a time in a bid to prevent a monopoly by big-budget blockbusters. (Yonhap)