{"id":82776,"date":"2023-08-29T09:25:21","date_gmt":"2023-08-29T09:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mylifestylemax.com\/?p=82776"},"modified":"2023-08-29T09:25:21","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T09:25:21","slug":"confidential-assignment-2-film-reaches-over-35-million-on-second-weekend-at-korean-box-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mylifestylemax.com\/lifestyle\/confidential-assignment-2-film-reaches-over-35-million-on-second-weekend-at-korean-box-office\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Confidential Assignment 2\u2019 Film Reaches Over $35 Million On Second Weekend At Korean Box Office"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cConfidential Assignment 2: International\u201d has reached an exciting new milestone at the Korean box office!<\/span><\/p>\n

For the second weekend running, comedy action film \u201cConfidential Assignment 2: International\u201d held top spot at the South Korean box office. And it did so with a massive 75% share of the market.<\/span><\/p>\n

But as the Chuseok (Korean Thanksgiving) holiday retreated into the rear-view mirror numbers, both for the sequel film and the nationwide box office, came crashing down.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cConfidential Assignment 2\u201d stars Hyun Bin as a North Korean detective named Rim Chul Ryung and Yoo Hae Jin as a South Korean detective named Kang Jin Tae, who previously teamed up to catch a criminal in the original \u201cConfidential Assignment\u201d film. In the new sequel, the duo gets back together to hunt down the leader of a North Korean criminal organization that has wreaked havoc all over the world (played by Jin Sun Kyu), and they are joined by Kang Jin Tae\u2019s sister-in-law (Girls\u2019 Generation\u2019s YoonA) and an FBI agent from the United States (Daniel Henney).<\/span><\/p>\n

According to <\/span>Variety<\/span><\/i>, \u201cConfidential Assignment 2\u201d earned $6.89 million over the latest Friday to Sunday period, according to data from Kobis, the tracking service operated by the Korean Film Council (KOFIC). That figure was down 57% compared with its opening salvo of $21.0 million a week earlier.<\/span><\/p>\n

Still, since opening on Sept. 7, the film has already amassed $35.2 million. That makes it the fifth highest grossing film of the year to date, ahead of \u201cHunt\u201d and behind \u201cDr Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The film was directed by Lee Seok-hoon and executive produced by hitmaker JK Youn. It stars Hyun bin, Yoo Hai Jin, Lim Yoon-a and Daniel Henney.<\/span><\/p>\n

It is a sequel to the 2017 hit \u201cConfidential Assignment,\u201d in which operatives from North and South Korea cooperate to take down a criminal. The earlier title earned $46 million from 7.82 million spectators.<\/span><\/p>\n

Comedy, \u201c6\/45\u201d held on to second place, but earned less than $1 million. It scored $910,000 for a cumulative of $13.4 million since release on Aug. 24, 2022.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Recent holdover, \u201cKaturi The Movie The Big City Adventure\u201d earned $259,000 in third place. The Korean-made animation has earned $949,000 after 11 days on release.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHunt\u201d took $156,000 in fourth place for a cumulative of $32.0 million. \u201cTop Gun Maverick\u201d earned $151,000 for a cumulative of $63.2 million. Previously released in 2019, \u201cAladdin\u201d earned $111,000 in sixth place for a cumulative of $78.6 million.<\/span><\/p>\n

The weekend\u2019s highest placed new release was \u201cDragon Ball Super: Super Hero\u201d which opened in seventh with a score of $80,800 over the weekend and $117,000 over its opening five days.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Black Phone\u201d earned $78,800 in its second weekend of release in Korea. That gave it a $749,000 cumulative.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHansan: Rising Dragon\u201d brought up tenth place with $40,000 over the weekend and a cumulative of $53.1 million since release eon July 27, 2022.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cVita Dolce,\u201d a Korean drama about a popular singer who become a classical musician, also scored $189,000 from 8,100 ticket sales, according to Kobis.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to the <\/span>South China Morning Post review<\/span><\/i>, Hyun Bin and Yoo Hae-jin reprise their roles as national rivals turned crime-fighting colleagues, as they look to smash a North Korean drug syndicate. This time out, the stakes are higher than ever as their manhunt goes global, and Daniel Henney\u2019s FBI agent shows up in Seoul, hot on the heels of Jin Seon-jyu\u2019s ruthless crime lord, who gave his team the slip in New York.<\/span><\/p>\n

The mismatched buddy cop movie is a tried and tested staple of the action genre, and incoming director Lee (The Pirates) wisely pushes the playful competitiveness and distrust between his protagonists to the forefront, while letting their procedural duties take a back seat.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cThe dynamic between Hyun\u2019s stern, yet devilishly handsome North Korean agent Cheol-ryung and Yoo\u2019s schlubby family-man cop Jin-tae remains the film\u2019s most meaningful relationship. Their rekindled bromance is given an extra kick, however, by the arrival of federal agent Jack (Henney), whose model good looks and sophisticated Western charm are even more threatening than their live-wire quarry.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIn the action stakes, Confidential Assignment 2: International doesn\u2019t really push the envelope. Shoot-outs and car chases are strewn throughout, most notably during an eye-catching opening set-piece in the streets of New York, but there is a tendency to prioritise ear-splitting volume over technical innovation.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cSimilarly, Jin Seon-jyu\u2019s snarling bad guy Jang fails to make much of an impact, tapping into neither the moral ambivalence nor gratuitous sadism that has come to define Korean movie villains in recent years.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Sources: <\/span>Variety<\/span>, <\/span>Soompi<\/span>, <\/span>South China Morning Post <\/span><\/p>\n

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