Zombie Daughter Secures 1st place in the box office for 2 consecutive days..700,000 → Weekend's shortest record of 1 million
Aug 01, 2025
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According to the Film Council's integrated computer network of movie theater tickets on the 1st, Zombie Daughter mobilized 249,996 people on July 31 to keep the top spot in the overall box office. The cumulative audience of 'Zombie Daughter' is 703,010. On the same day, 'F1 The Movie' (director Joseph Kosinski) came in second with 74,693 (accumulated 2,712,462), 'Bad Guys 2' (director Pierre Perryfell) came in third with 33,510 (accumulated 85,759), 'King of Kings' (director Jang Sung-ho) came in fourth with 31,858 (accumulated 877,7004), and 'Omniscient View' (director Kim Byung-woo) came in fifth with 31,115 (accumulated 857,517).
Released on the 30th of last month, Zombie Daughter attracted an all-time audience of 430,000 on the first day. 'Zombie Daughter' surpassed the opening score (423,892) of the year's biggest box office hit 'Mission Impossible: Final Reckoning' (directed by Christopher Macquarie) and achieved the highest opening score of the year. In addition, the opening record (368,582 people) of Extreme Job (directed by Lee Byung-hun), which was the most popular Korean comedy film and the second most popular movie ever, also surpassed the mark.
The success of 'Zombie Daughter', which appeared splendidly amid the attention of many audiences, continued for the second day. The next day, he mobilized 240,000 people to beat his competition to win the first place. In particular, 'Zombie Daughter', which has surpassed 700,000 cumulative audiences in two days, is expected to surpass 1 million and 2 million viewers in a row in the first weekend of its release starting today (1st).
A film adaptation of Lee Yun-chang's popular webtoon of the same name, 「Zombie Daughter」 is a story about a father who started top-secret training to protect his daughter, who became the last zombie in the world. Cho Jung-seok, Lee Jung-eun, Cho Yeo-jeong, Yoon Kyung-ho, and Choi Yu-ri appeared, and director Pil-sung of 'Humanity' took the megaphone.
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