According to data from the Korean Film Council on Monday, the zombie film drew about 301,000 moviegoers over the weekend, bringing its cumulative theater attendance to 5.21 million after topping the box office for the fourth consecutive week since its release on May 21.
It became this year's second film to reach the milestone, following director Jang Hang-jun's period drama "The King's Warden," which was released in February and went on to become the second-most-watched film in the history of South Korean cinema, drawing over 16 million moviegoers as of April.
The country's biggest box-office hit and highest-grossing film is director Kim Han-min's "The Admiral: Roaring Currents," the first film in his hit trilogy, which drew over 17.61 million moviegoers when it was released in 2014.
"Colony," starring Jun Ji-hyun, Koo Kyo-wan and Ji Chang-wook, is Yeon's latest work in his signature zombie genre, following "Train to Busan" (2016) and "Peninsula" (2020).
The 122-minute film revolves around survivors trapped inside a building sealed off after an unidentified outbreak as they confront infected people evolving in unpredictable ways.
But it remains to be seen whether its box-office momentum will continue, as the latest installment in the Hollywood animated film series "Toy Story" is set to open later this week.
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