Not only are this year’s Hollywood blockbusters grossing astronomical amounts in their usual territories, it seems that they have also swept away the competition elsewhere, in places where domestic cinema is often more successful than the produce of its Californian counterpart. This weeks box office figures from South Korea show that Shrek the Third managed to amass $11.3 million worth of ticket sales in just 3 days - Korea’s biggest animated film opening ever. The Mike Myer’s voiced ogre managed to leapfrog Hwang Jin Yi, a film which received a wider release than Shrek and was expected to take in more than the $4.9 million it ended up with. Shrek’s success follows similar triumphs from Spider-man 3 and Pirates of the Caribbean as both films went on to gross $34 million and $31 million respectively, marking them as Korea’s two highest earning films of the year. If only us here in the English speaking world would accept foreign films so readily, it could happen you know.

Source: Variety Asia Online

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