South Korea Box Office for Seolgukyeolcha (2013)

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Theatrical Performance (US$)
South Korea Box Office $51,097,688Details
Worldwide Box Office $82,825,956Details
Home Market Performance
North America DVD Sales $2,616,136 Details
North America Blu-ray Sales $2,322,266 Details
Total North America Video Sales $4,938,402
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Synopsis

A failed global-warming experiment kills off most life on the planet. The final survivors board the Snowpiercer, a train that travels around the globe via a perpetual-motion engine. When cryptic messages incite the passengers to revolt, the train thrusts full-throttle towards disaster.

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Movie Details

Production Budget:$40,000,000
South Korea Releases: August 1st, 2013 (Wide), released as Seolgukyeolcha (Snowpiercer)
Video Release: October 21st, 2014 by Anchor Bay Home Entertainment
MPAA Rating: R for violence, language and drug content.
(Rating bulletin 2310 (Cert #48941), 2/19/2014)
Running Time: 126 minutes
Keywords: Environment, Extreme Weather, Disaster, Post Apocalypse, Trains, Class Warfare, Rebellion, Political, Slavery, Cannibalism, Dystopia, Action Thriller
Source:Based on Comic/Graphic Novel
Genre:Thriller/Suspense
Production Method:Live Action
Creative Type:Science Fiction
Production/Financing Companies: Moho Films, Opus Picture
Production Countries: Republic of Korea, United States
Languages: English

DVD and Blu-ray Releases for October 21st, 2014

October 21st, 2014

Like last week, it is not a very busy week on the home market. However, unlike last week, there are not a lot of prime releases. The second to last DVD / Blu-ray release for Mad Men tops the list. Well, it is the second to last release, until the Full Season Megaset comes out. The biggest theatrical release is The Purge: Anarchy, which was a huge hit, given its budget, but not a monster hit. As for the Pick of the Week contenders, it's Mad Men and Snowpiercer on DVD or Blu-ray. In the end I had to flip a coin to decide. I came up heads. Then I realized I should probably decide which movie is heads before I flipped the coin. Let's try that again. Snowpiercer is the Pick of the Week. More...

Per Theater Chart: Guardians Rides to the Rescue

August 6th, 2014

Calvary poster

The overall box office leader, The Guardians of the Galaxy, also led the way on the per theater chart with an average of $23,118 in just over 4,000 theaters. Second place went to Calvary, with an average of $18,537 in four theaters. The final film in the $10,000 club was Magic in the Moonlight, with an average of $11,396 in 65 theaters. More...

Per Theater Chart: Coming of Age

July 15th, 2014

Boyhood poster

After a weekend with no films in the $10,000 club, this weekend we had the second best per theater average for the year. Boyhood earned nearly $400,000 in just five theaters for an average of $77,524. This is the second best per theater average for the year; only The Grand Budapest Hotel opened with a better average. The overall box office leader, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, was next with an average of $18,304 in nearly 4,000 theaters. More...

Per Theater Chart: Blacking Out

July 8th, 2014

Code Black poster

There were no films in the $10,000 club on the per theater chart this weekend. The film that came the closest was Transformers: Age of Extinction, which earned an average of $8,753 in more than 4,000 theaters. The best limited release was Code Black, which earned $7,978 in one theater. The best new release was Tammy with an average of $6,227 in more than 3,000 theaters. Finally, the best new limited release was Life Itself, which managed an average of $5,713 in 23 theaters. More...

Weekend Estimates: Transformers Top Modest July 4 Weekend

July 6th, 2014

Transformers: Age of Extinction poster

After opening around the $100 million mark last weekend, Transformers: Age of Extinction was always the odds-on favorite to win this weekend, and even a 64% fall will be enough to keep it top with a projected $36.4 million for the Friday–Sunday period. That’s well ahead of Tammy, which will post a respectable $21.2 million for the three-day weekend and almost $33 million in total by the end of Sunday. That’s plenty for a film that cost $20 million to make. More...

Per Theater Chart: Beginning on Top

July 1st, 2014

Begin Again poster

Despite there being a $100 million hit on the box office this weekend, Begin Again still led the way on the per theater chart with an average of $26,813 in five theaters. This bodes well for its expansion on Wednesday. The overall number one film, Transformers: Age of Extinction, was next with an average of $23,633 in more than 4,000 theaters. Snowpiercer was the third film to earn a per theater average over $20,000 with an average of $20,266 in eight theaters. America: Imagine a World Without Her was next with an average of $12,869 million in three theaters. Yves Saint Laurent was a surprise entry in the $10,000 club with an average of $12,104 in two theaters. It managed this despite earning weak reviews and opening on the Wednesday. The final film in the $10,000 club was Code Black, which climbed into the $10,000 club during its second weekend of release with $10,953 in two theaters. It is rare for a documentary to do this well, and it is even rarer for a film to see its per theater average grow. More...

Weekend Estimates: Transformers On Cusp of $100 Million Weekend

June 29th, 2014

Transformers: Age of Extinction poster

Transformers: Age of Extinction is set to deliver the year’s biggest weekend, as it performs to sell-out crowds across the country. Paramount is projecting a weekend total of $100 million as of Sunday morning, which honestly seems like a conveniently round number. Perhaps the studio is playing it safe, and the actual weekend number will be a few million over $100 million? Or maybe they’re hoping that announcing a $100 million weekend will help encourage people to theaters today and push the film over the line? Based on the numbers we’re seeing, it looks more like the latter, and we’ll have to wait until Monday to see if Age of Extinction will actually be the first $100 million opener of the year. At the end of the day, it probably doesn’t matter a huge amount: $99 million versus $101 million is a rounding error, and the film has topped $200 million internationally this weekend, which is a great start towards repaying its reported $210 million production budget. More...

Limited Releases: Begin the Weekend with a Limited Release

June 27th, 2014

Begin Again poster

There are more than a dozen limited releases on this week's list, including two films that are opening in limited release this week with a scheduled wide expansion next week. Unfortunately, I don't have high hopes for either of those two films. There are some films worth checking out, including a pair of documentaries, The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz and Whitey: United States of America v. James J. Bulger, both of which are also playing on Video on Demand. The film I hope has the best start is Snowpiercer, a South Korean film that is earning amazing reviews. More...

Because some of our sources provide box office data in their local currency, while we use USD in the graph above and table below, exchange rate fluctuations can have effect on the data causing stronger increases or even decreases of the cumulative box office.

Weekend Box Office Performance

DateRankGross% ChangeScreensPer ScreenTotal GrossWeek
2019/05/24 - $2,013   7 $288   $56,340,456 304
2019/09/06 - $2,447   45 $54   $56,111,808 319
2020/02/21 - $328   13 $25   $55,166,756 343
2020/05/29 - $2,743   26 $106   $55,079,936 357
2023/11/03 - $2,114   31 $68   $51,097,688 536

Box Office Summary Per Territory

Territory Release
Date
Opening
Weekend
Opening
Weekend
Screens
Maximum
Screens
Theatrical
Engagements
Total
Box Office
Report
Date
Australia 7/24/2014 $49,246 2 24 62 $374,072 11/7/2022
Brazil 8/27/2015 $149,446 162 162 263 $266,786 10/20/2015
Finland 7/11/2014 $38,969 32 32 75 $165,100 12/17/2015
France 10/30/2013 $0 0 276 276 $5,306,545 12/13/2015
Hong Kong 11/28/2013 $108,999 52 52 82 $253,872 12/13/2015
Mexico 10/2/2015 $123,421 0 1 1 $333,878 11/3/2015
New Zealand 7/30/2021 $192 1 1 1 $192 10/20/2022
North America 6/27/2014 $171,187 8 356 1,327 $4,563,029 4/21/2016
Portugal 7/25/2014 $0 0 1 1 $41,272 8/3/2021
Russia (CIS) 1/16/2020 $99,171 280 280 448 $169,569 10/19/2022
South Korea 8/1/2013 $0 0 45 122 $51,097,688 11/7/2023
Spain 5/9/2014 $0 0 1 2 $100,632 12/16/2015
Taiwan 12/6/2013 $167,955 31 31 87 $555,533 12/13/2015
Thailand 12/5/2013 $283,284 91 91 156 $488,059 12/13/2015
Vietnam 12/6/2013 $46,235 23 23 46 $109,013 12/30/2018
 
Rest of World $19,000,716
 
Worldwide Total$82,825,956 11/7/2023

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Lead Ensemble Members

Chris Evans    Curtis
Kang-ho Song    Namgoong Minsu
Tilda Swinton    Mason
Jamie Bell    Edgar
Octavia Spencer    Tanya
Ewen Bremner    Andrew
Alison Pill    Teacher
Ko Asung    Yona
John Hurt    Gilliam
Ed Harris    Wilford

For a description of the different acting role types we use to categorize acting perfomances, see our Glossary.

Production and Technical Credits

Joon-ho Bong    Director
Joon-ho Bong    Screenwriter
Kelly Masterson    Screenwriter
Joon-ho Bong    Story Creator
Jeong Tae-Sung    Producer
Steven Nam    Producer
Park Chan-wook    Producer
Lee Tae-hun    Producer
Miky Lee    Executive Producer
Ondrej Nekvasil    Production Designer
Changju Kim    Editor
Sallie Hard    Second Assistant Director

The bold credits above the line are the "above-the-line" credits, the other the "below-the-line" credits.