Yoo Ah In And Park Shin Hye’s Zombie Film #ALIVE Reaches 1 Million Moviegoers – soompi

Yoo Ah In and Park Shin Hyes zombie movie #ALIVE has hit a milestone at the box office!

According to the Korean Film Councils records, #ALIVE reached1,180,200moviegoers as ofJune 28 at 5 p.m. KST. This means that the film surpassed 1 million moviegoers within five days of its release.

The film also made headlinesshortly after its premiere when it recorded the highest number of first-day moviegoers achieved by any film since SouthKorea raised its alert level over the COVID-19 pandemic. Like in mostcountries around the world, movie theaterswereeffectively closed in South Korea for months, but have recently begun to open again.

Theeffective closure of movie theatersmeant that #ALIVE is also thefirstfilmreleased after February 23 (the date that the threat alert level increased) toreachthe 1 million moviegoer milestone. Moreover, it beat the films Honest Candidate (7 days) and Closet (11 days) in being the fastest to achieve the milestone. Both those previous films were released in February 2020.

#ALIVE is a survival thriller about the sudden outbreak of a mysterious illness that causes the infected to attack other people. As the disease grows out of control throughout Seoul, survivors are trapped alone in their apartments without access to cellular data, Wi-Fi, texting, or phone calls.

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