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movie 'Crime City 2' surpassed 10 million viewers in 25 days after its release.

It's been three years since the movie Parasite, and the theater district that was hit by the corona virus is reviving.



This is Reporter Joo-Hyung Lee.



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Athletes enter, filling the screen.



This is the back image of the 'Crime City' series representative Mise-jang-shen, and actor Ma Dong-seok's punch, who plays even with his size, shook the stagnant theater district after Corona.



'Crime City 2' surpassed 10 million viewers in the afternoon on the 11th.



25 days after opening.



[Ma Dong-seok / 'Crime City 2' main actor (today afternoon, Lotte Cinema Busan Main Branch): It is the first time for a movie this big, so I am also embarrassed, and I think the 10 million movie was not made by us, but by the audience.]



1 It is the first 10 million films in three years since Bong Joon-ho's 'Parasite', and the 20th Korean film in history.



The box office of 'Crime City 2' was released a month after social distancing was lifted, and the simple and clear detective Ma Dong-seok's character who blows away the stuffy daily life in one shot,



[What's the reason?

You just catch the bad guy]



It was thanks to the fact that the villain, Seok-gu Son and supporting actors, recently appeared in popular dramas.



The movie theater industry, where sales and the number of audiences fell to 30% of the pre-COVID level, is undergoing a revival.



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Last month, when 'Crime City 2' and 'Doctor Strange' played together, 14.55 million people visited the theater and almost recovered to the level just before Corona.



[Jo Min-soo / 'Witch 2' Actor: (watching movies at home) Once you get used to it, it's hard to change.

So I thought I would come to the theater, but the Crime City has now exploded.

People miss the movie and it was hard...

.]



Next week, the Korean movie 'The Witch 2' and the Pixar animation 'Buzz Light Year', which mobilized 3 million people in the first movie, will be released next week.



It took about two months for the mood in the film industry to change rapidly, saying, 'Now the era of 10 million movies is gone'.



It is not yet known whether the 'Crime City 2' breakthrough of 10 million is a sparkling special or a revival of movie theaters.



(Video coverage: Kim Gyun-jong, video editing: Jeon Min-gyu, CG: Kang Yu-ra, VJ: Chae Yun-seok KNN)