Take Off surpasses Friend on all-time box office list

10 October 4, 2009

Take Off surpasses Friend on all-time box office list

by javabeans

Ha Jung-woo‘s big ski-jump movie Take Off [국가대표, or National Athlete] has had another great run over the Chuseok holiday weekend, and its overall ticket sales have now landed it as No. 8 on the all-time box office list in Korea. With more than 8.28 million viewers, the sports-comedy movie has pushed 2001’s Jang Dong-gun film Friend down a slot (8.18 million viewers). This also puts Take Off within reach of the movies in seventh and sixth places: Speed Scandal (8.3 million) and D War (8.42 million).

The movie features a motley team of guys who take up the unfamiliar sport of ski jumping, wanting to bring honor to their country (by winning a ski jump competition, they hope to help bring the Winter Olympics to Korea). Take Off opened on July 29 and is still going strong in theaters; in addition to Ha Jung-woo, it stars Sung Dong-il, Kim Ji-seok, Kim Dong-wook, and Lee Jae-eung.

Via E Daily

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1 belleza

October 4, 2009 at 10:58 PM

Thus the Korean paradox. Sports dramas = bad ratings. Sports films = big box office

Love watching ski jumping/flying competitions. Anybody remember Eddie the Eagle?

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2 hae anna

October 4, 2009 at 11:13 PM

i would love to watch this movie
for the sake of ha jung woo..

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3 amy

October 5, 2009 at 12:05 AM

This is one of those movies I wish I could watch on big screen. Hooray for HJW and all the other actors. I never thought this movie would do so well considering it's a sports movie. It seems that light-hearted and uplifting movies tend to do well lately in Korea.

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4 chajjye

October 5, 2009 at 12:21 AM

perhaps korean sports movies are shorter therefore more suspense packed. dramas tend to play things out longer and after a while, it can become repetitive. therefore writing needs to be much much better and live shoot cannot work for sports drama. i mean, look at heading to the ground...

two cents.

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5 Janie

October 5, 2009 at 12:33 AM

Sounds like a really fun & cool movie to watch! The synopsis sounds pretty similar to the comedy movie Cool Runnings featuring the Jamaican bobsled team in Winter Olympic as well ;p