Vampires Vs. Wolverine: 'Thirst' Takes Korean Box Office!
If the US economy continues to tank there is one place you can turn folks, and that's Korea. Yes, Korea, a magical place where a ferocious little vampire film like Park Chan-wook's Thirst, can beat out mega-budget blockbuster, X-Men Origins: Wolverine at the box office. To be fair, the Korean box-office looks nothing like the excessive spending done by Americans upwards of $80 million. Instead, to be a box-office success in Korea, it requires far less. Over four days, Thirst drank in $4.1 million on more than 600 screens, while Wolverine, comparably clawed its way at $2.5 million on just 559 screens over the same time period. So why aren't we boarding luxury aircrafts to Korea to live in a society where bloody horror pics shine? You tell us: Could a film like Thirst ever make it as #1 in the US against Wolverine?
