'Spider-Man: Brand New Day' attracts 680,000 viewers on opening day... highest opening in series history, ranks number one at the box office

The movie ″Spider-Man: Brand New Day″ (director Destin Cretton, hereinafter ″Spider-Man 4″) ranked first at the box office on its opening day. According to the Korea Film Council’s integrated computer network for movie theater ticket sales on the 30th, ″Spider-Man 4″ attracted 688,420 (or 688,381) viewers on the 29th, with a cumulative audience of 689,674 (or 689,635). This work set the highest opening record among all ″Spider-Man″ series. It surpassed the opening day performances of ″Spider-Man: Homecoming″ (545,302), ″Spider-Man: Far From Home″ (674,432), and ″Spider-Man: No Way Home″ (634,962). It also exceeded the opening records of major foreign hits such as ″Avatar: The Way of Water″ (359,031) and ″Frozen 2″ (606,618). ″Spider-Man 4″ tells a new story of Peter Parker, who disappeared from everyone’s memory after ″Spider-Man: No Way Home,″ depicting Peter Parker (played by Tom Holland) facing confusion caused by the appearance of an enemy who remembers his identity and DNA mutation. The film is directed by Destin Cretton. On its opening day, it recorded a CGV Golden Egg Index of 97% and a Naver real viewer rating of 9.08. The second place at the box office was ″Hope,″ directed by Na Hong-jin, which attracted 87,942 (or 87,948) viewers, with a cumulative audience of 3,707,168 (or 3,707,174). ″Hope″ depicts the story of Beom-seok (played by Hwang Jung-min), the head of the Ho-po Port branch in the Demilitarized Zone, who hears news of a tiger’s appearance, causing the village to go on high alert. In third place was ″Minions & Monsters″ (director Pierre Coffin) with 21,655 viewers, fourth was ″Moana″ (director Thomas Kail) with 11,102 viewers, and fifth was ″Toy Story 5″ (director Andrew Stanton) with 9,231 viewers.