It’s a cute coincidence and also a testament to the enduring success of the three actors in question. Most K-drama and K-movie fans. This weekend the Korean box office has a three-way battle for supremacy with three high profile movies premiering on Friday – The Negotiation with Son Ye Jin and Hyun Bin, fortune-telling sageuk Feng Shui (Myeong Dang) with Jo Seung Woo and Ji Sung, and historical action flick The Great Battle with Jo In Sung and Nam Joo Hyuk. The cute coincidence aspect is that there is one lead in each of these movies that worked together 15 years ago in a hit romance movie The Classic which so many people loved. In the past 15 years each of Son Ye Jin, Jo In Sung, and Jo Seung Woo have gone on to fame and critical acclaim so they are doing so well and now have a chance to compete head on. May the best movie win!
Looks like Great Battle won the box office game.
It should make more with its huge budget twice the amount of the other 2. The Great Battle is also showing on more theatres.
As far as I can see, they are all doing well.
In the same time, The Great Battle is a war movie, with a lot of action scenes that are expensive when Negociation is filming in two places. Just the type of movie makes it more expensive.
I’m happy for the 3 actors 🙂
I hope The Great Battle tickets sales will further increase. It’s one massive big production movie that probably needs at least 8.5million admissions to breakeven. Currently, it hasn’t reached 4 million admissions yet.