Movies starring Jo Jung-suk, Gong Hyo-jin compete for top in weekend box office

SEOUL, Dec. 5 (Yonhap) — Jo Jung-suk and Gong Hyo-jin, who recently came off from playing the leads of hit rom-com TV drama “Jealousy Incarnate,” have continued to ride huge waves of popularity on the big screen through their latest movies, waging a fierce competition in the weekend box office here, data showed Monday.

According to real-time box office figures from the Korean Film Council, “My Annoying Brother” starring Jo and “Missing” with Gong as lead, took the No. 1 and No. 2 spots over the Dec. 2-4 weekend, selling out 598,274 and 470,476 tickets respectively.

The comedy drama that snagged the top spot has grossed about 2,160,000 viewers since its local premiere on Nov. 24, and the latter, set out a week after its rival, has accumulated an attendance of over 700,000.

This photo provided by CJ Entertainment shows Doh Kyung-soo (L) and Cho Jung-seok in a scene from “My Annoying Brother.”

“My Annoying Brother” depicts a moving story about two hostile half-brothers that become a loving family where Jo plays a fraudulent young man who bails himself out by claiming himself to be the only family member of his half-brother, a national judo player who loses his sight and dreams in an accident.

The stars of the new movie “Missing” — Gong Hyo-jin (L) and Um Ji-won — greet reporters during a publicity event in Seoul on Nov. 21, 2016.

The mystery thriller film “Missing” features Gong as a babysitter who one day disappears with the child. Nobody knows the whereabouts of the two and the reasons behind their disappearance.

The two-weekend winner “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them,” a Warner Bros.’ fantasy adventure film, fell to third place on its third weekend with 432,828 tickets sold, just a few tickets behind “Missing.”

The film, based on a screenplay by J.K. Rowling, follows Newt Scamander, an English magical zoologist, who joins a secretive group of wizards and witches in 1920s New York in search of fantastic beasts.

While the three movies battled out for the top spots, “Jack Reacher: Never Go Back” starring hit Hollywood star Tom Cruise ranked No. 4 and the German-animated film “The Little Medic: Secret Mission of the Bodynauts” rounded out the top five.

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