New movie “The Thieves” breaks audience record with amazing statistics: over 5 million viewers in 10 days

New movie “The Thieves” breaks audience record with amazing statistics: over 5 million viewers in 10 days

August 5th, 2012 by Oh! Kpop

New movie “The Thieves” breaks audience record with amazing statistics: over 5 million viewers in 10 days

A South Korean box office hit continued breaking records with over 5 million viewers in 10 days of its release, official statistics showed Sunday

‘The Thieves’ breaks record, bringing in over 5 million viewers in 10 days

A South Korean box office hit continued breaking records with over 5 million viewers in 10 days of its release, official statistics showed Sunday.

Director Choi Dong Hun‘s successful new movie ”The Thieves,” featuring 10 Korean and Chinese thieves teaming up to steal a valuable diamond necklace at a Macao casino, drew 5.5 million viewers in the first 10 days, data from the Korean Film Council showed.

Released on July 25th, the movie reached 5,571,750 viewers in just 10 days, and beating ‘The Dark Knight Rises‘s record, released in Korea a week earlier, by 350,000 viewers. ‘The Thieves’ has broken a national record of gaining over 5,400,000 viewers in a short period of time.

The movie has also broken the records of extremely successful movies in past years like ‘The Host‘ (5,140,000 viewers in 10 days) and ‘Transformers 3‘ (5,200,000 viewers in 11 days), as well as ‘D-War‘ (5,300,000 viewers in 12 days) and ‘Haeundae‘ (5,100,000 in 13 days).

As mentioned earlier, ‘The Thieves’ takes place in a Macau casino, where 10 skilled thieves from Korea and China work together to steal the famous diamond, the ‘Teardrop of the Sun’. The movie features a thrilling plot and exciting action scenes, as well as great actors who fill the roles of each unique character extremely well.

Have you watched this amazing movie yet?

Source + Image: Star Today via Nate