{"id":551874,"date":"2026-07-16T01:14:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T01:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/551874\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T01:14:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T01:14:16","slug":"hope-opens-strong-in-korea-selling-over-330000-tickets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/551874\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Hope&#8217; opens strong in Korea, selling over 330,000 tickets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/2adf1561-bf86-4acd-afb0-2a5376d1b965.jpg\" style=\"height: auto; aspect-ratio: 745 \/ 308; width: 100%\" alt=\"A scene from the film 'Hope' \/ Courtesy of Netflix\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A scene from the film &#8220;Hope&#8221; \/ Courtesy of Netflix<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">Na Hong-jin&#8217;s &#8220;Hope&#8221; attracted more than 330,000 audience members on the first day of its release in Korea, box-office data showed Thursday, reflecting the buzz surrounding the highly anticipated film.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">The Korean sci-fi epic debuted at No. 1 at the box office, drawing 333,918 moviegoers on Wednesday, according to data from the Korean Film Council (KOFIC). It accounted for 81.3 percent of total box-office sales.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">&#8220;Hope,&#8221; which competed at this year&#8217;s prestigious Cannes Film Festival, follows police officers and villagers in the remote coastal town of Hopo as they become embroiled in a series of spiraling events after encountering powerful yet mysterious extraterrestrial beings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">Marking Na&#8217;s return a decade after &#8220;The Wailing&#8221; (2016), it features a star-studded cast, including Hwang Jung-min, Zo In-sung and Jung Ho-yeon, as well as Hollywood actors Michael Fassbender and Alicia Vikander.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">The film was pre-sold to around 200 territories worldwide, setting a record for a Korean film. At home, the sci-fi epic accounted for 63.1 percent of all advance ticket sales as of 8:55 a.m. Thursday, with some 550,000 moviegoers set to watch it, according to the KOFIC data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A scene from the film &#8220;Hope&#8221; \/ Courtesy of Netflix Na Hong-jin&#8217;s &#8220;Hope&#8221; attracted more than 330,000 audience&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":551875,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[93,61,60,270],"class_list":["post-551874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=551874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/551875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}