Michelle Topham 
After Jo Jung Suk’s new movie Pilot hit 1.3 million admissions in just 3 days earlier in the week, the Korean Film Council has just announced the film has now catapulted over 2 million admissions in only 7 days.
The total number of admissions recorded for Pilot since its release is now 2,178,505.
Not bad for a film about a man who gets fired from his pilot job and is then blacklisted in the airline industry, and so decides he will reapply.
But this time… as a woman.
Those numbers also mean Pilot is the Summer 2024 movie to hit 2 million admissions the fastest, as well as being one of only a handful of Korean films that have hit over 1 million sales this year.
The other films that have earned over 1 million admissions in 2024 are Exhuma, The Roundup: Punishment, Escape, The Birth of Korea, Citizen of a Kind, Following, Handsome Guys, and Alienoid: Return to the Future.
In celebration the main cast — Jo Jung Suk, Lee Ju Myoung, Han Sun Hwa, and Shin Seung Ho — got together to film a video to thank viewers for seeing their film. (watch below)
Pilot was released in South Korea on July 31st.
The comedy drama film is currently being screened on 1,956 screens across the country, and has earned a gross of $14,372,757 so far.
We will keep you updated here on Baozi Buns as, hopefully, Pilot‘s total number of ticket sales climb even further.
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