Box Office: 'Parasite' Heads for Huge $50M-Plus in U.S. After Historic Oscar Win

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Over the long Presidents Day holiday, Parasite made its biggest push yet in the U.S., expanding from 1,060 locations to 2,001

continued to make headlines following its historic Oscar best picture victory.

Over the long Presidents Day holiday, the South Korean dark comedy-thriller made its biggest push yet in the U.S., expanding from 1,060 locations to 2,001. The move paid off as Globally,celebrated its Academy Award victory by zooming past the $200 million mark for CJ Entertainment despite the fact that it opened in many key markets — including South Korea — months ago. This past weekend, it earned another $12.8 million for a foreign tally through Sunday of $161.1 million.

Its worldwide gross of $205 million includes $44.49 million in the U.S. ticket sales, where it now ranks No. 4 on the list of the top-grossing foreign-language films of all time after passing up's final U.S. gross at $50 million or more, the top showing for a non-English-language film since Zhang Yimou's

 

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Watched it last night. Was good, not great. Thought JoJo rabbit was the better film out the nominations

A lot of excessive buzz for what was a g-o-o-d film but not as impact heavy as everyone is bangin' on about. Then again I watch a lot of Korean films.

So damn good

With a 11 millions budget 👏👏👏

It’s as good as Joker Don’t me

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