South Korea Box Office for Holy Motors (2012)
| Theatrical Performance (US$) | ||
| South Korea Box Office | $128,462 | Details |
| Worldwide Box Office | $4,230,426 | Details |
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Synopsis
Over the course of a single day, Monsieur Oscar travels by limousine around Paris to a series of nine "appointments," transforming into new characters or incarnations at each stop. Fetched in the morning by Céline, his trusty chauffeur on this surreal journey, Oscar begins the day as a captain of industry. Then he becomes a gypsy crone, begging for spare change on a bridge over the Seine. Inside a digital production facility, heʼs a ninja warrior transformed by cutting edge technology into a reptilian sex god. Next he's a gibberish-spewing troglodyte who kidnaps a fashion model from a photo shoot in Père-Lachaise cemetery, ferrying her to his underground lair in the sewers. Then he's the melancholy father of a teenage daughter, followed by a shadowy assassin sent to kill his own doppelgänger, a dying old man, and finally a thwarted lover revisiting a flame from his past atop a decaying Right Bank department store next to the Pont-Neuf. Monster movie, film noir, romantic drama, musical, crime thriller, futuristic sex fantasia… HOLY MOTORS is all of these and, then again, none of these. It is a ravishing, shape-shifting, fever dream of becoming, unraveling and starting all over again. From celluloid magic to the digital data stream, Monsieur Oscarʼs epic journey of the soul is all of our dreams.
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Movie Details
| Production Budget: | $4,000,000 |
| South Korea Releases: | April 4th, 2013 (Wide) June 29th, 2022 (Limited) |
| Video Release: | February 26th, 2013 by Indomina Releasing |
| MPAA Rating: | Not Rated |
| Running Time: | 116 minutes |
| Keywords: | Same Actor, Multiple Roles, Avant Garde, Unnamed Character |
| Source: | Original Screenplay |
| Genre: | Drama |
| Production Method: | Live Action |
| Creative Type: | Science Fiction |
| Production/Financing Companies: | Martine Marignac, Maurice Tinchant, Albert Prevost, Pierre Grise Productions, Theo Films, ARTE France, Pandora Filmproduktion, WDR/Arte, Canal Plus, Le Centre National du Cinema et de L'Image |
| Production Countries: | France, Germany |
| Languages: | English, French |
DVD and Blu-ray Releases for February 26th, 2013
February 26th, 2013
It's a good week on the home market with not only one of the biggest films of the last year coming out, but also one of the best. The biggest is The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 2, which should be the best selling DVD and Blu-ray for the week, but it isn't a contender for Pick of the Week. For that honor, we go back a few weeks to Frankenweenie. The screener arrived late, but it was worth waiting for and the 3D Combo Pack, while a little pricey, is worth picking up. Also in contender for Pick of the Week is Rocko's Modern Life: The Complete Series.
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Weekend Estimates: Argo Takes Lead as Openers Fail to Impress
October 28th, 2012
A terrible weekend for new releases will leave Argo the weekend winner by default, according to studio estimates released on Sunday morning. The biggest disappointment of the weekend is Cloud Atlas, a pricey ($102 million, according to reports) sci-fi epic from Lana and Andy Wachowski, and Tom Tykwer, that will open with $9.4 million or so, and won't be helped by a C+ CinemaScore. Silent Hill: Revelation 3D confirms that it won't be the new Halloween franchise by opening with a projected $8m, but that looks positively healthy compared to the openings of Fun Size and Chasing Mavericks. With those films projected to open with $4.06 million and $2.2 million respectively, this pre-Halloween weekend looks like a bloodbath.
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Per Theater Chart: Awards Season is In Session
October 23rd, 2012
The Sessions was one of two films to top $10,000 over the weekend on the Per Theater Chart. It managed an average of $28,367 in four theaters. Puella Magi Madoka Magica: The Movie - Part 1: Beginnings / Part 2: Eternal earned an average of $12,468 in five theaters.
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Weekend Estimates: Paranormal Activity Continues Halloween Tradition
October 21st, 2012
After five years of Saw, and a hand-over period of a couple of years, the Paranormal Activity franchise has come to dominate the brief Halloween movie season. Showing that horror moviegoers may be more tradition-bound than any other category of film fans, Paranormal Activity 4 is set for a healthy opening this weekend, with Paramount projecting at total of $30.4 million by the end of the weekend. That's down quite a bit from the $50 million-plus debut of Paranormal Activity 3 last year, and the franchise does look like it is losing some momentum. With production budgets around $5 million, and relatively modest marketing costs, however, the studio will earn a healthy profit from this release and has, predictably, announced Paranormal Activity 5 will go into production early next year for release in October.
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Limited Releases: Holy Cow!
October 19th, 2012
It's a slower week for limited releases, but there are a couple that are earning overwhelmingly positive reviews. Holy Motors is one of them, but while it should do well in art house theaters, its chances at mainstream success is a lot more limited. The Sessions reviews are even better and it has a lot more mainstream appeal. It is never easy for a limited release, but of all of the film's on this week's list, this one has the best shot at the box office.
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Because some of our sources provide box office data in their local currency, while we use USD in the graph above and table below, exchange rate fluctuations can have effect on the data causing stronger increases or even decreases of the cumulative box office.
Weekend Box Office Performance
| Date | Rank | Gross | % Change | Screens | Per Screen | Total Gross | Week |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022/07/01 | - | $933 | 8 | $117 | $127,083 | 483 | |
| 2022/07/08 | - | $1,316 | +41% | 7 | $188 | $128,462 | 484 |
Box Office Summary Per Territory
| Territory | Release Date |
Opening Weekend |
Opening Weekend Screens |
Maximum Screens |
Theatrical Engagements |
Total Box Office |
Report Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Australia | 8/23/2012 | $27,100 | 9 | 9 | 9 | $42,236 | 12/11/2015 |
| Austria | 8/31/2012 | $0 | 0 | 5 | 15 | $38,410 | 12/12/2015 |
| Belgium | 7/11/2012 | $12,770 | 5 | 6 | 38 | $40,191 | 12/11/2015 |
| Brazil | 11/30/2012 | $11,194 | 10 | 10 | 34 | $93,165 | 12/14/2015 |
| Colombia | 11/22/2013 | $8,072 | 7 | 7 | 19 | $27,018 | 12/30/2018 |
| Croatia | 11/1/2012 | $1,612 | 1 | 1 | 2 | $2,560 | 12/29/2018 |
| Denmark | 11/15/2012 | $13,432 | 6 | 7 | 24 | $1,790,918 | 12/12/2015 |
| Germany | 8/30/2012 | $58,940 | 51 | 51 | 146 | $153,789 | 12/11/2015 |
| Hong Kong | 2/7/2013 | $7,371 | 5 | 5 | 7 | $19,544 | 12/14/2015 |
| Iceland | 2/1/2013 | $689 | 1 | 1 | 1 | $689 | 12/30/2018 |
| Netherlands | 8/9/2012 | $0 | 0 | 12 | 12 | $37,975 | 12/11/2015 |
| North America | 10/17/2012 | $18,866 | 2 | 29 | 216 | $641,054 | 12/3/2014 |
| Norway | 3/22/2013 | $8,761 | 5 | 5 | 5 | $10,076 | 12/14/2015 |
| Poland | 1/11/2013 | $0 | 0 | 21 | 42 | $58,493 | 12/30/2018 |
| Portugal | 12/20/2012 | $2,377 | 1 | 2 | 7 | $18,447 | 12/14/2015 |
| Romania | 12/7/2012 | $3,224 | 7 | 7 | 12 | $5,320 | 12/29/2018 |
| Serbia and Montenegro | 12/13/2012 | $0 | 0 | 5 | 25 | $6,214 | 12/30/2018 |
| South Korea | 4/4/2013 | $0 | 0 | 8 | 15 | $128,462 | 7/20/2022 |
| Spain | 11/16/2012 | $41,124 | 14 | 14 | 67 | $180,339 | 12/14/2015 |
| Sweden | 11/16/2012 | $18,838 | 14 | 14 | 14 | $18,838 | 12/12/2015 |
| United Kingdom | 9/28/2012 | $104,986 | 23 | 25 | 83 | $373,185 | 12/12/2015 |
| Rest of World | $543,503 | ||||||
| Worldwide Total | $4,230,426 | 7/20/2022 | |||||
Full financial estimates for this film, including domestic and international box office, video sales, video rentals, TV and ancillary revenue are available through our research services. For more information, please contact us at research@the-numbers.com.
Lead Ensemble Members
| Denis Lavant | Monsieur Oscar |
| Edith Scob | Celine |
| Kylie Minogue | Eva Grace / Jean |
| Eva Mendes | Kay M. |
| Michel Piccoli | The Man with the Birthmark |
| Elise Lhomeau | |
| Jeanne Disson |
For a description of the different acting role types we use to categorize acting perfomances, see our Glossary.
Production and Technical Credits
| Leos Carax | Director |
| Leos Carax | Screenwriter |
| Caroline Champetier | Cinematographer |
| Florian Sanson | Set Designer |
| Neil Hannon | Composer |
| Nelly Quettier | Film Editor |
| Erwan Kerzanet | Sound |