Christopher Nolan's film held South Korea's top spot while Spider-Man: Brand New Day waited in the lobby
Fourteen extra stools appeared at a Seoul multiplex after The Odyssey held Korea's box office over Spider-Man: Brand New Day. Staff hid the spider standee and parked leftover tickets with lost umbrellas. A source close to the situation said patrons treated the superhero option like a wooden horse.
Fourteen spare stools appeared beside a Seoul ticket counter on Saturday, and sources close to the situation swear that is the story, not the chart. Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey had held South Korea's box office over Spider-Man: Brand New Day. The lobby needed somewhere for people to sit while they absorbed the idea that a superhero film had opened and then, in the nicest possible way, vanished.
Variety tracked the weekend if anyone still wanted numbers. Staff treated the ranking like a divorce filing.
Ushers tucked the spider standee behind a plant and circled back every fourteen minutes, just to be sure it had not crept toward Screen 2.
A source close to the situation described the mood at the window.
We asked two patrons if they wanted the web picture. They looked at us as if we had offered them a wooden horse and a ferry ticket home.
Last show left the stools occupied and the 3D glasses untouched. The spider tickets spent the night in lost and found, next to fourteen umbrellas and whatever was left of a rivalry.
