“Colony,” Yeon Sang-ho’s zombie-outbreak thriller, held the No. 1 spot at the South Korean box office for roughly a month after its mid-May launch — and it took “Toy Story 5” to finally dethrone it, according to Variety’s box office reporting (Naman Ramachandran, June 22, 2026). During the weekend of June 19-21, the Disney/Pixar sequel pulled in $4.8 million from 713,071 admissions, a commanding 57.64% share of the weekend market, pushing “Colony” down to second place for the first time since it opened.
It’s not like “Colony” went quietly. By the weekend before its dethroning, the film — starring Jun Ji-hyun, Koo Kyo-hwan, and Ji Chang-wook in a story about a breakout attempt from a mall overrun by a fast-evolving hive-mind virus — had already crossed 5 million admissions, per Variety’s June 15 report, pulling in $36.3 million cumulative from 5,212,820 tickets. By the weekend it lost the top spot, that total had climbed to $37.8 million from 5,527,523 admissions, still adding nearly 190,000 tickets in a single weekend even on its way out the door, according to Variety.
What’s notable is what “Colony” was actually competing against during that month-long run. “Wild Sing,” a retro comedy about a faded 1990s K-pop dance trio attempting a comeback, opened in early June and has held a steady second-or-third place the whole time, crossing 1 million admissions itself. International horror titles like “Backrooms” and Spielberg’s “Disclosure Day” came and went through the top five without ever seriously threatening the top spot. It took an established global franchise, not a Korean competitor, to actually end the run.
If you haven’t caught it yet, “Colony” is still very much in theaters and still pulling real numbers — second place with nearly 190,000 admissions in a single weekend is not a movie in decline, it’s a movie that just ran into Pixar.
Sources: Naman Ramachandran, “Korea Box Office: ‘Toy Story 5’ Secures Top Spot to End ‘Colony’ Reign,” Variety, June 22, 2026; Naman Ramachandran, “Korea Box Office: ‘Colony’ Passes 5 Million Admissions Milestone in Continued Reign,” Variety, June 15, 2026.
