{"id":25643,"date":"2020-03-14T15:29:12","date_gmt":"2020-03-14T14:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=25643"},"modified":"2020-03-14T15:29:12","modified_gmt":"2020-03-14T14:29:12","slug":"parasite-becomes-highest-earning-subtitled-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=25643","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Parasite&#8221; becomes highest earning subtitled film"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Oscar-winning horror-thriller &#8220;Parasite&#8221; has become the highest earning foreign language film at the UK box office, overtaking the 2004 Mel Gibson-directed film &#8220;The Passion of the Christ&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Curzon, the South Korean film\u2019s UK distributors, has reported that &#8220;Parasite&#8221; has passed &#8220;Passion&#8221;\u2019s cumulative total of \u00a311,078,861 on 6 March. &#8220;Parasite&#8221; was released on 7 February in the UK, and had taken \u00a31.4m before the Oscars. However, its Best Picture win had a dramatic effect, with takings of more than \u00a32.5m in the post-Oscar weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the US, where the film has been on release since May 2019, it has taken $52.8m, well behind &#8220;Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon&#8221;\u2019s $128.1m, recorded in 2000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can read my review of &#8220;Parasite&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/Films:P#Parasite\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Oscar-winning horror-thriller &#8220;Parasite&#8221; has become the highest earning foreign language film at the UK box office, overtaking the 2004 Mel Gibson-directed film &#8220;The Passion of the Christ&#8221;. Curzon, the South Korean film\u2019s UK distributors, has reported that &#8220;Parasite&#8221; has passed &#8220;Passion&#8221;\u2019s cumulative total of \u00a311,078,861 on 6 March. &#8220;Parasite&#8221; was released on 7 February [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25643"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25645,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25643\/revisions\/25645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}