{"id":171795,"date":"2026-07-17T10:10:26","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T17:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=171795"},"modified":"2026-07-18T08:29:52","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T15:29:52","slug":"hope-earns-the-title-of-fastest-film-of-2026-to-surpass-1-million-moviegoers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/hope-earns-the-title-of-fastest-film-of-2026-to-surpass-1-million-moviegoers\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cHOPE\u201d earns the title of fastest film of 2026 to surpass 1 million moviegoers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Among the K-Netizens, <strong><em>\u201cHOPE\u201d<\/em> <\/strong>became an online sensation as it was presented as a South Korean science fiction action-thriller directed by Na Hong-jin. The film follows a cynical police chief, his rookie deputy, and a local hunting party in a remote harbor village who must defend their community from a massive, mysterious extraterrestrial creature, making it one of the most forward-to-watch releases this year.<\/p>\n<p>On July 17, the Korean Film Council announced that as of 12 p.m. KST that day, <em>\u201cHOPE\u201d<\/em> had recorded a total of 1,003,960 moviegoers. <strong>The movie saw immediate success and became the fastest film released in 2026 to surpass 1 million moviegoers<\/strong>, outpacing the recent blockbuster <em>\u201cColony\u201d<\/em> and the record-breaking hit \u201c<em>The King\u2019s Warden.\u201d<\/em> The movie was originally released on July 15, meaning that it took less than three days to reach the milestone.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"[\ud638\ud504] \uc778\ud130\ub0b4\uc154\ub110 \uba54\uc778 \uc608\uace0\ud3b8\" width=\"1240\" height=\"698\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DrNM5QhAr_M?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The film\u2019s success is also attributed to the <strong>star-studded cast<\/strong>, which includes Hwang Jung Min, Zo In Sung, and Jung Ho Yeon, along with Hollywood actors Michael Fassbender, Alicia Vikander, and Taylor Russell. Congratulations to the cast and crew of <em>\u201cHOPE\u201d<\/em> on this amazing milestone!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among the K-Netizens, \u201cHOPE\u201d became an online sensation as it was presented as a South Korean science fiction action-thriller directed by Na Hong-jin. The film follows a cynical police chief, his rookie deputy, and a local hunting party in a remote harbor village who must defend their community from a massive, mysterious extraterrestrial creature, making [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3102,"featured_media":171799,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2264,1399],"tags":[4160],"class_list":["post-171795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-entertainment","category-movies","tag-hope"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171795"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":171798,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171795\/revisions\/171798"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}