Advance ticket sales for recently released South Korean film “The Thieves,” have topped the box office for this coming weekend.

The Korea Film Council announced on Thursday that Choi Dong-hoon's latest film dominated box office pre-sales at 41-point-eight percent.

The movie attracted over four-point-36 million people in just eight days after its release, setting a new record in the film industry.

Advance ticket sales of “The Dark Knight Rises,” which topped the box office last weekend, came in second this weekend with 31-point-four percent of overall ticket sales. “Sammy’s Adventures 2” came in third followed by “Ice Age 4."