Fan Chant: BTS’s Yet To Come Concert Film Makes Box Office Bank

Mary Siroky
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Welcome to Fan Chant, a weekly column for K-pop fans, stans, and newbies alike. Each week, I’ll be rolling out interviews, lists, and all kinds of content to keep you in the loop on the latest and greatest from our friends in Seoul and beyond. Also, make sure to subscribe to my companion newsletter!

It’s Oscar season, which means it’s time to talk about some truly prestige cinema.

This past weekend, Trafalgar Releasing presented BTS: Yet To Come in Cinemas, a re-cut and remixed version of BTS‘s October 2022 concert in Busan. As anyone who tried to tune into the livestream last year might remember, 49 million people around the globe logged on to do the same, overloading the servers and causing quite a few delays throughout the nearly two-hour show. The concert experience gave fans a chance to revisit the event in a smoother, louder, and all-around bigger way.

This is the fifth time BTS has worked with Trafalgar Releasing, who collaborated with HYBE (then Big Hit) for Burn The Stage: The Movie, Bring The Soul: The Movie, Break The Silence: The Movie, and, of course, the monumental BTS Permission To Dance On Stage – Seoul: Live Viewing, which broke the global event cinema record with a gross of $6.84 million for North America and $32.6 million worldwide.

According to Deadline, this weekend’s takeaways were a similarly strong showing for BTS in theaters. The weekend box office in North America alone reported over $5.1 million on just 1,200 screens, with the total crossing $8 million by the time the limited run wrapped. (Global takeaways are reporting a final number closer to $10 million, according to Box Office Mojo). This put BTS: Yet to Come in the No. 5 slot for the weekend.

It’s perhaps one of the first major examples of what ARMY has felt to be true for a long time — the group might be in the midst of completing their mandatory military service, but the fans are all still right here, very ready to show up for BTS in the meantime. (On a slightly similar note, the Grammys reported viewership of 12.4 million viewers; Jungkook’s livestream singing karaoke in his living room pulled in 16 million people around the globe.)

The concert film was presented in three different formats: standard 2D, an immersive ScreenX option, and 4DX, the last of which reportedly had people nearly flying out of their seats during “Cypher” and “UGH,” which has me lowkey jealous of the people who got to experience it. And one quick last thought — going forward, maybe we don’t need the editing to be quite as intense, when the lyrics to “For Youth” are emotional enough already.

Chime in on your experience at BTS: Yet to Come this past weekend on your social platform of choice — and if you haven’t seen it yet, the teaser trailer will surely convince you.

ICYMI: Tablo on 20 Years of Epik High and Working with BTS’s RM

epik high map of the human soul
epik high map of the human soul

Epik High, photo courtesy of OURS Co/Illustration by Steven Fiche

I reconnected with Tablo for a lovely chat about the group’s new EP, Strawberry (which is really great), and got to hear a bit more about his collaboration with RM on Indigo. He really wants people to know that he was, in fact, singing with RM on the final chorus of “All Day” — read the full piece here.

j-hope doc details:

There’s still plenty to be excited for in the world of BTS, including j-hope’s documentary j-hope IN THE BOX, which will stream globally on Weverse and Disney+ on February 17th. The doc will take viewers into the making of his solo album, Jack in the Box, leading up to his earth-shattering appearance at Lollapalooza. I’ll be reviewing the movie, so stay tuned for more right here on Consequence.

Song Rec of the Week:

I’m loving the mini-album from TOMORROW X TOGETHER, especially this adorable collaboration with Coi Leray.

Fan Chant: BTS’s Yet To Come Concert Film Makes Box Office Bank
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