(CJ Entertainment)

Actors Kim Yoon-suk and Kang Dong-won’s exorcism movie “The Priests” opened with an enthusistic response with ticket sales of 189,987 on Thursday, recording the most profit for the day.

Actors Joo Won and Yoo Hae-jin’s “Fatal Intuition,” released 8 days earlier, gathered 21,722 and fell behind to second place.

“The Priests” has so far logged a cumulative number of 197,571 moviegoers, while rival “Fatal Intuition” has 809,645.

By Lim Jeong-yeo (kaylalim@heraldcorp.com)

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