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No Other Choice

2026 · Park Chan-wook · Park Chan-wook Back Jisun Michèle Ray-Gavras Alexandre Gavras · 139 minutes

No Other Choice is a 2025 South Korean black comedy thriller film co-written, produced, and directed by Park Chan-wook. Based on The Ax by Donald Westlake, the film stars Lee Byung-hun, Son Ye-jin, Park Hee-soon, Lee Sung-min, Yeom Hye-ran, and Cha Seung-won. It is the second film adaptation of the novel, after the 2005 French-language feature The Axe directed by Costa-Gavras, to whom No Other Choice is dedicated in the closing credits. The film follows a desperate paper industry expert who decides to kill off his competition to be assured of the job he seeks to maintain his way of life.

Comedy Thriller

Cast Salaries

Cast Year Salary Inflation adjusted salary Notes
Lee Byung-hun Son Ye-jin
2026 $1,360,000,000 N/A (est)
Lee Byung-hun Son Ye-jin Park Hee-soon Lee Sung-min Yeom Hye-ran Cha Seung-won
2026 N/A N/A (rep)
Park Hee-soon Lee Sung-min
2026 $850,000,000 N/A (est)
Yeom Hye-ran Cha Seung-won 2026 $510,000,000 N/A (est)

Box Office Reported grosses are direct imports. Inflation-adjusted values use imported adjusted totals when available, otherwise they use the yearly U.S. CPI table you maintain in WordPress.

Inflation-adjusted values are shown in 2025 dollars when CPI data is available.

Category Year Reported Inflation Adjusted
Domestic Domestic theatrical box office gross. 2026 $10,011,860 N/A
International International theatrical box office gross. 2026 $30,203,399 N/A
Worldwide Combined worldwide theatrical box office gross. 2026 $40,215,259 N/A

Earnings / Profitability

Estimated revenues and expenses for films based on currently imported reported and estimated fields. Inflation-adjusted values use the CPI table when direct adjusted values are not present in the export.

Category Year Reported Inflation Adjusted
Revenues
Theatrical Net Revenue Estimated distributor theatrical revenue using the year-based ScreenProfits finance model. 2026 $17,087,290 (est) N/A (est)
Digital Rentals Estimated digital rental revenue from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model. 2026 $34,110,142 N/A
Digital Purchases Estimated digital purchase revenue from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model. 2026 $37,546,186 N/A
Physical Rentals Estimated physical rental revenue from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model. 2026 $5,006 N/A
Physical Purchases Physical Purchases: DVD $2,869,457, BluRay $3,962,583 2026 $6,832,040 N/A
TV & Streaming Revenue Estimated ancillary TV and streaming revenue from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model. 2026 $1,668,647 (est) N/A (est)
Total Revenues Total of the revenue streams currently available or derived in this ScreenProfits profitability view. 2026 $97,249,310 N/A
Expenses
Budget Production budget. sourceSource: Wikipedia infoboxURL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Other_Choice₩17 billion | (~$12.2 million) 2026 $17,000,000,000 N/A
Print & Advertising (P&A) P&A estimated from peer comps using release year, budget, genre, and theatrical performance. sourceSource: ScreenProfits comp P&A estimateEstimated from 12 peer comps using budget + domestic + worldwide. Peers: Borderlands | The Expendables 4 | The Smashing Machine | The Crow | Black Bag 2026 $3,365,960,835 (est) N/A (est)
Participations Talent and producer participation payouts. Parsed from source context when available, otherwise estimated from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model. 2026 $0 (est) N/A (est)
Residuals Residual and related distribution expense line. Parsed from source context when available, otherwise estimated from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model. 2026 $1,196,167 (est) N/A (est)
Interest & Overhead Interest and overhead allocation. Parsed from source context when available, otherwise estimated from the year-based ScreenProfits finance model. 2026 $2,040,000,000 (est) N/A (est)
Total Expenses Total of budget, P&A, participations, residuals, and interest/overhead in this ScreenProfits profitability view. 2026 $22,407,157,002 N/A
Movie Net Profit or Loss Estimated movie net profit/loss from the current ScreenProfits revenue and expense model. 2026 $-22,309,907,691 $0

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