A Taxi Driver was released, "A Taxi Driver" surpassed 10 million viewers selling 10,068,708 tickets, earning a total of . "A Taxi Driver" also became the first film of 2017 and the fifteenth Korean film overall to surpass the 10 million milestone. It is also Song Kang-ho's third film to have sold more than 10 million tickets. The film topped the South Korean box office for three consecutive weekends. By August 28, the film had attracted 11.4 million viewers. According to the film's distributor Showbox, the total attendance of the film surpassed the 12 million mark as of September 9, becoming the tenth
John Hinckley Jr. began purchasing weapons and practicing with them. He was prescribed anti-depressants and tranquilizers to deal with emotional issues. Hinckley became obsessed with the 1976 film "Taxi Driver", in which disturbed protagonist Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro) plots to assassinate a presidential candidate. The Bickle character was partly based on the diaries of Arthur Bremer, who attempted to assassinate George Wallace. Hinckley developed an infatuation with Jodie Foster, who played child prostitute Iris Steensma in the film. When Foster entered Yale University, Hinckley moved to New Haven, Connecticut, for a short time to stalk her. He enrolled in a Yale writing