{"id":5612,"date":"2021-04-04T16:53:47","date_gmt":"2021-04-04T09:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hkfilm.com.vn\/?p=5612"},"modified":"2021-11-19T15:02:12","modified_gmt":"2021-11-19T08:02:12","slug":"bo_gia_boxoffice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hkfilm.com.vn\/en\/bo_gia_boxoffice\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Dad, I&#8217;m sorry\u2019 becomes bestselling Vietnamese movie in history"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jluSu8Rw6YE\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<span class=\"br\"><\/span>\n<div class=\"bold ArticleLead\">\n<p><strong>\u201cBo Gia\u201d (Old Father), a family movie starring comedian and TV host Tran Thanh, has become the bestselling Vietnamese movie in the country\u2019s cinema history after its ticket sales reached VND200 billion on March 14.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<p>The previous record was held two years ago by \u201cCua lai vo bau\u201d (Flirt with pregnant wife again), which also starred Tran Thanh, with domestic ticket sales reaching VND191.8 billion. Action film \u201cHai Phuong\u201d (Furie) collected up to VND200 billion, but the film was screened in the United States, Canada and China.<\/p>\n<p>Released on March 5, \u201cOld Father\u201d has set new records for the fastest Vietnamese movie to reach ticket sales of VND100 billion and VND200 billion. The film collected VND100 billion in just four days after being released, beating the previous record of six days held by &#8220;Gai Gia Lam Chieu 3&#8221; (The Last Egg 3).<\/p>\n<p>On March 13 only, \u201cOld Father\u201d collected VND31 billion, the highest ticket sales in a single day among Vietnamese movies. The film is expected to break some other records as it remains popular at the cinemas even 10 days after its release.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m so moved that words cannot describe how very happy I am that the film is loved by the viewers,\u201d shared Tran Thanh, actor, director and producer of \u201cOld Father\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>According to Box Office Vietnam, 2.4 million tickets of \u201cOld Father\u201d have been sold. This encouraging result is expected to help the local cinema industry recover from the negative effects of the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<span class=\"br\"><\/span>\n<div class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/vnn-imgs-f.vgcloud.vn\/2021\/03\/17\/09\/old-father-becomes-bestselling-vietnamese-movie-in-history.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"422\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The all-star cast of the family movie \u201cOld Father\u201d \u2013 Photo: Courtesy of producer<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n<p>\u201cBo Gia\u201d centers around Sang, an old motorbike rider who lives in a low-income neighborhood in HCMC. Although Sang is poor and suffers from an illness, he always sacrifices himself for his family.<\/p>\n<p>The film\u2019s production cost is estimated at VND23 billion (US$1 million), with an all-star cast comprising Tran Thanh, People\u2019s Artist Ngoc Giau, Le Giang, Tuan Tran, Ngan Chi, La Thanh, Quoc Khanh, Le Trang, Che Nguyen Quynh Chau and Minh Tu.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cOld Father\u201d movie is an adaptation of a web drama of the same name directed by Vu Ngoc Dang. The web drama version, which was released on YouTube in early 2020, was the most viewed web drama in Vietnam with more than 90 million views for its five episodes. Seven Vietnamese films with the highest domestic ticket sales to date comprise \u201cOld Father\u201d with VND200 billion and counting, \u201cFlirt with pregnant wife again\u201d with VND191.8 billion, \u201cMat Biec\u201d (Dreamy Eyes) with VND180 billion, \u201cTiec trang mau\u201d (Perfect Strangers) with VND175 billion, \u201cEm chua 18\u201d (Jailbait) with VND171 billion, \u201cFurie\u201d with VND160 billion (up to VND200 billion from both local and foreign markets) and \u201cThe Last Egg 3\u201d with VND165 billion.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<span class=\"br\"><\/span>\n<p><span class=\"ArticleDate right\"><strong>SGT<\/strong> &#8211; 17\/03\/2021 &nbsp;&nbsp; 11:39 GMT+7<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Original article: <a href=\"https:\/\/vietnamnet.vn\/en\/entertainment-sports\/old-father-becomes-bestselling-vietnamese-movie-in-history-720185.html\">https:\/\/vietnamnet.vn\/en\/entertainment-sports\/old-father-becomes-bestselling-vietnamese-movie-in-history-720185.html<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cBo Gia\u201d (Old Father), a family movie starring comedian and TV host Tran Thanh, has become the bestselling Vietnamese movie in the country\u2019s cinema history after its ticket sales reached VND200 billion on March 14. The previous record was held two years ago by \u201cCua lai vo bau\u201d (Flirt with pregnant wife again), which also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5613,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[145,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hkfilm.com.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5612"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hkfilm.com.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hkfilm.com.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hkfilm.com.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hkfilm.com.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5612"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/hkfilm.com.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5627,"href":"https:\/\/hkfilm.com.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5612\/revisions\/5627"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hkfilm.com.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hkfilm.com.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hkfilm.com.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hkfilm.com.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}