“Love by mistake best friend” by director Nguyen Quang Dung, Diep The Vinh is far behind its two competitors in terms of revenue. This is a project invested by Tran Thanh and Kaity Nguyen. With a revenue of 20 billion VND, the film is said to be facing the possibility of loss.
The fact that “Love by mistake best friend” was left far behind by two competitors in the Tet film race is considered an unexpected result. The film brings together the cooperation of a group of “hundred billion artists” when director Nguyen Quang Dung is a “million dollar director” with a series of successful remake projects, Kaity Nguyen is also a “hundred billion beauty” of Vietnamese films.
“Love by mistake with a best friend” is the second project of director Nguyen Quang Dung with the participation of Tran Thanh as an investor and producer. Previously, they had worked together in “Dat rung phuong Nam”. Despite being surrounded by controversy, “Dat rung phuong Nam” still reached the milestone of 140 billion VND in revenue.
Before falling off the horse at the box office with “Love by mistake”, director Nguyen Quang Dung was famous for his “good hand” in remake films. When he co-produced the project “Em la ba noi cua anh” (directed by Phan Gia Nhat Linh), Nguyen Quang Dung turned this project into the first hundred billion dong film of the remake genre and held the record for a long time.
In 2018, Nguyen Quang Dung embarked on the project “Glorious Years”, a remake of the original Korean film “Sunny”. The work with bright colors, carrying a nostalgic tone about the brilliant youth, had great appeal, reaching the box office with 85 billion VND.
In 2020, director Nguyen Quang Dung continued with the remake of “Blood Moon Party”. The project was based on the original script of “Perfect Strangers” from Italy – this is the film that holds the Guinness record for the most remakes in the world.
The simple, everyday story, built from a very real situation, but exploiting the dark corners of human psychology, helped "Blood Moon Party" achieve a miraculous revenue of 175 billion VND in the context of the complicated COVID-19 epidemic, cinemas constantly opening and closing, and audiences being afraid to go to crowded places.
"Blood Moon Party" directed by Nguyen Quang Dung received much praise for his subtle Vietnamese adaptation, using a cast of actors with explosive potential such as Thai Hoa, Thu Trang and Kaity Nguyen.
Throughout his career, director Nguyen Quang Dung has made many impressions. Not only is he "cool" with the ability to Vietnamize remake scripts, Nguyen Quang Dung has also shown a sensitivity to audience tastes and the Vietnamese film market for a long time.
Before Tran Thanh took the market by storm and became a "force" in the Tet film market, director Nguyen Quang Dung was the generation that "reclaimed the land", created the premise, and was the pioneer director with a series of "successful" works during the Tet season.
Long before Thu Trang and Tran Thanh brought beauty queens into Tet movies, director Nguyen Quang Dung gathered a series of top showbiz beauties into the work "My Nhan Ke" released on Tet Nguyen Dan 2013. "My Nhan Ke" with the participation of famous "long legs" such as Thanh Hang, Tang Thanh Ha, Diem My 9X, Ngoc Quyen... "crushed" a series of competitors to become the Tet movie with the highest revenue at that time.
Before "Beauty Scheme", director Nguyen Quang Dung continuously released a blockbuster movie every Tet season such as "Kiss of the God of Death" (2008), "Rescue the God of Death" (2009), "Glorious Kisses" (2010)...
Director Nguyen Quang Dung plays many different roles in film projects, from music, screenwriting, directing to production.
With extensive experience, with a keen sense of understanding tastes and markets, with the ability to evaluate existing remake scripts, the fact that "million dollar director" Nguyen Quang Dung "fell off the horse" at the box office this year's Tet movie season is a surprise.
