The box office race for the Chinese summer movie season continues to be controversial.
Stephen Chow's movie "The Kungfu Women's Football Team" and the new work "Welcome to Long Restaurant" by "box office king" Stephen Chow are involved in controversy related to being accused of "cheating/transferring box office revenue".
Recently, Tran Chan Vu - Chau Tinh Tri's manager - shared a ticket photo of a spectator, showing that this person bought a ticket to watch "Kungfu Women's Football Team" but the ticket issued by the theater showed the name "Welcome to Long Restaurant".
This move is said to be publicly suspecting that Thẩm Đằng's film "steals box office revenue", causing the topic to climb hot searches on social networks and sparking a heated debate between fans of the two films.
After the incident spread, the relevant cinema quickly spoke up to explain that due to lack of manpower during a crowded time, the staff operated by mistake by hand, not intentionally "cheating revenue".
Accordingly, that day a spectator requested to buy tickets to watch "Women's Kungfu Football Team", but because it was 20 minutes past the broadcast time, the system could not issue tickets. Before the customer's determination, the counter staff mistakenly issued tickets "Welcome to Long Restaurant".
The on-duty manager said that he had supplemented revenue data for the "Kungfu Women's Football Team" screening that the actual audience had watched, and at the same time refunded the ticket "Welcome to Long Restaurant" that was mistakenly issued.
After that, the film crew of "Welcome to Long Restaurant" also shared the movie theater's post, affirming that the film crew did not participate or direct any violations related to box office revenue.
However, the voices of the parties continue to cause controversy on social networks.
A part of the audience believes that after the revenue of "The Kungfu Girl" exceeded 2.3 billion RMB, the increase has shown signs of slowing down, so the fact that the film is said to be "picking" the opponent this time is no different from an expression of jealousy, and at the same time taking advantage of controversy to create heat.
Some audiences frankly believe that the competition in the summer movie season is very fierce, the difference in revenue comes from the quality and hotness of each work, and should not arbitrarily defame rival films.
However, there is also a part of the audience who spoke out in support of "The Kungfu Women's Football Team". Previously, Stephen Chow's fans collected evidence and discovered that more than 90 cinemas had violations, thereby helping the film recover more than 1.6 million CNY in lost box office revenue.
This proves that the film actually encountered a situation where revenue was transferred to another work, so the new incident related to "Welcome to Long Restaurant" is even more outrageous.
Currently, the debate between the two sides continues to heat up, related topics maintain high interest, and the issue of standards and transparency of box office revenue in the summer movie season is also receiving attention from both inside and outside the industry.
Meanwhile, "Welcome to Long Restaurant" has surpassed the 500 million CNY box office revenue mark after 4 days of release, leading daily revenue in the Chinese market at the present time.
