The martial arts comedy "The Kungfu Women's Football Team" written and directed by Stephen Chow is achieving impressive box office achievements in China, with revenue exceeding 2.17 billion RMB (about 8,400 billion VND) after 24 days of screening.
Since "The Kungfu Women's Football Team" was released and won big in revenue, to thank the audience, director Stephen Chow directly led the film crew, along with actors Dilraba Dilmurat, Zhang Yixing, Charlene Choi... to many cities in China to carry out promotions and exchanges with fans. The atmosphere at the events was very lively.
However, Truong Tieu Phi - one of the main actors of the film - has continuously been absent from these activities, causing many mixed opinions.
Many viewers expressed dissatisfaction with Truong Tieu Phi's attitude. They believe that even director Chau Tinh Tri at the age of 64, along with main actors such as Dich Le Nhiet Ba, still actively directly thanked the audience, while the number 1 female lead Truong Tieu Phi did not appear. She was criticized for being "star-stuck" and lacking enthusiasm in promoting the film.
However, many netizens also spoke out to protect the actress. According to them, Truong Tieu Phi has joined the new "Khai ban" film crew since the beginning of June and is currently on duty in Xiamen to film. Due to a tight filming schedule, she could not arrange time to participate in the promotional trip with the "Women's Kungfu Football Team" film crew.
In fact, before that, when attending a public event in Beijing, Truong Tieu Phi still actively promoted the movie.
She said that she especially loves the character of team leader Song Song, and shared that the character's growth and change are the factors that made her decide to accept the project. The actress also sincerely thanked the audience for supporting the film.
Previously, there was information that Truong Tieu Phi, when signing a contract to participate in the "Kungfu Women's Football Team", was said to have chosen the form of not receiving a fixed fee of 8 million CNY from the beginning, instead receiving box office profit sharing.
To focus on the project, Truong Tieu Phi not only canceled the entire year's schedule but also spent nearly 2 million CNY in compensation for contract violations to withdraw from other jobs, and joined the film crew early to practice martial arts for half a year.
Truong Tieu Phi personally performed all the difficult action scenes, did not use stuntmen and even cut off her long hair that she had grown for 5 years.
According to the average profit sharing ratio of 2.5% for main actors (in the profit share shared with the producer), if the film achieves a revenue of 3.1 billion CNY as predicted by the platform, Zhang Xiaofei could receive about 22.75 million CNY, much higher than the fixed fee of 8 million CNY that she was offered, and also more than enough to compensate for the 2 million CNY of contract violation money she spent.
Currently, the "Kungfu Women's Football Team" is about to reach a revenue milestone of 2.2 billion RMB and is forecast to continue to increase.
