"Flip Side 7" surpasses 200 billion VND

According toBox Office Vietnam, an independent box office monitoring unit, at noon on May 2, the work reached a new revenue milestone, attracting more than two million viewers. The film has the fastest ticket sales speed in the series. In 2023,Flip Side 6: The Fateful Ticketreached this level after 12 days in theaters.

During the 5-day holiday from April 30 to May 1, the film led the box office, far surpassing many competitors, such asSiege: The Punisher, Fat Cat with 10 Lives, Luca's SummerThe film sold 102,000 pre-sold tickets, earning 100 billion VND after more than three days of release.Flip Side 7is the second Vietnamese film of the year to reach the hundred billion mark, afterTomorrowof Tran Thanh (520 billion VND).

Among the localities, Ho Chi Minh City audiences went to seeFlip Side 7highest - 36.5%, followed by Hanoi (16.2%), Binh Duong (4.7%). "The work has a screening occupancy rate of up to 50% - a very high number", said Mr. Nguyen Khanh Duong, founder of Box Office Vietnam.

Ly Hai said he was touched by the audience's affection for the film. The director assessed that this year, his work was lucky because it did not have to compete with heavyweight films. In 2018,Flip Side 4Ly Hai's film once faced Marvel blockbuster -Avengers: Infinity War. 2023,Flip Side 6parallel releaseGuardians of the Galaxy 3"When making a film, I don't focus too much on revenue or how long it will take to recover my investment. I want to focus on the story and let the quality of the work speak for itself," he said.

Part Sevenmarked a change in Ly Hai's filmmaking style when focusing on the family - love genre. The main character is Mrs. Hai (actress Thanh Hien) and her family of five children. Her husband died early, Mrs. Hai single-handedly raised her children to adulthood in the poor district of Lac Duong (Lam Dong). Growing up, each child left the family home, started a career far away, rarely returning to visit their mother.

After an accident, the 73-year-old mother was confined to a wheelchair. The five children pushed each other, drawing lots to each take responsibility for taking care of their mother for a week. Mrs. Hai visited each house and realized the tragedy in her children's lives.

Ly Hai, 55 years old, is one of the most successful producers at the box office, opening the trend of making branded films (franchise) on Vietnamese screens with the seriesFlip side. The artist was an amateur when he entered the field of film production. In 2010, Ly Hai left the singing stage and turned to directing. Four partsFlip sideThe first was a commercial success, earning more than 350 billion VND. In 2023, he won big with the sixth part, earning 300 billion VND, ranking behindTomorrow,Mrs. Nu's houseandGodfather(420 billion) - both by Tran Thanh - in the list of most successful Vietnamese films of all time.

The second biggest holiday movie isSiege: The Punisher -Action film by Korean actor Ma Dong Seok, reaching 19 billion VND. The content is about inspector Ma Seok Do and his colleagues investigating a drug trafficking application. They discover the relationship between the application developer, a Korean victim murdered in the Philippines and an illegal online gambling organization. The work creates attraction in the dramatic story, Ma Dong Seok transforms a variety of emotions. However, the editing of the film is still loose, interrupting the viewer's emotions.

The Price of Happiness- Vietnamese film starring Thai Hoa - ranked fourth with six billion VND, total revenue of 25 billion VND. Xuan Lan - the film's producer - was sad to see the poor effect of the work, difficult to recover capital. The film revolves around the family of businessman Dinh Cong Thoai (Thai Hoa) and Vo Thuy Duong (Xuan Lan). The climax is when Mrs. Duong witnesses her husband having an affair with many other girls. The film is assessed to have many loopholes in the script, a series of illogical details, and most of the actors' performances are bland.