It's A Great Great World leads local flicks at the CNY box office. The movie made $730,000 over a four-day period.
IT'S A Great Great World scored a great, great result at the box office over the Chinese New Year long weekend.
Its takings of $730,000 from Thursday to Sunday make it the top local movie during the holiday season, beating Homecoming, which collected $690,000 in the same period.
Actor and co-director Mark Lee's The Ghosts Must Be Crazy was released in the first week of last month and cannot be considered a Chinese New Year movie. But over the four-day festive weekend, it was still showing on one screen. It has made a total of $1.44 million to date.
Great World director Kelvin Tong says that everyone in the team is thrilled: 'Last weekend's box office was very competitive and very tough so I'm glad we came out ahead. It was terrifying as we were also up against The Green Hornet, which has Jay Chou in it but at the end of the day, we want to give the audience a Singapore film that can hold its own as a national product.'
The Raintree Pictures film tells the stories of love and life that took place in the 1950s and 1960s within the Great World Amusement Park, Singapore's popular hangout destination at the time.
Made on a budget of $1.8 million, it was released on Jan 27 and has made $1.1 million as of Sunday.