[2022.10.12] TABLE FOR SIX SURPASSES KUNG FU HUSTLE FOR THE HIGHEST GROSSING HONG KONG COMEDY FILM TITLE

Ivana Wong, Peter Chan, Dayo Wong, director Sunny Chan, Stephy Tang, Louis Cheung work together on TABLE FOR SIX, which keeps breaking records

In the WARRIORS OF FUTURE prequel animation, Louis Cheung's on screen wife is also an exosuit squad member
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The film TABLE FOR SIX (FAN HEI GUNG SUM) after over a month in release as of yesterday reached HK$ 61.64 million, surpassing the 2004 Stephen Chow Sing Chi film KUNG FU HUSTLE (GONG FU)'s HK$ 61.27 million to become the highest grossing Hong Kong comedy in Hong Kong film history. Director Sunny Chan Wing Sun got so happy that he was teary eyed, through social media he thanked the audience for their support. He said, "I am an experienced film viewers and film worker, I know different era's ticket prices, market conditions, population ratio, schedules, etc. are also completely different. Pure comparison with box office numbers absolutely represent nothing, but when I found out about this performance I still got a little teary eyed. Thank you to every elder who have opened up the sky in the Hong Kong film world, thank them for the classics they have written so this generation of ours can stand on the shoulders of giants and create our own movies."

The Louis Koo Tin Lok produced and starred WARRIORS OF FUTURE (MING YUT JIN GEI) earlier passed HK$ 66.25 million at the Hong Kong box office and set a new Hong Kong Chinese language film box office record. As of two days ago its Hong Kong box office already reached HK$ 69.45 million and on its way to the Hong Kong film history milestone of HK$ 70 million. It would become he first Asian film to step into HK$ 70 million box office in Hong Kong film history, a performance that would be encouraging to many.

In addition, in order for even more students and poor families to be able to have the chance to watch WARRIORS OF FUTURE, the BlessVision Foundation launched a "ticket match application plan" to match enterprises and donors to with schools and care organizations' applications for students and families in need. Earlier it even held the WARRIORS OF FUTURE ticket match launch ceremony, inviting over 100 education representatives, principals, teachers and 80 higher education students to attend. Aside from watching WARRIORS OF FUTURE IMAX version, the film's producer Louis Koo Tin Lok and star Sean Lau Ching Wan were invited to share their experience in person.

Koo Tin Lok encouraged the educators and young people on hand, "Film is an industry, science fiction film is a creative technology industry and really needs time to develop. I can't be done overnight. My dream for the next 30 years is hoping that even more young people would join the industry, go and do something new and no one has seen before, the future of Hong Kong film. I hope young people who like WARRIORS OF FUTURE and have dreams to be just like me, no matter how tough it would be to never give up, to persist so they would be able to keep going." Lau Ching Wan also shared his childhood dream, actually he really wanted to be an astronaut. He encouraged young people that as long as they studied seriously now they really would have the chance to go to space and have adventures, which would be well worth living for.