[2026.02.06] BACK TO THE PAST BRINGS VIEWERS BACK WITH LIMITED EDITION HALF PRICE DISCOUNT TICKET

Fan Bingbing makes a video to call for fans to support her movie
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Mainland actress Fan Bingbing became Taiwan's Golden Horse Award actress last year with the movie MOTHER BHUMI, which was released in Hong Kong "silently" at the end of last month without any publicity. It only relied on Bingbing's video on fans' social platform to promote the film. The film after 6 days in release only collected around HK$ 160,000. The box office of newly released movies has been sluggish recently, but fortunately Louis Koo Tin Lok's BACK TO THE PAST (CHUM CHUN GEI) continued to thrive. It has even been more determined to enter the Lunar New Year schedule and make a lot of money in the New Year!

The fresh out of the oven Golden Horse Awards Best Actress Fan Bingbing starred Malaysian film MOTHER BHUMI was said to be eligible for the Hong Kong Film Awards last month, but was not included on the first round voting ballot in the end. Its eligibility was cancelled along with FINCH AND MIDLAND (GUM TIN YING GOI HUNG GO HING), VITAL SIGNS (SUNG YUEN TOH JUNG) and VALLEY OF THE SHADOW OF DEATH (BUT SEH JI JUI) and the Hong Kong Film Awards has yet to make any response. Bingbing's award winning work was full of topicality, but it was released silently in Hong Kong at the end of last month with almost zero publicity. Only Bingbing shot a short video and posted it on the social platform of the fan support team, even her personal social network account did not have this video that was very low-key. Due to the lack of publicity and the lack of theaters, the film only received about 160,000 after 6 days in release and its box office was dismal.

Seemingly recent Hong Kong box offie has been rather iffy. The Taiwanese actress Janine Chang starred THE FIRE RAVEN after 11 days in release only received 180,000, the mainland top star Xiao Zhan starred GEZHI TOWN was released on the same day as MOTHER BHUMI and only received 190,000 after 6 day. The film industry could be said to be "chilly" everywhere!

Since its release on December 31st, 2025, the cumulative box office of BACK TO THE PAST (CHUM CHUN GEI) in Hong Kong and Macau has exceeded HK$87 million after more than a month. As of February 4th, 2026, it recorded HK$87,464,735 and officially ranked fourth in the box office of Hong Kong films in Hong Kong and Macau over the years. Although the film has not yet reached 100 million, BACK has already completed its extended version and reportedly has been actively lobbying major cinemas to launch an extended version during the Lunar New Year, maintain the PAST film scheduling so that the movie could make a killing from New Year's Day to the Lunar New Year Celebration and compete against Louise Wong Dan Nei and Fish Liew Chi Yu's NIGHT KING (YEH WONG) and Edan Lui Cheuk On and Chung Suet Ying's THE SNOWBALL ON A SUNNY DAY (GUM DOR BO) for the Lunar New Year box office! The film team launched a special feedback activity yesterday, distributing 10,000 half-price coupons for the extended version of PAST to "entice" the audience to return to the theater again.

In order to thank the audience for their continued support and to welcome the upcoming BACK TO THE PAST PLUS + multiverse version in Hong Kong theaters. The film team has launched a limited-time feedback campaign. For five consecutive days from February 6th to February 10th, viewers who purchase tickets for the movie BACK TO THE PAST at Hong Kong cinemas will have the opportunity to receive a half-price coupon for the BACK TO THE PAST PLUS + Multiverse Edition, with a total quota of 10,000 tickets. Viewers would be able to purchase a full price ticket at half price and even receive a Louis Koo Tin Lok personally written autograph of the character "Hong Siu Lung" on the "Hong Siu Lung spans electronic autograph version" BACK TO THE PAST PLUS + Multiverse Edition limited edition commemorative ticket. The quantity is limited and highly collectible.

The BACK TO THE PAST Plus+ Multiverse Edition extends the concept of the multiverse, enriching the original story world from different angles, bringing a more three-dimensional viewing experience to the audience, and continuing the legendary journey of "Hong Siu Lung".

Koo Tin Lok has been working diligently to update social networks recently, and even personally promoted the TVB re-run of the drama version A STEP INTO THE PAST (CHUM CHUN GEI). "The TV series A STEP INTO THE PAST has confirmed that it would be rebroadcast, and the time will start at 12 a.m. on Lunar New Year's Day to become a Year of the Horse Lunar New Year drama! If my memory serves, it would be more than 10 years since it was rebroadcast on Jade Channel again." He has achieved the best publicity results.

In addition, Koo Tin Lok and Raymond Lam Fung were interviewed earlier and Koo Tin Lok shared his recent crying experience. "On Ma's birthday I took a photo after dinner. After taking it I looked at the photo for a long time......as I looked at it, tears suddenly flowed out." Lam Fung was quite emotional when he mentioned going to Taiwan to thank the audience. "Maybe over the years, actually many people have supported me from all over the world. When I finally went to their cities, I would think of the driving force behind my acting career came from them."