{"id":11869,"date":"2012-01-03T18:01:53","date_gmt":"2012-01-03T18:01:53","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-01-03T18:01:53","modified_gmt":"2012-01-03T18:01:53","slug":"-Apple-of-My-Eye-Sets-Box-Office-Record-in-Hong-Kong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=11869","title":{"rendered":"‘Apple of My Eye\u2019 Sets Box-Office Record in Hong Kong"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cYou Are the Apple of My Eye\u201d (????????????) over the New Year\u2019s weekend became Hong Kong\u2019s highest-grossing Chinese-language film, breaking a record previously held by \u201cKung Fu Hustle\u201d (??). The movie from Taiwanese writer-director Giddens Ko, who goes by the pen name Nine Knives (???), has now earned 61.4 million Hong Kong dollars (US$7.9 million) since its Oct. 20 opening, according to Hong Kong\u2019s Motion Picture Industry Association. That\u2019s enough to overtake 2004?s action-comedy \u201cKung Fu Hustle,\u201d starring Stephen Chow (???), which earned HK$61.3 million during its initial release.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cYou Are the Apple of My Eye\u201d is still in theaters and thereby sure to increase its final tally. In Taiwan, it pulled in 410 million New Taiwan dollars (US$13.5 million), according to Sony Music Entertainment Taiwan, one of the film\u2019s producers. (It earned US$2.3 million in Singapore and US$1.4 million in Malaysia, according to Sony.) A coming-of-age comedy set in Taiwan about a group of high-school friends going through the pains of adolescence, \u201cYou Are the Apple of My Eye\u201d struck a chord among audiences with its observations about youthful indiscretions and first love. Its success in Hong Kong is unusual because it\u2019s a Mandarin-language movie in a Cantonese-speaking city, where action comedies with big-name stars are the mainstay.<\/p>\n

You are the apple of my eye – Trailer #1 (with English subtitles)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n