Actress Sonia Sui weeps after watching Grandma Dies, now S’pore’s highest-grossing film of 2024
Taiwanese actress Sonia Sui did not have enough time to wipe away her tears after watching the hit Thai film, How To Make Millions Before Grandma Dies, with her businessman-husband Tony Hsieh in Taiwan.
“It was funny and touching,” the 43-year-old star wrote in Chinese on Facebook on June 27. “The only thing I could pick fault with was the cinema ruthlessly switching on the lights at the moment when the dam broke.”
Sui first posted a photo of her and Mr Hsieh before their movie date, and a second image of them teary-eyed in the cinema.
The mother of three children aged eight, seven and five wrote that her husband turned to her with puffy eyes and said: “The speed at which they turned on the lights could be said to be rude, right?”
She also used hashtags such as #LoveIt and #RememberToBringFacialTissues.
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晚上去看了泰國電影「金孫爆富攻略」， 好笑又感人， 真要挑剔什麼也只有在這部把觀眾淚點算得精準無比 的那個潰堤瞬間， 戲院燈就沒血沒淚的全亮了。 一下沒回過神的Tony哥眼眶紅紅轉頭看我：「這開燈的速度快到可以說沒禮貌了⋯⋯是吧？🥲」 #金孫爆富攻略 #記得帶面紙 #loveit
Posted by 隋棠 Sonia Sui on Thursday, June 27, 2024
How To Make Millions Before Grandma Dies has also moved enough moviegoers in Singapore, as it is now the country’s biggest film for the first half of 2024.
Written and directed by Thai film-maker Pat Boonnitipat, the tearjerker stars actress Usha Seamkhum, 78, as the titular cancer-stricken grandmother Amah and pop idol “Billkin” Putthipong Assaratanakul, 24, as her grandson M.
Pat and Usha were in Singapore for a fan meet on June 24.
According to a press release from local cinema chain Golden Village, the film has earned $5.01 million at the local box office within just one month of its release here on May 30.
It has overtaken Singapore director Jack Neo’s comedy Money No Enough 3 and Hollywood animated film Kung Fu Panda 4, which are in second and third place respectively.
How To Make Millions Before Grandma Dies has also entered the ranks of Singapore’s top 10 highest-grossing Asian films of all time, in ninth position. The chart is led by Neo’s military-themed Ah Boys To Men II (2013), with box-office takings of $7.9 million.
In the press statement, Pat said: “I am deeply thankful to the people of Singapore for their warm reception during my recent visit with Amah. It is a great honour to see the film resonating with audiences across generations in Singapore.”
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