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"The Viral Factor" Slumped at Box Office

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posted by xaosmx on 25 January, 2012 at 06:03 am   ·   21 comments
"The Viral Factor" Slumped at Box Office

Answer: approx. NT$540,000

This is a far cry from the movie's production cost of NT$800 million! He felt disappointed with the box office result after much effort on his part to shed his usual image by gaining weight, grew a stubble and hair overhaul. Even, vowing that he'll not do another action movie again due to the dangerous stunts.

Whilst "The Viral Factor" is not performing well despite the above average ratings by movie critics, Vic Chou's & Ella Chen's "The Perfect Two" is doing fairly well, earning NT$1.92million on the same day it premiered with "The Viral Factor".

Have you seen any of the movies?

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  • Posted by ochibi · 1,760 Jpops · 1 shares · 1 year ago  
    ochibi

    Ohhh, that's pretty disappointing.

  • Posted by PAK VIP CREW · 28,993 Jpops · 9 shares · 1 year ago  
    PAK

    Ooh, that's gotta sting. Let's hope that the second week does better.

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  • Posted by tsigiliQueen1 · 140 Jpops · 1 year ago  
    tsigiliQueen1

    wooow dang tht sucks :/

  • Posted by daijoubu · 2,832 Jpops · 2 shares · 1 year ago  
    daijoubu

    I hate the thought that all of his work went to waste :/

  • Posted by delilah VIP · 32,092 Jpops · 28 shares · 1 year ago  
    delilah

    I'm so sad for jay Chou, but really, he can't have it all! Maybe his relationship with Hannah Quinlivan is such a bad PR move

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  • Posted by MeLzA · 403 Jpops · 1 year ago  
    MeLzA

    dude , i want that kind of money !! :D .... now , jay chou looks rrrrreeeeeeaaaaaaaallllllllyyyyyyyy different !! ><

  • Posted by hokuboshi713 · 13,762 Jpops · 97 shares · 1 year ago  
    hokuboshi713

    Dang...all that hard work and not wanting to do action movies anymore...he did all his own stunts and it got him that? That sucks....a lot...

  • Posted by Chiaki0978 · 18,190 Jpops · 50 shares · 1 year ago  
    Chiaki0978

    hmmm sorry to hear that :/

  • Posted by Powwy · 106 Jpops · 6 shares · 1 year ago  
    Powwy

    Wow, and where does all that hard work go?

    ...I'm sorry, Jay, but I didn't see your movie yet. =.=

  • Posted by riccapucca · 109 Jpops · 14 shares · 1 year ago  
    riccapucca

    feeling sorry for his hard work

  • Posted by ASianInvasion · 35,670 Jpops · 1 shares · 1 year ago  
    ASianInvasion

    poor jay i feel -_- sorry for him and the fact he regreted doing the action movie!

  • Posted by SongNight · 242 Jpops · 1 year ago  
    SongNight

    Ew... that's a really big difference... lost some money on that one, I suppose. Too bad.

  • Posted by ahiruko · 298 Jpops · 123 shares · 1 year ago  
    ahiruko

    awww poor jay T.T

  • Posted by Kuromikuromi · 305 Jpops · 1 year ago  
    Kuromikuromi

    Sometimes you can't predict how well a movie will do...hope he continues to act though!

  • Posted by sakurawinds15 · 22,701 Jpops · 1 year ago  
    sakurawinds15

    What a huge gap D: The movie was nice though. I do wanna see Jay act in a comedy movie... *imagines*

  • Posted by himitsu05 · 3,545 Jpops · 387 shares · 1 year ago  
    himitsu05

    Awwww :( That's too bad.

  • Posted by RedMongoose · 650 Jpops · 41 shares · 1 year ago  
    RedMongoose

    800,000,000NT$ ---> $28,000,000 US. Anyway, a failure that bad usually has to do with whoever produced/is promoting it, assuming that it was a normal release to begin with.

  • Posted by dotzcute90 · 179,304 Jpops · 205 shares · 1 year ago  
    dotzcute90

    woww, that is a huge amount of money..

  • Posted by Traditionally VIP · 62 Jpops · 12 shares · 1 year ago  
    Traditionally

    Serious?? 540,000 is to 800,000,000?!?!

  • Posted by sazala · 3,801 Jpops · 15 shares · 1 year ago  
    sazala

    will he really never do an action movie again? :(

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