”The Empress and the Warriors” Made HK$60 millions in South Easter Asia Theaters

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”The Empress and the Warriors” Made HK$60 millions in South Easter Asia Theaters

“The Empress and the Warriors” features Kelly Chen. The total box office of Hong Kong, mainland China, Taiwan, and Malaysia was more than HK$60 millions. For the past couple of days, Kelly and Leon Lai were promoting the movie in Korea. Earlier at a promotional event in Malaysia, Kelly was passionately greeted with +1000 fans. She wrote down the movie title “The Empress and the Warriors” at the event (in calligraphy?).

In the movie, Kelly’s character “Princess Fei Yee” was struck by poison darts in her back. Fortunately, she meets Leon’s character who saves her with herbal medicine. The two had skin-to-skin contact. After days of filming, Leon found out about Kelly’s way of living. Leon said: “Kelly can go to sleep without eating anything. She can sleep for 15 hours. Kelly said this was a natural treatment. She doesn’t have to eat supplements or spend money and still lose weight.”

Leon and director Tony Ching both joked about Kelly. He said: “Kelly will look the same ten years later. She is an actual sleeping princess.” Kelly admitted that good complexion needs skin care treatment and a good night’s sleep. She was trying to get as much sleep as possible and she feels that it was painstaking to work through the night. She said: “To encourage myself, I will make some snacks in the vehicle reserved for resting. For example: banana pancake or chocolate cake.”

During the Easter holiday, there were five movies premiering on March 20. Besides “The Empress and the Warriors”, the other movies were “The Spiderwick Chronicles”, “Horton Hears a Who”, “Artic Tale” and “Charlie Wilson’s War”. On March 23, “The Empress and the Warriors” was the third on the box office list and made HK$4.24 millions. “The Spiderwick Chronicles” was in first place and made HK$5.25 millions. “Horton Hears a Who” was in second place making HK$4.8 millions. At the same time, “Charlie Wilson’s War” was played on 19 screens and pulled in HK$2.46 millions. “Artic Tale” made HK$180000 on 5 screens.