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The movies of the 2023 Metro Manila Movie Competition (MMFF). Picture: FILE PHOTOS
The Metro Manila Movie Competition (MMFF) committee is denying an artwork card circulating on social media concerning the preliminary field workplace tally of taking part movies within the competition’s first day.
An artwork card posted by the Fb web page Pinoy Historical past claimed that the MMFF entries “Rewind” (P110 million), “Mallari” (P31 million), and “Penduko” (P25 million) are the three movies that generated probably the most ticket gross sales final Dec. 25, the primary day of the movie exhibiting.
In the meantime, the movies that supposedly adopted had been “A Household of Two” (P12.5 million), “Firefly” (P11.1 million), “Once I Met You in Tokyo” (P10.1 million), “Ok(ampon)” (P5 million), “Becky & Badette” (P3.3 million), “GomBurZa” (P1.4 million), and “Damaged Coronary heart’s Journey” (P680,000).
An alleged screenshot who made the declare on the MMFF’s first day field workplace gross sales. Picture: Fb/Pinoy Historical past
MMFF spokesperson Noel Ferrer, in a textual content message to INQUIRER.web, likewise denied the figures proven within the alleged field workplace rankings, the place he burdened that it’s “not true in any respect.”
“Not true in any respect. It has been the MMFF Execom’s apply to not launch any unofficial product sales of particular person movies and rankings. Let all of the movies flourish and benefit from the help of as many Filipino viewers as potential with out the deceptive numbers,” he stated.
Ferrer additionally asserted that it’s not the apply of the MMFF committee to launch the “official gross report” of field workplace gross sales on social media, particularly in relation to its “particular person movies [and] rankings.”
“Huwag ho tayong padadala sa kung anu-anong field workplace outcomes at rankings. Hindi po gawi ng MMFF Execom na maglabas ng official gross report ng particular person movies at rankings (Let’s not consider sure claims of field workplace outcomes and rankings. It’s not the apply of the MMFF Execom to launch the official gross report of particular person movies and rankings),” he stated.
“Hayaan po nating tangkilikin ang mga pelikula primarily based on their deserves and viewers desire at hindi dahil sa development at thoughts conditioning ng mga pinalalabas na rating na hindi po official (lalo pa’t magkakalapit ang mga numero ng maraming pelikula). Ituloy po natin ang pagsuporta sa pelikulang Filipino at sa Metro Manila Movie Competition,” he additional added.
(Let’s help all movies primarily based on their deserves and viewers desire, and never due to the developments and thoughts conditioning techniques made by unofficial claims particularly that the field workplace outcomes of every movie are shut.)
This 12 months’s MMFF runs from Dec. 25 to Jan. 7, 2024.
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