'She's Dating The Gangster' now owns July record - the month's highest-grossing Pinoy film ever - after earning over P250-million in 3 weeks.
Kathryn Bernardo as Kelay and Daniel Padilla as Kenneth during one romantic scene in 'She's Dating The Gangster' (photo from Star Cinema's FB)
After 3 blockbuster weeks, Star Cinema's 'She's Dating The Gangster' has already hit the P250-million mark, only the 10th Filipino film in history to reach that milestone. The previous 9 were: 'No Other Woman', 'The Unkabogable Praybeyt Benjamin', 'The Mistress', 'Sisterakas', 'It Takes A Man And A Woman', 'Girl Boy Bakla Tomboy', 'My Little Bossings', 'Bride For Rent' and 'Starting Over Again'.
9 of those 10 films were produced or co-produced by Star Cinema (4 were the latter's solo production and 5 were co-produced with Viva Films). Wenn Deramas directed 3 of those films, while 2 were directed by Olivia Lamasan and also 2 by Cathy Garcia-Molina, including the latest member of the club, 'She's Dating The Gangster'.
Based on Box Office Mojo's figures as of Sunday, August 3, 2014, SDTG has already earned P254.4-million, so far the 3rd highest-earning Filipino film for 2014, next to Toni Gonzaga and Piolo Pascual's movie
'Starting Over Again' in February and the Kim Chiu-Xian Lim movie 'Bride For
Rent' last January. In the all-time chart, it has already cracked the Top 10.
The P254.4M gross of SDTG now holds the record for being the highest-grosser among Filipino films released in the month of July, beating 2006's "Sukob" which had an estimated gross of P210M.
It's also now the biggest-earning movie headlined by the KathNiel loveteam, and no longer last December's 'Pagpag' (P200M).
Now on its 4th week, SDTG is still showing in 42 theaters nationwide.
Meanwhile, the same Box Office Mojo's latest report also shows the first 5 days earnings of Viva's 'Trophy Wife', which opened last August 2 and stars Cristine Reyes, Derek Ramsay and Heart Evangelista.
Sadly, it has banked in just P20.1M so far from over 80 theaters,
suffering tough competition against the Hollywood film 'Guardians of the Galaxy' which debuted with P103.2M, and of course against the
local film 'She's Dating The Gangster' which was still strong on its
3rd week.
