Tween Academy beats Way Back Home
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| Manila Standard Today |
A Star Cinema film is always expected to do well at the tills. In fact, for several years now, ABS-CBN’s movie outfit has been the source of top-grossing films that also made history on the local movie scene. This year for example, Catch Me…I’m Fallin’ (a co-production with Viva Films) and In the Name of Love are the only local movies that crossed the elusive 100-million-peso mark in ticket sales.
Normally, a Star Cinema production runs four to six weeks in theaters, but that did not happen to Kathryn Bernardo and Julia Montes starrer Way Back Home. The teen stars’ launching movie was shown only for two weeks. During that period, the movie raked in P25.78 million. It is four million short compared to Tween Academy: Class of 2012’s two-week box-office gross, which was P29.88 million. According to third party tabulator Box Office Mojo, the GMA Films movie has earned more than P32 million in three weeks.
As we all know, the cast of Tween Academy: Class of 2012 and Way Back Home are rivals on the small screen. Not only that their shows are aired on the same timeslot every Sunday, they are always being compared reinforcing the Kapamilya and Kapuso network war. However, in this round, we have a clear winner.
