Of course that's not how things work. Yet in the second half of last year there were Chinese movies that grossed as little as NT $ 70,000 and NT $ 250,000 at the box office. A distributor told Lin Tien-jung, "Ah-Chung has no name actors; if it earns NT $ 1 million it will be doing quite well. It ended up grossing NT $ 1.6 million in two weeks.
相較去年下半年國片出現七萬、二十五萬元的票房，一位發行商就對林添榮說，「《忠仔》沒有卡司，能有一百萬票房就已經很有面子了」，結果兩周成績一百六十萬元。