We don’t know why some writers claim that “mahina ang filmfest” this year. Current MMDA Chairman Emerson Carlos himself refutes this. He says that the first eight days of the filmfest already raked in P737 million and, as of this writing, it nears P900 million already, so he estimates that by the time that it ends on Thursday, they would have hit a total of P1.01 billion. He added that the daily gross of the entries this year didn’t decrease compared to the 2014 daily gross. It’s expected that MMFF management will officially release the exact box office earnings of each entry after the filmfest has ended.
