14,000 tickets for Teochew screenings of Dear You sell out in 3 hours; 100 more screenings requested

In Singapore, the Teochew-language film 'Dear You' has become an unexpected box office phenomenon. Forty screenings added to the schedule sold out in three hours, moving fourteen thousand tickets across Golden Village cinemas. The demand was so intense that cinema operators are now fielding requests for one hundred additional screenings. Channel NewsAsia reports the rush underscores growing appetite for locally rooted, dialect-specific storytelling.

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