Deathmatch in the air - Impressive revenge of Kaity and Thanh Son

Thanh Son, Kaity Nguyen in Air Battle. Photo: Producer

In early 2025, the Lunar New Year movie season witnessed the failure of the movie “Loving the Wrong Best Friend”. This movie was said to have lost miserably to two strong competitors, “The Four Guardians” by Tran Thanh and “The Billion Dollar Kiss” directed by Thu Trang for the first time.

“Love by mistake” was produced by Kaity Nguyen. The actress both paid for the production and acted in it. However, “Love by mistake” left the theaters with only 21 billion VND in revenue, far behind “The Four Guardians” (over 300 billion VND) and “The Billionaire Kiss” (over 200 billion VND).

21 billion VND in revenue after dividing with the film distributor (usually the ratio is 50-50), the remaining amount is considered a big loss. Production costs for a film project currently fluctuate (on average) from 20 to 30 billion VND. “Love by mistake best friend” is an invested project, set in many famous tourist destinations.

After the failure of "Love by mistake", the audience was surprised to see the three main actors of the film, Kaity Nguyen, Thanh Son, and Tran Ngoc Vang, appear "fully" in "Death Battle in the Air".

In it, Thanh Son plays the male lead, bodyguard Binh, and Kaity Nguyen plays flight attendant Trinh - the wife of the co-pilot (played by Tran Ngoc Vang).

After the loss with “Love by mistake” at the box office, the cast of Thanh Son, Kaity Nguyen, Tran Ngoc Vang had their revenge with “Fight to the death in the air”. Photo: Producer of Love by mistake

Kaity Nguyen continues to contribute capital and invest production money for "Air Deathmatch".

When asked about the loss in the project “Loving the Wrong Best Friend” and the reason for continuing to invest in “Fighting in the Air”, Kaity Nguyen said: “Investing in theatrical film projects is always risky. No one can be sure that this film will win, that film will lose. Audience tastes are very unpredictable. I am a professional, pursuing my work on a long journey. I cannot stop all my work because of a losing project. Life continues, work continues. “If I lose this game, I will set up another game”. I did not think much, I found the script of “Fighting in the Air” very attractive, so I contributed to the investment”.

As of the afternoon of October 5, the movie “Fighting in the Sky” has surpassed VND200 billion in revenue. With this revenue, the movie has made a big profit and is also in the top highest-grossing movies of 2025.

Thanh Son, Kaity Nguyen, and Tran Ngoc Vang had a "revenge" at the box office after "Love by mistake". In "Fight to the death in the air", Tran Ngoc Vang played his role well, Kaity Nguyen acted with impressive emotional expressions, especially Thanh Son had an impressive performance with realistic close combat action scenes, emotional eye acting. Thanh Son broke the "monochromatic" stereotype with a breakthrough transformation on the big screen through the role of Binh in "Fight to the death in the air".

Source: https://baoquangninh.vn/tu-chien-tren-khong-man-phuc-thu-an-tuong-cua-kaity-thanh-son-3378791.html