On March 14, the 29th day of the Lunar New Year, at the invitation of Shochiku Film Company, Li Mu came to Edo with the crew of "The Return of the Great Sage", ready to start a ten-day promotional tour of Southeast Asia.

And just yesterday, that is, on March 13th, under the expectation of the entire entertainment industry, the mainland box office of "The Return of the Great Sage" finally broke through the billion mark, which is also the second domestic film with a box office of more than one billion after "Thai Embarrassment".

And compared with "Thai Embarrassment", which only exceeded one billion after more than a month of release, this time "The Return of the Great Sage" only took 26 days to achieve this goal.

At the same time, it also set a box office record for breaking one billion the fastest.

And "Avatar" is also today, following in the footsteps of "The Return of the Great Sage", and the box office has also exceeded the billion mark.

Although it was expected, the successive breakthroughs still overwhelmed Chinese filmmakers.

Many people say that the era of real blockbusters has come, and since then, Chinese films have entered the era of one billion, and the directors who were still proud to enter the 100 million yuan club are gearing up and eager to attack, ready to attack this number.

Many film companies have taken action, and Huayi announced yesterday that the official project "Journey to the West: Havoc in Heaven" has not been revealed, although the specific situation and starring have not yet been revealed.

However, from the 300 million investment that Wang Zhongjun said, it can be seen that it is definitely an all-star lineup.

For a while, the entertainment industry was discussing this 300 million production, and superstars such as Zhou Runfa, Liu Dehua, and Guo Fucheng were repeatedly mentioned.

Just when the outside world was disturbing, Li Mu's "old friend" Donnie Yen was frowning at home.

"Zidan, this is a great opportunity, a big production of 300 million, you may not be able to meet one in a few years, the actor who starred in such a movie is an affirmation of your status, what are you hesitating about!" Donnie Yen's agent persuaded him again.

Of course, Donnie Yen knows that the bigger the investment, the more cautious the choice of the actor, and being able to star in a big-budget movie is an affirmation of himself.

"Casting a Name" invested nearly 300 million, starring Li Lianjie and Liu Dehua.

"The City Full of Golden Armor" has an investment of more than 300 million, starring Zhou Yanfa.

The cost of "Hero" and "Ambush on All Sides" is more than 200 million, starring Li Lianjie, Liang Chaowei, and Liu Dehua.

All the movies with an investment of more than 200 million yuan are starring at least the level of the Four Heavenly Kings.

The reason why Donnie Yen is still hesitant is because this movie is "The Return of the Great Sage" by following Li Mu, before he and Li Mu had a verbal battle in the air, but it was a lot of trouble, and now he is following other people's movies, no matter whether he succeeds or fails, he will inevitably be turned out by others.

His agent is also a shrewd person, and when he saw him like this, he also guessed that he was not far from ten, "Are you worried about Li Mu?" ”

To be honest, since the fire of "The Return of the Great Sage", he is still very worried that Li Mu will take out the previous things again, but fortunately, Li Mu doesn't care about Donnie Yen, and the purpose of scolding him at the beginning was just to use his fame to hype, and now that the goal has been achieved, there is no time to bother him.

Donnie nodded and voiced his concerns.

The agent analyzed, "What you are worried about is not unreasonable, but if the box office of this movie can surpass "The Return of the Great Sage", we can turn bad things into good things, and you now urgently need a big production to prove yourself again, once you experience another failure like "Jin Yiwei", then the previous efforts will be in vain, and starring in "Havoc in Heaven" is undoubtedly very safe, with the success of the previous "The Return of the Great Sage", as long as the quality of this film is passable, the box office will not be bad, At that time, even if the media attacks you, there will still be a lot of film appointments for you to choose from! ”

"Okay, you go and inform Hua Yi, I'll take this play!" After weighing it, Donnie Yen agreed.

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And here Li Mu has arrived in Edo and held a fan meeting at the Roppongi Cinema.

However, the people who first arrived at Neon obviously didn't expect the audience here to be so enthusiastic, and it was no worse than in China.

Peng Yuyan is always surrounded by a group of young boys and girls, asking him questions about the movie, and some female fans are even constantly rubbing oil, kissing and hugging to make people jealous.

And the other protagonist, Shi Xiaosong, has become the exclusive property of women, a group of female fans who exude the brilliance of motherhood are kneading and pinching around him, and Li Mu keeps staring at him, for fear that he will be taken away!

"Mr. Watanabe, it seems that the fans in your country are very enthusiastic!" Looking at the lively scene in front of him, Li Mu said.

"Haha, this is all Mr. Li's movies are well made, and now they have been in theaters for two weeks, and the box office is still so stable, at this rate, it is possible for the Asian box office to exceed 300 million meters!" Speaking of this, Yuji Watanabe looked very happy.

At present, the Asian box office of "The Return of the Great Sage" has exceeded 150 million meters, although the single-day box office has fallen below 10 million, but the decline is not large, although the box office of 300 million is a bit difficult, but it is not a problem to exceed the overseas box office record of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" of 205 million meters.

After the neon publicity ended, the crew traveled to South Korea, Xinjiabo, Indonesia and other countries, and came to Chiang Mai, Thailand, the last stop of this Southeast Asian tour.

It is worth mentioning that when he was doing activities in South Korea, Li Mu was asked a strange question by reporters.

He actually said that Sun Wukong is from South Korea, the reason is also ridiculous, there is a famous mountain in South Korea called Zhili Mountain, and Zhili Mountain has been circulating the legend of the monkey since ancient times, "Journey to the West" also mentioned that Huaguo Mountain is located in Dongsheng Shenzhou, South Korea is also in the East, and the famous temple Shundao Temple in South Korea also has the original scriptures taken by Tang Xuanzang......

Li Mu is also drunk in this regard, even Sun Wukong has become South Korean, and Li Mu doesn't know what happened to this country.

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When Li Mu and his entourage came to Chiang Mai, the mayor of Chiang Mai, Shen Tai Press, actually came to pick up the plane in person.

Although Thailand is only a small country, Li Mu is also quite proud to let a mayor come to pick up the airport in person, thinking that the influence of "The Return of the Great Sage" is already so great!

After some conversation, I realized that people came to express their gratitude, but not for "The Return of the Great Sage", but for "Thai Embarrassment".

Due to the popularity of "Thai Embarrassment", and the plot about Thailand in the movie is basically positive, and there are many beautiful scenery in the movie, the number of mainland tourists who come to Chiang Mai for the Spring Festival has increased sharply for a while.

At first, the Chiang Mai city government didn't know what was going on, but later through an investigation and interview, it was learned that these people came after watching "Thai Embarrassment", and then the mayor personally picked up the airport.