After the celebration banquet, Li Mu rushed back to celebrate the festival.

Under the arrangement of Shochiku Film Company, copies of "The Return of the Great Sage" have also been sent to various countries in Southeast Asia one after another.

As one of Neon's largest film companies, Shochiku Film's distribution strength is undoubted, and Chinese films, especially historical films and mythological films, have always had a high market in Southeast Asia.

And this film tells the story of the well-known "Journey to the West", so it has won a good schedule before.

However, as the box office in mainland China began to gradually spread throughout Southeast Asia, especially "The Return of the Great Sage" actually suppressed "Avatar", which was rampaging in various countries, and snatched the Japanese crown from it.

For a while, theaters in various countries have adjusted their film schedules.

In Neon, the base camp of Songzhu Film Company, "Journey to the West: The Return of the Great Sage" occupied 38% of the film schedule on the day of the Lantern Festival.

In South Korea, a country that is also deeply influenced by Chinese culture, the theater chain has also arranged 35% of the film schedule for "The Return of the Great Sage".

In Southeast Asian countries such as Thailand, India, Indonesia, and Singapore, the filming of "The Return of the Great Sage" is also around 40%.

The reason why he was able to win this high schedule on the first day of release is not only the theme of Journey to the West, but also because of "Avatar".

As in China, due to the existence of "Avatar", there are almost no decent movies released in the same schedule.

In these countries, "Avatar" even occupied 80% of the film schedule at one time, and the box office undoubtedly accounted for more than 95%.

For various reasons, the current situation has been caused by the fact that "The Return of the Great Sage", a film without a famous director and without a concert, has been released on a large scale in various Asian countries.

Because the crew still has to show and promote in the mainland, there is no premiere in Asia, after all, the domestic box office is fundamental!

In this way, under the not too crazy publicity of Song Film Company, at 0:00 a.m. on February 28, "The Return of the Great Sage" landed in Asian countries.

And on this day, maybe "Avatar" is tired of watching, or maybe it is because of the three words Journey to the West, "The Return of the Great Sage" is unexpectedly popular.

Since the afternoon of the 28th, the attendance rate of "The Return of the Great Sage" in many countries has approached that of "Avatar", which has made many theater owners who originally had the idea of trying it out.

The neon capital of Edo, the most luxurious movie theater in the entire city, Roppongi Cinema.

Nobita Yamamoto, a student at Edo Middle School, brought his grandfather to the cinema, and since watching "Avatar" in the cinema before, Nobita has been fascinated by this special effects blockbuster, and has been to the cinema five times during this time.

This time, I took my elderly grandfather just so that he could also watch this movie that shook the world.

Looking at the long queues at noisy movie theaters and ticket offices, Nobita's grandfather, Kazuki Yamamoto, frowned unconsciously.

As a neon man who attaches great importance to rules, he is very unaccustomed to the chaotic scene in front of him, "Is there always such no order in the movie theater!" ”

Nobita still knows his grandfather's stinky temper very well, and quickly explained, "No, grandpa, usually the movie theater is not so messy, it's just because the movie is so good, that's why there are so many people!" ”

Nobita looked at the long queue in front of him and was also very strange, there were not so many people in the cinema some time ago, why did he have to queue up today.

At this moment, his grandfather spoke again, "Is this what we want to see?" ”

Kazuki Yamamoto asked, pointing to a poster in the movie theater.

"Journey to the West: The Return of the Great Sage"? What kind of movie is this, is it new! Or more than Avatar? If you want to publicize, you don't have to be so arrogant!

But Nobita didn't have the time to care about this, he just wanted to watch "Avatar" now, so he pointed to another poster and said, "No, grandpa, we're going to watch this!" ”

Kazuki Yamamoto looked at the poster of "Avatar" and shook his head, "Let's just watch this, "Journey to the West"!" ”

Nobita explained, "Grandpa, it's not as good as "Avatar", let's watch this! ”

However, his grandfather still insisted on watching "The Return of the Great Sage", no way, although he didn't know why his grandfather wanted to watch this movie, Nobita could only obediently go to the queue to buy tickets.

However, when he walked into the back of the team, he heard that the people in front of him were discussing the plot of "The Return of the Great Sage", but the previously popular "Avatar" was rarely discussed.

Is this movie so good? Slowly, the people in front of them gradually emptied, and soon it was Nobita's turn.

"Please give me the last two movie tickets for "Journey to the West: The Return of the Great Sage"!"

However, the answer to him was indeed ......

No more tickets......

The most recent one will wait until two hours later, and there will be no tickets until after 7 p.m.

Nobita realized that there are so many people in the cinema today who are actually coming for "The Return of the Great Sage".

With such curiosity, he bought two tickets for the Seven O'Clock movie, intending to wait here.

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The same thing is happening in a movie theater in Mangu, Thailand.

After more than ten days of "Avatar" being released, there was a rare long queue at the box office.

"Get a ticket to Journey to the West!"

"Two tickets for "The Return of the Great Sage"!"

"Give me five Journey to the West!"

"I want two tickets for Journey to the West!"

......

"Monkey King, the Monkey King, fiery eyes, seventy-two changes!"

"I watched a Journey to the West in the morning, and the beginning of the Havoc in the Heavenly Palace is so beautiful!"

"Why don't you start yet, I can't wait"

......

After the movie was screened, Da Xiong, who originally didn't care much, was completely immersed in the movie, except for the advantage of 3D special effects, he couldn't think of anything better than this movie in "Avatar".

And Kazuki Yamamoto, who was sitting next to him, also had a solemn face, "Are all Chinese movies like this!" ”

"Ah...... Oh, it's all okay, the previous "Red Cliff is also very good-looking!" Big Bear replied.

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In Southeast Asian countries that are deeply influenced by Chinese culture, this scene is staged in different places, and some older people suddenly return to the era when more than 20 years ago, when Xiangjiang movies were not dead.

Any Xiangjiang movie released in Southeast Asia can cause this situation, and if it is starring superstars like Cheng Long and Zhou Yunfa, the excitement will not even be worse than the Chinese New Year.

Under this wave of movie-watching craze, "Journey to the West: The Return of the Great Sage" swept away 13 million yuan at the box office on the first day of its release in Southeast Asia.

Although it is still far from the 30 million of "Avatar", which has been released for half a month, this result is high enough among Chinese films, and last year's "Under the Red Cliff" is almost such data.

And such a high box office naturally attracted the attention of the media.

"The Chinese movie "The Return of the Great Sage" released yesterday was released on neon, and the box office has exceeded 100 million yuan, which is the opening record of a Chinese film second only to "Red Cliff" in recent years, and there has been a craze for queuing up to buy tickets in many cities such as Edo and Meiya Ya!" - HNK TV is broadcasting the scene in a movie theater in Edo!

"Yesterday, the first "Journey to the West" movie was released in my country, and the box office reached 600,000 meters on the first day, and many movie theaters were full!" - Thailand Daily News

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