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Volume One: Fascinating Thousands of Troops Chapter 246: Touring China, Japan and South Korea

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    Chapter 246

    Touring China, Japan and South Korea

    During breakfast time, Mai Chong was eating with a smile on his face while reading the newspaper. The front pages of almost all newspapers were about the news and reviews of "Lanling Mask". Generally speaking, they were positive reviews, and the occasional questions were drowned out.  Amid the applause, Mai Chong looked even more cheerful.

    Mu Weiyu glanced at Mai Chong, "Have you eaten honey? Why are you smiling so happily?"

    "Look at this." Mai Chong casually handed a newspaper to Mu Weiyu. She had collected these newspapers, but she barely read them.

    "The box office of "Lanling Mask" exceeded 20 million on the first day! Is it real or fake?" Xiaoyu muttered.

    Of course it is true. Irving woke up Mai Chong from his sleep last night because of this news. Of course, the 20 million is not the 20 million on the first day in the mainland, but the total box office in the mainland and Hong Kong, and the box office in Taiwan.  The statistical system is relatively complicated and is divided into Taipei and non-Taipei areas. Therefore, the relevant box office data is not released and is not included in the calculation.

    The two million are respectively 15.56 million in the Mainland and 4.5 million in Hong Kong. The 15.56 million should be the best documented first-day box office result in the Mainland. It is a record, far higher than the 8.65 million of "A World Without Thieves".  "House of Flying Daggers" previously claimed to have grossed more than 15 million on its first day, but at that time, box office statistics were not as easy to prepare as it is now. Some data were based on box office data from Beijing or Shanghai, and then multiplied by a certain  The ratio is calculated and should not be taken too seriously.  The previous total box office of "House of Flying Daggers" in the Mainland was 152 million. With the reputation of "Lanling Mask", it should be no problem to exceed this figure. However, there were no blockbusters before and after the release of "House of Flying Daggers". At that time, it could be said that it was a single company.  However, "Lanling Mask" is the successor to "A World Without Thieves" which still has its prestige, and will be followed by the menacing "Kung Fu", which will definitely divert some of the box office, so a box office of 150 million is not considered a failure.  Of course, this is the bottom line. The bulk of the revenue has to be taken overseas. The mainland box office market alone cannot yet support a Chinese-language blockbuster with an investment of 150 million yuan.

    The 4.5 million on the first day in Hong Kong is also a good result that has never been achieved by the Hong Kong film industry in recent years. Even on this first day, it almost tied the Hong Kong box office of "A World Without Thieves" in three weeks, and "A World Without Thieves" has a box office of  The final box office of "House of Flying Daggers" in Hong Kong was 14 million, and "Lanling Mask" is expected to reach this result in the first week

    Also released in Hong Kong on the same day as "Lanling Mask" was the Hollywood animated film "The Polar Express" directed by "Forrest Gump" director Robert Zemeckis and starring Tom Hanks. The film was released in North America  It achieved a box office performance of 150 million US dollars, which is equivalent to its cost. However, it only had a few hundred thousand Hong Kong dollars on the first day in Hong Kong. It seems to be expected that in the next few days, this 150 million US dollars will be sold in Hong Kong.  All CGI animations costing USD 100,000 will be overwhelmed by "Lan Ling Mask".

    Mu Weiyu put down the newspaper and felt happy for Mai Chong.

    "Mengmeng, come here," Xiaoyu called Maimeng Cat over, "Mom is going out again. Can you play with Xiaobai later?"

    Bai is the name of the female cat in Mrs. Zhang¡¯s house. Her whole body is as white as snow. In the cat¡¯s eyes, she should be a beauty. Mai Meng Cat likes to play with her very much.

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    "Mr. Mai, I am your fan, can you sign your autograph for me?" On the plane flying to Tokyo, Japan, a charming young woman behind Mai handed him a notebook and pen, her eyes full of shining stars.

    ¡°Of course.¡± Mai quickly wrote down his name and blessings, a series of actions that he had already mastered for a long time.  With the strong promotion of "Lanling Mask", Mai Chong has frequently appeared in newspapers, magazines and TV programs recently, and his popularity has increased rapidly. When flying domestic flights during the promotion period, he was repeatedly spotted by hundreds of movie fans and onlookers.  There are countless situations where fans gathered around the airport and asked for autographs and photos on the plane. This also allowed Mai Chong to gradually develop the temperament of some superstars, with a friendly and unapproachable fatal charm.

    In addition to Xiaoyu, Huo Wenxi and her assistant went to Tokyo with Mai Chong this time. Since the Tianxiang Agency was officially established, Mr. Huo has been sitting on the Diaoyutai and has hardly attended any events with Mai Chong. Fortunately, Mai Chong  She is not an ordinary rookie starlet, who can handle any scene with ease. It was not until Mu Weiyu appeared that Mai Chong ended her solo acting career. She now has a servant girl by her side, and her manager Huo Wenxi can even  An Xin hides behind his back and plans for him.  However, coming to Japan this time is not just about promoting the movie. Huo Wenxi also hopes that this trip to Japan will open up the Japanese and Korean markets for Mai Chong and expand his status in the Asian entertainment industry. This is not something that a small talk can handle.  He got it, Huo Wenxi felt that he had to stay with him to feel at ease.

    As her relationship with Owen became closer and closer, Huo Wenxi also discovered that Owen's attitude towards Mai Chong was very respectful, as if he had a superior-subordinate relationship, which was consistent with her previous guess.There was a big discrepancy in the partnership between the two, and she became increasingly confused about the relationship between the two. However, she understood one thing, that is, do not underestimate Mai Chong, this boy is not simple.

    When he got off the plane, Mai Chong was shocked to find that there were many people in the airport holding up photos of himself and promotional posters for "Lanling Mask". Although there were not many people, there were only more than a hundred people, not as much as Bae Yongjun.  When he came to Tokyo, the Tokyo Airport was paralyzed, but this was a foreign country after all, and he was only a new actor who had debuted for two years. He couldn't help but feel emotional at being so welcomed.  Mai Chong glanced at Huo Wenxi, and Huo Wenxi smiled at him and said not to be nervous. Mai Chong immediately understood that this was Huo Wenxi's arrangement, or she had known that this would happen.

    Some of these people spoke Chinese, some spoke Japanese, but they all meant to welcome Mai Chong¡¯s arrival, saying that we are members of Mai Chong¡¯s Japanese fan club.  Huo Wenxi whispered in Mai Chong's ear and explained that some of these movie fans were Chinese students studying in Japan, and the other part were local Japanese. They were not hired with money, but were mobilized, and they were all voluntary.

    ????????????????????????????????????????????????: The Japanese Fans Association has been established by remote control for a long time. To be precise, it started after Mai Chong made a gorgeous appearance in Tokyo at the East Film Festival. This matter is difficult to say and easy to say.

    The difficulty is that Mai Chong is Chinese. The Chinese and Japanese peoples have had hundreds of years of grievances. Although they have established diplomatic relations for decades, the people of the two countries still have feelings of resistance to each other. Unlike Takeshi Kaneshiro, Mai Chong is of Japanese descent and is considered half-Japanese.  He is a Japanese, so he can thrive in Japan. It is much more difficult for him to break into the Japanese market.  But that¡¯s easy to say. After all, Mai Chong is really popular. His type of handsome guy is indeed easily accepted by young Japanese people. Huo Wenxi once sent people to conduct research on the streets of Tokyo and Seoul to prove Mai Chong¡¯s appearance.  Not only in China, he is also the top handsome boy in Japan and South Korea. Many Japanese and Korean girls who do not know Mai Chong pestered the investigators during the investigation to find out who this handsome boy is.

    Because it was the first time she encountered this kind of airport pick-up situation abroad, Mai Chong didn't know how to deal with it. Fortunately, she had Huo Wenxi by her side. At a young age, she had been an agent for more than ten years and had rich experience.  Under her prompting, Mai Chong interacted and communicated well with his Tokyo Movie Fan Club members, and was not warned and expelled by the airport security personnel. Finally, accompanied by the fans, Mai Chong left the airport and got into the car.  Huo Wenxi had already arranged the lengthened Rolls-Royce.

    After waving goodbye to his fans, Mai Chong and his party arrived at the hotel where they were staying, where they met a slightly tired Zhang Ziyi, who had just arrived from the set of "Memoirs of a Geisha".  Before they had time to catch up on old times, they entered intense working hours.  First of all, the two of them have to participate in the recording of a variety show with high ratings on TV Tokyo. This is something Huo Wenxi has already contacted in China. The two of them can act more ambiguous, which will be more topical and more interesting.  If they can win high ratings, they will also attend Lan Ling special events held by several major movie theaters in Tokyo in the evening to cheer for "Lan Ling Mask".

    While promoting at the cinema, Mai Chong heard from the staff of distributor Shozhu Pictures that the screening scale of "Lanling Mask" in Japan is 300+, which means that there are more than 300 screens showing this Chinese-language film, which is one of the largest screenings in Japan.  Ultra-large-scale screenings. After entering the 21st century, only Zhang Yimou's "Hero", "House of Flying Daggers" and Stephen Chow's "Shaolin Football" have enjoyed this kind of treatment among Chinese-language films. Among these three films, "House of Flying Daggers" has a box office of 2.2 billion.  Yuan, "Shaolin Soccer" reached 2.8 billion yen, and "Hero" reached an astonishing 4.05 billion yen. It is the box office champion of Chinese-language movies in Japan, equivalent to about 270 million yen, exceeding the local 250 million yen.  Ten million.

    Hearing this, Mai Chong couldn't help but lament that Japan, which has only one-tenth of China's population, has such a large box office capacity. If Lan Ling's daily box office can reach 2 billion, plus the mainland, Hong Kong and Taiwan markets, "Lan Ling Mask"  There will no longer be any worries about not getting your money back.

    After finishing the day's work, Mai Chong went back to the hotel to rest, while Zhang Ziyi had to rush back to the crew to continue filming. Mai Chong had other plans the next morning, and they would take a flight to South Korea for promotion in the afternoon.

    "What, you want to take a photo?" Before Mai Chong got up, he heard Xiaoyu whispering in his ear.

    That's right, take a photo. This is Huo Wenxi's arrangement for Mai Chong in the morning. This time we will take a photo album. The planning has been completed before. Now we only have Mai Chong as the protagonist. The shooting team is the top fashion from Japan and South Korea.  Team COSO was hired by the company at a high price. Part of this indoor photo album was completed in Japan and the other part in South Korea. It will be released on a large scale in Japan and South Korea first.

    The photo industry in Japan and South Korea is far more developed than in China, with huge circulation. Many celebrities release photo albums not only to make money, but also to expand their influence.  Huo Wenxi arranged this photo album for Mai Chong without any expense.The purpose of the photoshoot is not to make money, and with Mai Chong's current popularity, whether she can make it back is still a question. She did this mainly to promote Mai Chong and build Mai Chong into a high-end brand. Only when the brand is high-end can it be sold at a good price.  Well¡­¡­

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