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The next day, the crew of "Painted Skin" got on a plane to Japan, where there was a premiere waiting for them in Tokyo.

In China, "Painted Skin" was released simultaneously in theaters across the country on December 28.

Countless movie fans who had long been looking forward to this movie and the domestic fantasy movie immediately went to the cinema and bought movie tickets for "Painted Skin".

Although there were two films competing in the same period, "The Great Sage" and "A Thousand Miles Alone", "Painted Skin" still earned 18 million at the box office on its first day, breaking the mainland's first-run box office record.

Millions of viewers walked into the theater and watched "Painted Skin" as soon as it was released.

"Zeng Li is so beautiful in this movie. Such a good wife should get all the love and respect from her husband!"

"Chen Kun and Zhou Xun did a good job, Xiao Wei was right, and Wang Sheng was not wrong either. It's just that they met each other at the wrong time."

"The Demon Conqueror fell in love with Pang Yong, Pang Yong fell in love with Pei Rong, Pei Rong fell in love with Wang Sheng, Wang Sheng fell in love with Xiao Wei, the lizard spirit fell in love with Xiao Wei, and Xiao Wei fell in love with Wang Sheng. There are so many relationships packed into one movie, but it seems... It’s not complicated or obtrusive at all, the director is great!”

"No, am I the only one who feels sorry for the little lizard? He has been silently paying for Xiao Wei even if he gave his life, just to get Xiao Wei's love, but in the end he still got nothing."

"Xiao Wei was so miserable. Wang Sheng saved her. She tilted her head and glanced at him. This glance pushed her to the point of no return."

"This movie tells us a truth: you must not be a spare tire in a relationship!"

"Director Wu is worthy of being a great director in Hollywood. The special effects in "Painted Skin" are really good. I was scared to death when Zhou Xun changed his skin!"

"You have to watch this movie in a cinema to experience the magical special effects on the big screen. Whether it's Zhou Xun's transformation into a vixen, or the fighting skills of a demon conqueror, or the disfigured Pei Rong, these are all things that need to be seen on the big screen. You can only feel the shock by watching it!”

The first batch of viewers who watched the movie posted reviews online.

The Douban community has now been established, and movie fans have a place where they can gather together to talk about movies and rate them.

On the day "Painted Skin" premiered, thousands of fans flocked to Douban to rate the film and post reviews.

The next day, "Painted Skin" scored 8.2 on Douban, with more than 2,000 short comments and more than 300 long comments.

For today's movie fans, deciding whether to go see a movie is still very important. After all, a movie ticket of thirty-five yuan is still quite expensive.

At this time, they usually go online to check the reputation and reviews of the movie.

The emergence of Douban can be said to be a timely rain.

"Painted Skin" has become the most beneficial movie since the establishment of Douban.

The box office on the first day was 18 million, the box office on the second day was 22 million, and the box office on the third day was 25 million.

"Painted Skin" earned a box office of 65 million in the first three days of its first weekend in China, breaking a series of records such as the daily box office of mainland movies, the three-day box office of the first weekend, and the fastest box office of 50 million!

In Japan, Toho invited half of the Japanese film industry to hold a grand premiere for "Painted Skin", which also added fuel to the Japanese market's release.

Dongho, who is very willing to spend money on promotion, has also arranged online and offline promotion for "Painted Skin"!

Trailers + posters + celebrity recommendations, following a set of procedures, the news of the release of "Painted Skin" is widely known in Japan.

Vixen + love, this theme is a must-have for Japanese movie fans!

Japanese movie fans like to watch this kind of romance movie where he loves her and she loves him. With the addition of fantasy elements such as vixens, skin-changing, and heart-eating, it is even more familiar to various myths and legends from the Warring States Period in Japan!

There are no cultural barriers. The Han Dynasty is also an era that Japan is familiar with (because of the Three Kingdoms). Without any unnecessary explanation, Japanese movie fans can easily understand the story of "Painted Skin" when entering the cinema.

As long as a commercial film is simple and easy to understand, it has the first element to sell box office.

Due to the favorable impression "Your Name" brought to Japanese movie fans, Wu Yuan's "Painted Skin" had high rankings in major Japanese theaters when it was first released.

The market has indeed given very good feedback.

In the same three-day opening weekend, "Painted Skin" grossed 800 million yen at the box office in Japan!

Although this result may not be as good as "Your Name", as a Chinese film with a costume fantasy theme, it is already very good.

Toho also gave its box office expectations, believing that "Painted Skin" should be able to earn about 5 billion yen at the box office in Japan.

It is almost the same as the single box office of "Red Cliff" in Japan.

This is also the ceiling for Chinese costume-themed movies.

Something like "Your Name" that earned more than 10 billion yen at the box office cannot be achieved every year. It requires the right time, place and people.

Of course, China and Japan are not the only countries where "Painted Skin" will premiere simultaneously.

South Korea also held a large-scale premiere this time. The distribution of cinemas in South Korea is very similar to that in Japan. More than half of the cinemas in the country are concentrated in Seoul.

Other big cities such as Busan and Incheon occupy most of the remaining movie theaters, while other small cities may not even have a movie theater in several cities.

With the full promotion of SHOWBOX, "Painted Skin" is somewhat popular in Korea.

Mainly because Wu Yuan's brand is loud enough.

As one of the "allies" of the United States in East Asia, Koreans naturally admire American culture, life, and things.

Hollywood is also the movie paradise in the minds of most Korean movie fans.

In South Korea, which is extremely xenophobic and has a rising national consciousness, and all walks of life support domestic production and products, only products from the United States are still acceptable.

And it just so happens that Wu Yuan is a director who has been gilded in the United States!

Korean movie fans don't care about his European film festival awards.

However, "Juno" and "Pirates of the Caribbean" directed by him did very well at the box office in South Korea. He is also recognized by Korean movie fans as one of the leading Hollywood business directors.

When SHOWBOX promoted "Painted Skin", they never mentioned Wu Yuan's Chinese identity and only promoted his identity as a Hollywood director. The effect was indeed very good.

"Painted Skin" mobilized 420,000 moviegoers to watch the movie in theaters during its three-day premiere weekend in South Korea, and it has gained a good reputation.

Love stories are the most difficult movie themes to watch. Coupled with the convergence of East Asian cultures, monsters are not a difficult element to understand.

And for Koreans, this kind of mutual love comes and goes, and the movie story of you being her spare tire and she being his spare tire really caters to their aesthetics.

This kind of plot is popular in Korean dramas now, and it is even more bloody than this. Isn't it popular throughout Korea and even exported to other Asian countries?

Although it is not enough to cause a nationwide sensation, the box office performance of "Painted Skin" in South Korea is still acceptable, with steady growth.

On the Korean Internet, many netizens are also intensely discussing the movie "Painted Skin" and the Chinese culture shown in this movie.

Different from the Ming-style clothing that Korea inherited from the Ming Dynasty, "Painted Skin" mainly displays the clothing style and customs of the Han Dynasty, which is very surprising to Koreans who don't know much about ancient China.

It's not just Korea.

Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand will also premiere on December 28.

"Painted Skin" has brought a wave of baptism and display of Chinese classical culture to audiences throughout East Asia.

From the Gobi desert to the water towns in the south of the Yangtze River, there are Chinese-style tall houses, Qin bricks and Han tiles, small bridges and flowing water that are completely different from the courtyard style, as well as the scholars led by Eguan Bo in the movie, the sergeants in gorgeous armor, and the women in colorful clothes and feathers. All of them show the charm of the Han family.

"Painted Skin" relies on both fantasy love and Han Dynasty elegance to achieve very good box office results in six Asian countries upon its release.

In the three days of the first weekend, Six Nations grossed a total of US$15 million at the box office, earning back its investment capital.

In the first week of release, the box office in mainland China exceeded 100 million yen, the box office in Japan exceeded 2 billion yen, and the total box office in Asia exceeded US$35 million, basically making a profit.

With the arrival of a new week, the box office of "Painted Skin" is still strong, and it can still maintain a single-day box office of about 15 million in China.

It is an indisputable fact that the movie box office of "Painted Skin" exceeds that of "House of Flying Daggers" and "A World Without Thieves".

Mainland audiences, moviegoers and media reporters are all looking forward to whether "Painted Skin" can surpass the 250 million mountain of "Hero"!

You know, the total box office in the mainland market this year, including imported films from overseas, is currently only 2 billion yuan!

If the box office of "Painted Skin" can exceed 200 million yuan, it will be equivalent to one movie occupying 10% of the entire mainland movie box office market this year!

This is a very exaggerated thing!

But even so, domestic movie fans and media reporters are also looking forward to "Painted Skin" breaking the box office record of "Hero".

The record of "Hero" has really been maintained for a long time. Everyone hopes that a movie will stand out and break this record. I hope that the Chinese film industry will continue to rise!

Records are meant to be broken!

Now, "Painted Skin", the mainland's first fantasy blockbuster that also occupies the "number one" title, is coming with such force, how can we not expect it to set a new record?

But at a time when the whole country was paying attention to the box office trend of "Painted Skin" and enthusiastically entered movie theaters to support the movie, Wu Yuan quietly left China.

The leading actors of the "Painted Skin" crew still have to participate in various variety shows and talk shows at home and even in Japan and South Korea, but Wu Yuan has to rush back to the United States to continue filming "Rush Hour 3".

The box office results of "Painted Skin" are basically stable. It's hard to say whether it can break the 250 million mainland box office record of "Hero", but it will definitely make back its money and make a lot of money.

Without the pressure of box office, Wu Yuan naturally no longer needs to stay in Asia and has to continue his unfinished work.

But when he landed in Mexico City on the plane, what awaited him was not a crew that started work immediately, but a lively celebration party!

"Daniel, congratulations on your new movie being a hit in Asia!"

"I heard that a lot of records were broken?"

"As expected of you!"

Roald toasted Wu Yuan with a glass of champagne and said with great expectation: "I really hope that "Rush Hour 3" can also be a hit at the Asian box office!"

Yes, after seeing Wu Yuan's box office appeal in Asia, Roald is even more looking forward to the Asian box office results of "Rush Hour 3"!

Wu Yuan is already so powerful, how can Cheng Long still do it?

These two are considered top directors and actors in Hollywood, and they bring a collaborative movie together. What a dream lineup this must be for Asian movie fans?

This movie ticket must be sold out?

After sipping the champagne in his hand, Roald burped and said longingly: "Maybe "Rush Hour 3" should also have a grand Asian premiere!"

"Asian movie fans deserve our attention!"