Chapter 655: Reaching the Top of Asia

Director Tian Ou had been in a terrible mood these past few days.

Originally, thanks to the massive success of Car King 1 and Car King 2, he had become the director with the highest box office for a 【Series Film】 in Huaxia.

But unfortunately, although the word-of-mouth for Monster Hunt 2 was not as good as the first, its box office had already broken 1 billion. Added to the 2.5 billion box office of Monster Hunt 1, it immediately snatched away the title Director Tian regarded as a treasure.

Nowadays, looking at Luo Mo, far from falling from his pedestal, he was completely on a path to becoming a god...

How else could one say that the name of the new album, On the Road, was well-chosen?

Originally, Director Tian was full of ambition, planning to rise again with Car King 3 and reclaim his honor as the 【Number One Series Film Director in Huaxia】.

But compared to Luo Mo, it was truly a case of a minor wizard meeting a great one.

Most importantly, the box office of Nezha was climbing all the way, and it could be said to be infinitely glorious.

Labels like 【Rise of National Animation】, 【Light of National Animation】, and 【Conscientious Special Effects】 were too numerous to count.

Within the 【Hundred Billion Box Office Plan】, other films were Afraid they wouldn't be able to overshadow its limelight.

For an animated film to reach this level was indeed too dazzling and too rare.

Let alone looking at Huaxia, even looking at the whole world, this was considered a red-hot result!

Thinking of this, Tian Ou couldn't help but start searching for data again.

He typed a few words into his phone: "Global Animated Film Ranking."

Blue Star also had an existence similar to Disney; some overseas animated blockbusters would be released globally at the same time, and their box office was terrifying.

But generally speaking, Blue Star was not as good as the Disney on Earth.

This point could be seen from the global box office of animated films.

On the 【Global Animated Film Box Office Ranking】, the film ranked tenth was called Toy Castle, a film released last year, with a global box office of 790 million USD.

Seeing this, Tian Ou let out a long sigh of relief.

On Blue Star, the USD exchange rate was stable at around 6.5.

That is to say, the box office performance of Toy Castle was just over 5.1 billion RMB.

"No matter how crazy Nezha is, it has no chance of entering the global top ten animated films," Tian Ou said in his heart.

Although, looking at it now, there was still a possibility of rushing into the top 20. But it wouldn't be as eye-catching as the top ten, would it?

"The overseas box office of Huaxia's animated films is basically negligible."

"After all, even for an animation powerhouse like the Island Nation, they basically earn Asian box office."

"In Western countries, they can't scrape together much money."

"Therefore, the overseas results of Nezha can basically be ignored; just counting its domestic box office is enough."

Actually, for a film like Toy Castle, its North American box office alone was only just over 200 million USD.

This is like Zootopia on Earth, which broke a billion in global box office; its North American box office was 341 million USD, with overseas box office accounting for the bulk.

Look at Frozen 2, it's Ox, right? Its global box office reached 1.45 billion USD, once rushing into the top ten of the global film box office ranking.

But in the North American region alone, its box office was 477 million USD.

If comparing only domestic box office, Nezha: Birth of the Demon Child was truly already at a heaven-defying level.

This point, Tian Ou was also well aware of.

"But everyone will only look at the data on the global box office ranking and won't consider so much," Tian Ou thought.

"If you bring up regions and only compare Huaxia box office with North American box office, there will be plenty of domestic netizens chasing you to curse."

"Who told you that you couldn't sell it?"

"Who told you that foreign audiences didn't buy it?"

"Why don't you reflect on the reasons within yourself?"

"It's their ability to be bestsellers globally; do you have the face to make such a comparison?" Director Tian could already imagine how the netizens would jump up and curse.

As for whether Nezha could rush into the top ten of the 【Global Animated Film Box Office Ranking】?

"How is that possible!" Tian Ou felt the probability of the end of the world was higher than that.

"Let alone these few years, even in the last ten years, it's impossible for such an animated film to appear."

"That box office would have to break 5 billion to do it!"

"Even the Island Nation can't do it, let alone us?"

On the seventh day of the Lunar New Year, Luo Mo's New Year holiday had officially come to an end.

He began his busy new year.

There were still many songs on the new album On the Road that hadn't been released, all of which needed to be promoted.

He also had several new films to prepare.

At the same time, other Singers from New Yu and the studio also needed him to write songs.

Today, when he found some time, Luo Mo even gave He Yuanguang a call.

"Guang Shu, have the studio prepare an extra celebration Poster," Luo Mo instructed.

"Prepare another one? Is there another new record to break?" He Yuanguang asked.

"It's about to break the box office record for 【Asian Animated Film】!" Luo Mo said.

"Number one in Asia? That's right! It's only 500 million away!" He Yuanguang started to get excited.

Currently, the number one animated film in Asia was the Island Nation's Water Kingdom.

This film's box office performance in various Asian countries was not bad, making its total box office quite high.

However, Nezha's Fire-Tipped Spear was undoubtedly already pointed at it.

Water Kingdom?

Our Nezha is a professional at stirring up the sea!

Perhaps, this is fate!

For He Yuanguang, he had never imagined that one day he would be able to make an animation film that ranked first in Asia in box office.

Thinking back, before meeting Luo Mo, he led his team to make animation films, losing so much money that the wives of his studio's second-in-command and third-in-command were threatening them with divorce.

From this, one can see that it was not a small sum of money lost.

Now, look at them now?

It is said that both of their ex-wives have come to them seeking remarriage, using "for the sake of the children" as a pretext.

"I will make this Poster myself!" He Yuanguang immediately became enthusiastic.

"There's no need for that, just let Xiao Wu handle it; he is better at making posters than you. It's the New Year and he's not seizing the time to have children; at his age, he doesn't even know how to leave more opportunities for the young people," Luo Mo said lazily.

"What do you know?" Guang Shu became anxious.

Luo Mo: "???"

He's anxious, he's anxious!

And he is anxious for no apparent reason.

Luo Mo just assumed it was his honor and sentiment as an animation professional acting up.

"Fine, if you don't mind the fatigue, then do it. Prepare early, I feel like we are about to top Asia soon," Luo Mo said.

Sure enough, on the seventh day of the Lunar New Year, the single-day box office for *Nezha: Birth of the Demon Child* was 431 million!

All of a sudden, those in the industry who harbored grudges against Luo Mo ran to tell each other: "It dropped! The single-day box office of *Nezha* has finally stopped rising continuously, it finally dropped!"

It viciously dropped by a whole... 2 million compared to the sixth day of the Lunar New Year!

Damn it! It only dropped by 2 million!

What is going on, why hasn't this heat died down yet?

By now, the cumulative box office of *Nezha* has already reached nearly 2.4 billion.

If it continues like this, let alone breaking 3 billion, breaking 3.5 billion is easy, heading straight for 4 billion!

That is to say, tomorrow, the celebration Poster for topping Asia will be able to come in handy.

Once this promotional point is spread out, I'm afraid it could trigger another wave of movie-watching frenzy!

The facts were indeed just so.

On the eighth day of the Lunar New Year, it was released immediately!

On the morning of the eighth day of the Lunar New Year, the total box office of *Nezha* broke 2.5 billion, topping the Asian animation film chart!

At twelve noon, the celebration Poster was released.

This time, it could be said to be a full-scale momentum build-up.

On the side of Luo Mo Studio and Tongguang Studio, even if they wanted to be low-key, they couldn't.

I also want to be low-key, but my strength doesn't allow it.

Now that it has topped Asia, how could the domestic media sit still?

By one o'clock in the afternoon, 124 domestic media outlets that could be named had reported on this matter extensively.

It can be said that if you open your phone today, whether you are looking at Weibo or scrolling through short videos, there is a very high probability of seeing information related to *Nezha*!

"Ah? Nezha is number one in Asia?"

"Damn, that's Ox!"

"I can't take it anymore, I can't hold back until the day I can watch it on my phone, I'm going to the cinema to watch it today!"

"I've been waiting for a pirated version to come out online, but I just couldn't wait. The Review Department's 【Hundred Billion Box Office Plan】 is truly Ox, I surrender, I'm buying a ticket now."

"Charge! Nezha, charge for me!"

"Going for a second viewing, anyone want to go together?"

Under these circumstances, after a slight dip yesterday, the single-day box office of *Nezha* rose by another notch today!

On the eighth day of the Lunar New Year, the single-day box office was 455 million, refreshing the single-day record once again.

At this point, the entire film industry fell silent.

No one dared to blindly estimate the final performance of *Nezha* to the outside world anymore.

It has refreshed everyone's perception time and time again; an animation film at the bottom of the contempt chain has already made it impossible for people to see its end point.

Many people believe that it is very likely to rush into the top three of the Huaxia box office chart!

"Currently, the number one on the Huaxia box office chart is *Dying to Survive*."

"If *Nezha* also rushes in, it means Luo Mo alone occupies two spots in the top three!"

You must know, just two years ago he was still a pure Newcomer in the film industry.

When he was on *Director Show*, he was even boycotted by a group of directors who felt he had used Ning Dan's connections.

— *The Humble Door Opens for You Today*.

A director who had never filmed a live-action movie, by what right could he participate in the variety show *Director Show*?

By his *Monkey King: Hero is Back*?

But look at it now, who would still dare to underestimate animation films?

And by the ninth day of the Lunar New Year, a Hot Search quietly climbed onto the Hot Search list.

The cause was that many people went for a second viewing of *Nezha*, or even a third viewing, and still found it very moving, still crying while watching.

Consequently, our top Heavenly King Chen Luo was dragged out by netizens for another round of ridicule.

Hot Search entry: 【Today we are still Chen Luo】!

Chen Luo: "It's never-ending, is it?"

Everyone laughs at Chen Luo, everyone is Chen Luo.

Who would have thought that a dignified top Heavenly King in the music scene would frequently appear on the Hot Search during the New Year because—he cried.

"No! I can't take it anymore!" Chen Luo slammed the table.

This man, who usually gave people the impression of being refined and extraordinary in bearing, had finally reached the edge of an emotional breakdown.

"I'm going to go find Luo Mo to ask for a song right now!"

(PS: First update, there will be a second chapter today, asking for monthly votes.)

(End of this chapter)