By late September, it had been raining heavily for days, leaving the air muggy. But this was the third week of Spirited Away's overseas release.
Although Spirited Away hadn't performed overseas as outrageously well as it had in Dragon Country, its total box office had still passed two billion by today!
It had received widespread praise from overseas fans, and its overseas box office passing two billion also marked Spirited Away's entry into the top ten highest-grossing Dragon Country films released abroad!
Many Dragon Country works had received a lukewarm response at home but attracted huge overseas fanbases. Most were kung fu and wuxia films. Take The Three Musketeers, for example: it had earned less than three hundred million at the Dragon Country box office, but nearly five billion in Dragon Country Currency worldwide. You never knew how things would turn out!
But taken as a whole, across both domestic and international markets, the highest-grossing film in Dragon Country's film industry was unquestionably Spirited Away, with a total box office of 10.5 billion—and still growing by tens of millions every day!
News about Spirited Away's overseas release was reported by the media almost daily. Zhao Qinyin's fans would check the latest headlines whenever they had a spare moment, then visit her Weibo to see if she'd announced anything major.
Fans who were used to Zhao Qinyin putting out three or four works a year were growing anxious. Slam Dunk was reaching its later stages, and Spirited Away was about to finish its global theatrical run, yet Zhao Qinyin was still as idle as ever.
But instead of news of a new Zhao Qinyin work, her fans received another announcement that left them at a loss.
GT Animation Company announced its latest plans on Weibo in Mainland and Twitter overseas.
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