The Longguo film industry hadn't had a major hit in nearly a month! For the past month, daily box office revenue had hovered between thirty and forty million. The owners of the country's tens of thousands of cinemas had been waiting ages for the Summer Vacation Slot, one of the biggest movie seasons of the year!
Although in the Parallel World, I Can Hear the Sea wasn't particularly famous!
Compared with Ghibli's other works, it certainly didn't have as much prestige! But that didn't mean it was a bad film. On the contrary, among the many outstanding works from Japan Island in the last century, how could one that audiences still remembered after all these years be ordinary?
At least, Chu Yu liked it a lot. And among fans of Ghibli Studio in the Parallel World, it was also rated among the studio's best works!
He hadn't made it to earn money. He simply felt that a work like this needed to be made, so he launched the production plan!
And even considering Zhao Qinyin's current standing, having this film under her name wouldn't damage her reputation. Given her fame, and the momentum behind her second animated film after Spirited Away, Chu Yu thought even if he turned Switch, a classic flop from the Parallel World, into an animated film and released it to a storm of criticism, it would still make at least seven or eight hundred million!
So Zhao Qinyin kept her promotional claims modest, saying she expected I Can Hear the Sea to make one billion.
After all, there weren't that many blockbusters in the film industry. Most movies made only a few hundred million, and the more successful ones made over a billion. To be honest, a group of film critics had mocked Chu Yu's supposedly