By comparison, even if one of Chu Yu's movies made two billion at the box office and brought in several hundred million after the revenue split, that might look like an astronomical sum on the surface, but it was no longer enough to make him care all that much.
Even so, Chu Yu still cared a great deal about Initial D's release!
Money might not matter much, but these works were important to maintaining Chu Yu's popularity.
A work like Initial D was perfect for bringing the old material back to life with a movie, then making a two- or three-part film series over the next few years, and eventually adapting it into a multiplayer online racing game like QQ Speed in the Parallel World!
It was just that Chu Yu had too many projects on his hands at the moment, and couldn't get around to everything at once. Otherwise, he would have put all those plans into motion one by one!
Although Chu Yu hadn't made a big fuss about the movie on any of his social media accounts—partly for his own reasons, and partly to avoid provoking Hunter's die-hard fans—theaters were still drawing in huge numbers of Initial D fans on the last day of July, along with casual moviegoers who had been won over by Chu Yu's work in the film industry!
These days, Zhao Qinyin and Chu Yu's fanbases were no longer made up solely of anime fans. Their games and movies had attracted plenty of casual fans, too!
Early in the morning, the box-office numbers for Initial D were already so good that theater managers wanted to cheer out loud!
After all, to avoid competing with Chu Yu's works and suffering the same fate as Sky Castle and Your Name's contemporaries, Dragon Country's major film