Tuesday, August 20, 2019

Chinese High-Flyer

To remind animation fans it isn't all Pixar and Disney and (every once in a while) Blue Sky Animation, there is this:

Chinese animation “Ne Zha” continued its run as China’s biggest hit of the summer, maintaining its top spot at the box office even 25 days into its run with a weekend gross of $41.2 million. The tally made it this weekend’s fourth highest grossing film worldwide. ...

As the saying (sort of) goes: "When they want to see your movie, you can't stop them." First time director Yang Yu might have struggled to get funding for his long gestating epic, but financing for pictures he wants to make won't be a problem going forward. Even in the Middle Kingdom, he's what is known as "bankable".

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