China’s highest gross film of all time, “Ne Zha 2”, has passed another milestone in its historical driving. On the last Sunday, it surpassed the global sum of “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” to join the five highest gross films of the ages before inflation adjustment.
Unlike Hollywood productions that make up the rest of the list such as “Avatar”, almost the entire film’s global total total $ 2.08 billion has come from domestic audience in China, with only $ 31 million coming from abroad. More than 300 million tickets to “Ne Zha 2” have been purchased by Chinese movie guests, a number that almost matches the 340 million of the entire estimated US population.
Thanks to the outstanding popularity for “Ne Zha 2” in China since the launch of Lunar New Year, the film has exceeded the uninhabited $ 2.06 billion total collected by “Star Wars: The Force Awaken’s” winter 2015-16. Before that, it passed “Inside Out 2” to become the highest animated film of all time in just three weeks of theater.
The first “ne zha” was the debut project for Franchisetudio, Chengdu Coco Cartoon, and collected $ 742 million at the checkout. Like Breakout Hollywood animated sequels such as “Moana 2” and “Inside Out 2”, years of subsequent streaming games helped build up hype for “ne zha 2” when it hit theaters during the lucrative Lunar New Year Box Office period.
As China’s local film industry continues to grow in the run, “Ne Zha” has proven to be an important milestone. The flap reported last month That the film gives Chinese audience with something they have never had the chance to enjoy before: a locally produced animated film made with the functional production quality for a film from Disney or Dreamworks, but anchored in a story from traditional Chinese mythology and culture.
And it has been enough to make “ne zha 2” the first animated hit of $ 2 billion, which joined a top five all-time list containing the two “Avatar” films, “Titanic” and “Avengers: EndGame.”
