For decades, Hollywood flicks have sat atop the box office food chain. Courtesy of the soft power of American pop culture and the wide reach of utmost major plant- backed Hollywood flicks, these pictures make significantly further plutocrat than any other assiduity on the earth. The biggest blockbusters troll in over a billion bones each every time. And yet, this time, a bitsy$ 80- million movie is n’t just the highest- grossing film of the time, but the highest- grossing animated film ever.
The highest- grossing animated film
Chinese film Ne Zha 2 has set the box office ablaze with record- breaking collections. A fantasy adventure film directed by Jiaozi, it’s the third film in Enlight Pictures’ Fengshen Universe after Ne Zha( 2019) and Jiang Ziya( 2020).
Made on a budget of$ 80 million, Ne Zha 2 was released in theatres on 29 January, and in just four weeks, it has earned$ 1.92 billion. This has made it the loftiest- grossing Chinese film ever and also the highest- grossing animated film ever. In this list, it beat Disney and Pixar’s record- breaking Inside Out 2($ 1.69 billion). And Ne Zha 2 is n’t done yet. The film is still running in theatres across China, making it nearly certain that it’ll cross$ 2 billion. That elite club has only 6 flicks so far.
Ne Zha 2’s record- breaking box office run
The film, like the two other instalments in the ballot, is approximately grounded on Chinese tradition and the 16th- century Chinese new installment of the Gods. Its release coincided with the Chinese New Year, giving it a gleeful release drive. Since also, it has beaten every Disney and Pixar film( Inside Out 2, The Lion King, Frozen 2, pets, and numerous further) at the box office. It indeed transcended the Marvel flicks that released alongside it, beating Captain America Brave New World by nearly seven times despite a much lower budget. It’s presently the seventh loftiest- grossing film of all, behind only the two icon flicks, punishers Endgame and punishers perpetuity War, and Titanic and Star Wars Episode VII.
