This year its all about cinema, the newly released movies are doing amazingly well on the box office across the world.
The new addition into this race is the Chinese animated tale “Nezha” with $8.8 million and ranked fourth from previews over the previous weekend. Before its official release globally on Friday. Its cumulative total at the end of its first official weekend is $103 million, which is quite remarkable.
Movie is directed by Yang Yu, the film claimed the opening weekend record for an animation film in China, far ahead of the $65.2 million by “Despicable Me 3.” With $32.7 million earned on Saturday, “Nezha” also claimed the single day animation record previously held by “Zootopia” in 2016.
This is not first time that a animated movie has braked box office records. The film is based on a young male character from Chinese mythology, who appears in some of the country’s best known works of classic literature, such as The Investiture of the Gods and Journey to the West.
The story revolves around the young character who fights to overcome prejudice and pursue his dreams, themes that appear to be clicking with China’s film-going youth.