There\u2019s a new king atop China\u2019s 2D animated box office, and it\u2019s Nobody.<\/p>\n
Shanghai Animation Film Studio\u2019s movie has overtaken Makoto Shinkai\u2019s Suzume as the highest-grossing 2D animated film in Chinese box office history while becoming a dark horse in the nation\u2019s summer movie season.<\/p>\n
With its success, Nobody has dethroned the dominance of Japanese animated films in China.<\/p>\n
Before Nobody\u2019s debut on August 2, the all-time top three such movies at the Chinese box office were Suzume, having generated 807 million yuan (US$112.2 million), followed by The Boy and the Heron\u2019s 791 million yuan, and Your Name\u2019s 713 million yuan \u2013 all produced in Japan.<\/p>\n
Based on the 2023 online animated series Chinese Bizarreries, Nobody had earned just over 1 billion yuan as of Monday. It continues a unique animation style pioneered by the Chinese studio, incorporating extensive elements of ink-wash painting to create a Chinese aesthetic.<\/p>\n
The film\u2019s supervisor, Chen Liaoyu, said in July that Nobody features \u201cink entering the frame\u201d, meaning the use of ink to construct the shots rather than using shots to depict ink, as reported by the Shanghai Observer newspaper.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor example, the two tusks of the little pig demon retain the hand-drawn arc lines, and these details are the most challenging aspects,\u201d Chen was quoted as saying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There\u2019s a new king atop China\u2019s 2D animated box office, and it\u2019s Nobody. Shanghai Animation Film Studio\u2019s movie…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81272,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[5806,45,49,48,95,46,75,15674,890,337,44,927,22429,457,61,182,3275],"class_list":["post-81271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-asia","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-china","tag-economy","tag-entertainment","tag-hong-kong","tag-lifestyle","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-opinion","tag-south-china-morning-post","tag-sport","tag-technology","tag-us","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}