Chinese Showbiz: An Animation Director

Good news: I’m reborn as a top student in the directing department at the Beijing Film Academy!

Bad news: From the start, my mentor set me up, ending my directing career before it even began!

Good news: The animated-film market is completely wide open!

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And so, amid a pile of animated films about Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf and Boonie Bears, Monkey King: Hero Is Back burst onto the scene.

After that came Big Fish & Begonia, Jiang Ziya, Chang'an 30,000 Miles… constantly refreshing people’s understanding of animated films.

Then Ne Zha surpassed ten billion at the box office, went overseas, and dominated the global box office, leaving a host of directors, actors, and investors dumbfounded.

Could they be serious? An animated film could actually make that much at the box office?

Zhang Yimou: “What Ne Zha? One film like that is worth more than a lifetime of movies for me?”

Chen Sicheng: “Wait, how many Detective Chinatown films would I have to make to match that?”

Gulnazar: “Still eating? I’m coming to collect from all of you!”

Liu Yifei: “The prejudice in people’s hearts is a mountain.”

Dilraba: “Thunder crashes from the heavens, and I’m so scared, I’m so scared. It strikes me until my whole body crumbles into bits…”