Ne Zha 2 China Box Office: Hits $2.07 Billion (Photo Credit – Instagram)

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The Chinese animated feature Ne Zha 2 is completing two months at the theatres today and it still keeps earning winning numbers at the box office. It is unhinged by other releases and rules the box office like a king. The animation has slowed down finally at the cinemas and might even leave the theatres soon. Scroll below for its latest box office updates in China.

It is the sequel to 2019’s Ne Zha, and they are based on the Chinese mythological character and Xu Zhonglin’s 16th-century novel Investiture of the Gods. It was released on the first day of the Chinese New Year and was made on a budget of $80 million. It has become the first animated film to cross the $2 billion mark, and this is a record that will be hard to break for a long time. In addition, the film has achieved it all in less than two months.

The Chinese Juggernaut, Ne Zha 2, collected another $1.3 million from over 100K screenings on its 9th Friday. The movie witnessed a drop of -38.1% from last Friday. It has collected $2.07 billion from China alone in just 59 days. The Ne Zha sequel has collected $655K in pre-sales for today’s 9th Saturday. The exhibitors have added 14K more screenings from yesterday; thus, it is playing over 114K screenings.

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