An unexpected film seemingly out of nowhere to make history in the box office. "Seemingly" does a fair thing there because, for the fans of film living in China, the animated sequel "No Haa 2" has become a cultural cinema like no other. Not only in China, I warn you, but has become greater in some respects than any other movie in history. Yes, really.

During the weekend, director Yu Young's blockbuster added "NO HAA 2" $ 250.6 million Until the incredible total value, bringing its transport to $ 1.08 billion as of Monday morning. Keep in mind that the film was released only on January 29, which means he did all this in about two weeks. It became the first film to ever earn more than $ 1 billion in one country and passed "war on the Starwells: The forces wakes up" ($ 936.6 million) to become the biggest film ever in a market.

"Ne Zha 2" made titles over the Lunar New Year with its opening of blockbusterRaising the Chinese cashier at heights that have not been seen for years. Other hits such as "Detective Kinatone 1900" and "Creating the Gods II: Day Force" also led to the gross rug in the country, but it is this animated sequel that rose to a high level above others. At this rate, in China there is no record for the box office that the film will not break. The only question now is how high it can fly.

Before the pandemic, China was lucky with hits at home, such as Wolf Warrior 2 ($ 870 million) And the "wandering land" ($ 699 million), among others. The original "NO HAA" ($ 742 million) is also on that list. What makes them so unique is that the vast majority of that money comes from China and China only. "Wolf Warrior 2", for example, made only $ 2.7 million in the United States, which was a trend even after a pandemic, as films like "Battle of Lake Changin" ($ 902 million) continued to destroy records.

That's where things are interesting with "no ha." As for this writing, only two weeks in her running, It has already passed the lifelong total "Starwalks War: The rise of Skywalker" ($ 1.077 billion) become one of the 40 biggest films so far globally. Everything is convinced of other hits in Hollywood as "Top Gun: Maverick" ($ 1.49 billion) and Barbie ($ 1.44 billion) in a few days, not a few weeks. He becomes one of the greatest films of all time, though most people in the world will not see him. There is only one country that stimulates anger.

At this rate, we see a movie that can only reach a brand of $ 2 billion in China alone. It will almost certainly spend "The Lion King" in 2019 ($ 1.66 billion) to become the only Chinese film that crashed the top ten all time. If you get to the $ 2 billion brand, it will become only the seventh film ever to do so, landing somewhere between "Avengers: Infinite War" ($ 2 billion) and Jameseims Cameron's Avatar ($ 2.9 billion) on the table for all time.

What is happening with this film is now nothing shy of the extraordinary. Most striking for everyone? There will probably be a minimal presence of screens elsewhere in the world. It is a hit on a market of the characters we have never seen, the one that will probably encourage China to continue to give its films even more, rather than relying on Hollywood for blockbusters.

I talked about this and more news about the box office about today's episode of /film daily podcast, which you can hear below:

"No Haa 2" opens in the United States on February 14, 2025.