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China’s home-made 

cartoon rakes in record 

30 mln yuan from 

opening weekend

CHINAVIEW

January 20th, 200

 The Chinese cartoon 

“Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf” 

has become the biggest box office 

winner of home-made animations 

with a take of 30 million yuan 

(about 4.39 million U.S. dollars) 

from its opening weekend box office.

The revenue well surpassed 

the record holder 

“Storm Rider – Clash of Evils”, 

an animated adaptation of the 

Storm Riders comic, 

which raked in 25 million yuan 

in two weeks from last summer’s 

release, 

Tuesday’s Beijing News reported.

The film made 8 million yuan on 

it’s first day of release on Jan. 16.

Zhao Jun, general manager of the 

China Film South Cinema 

Circuit Co. Ltd., called the cartoon 

movie a “dark horse” and forecasted 

a minimum 60-million-yuan in 

its total box office.

Insiders attributed the cartoon’s 

success to the large group of potential 

viewers cultivated by a 500-episode

 popular TV animation series that 

had been aired for three years.

The film, based on the TV series 

and starring the same characters, 

tells a story about several goats 

and their old enemy Big Big Wolf,

 who defeat their common enemy –

 bacteria – together.

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              BACTERIA