Blockbuster treatment for Nezha 2

The mainland's blockbuster movie Nezha 2 will be jointly released in Hong Kong and Macau by four distributors, with the release date yet to be confirmed.

The animated film has taken in 10 billion yuan (HK$10.67 billion) at the box office, the nation's highest ever.

The distributors are Mandarin Motion Pictures, Intercontinental Film Distributors (HK), Sil-Metropole Organization and Emperor Motion Pictures.

Their cinema chains - Cinema City, MCL, WMOOV, and Emperor Cinemas - will collaborate to screen the movie.

Mandarin Motion Pictures director Raymond Wong Pak-ming expressed honor in bringing the movie to SAR markets.

Nezha 2 took director Yang Yu, aka Jiaozi, five years to make, a process that involved overseeing nearly 140 teams and over 4,000 animators.

The film continues the comedic style of Nezha (2019), featuring three times the number of characters and surpassing the total number of special effects shots in the original movie.

The record-breaking Nezha 2 has also become the only non-Hollywood film to break into the top 20 of global box-office history.

Cheng Wong