The Chinese language animated film Ne Zha 2, which serves as a sequel to 2019’s Ne Zha, is now the highest-grossing animated film of all time. As of Wednesday, February 18, it has made 12.3 billion yuan ($1.69 billion), surpassing the overall field workplace of the earlier document holder, Inside Out 2 (2024).
Ne Zha 2 is the very best grossing animated film after beating Inside 2
Ne Zha 2 has turn into the highest-grossing animated film in historical past, per information from Maoyan, a ticketing platform (by way of NBC). The function, helmed by Yang Yu, alternatively referred to as Jiaozi, debuted in China on January 29, 2025, and has since collected $1.69 billion on the field workplace.
This quantity consists of pre-sales and abroad earnings, although nearly all of the film’s field workplace return comes from China’s home market. That is in contrast to Inside Out 2 and different entries within the checklist of highest-grossing animated motion pictures. Most of them are Hollywood productions and the box-office numbers they generate are a mix of the US and worldwide returns.
Ne Zha 2 and Ne Zha are variations of the Sixteenth-century Chinese language novel The Investiture of the Gods. The plot of the sequel revolves across the eponymous Na Zha, a younger boy whose soul is saved together with that of Ao Bing after the occasions of the primary film. Nonetheless, their our bodies are destroyed, and the treatment for that’s the mysterious seven-colored lotus.
Among the many highest-grossing motion pictures usually, Ne Zha 2 at present occupies the eighth place. Nonetheless, given the present pattern, it can doubtless transfer up the checklist and attain the 2 billion threshold. On the Chinese language field workplace, it has already surpassed Avengers: Endgame to turn into the highest-grossing IMAX launch of all time (by way of Selection).
The voice solid of Ne Zha 2 consists of Lü Yanting because the baby Nezha, Joseph Cao because the teenage Nezha, Han Mo as Ao Bing and extra.
