Entertainment Netflix Picks Up Chinese Animated Feature ‘New Gods: Nezha Reborn’

'New Gods - Nezha Reborn'

Netflix has acquired worldwide streaming rights to Chinese animated film New Gods: Nezha Reborn, which opened theatrically in China last weekend at the start of the Lunar New Year holiday.

The film is produced by pioneering Beijing-based studio Light Chaser Animation. The movie is based on the oft-adapted classical Chinese novel The Investiture of the Gods, but Light Chaser has given the material a vivid pop-culture spin in a bid to generate excitement among Chinese youth.

Those efforts have yielded a modest success at China’s booming box office. Among the seven Chinese New Year titles that released last Friday, Nezha Reborn currently ranks fifth with $36.5 million in total sales, according to ticketing service Maoyan. But the movie has been a favorite among China’s more discerning filmgoers. On the influential movie reviews site Douban, which tends to be a reliable barometer for film quality in China, Nezha Reborn ranks second best among the new releases, with a user reviews score of 7.4. It’s trailing only the ascendent box-office champ Hi, Mom, which has a Douban score of 8.2 and total earnings of $403 million. The solid critical reception suggests strong legs for NezhaReborn for the rest of the holiday and beyond.

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Netflix , China ’s Alibaba and France have thrown their weight behind the Annecy Animation Festival, with the festival set to showcase an in progress reveal of the U.S. streaming giant’s “The Cupcake Show!” plus a look back at cult movie “Animal Crackers,” as well as six French productions in its Distributed by Alibaba Pictures Group, “ New Gods : Nezha Reborn ,” from Ji Zhao, follows on the highest grossing animated movie ever in a single territory, earning over 0 million in China . French productions are led by the hugely awaited “The Summit of the Gods ,” produced by Jean-Charles

Everything posted here must be about Chinese animation . Nope, the Nezha sequel focuses on the dragons Aobing grew up with - there was a teaser for it in the end credits. Nope, it basically a different adaptation where Nezha is incarnated in a modern era. It's from the guys that did the recent

Nezha Reborn was created over a period of four years by the same creative team that produced Light Chaser’s 2019 hit White Snake, a co-production with Warner Bros. that earned $61.6 million in China. The new feature is directed by veteran animator Zhao Ji, who also co-directed White Snake. The voice cast includes Yang Tianxiang, Xuan Xiaoming, Ling Zhenhe, Zhu Ke’er and Li Shimeng.

Netflix hasn’t been able to launch its service in China because of the Beijing government’s ban on foreign streaming platforms. But in recent years the company has acquired a number of major Chinese blockbusters — such as sci-fi hit The Wandering Earth and comic book adaptation Animal World — making them available to the Chinese diaspora audience around the world.

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Upcoming Chinese animated movie " Nezha Reborn " combines elements of Chinese folklore with western punk. Hosted annually in France, the Annecy International Animation Film Festival (AIAFF) recently revealed a three-minute clip from Nezha Reborn <哪吒重生>, an upcoming Chinese animated film expected to premiere at the end of the year. While the three-minute clip is neither an official trailer nor a teaser, the clip does offer a glimpse of what we can expect from Chinese animation in the future.

In FGO, Nezha was born a man, but after she died her god revived her as a woman, because he does not care for the gender of "divine constructs". She basically has the classic living weapon narrative going on. Her gods only see her as a tool of destruction, not a person in her own right, but there's still something fundamentally human about her. so japan turn their chinese shota to teen girl that barely speaks completly and loves master.

A streaming release date for Nezha Reborn is yet to be revealed. The official summary for the film is as follows: “Set in a mythical world, Donghai City, a melting pot where gods and people from different cultures co-exist, Nezha is reborn as Li Yunxiang, a young daredevil, 3,000 years after the original Battle of the Gods. Yunxiang grows up as a cool regular boy, who earns his living as a delivery courier. His love for motor racing and adventure prevail even as he discovers his true identity as Nezha. Yunxiang encounters his mortal enemies, the Dragon Clan, who are now living as super wealthy businessmen, feared and revered in Donghai City. Boss De, the Dragon King of the East China Sea or The Patriarch of the Dragon Clan, vows to revitalise the Dragon Clan in the new world. He is accompanied in this film by his three sons, The Three Princes, who are intent on killing Nezha to avenge their clan. New Gods: Nezha Reborn tells the story of how Yunxiang discovers his true identity and valiantly battles the Dragon Clan, their masked assassin, and other enemies, to protect his friends and family in a tale of life and death.”