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💥 Accidental Hit
A $200 animated movie described as "an insult to bad movies" made over $4 million at the Chinese box office
"Niu Lai" ("The Bull Comes"), about a newborn calf who sets off on a journey with its mother and a leopard cub, opened with almost no marketing: it made just over $1,000 in its first week and didn't even have an official poster, so some theaters drew their own by hand. Made by an amateur animator and his mother on a budget of about $200, its rough animation and baffling storytelling went viral on Chinese social media: people started packing theaters just to see how bad it could really be, and at one Beijing screening the audience was laughing and applauding before the film even started. It has now made over $4 million, with some projections putting its final total at $14 million, and briefly ranked in the daily box office just behind the latest Spider-Man blockbuster, whose budget is around $225 million.
Source: Infobae →Hollywood spent $225 million on Spider-Man; the calf spent $200 and a proud mom.