I wonder if this is the start of a thriving Chinese movie industry, or an unusually popular one-off like Black Myth: Wukong seems to have been (so far)?
Hollywood needed several decades to break that. It was Shrek eventually.
It really wouldn't surprise me if China has made many Pixar-level or Oscar-level films, or shows and books for that matter, and we just haven't gotten to properly see them, since they were never officially dubbed and released outside of China, and it takes quite a lot for the noise to make it outside of China, and China's just been assuming that the world just wasn't that interested in Chinese culture (and were probably proven right by western media never really talking about it; when was the last time you heard about any Chinese film/book/tv show other than this one?), and just didn't bother to even try that much to get it out there. But now that it's out there, and people think it's good, we're probably going to get a lot more of it. Even if most of it's just mediocre, it'll be, if not better than, at least different from the Hollywood stagnation.
Three Body Problem
Flavors of Youth
House of Flying Daggers
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
Quite a lot more if you include Hong Kong, but a lot of those films were developed under British rule.
That’s a good point, I guess by thriving I meant, continuously producing works that are popular outside of the place they were created.
> Even if most of it's just mediocre, it'll be, if not better than, at least different from the Hollywood stagnation.
That’s what I’m hoping, anyway. Disney and Pixar do best when they’ve got competition.