{"id":2186,"date":"2016-07-19T10:50:08","date_gmt":"2016-07-19T15:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/?p=2186"},"modified":"2016-07-19T10:50:08","modified_gmt":"2016-07-19T15:50:08","slug":"chinas-monkey-king-hero-is-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/2016\/07\/chinas-monkey-king-hero-is-back\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s Monkey King: Hero Is Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China&#8217;s highest-grossing domestic animated film, Monkey King: Hero Is Back, is finally getting distribution in the United States, due to a partnership with DirecTV. Below is the English trailer:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/164458485\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>While the trailer doesn&#8217;t jump out at me, the movie&#8217;s success does have potential significance. Having grossed US$153 million during last year&#8217;s release in China on a mere $16 million budget has pushed a lot of other animation features into production.<\/p>\n<p>If this movie&#8217;s limited American release and On-Demand rentals prove fruitful, it will only kick things into a higher gear. I believe the increased demand will result in higher budgets and better projects coming out of China.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China&#8217;s highest-grossing domestic animated film, Monkey King: Hero Is Back, is finally getting distribution in the United States, due to a partnership with DirecTV. Below is the English trailer: While the trailer doesn&#8217;t jump out at me, the movie&#8217;s success does have potential significance. Having grossed US$153 million during last year&#8217;s release in China on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3],"class_list":["post-2186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-animation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2186"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2188,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2186\/revisions\/2188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pivisuals.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}