Chinese animation Nobody made an unusual hop to the top of the local box office in its third weekend, dethroning historical drama Dead To Rights , as the summer box office in China hit the $1.4bn (RMB10bn) milestone.

Produced by Shanghai Animation Film Studio, Nobody opened on August 2 and ranked second for two sessions, behind Dead To Rights . However, it took $32.9m (RMB237.1m) from August 15-17, topping the weekend box office for the first time and has become the highest grossing 2D Chinese animated feature film of all time in the country, with cumulative takings of $138.5m (RMB997m).

Directed by Yu Shui, the film follows a pig, a toad, a weasel and an orangutan – four low-ranking monsters from Langlang Mountain – who embark on a west-bound journey not unlike the Chinese class

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