Khumba tops a million tickets in China

The second animated feature from Cape Town based Triggerfish, Khumba, has now had over a million theatrical admissions in China where it was released on December 31st. Khumba, known as Zebra Story in China, entered the top ten at number 5 grossing over $6 million to date and out-performing the US animated film The Nut Job released the previous week. Triggerfishs debut film, Zambezia, was released in this territory in April 2014.

China's box office is set to outrun the US by 2020, so the fact that we are finding an audience there is fantastic, says Triggerfish CEO Stuart Forrest. It is encouraging to see the response which our films are getting internationally and it confirms the direction in which we are going as a company, developing original stories for a world-wide audience.

The film, following the adventures of a half-striped zebra through the Great Karoo desert, has also been popular with audiences in Europe performing strongly in France, the Netherlands and Belgium where it remained in theatres for an astounding 21 weeks.

Triggerfish is currently in production on a Christmas special based on the popular children's book STICK MAN by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler and has a number of original properties in development.

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