Khumba, the second animated feature from Cape Town based
Triggerfish has had over a million theatrical admissions in China, where it was
released on 31 December 2014. Known as Zebra Story to Chinese
audiences, the film entered the top ten at number five, grossing over $6 million to
date and out-performing US animated film The Nut Job which was
released the previous week.
Triggerfish CEO Stuart Forrest commented, “China’s box office is set to outrun the
US by 2020, so the fact that we are finding an audience there is fantastic. 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, which follows 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 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.
