{
  "id": 2111574,
  "title": "How a low-budget fever dream sparked a Chinese box office revolt",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/20/how-a-low-budget-fever-dream-sparked-a-chinese-box-office-revolt",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-08-20T09:27:39.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Business Recorder",
    "slug": "business-recorder",
    "url": "https://www.brecorder.com/news/40435751/how-a-low-budget-fever-dream-sparked-a-chinese-box-office-revolt"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "BEIJING: A crudely animated, homemade movie about a baby cow has become China’s most unlikely box-office smash, generating merchandise and memes and a national conversation about the joyful rejection of slick marketing and artificial intelligence by a younger generation. Made on a shoestring budget and with hand-drawn posters and a reported cost in the thousands of dollars, “The Bull Comes,” or…",
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  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 3,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Live Mint",
        "title": "Handmade poster, memes, sudden box office boon: What is the hype behind ‘worse than AI’ Chinese animated film Niu Lai?",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/19/handmade-poster-memes-sudden-box-office-boon-what-is-the-hype-behind",
        "published": "2026-08-19T04:59:47.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Gulf News",
        "title": "Mother-son duo's $1000 Chinese animation beats The Odyssey and Obsession at box office after viral trolling",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/20/mother-son-duos-1000-chinese-animation-beats-the-odyssey-and",
        "published": "2026-08-20T05:43:45.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}