Audience: This crap can actually hit the big screen?
Netizens: This damn thing is straight-up art!
Stock traders: This is calling for a bull market!

This 3D animation called *The Bull Comes* had a budget of around 1,500 yuan, from a bankrupt decorating company with just 100,000 yuan in registered capital. The animation was made single-handedly by the boss, with his wife helping out on voice acting.

After 9 days in theaters, box office was only 7,000 yuan. Netizens posted online to mock it, but it blew up—everyone started flocking to theaters in the dead of night out of sheer curiosity. When the bull trips and falls, audiences shout: Trip-and-fall vibes!

By day 10 today, box office surged past 70,000 yuan overnight, with profits nearing 50 times the cost. And that doesn't even factor in the government subsidies for the Dragon Seal, which usually run from tens of thousands to over a hundred thousand yuan.

Overnight, "want to see" counts on Maoyan hit 28,000, the movie shot to #1 on Weibo's hot search, and the director dropped 3 updates in a row on his official Douyin account late at night—hitting over 30,000 views, probably too fast to keep posting.

China's film scene puts out one of these divine masterpieces every year. Last year's was *Mermaid's Summer*. 🙃