The "Single Universe" IP, which is loved by Gen Z audiences, has its first big movie, and a story with over 100 million views has a sequel.

  The comedy animated movie "The Little Monster of Langlang Mountain" is scheduled to be released recently, and this Shanghai-produced film will be released on August 2 this year. The film was originally named "The Summer of Little Monsters: Once upon a Time", and was created by the original creative team of "The Summer of Little Monsters" in "The Summer of Little Monsters". In the short film, the little pig demon hesitated to leave Langlang Mountain. On the big screen this summer, the pig demon is about to break out of Langlang Mountain, traveling far away under the warm gaze of his mother, forming a grassroots team with other unknown little demons, and writing a new chapter of the little people in a interesting journey.

  Two years ago, the Chinese fantasy animated short collection "Chinese Tales" was launched online, which quickly sparked heated discussions. It was called the "king bomb" by the Generation Z audience when the new century of Chinese animation began. Especially the first episode "Summer of Little Monsters" found the anchor point of traditional myth in contemporary life, using the protagonist Pig Demon as the microcosm of "the unknown who worked hard", which resonated with young audiences. The number of views of a single episode exceeded 100 million times, and the main creative team made traditional culture and national style "use me" and truly activated innovative creativity in inheritance.

  At that time, netizens, industry and academic circles generally believed that "Chinese Tales" continued the "new and interesting" creative gene of Shanghai American Film and could be regarded as the new era paradigm of the "Chinese Animation School". In 2025, "Nezha: The Devil Child's Trouble" brought unprecedented attention to domestic animated films. The audience's high demand for high-quality works has also opened up a broad blue ocean for high-quality animated films.

  As the first movie of the "Single Universe", "The Little Monster of Langlang Mountain" is also the second work in the "Langlang Mountain" series. In terms of art style, Shanghai Art Film Studio provides overall artistic guidance to the film to escort the quality of the works. Judging from the trailer, the new film draws on the shape, brushwork and rendering methods of traditional Chinese paintings, and combines modern expression techniques of color, light and shadow, and perspective to create a unique picture that has both realism and traditional Chinese aesthetic meaning. In terms of content, "The Little Monster of Langlang Mountain" continues to recreate "Journey to the West" with innovative techniques, striving to make breakthroughs in both story and imagination.

  It is worth mentioning that as the main investor and control work of Shanghai Film Group, "Langlangshan Little Monster" has been protected by Shanghai Film Group from IP incubation to cross-border business cooperation, and then to diversified creative presentation. As the main body of Shanghai Film Group's "big IP development" strategy, Shanghai Film Corporation has carried out the development and operation of the "Chinese Tales" IP in the entire industry chain, striving to build it into a high-quality content brand rooted in Chinese traditional culture. (Reporter Wang Yan)

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