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''Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf'' (the English name shown on the official merchandise) ( "Pleasant Goat and Grey Wolf") is a Chinese animated television series which was created by Huang Weiming, Lin Yuting and Luo Yinggeng, and produced by Creative Power Entertaining. The show is about a group of goats living on the Green Pasture, Qing Qing Grasslands/Plains, () and the story revolving around a clumsy wolf who wants to eat them. The cartoon became enormously popular with Chinese schoolchildren after its debut in 2005. Cashing in on the cartoon's success, the producer made an animated feature in 2009. It generated a box office revenue of 130 million yuan (approx. US $19.6 million) during Chinese New Year that year. It is aired on over 40 local TV stations, including Hong Kong's TVB, BTV Animation Channel and CCTV. The show was also aired in Taiwan, India and Singapore. As of 2011, an English dub has been aired in Taiwan. Disney gained in 2010 the licence to broadcast the popular children show on their Disney Channels. Toon Express Group owns the copyrights of the characters.〔Hui, Polly. "(An Animated Goat, Banker Look Abroad )." ''The Wall Street Journal''. March 2, 2011. Retrieved on August 12, 2012.〕 Alphy Animation(a Chinese company) spent 634 Million dollars(hk) to purchase Toon Express Group and Creative Power Entertaining. ==History== ''Happy Lamb and Grey Wolf'' or "Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf" had 530 episodes when it premiered. After it became moderately successful, Creative Power Entertaining created the next 480 episodes, including 60 exclusive Olympics episodes. In January 2009, the first ''Happy Lamb and Grey Wolf'' movie - ''The Super Snail Adventure'' - was launched in China. It has broken the domestic box office record for a Chinese animated film, collecting 30 million Yuan (US $4.39 million) during its opening weekend. On the first day of release alone, the movie made 8 million Yuan. According to Beijing News, the weekend's revenue was well ahead of the previous record holder for domestic animation, ''Storm Rider Clash of the Evils'' — the adaptation of the ''Storm Riders'' comic brought in 25 million Yuan in two weeks when it was released the previous summer. Describing the ''Pleasant Goat'' movie as a "dark horse," Zhao Jun, general manager of China Film South Cinema Circuit Co. Ltd., predicted the film would make at least 60 million Yuan in total box office revenue. A manager of the Beijing-based Stellar International Cineplex said the movie theatre's biggest hall, which had been scheduled to screen ''Red Cliff II'', was reassigned to show ''Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf: The Super Snail Adventure'' in order to meet popular demand. China's Xinhua news agency quoted unspecified "insiders" as crediting the cartoon's success to the large pool of fans who have tuned into the ''Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf'' television cartoon series over the past three years. Based on the 500-episode television series, ''The Super Snail Adventure'' stars the same characters but in a very different scenario. The movie's storyline tells how several goats and their old nemesis, Big Big Wolf, join forces to defeat their common archenemy — bacteria. A second movie, ''Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf: The Tiger Prowess'', was also released. The movie contains many original songs. Yang Peiyi, who performed Ode to the Motherland at Beijing 2008 Summer Olympic Opening Ceremony, was invited to sing "Left hands and Right hands" (左手右手). In 2010, Creative Power Entertaining Corporation (CPE) said that it had reached a television license broadcast agreement with Disney affiliate Buena Vista to air its products. With this deal the popular Chinese cartoon show for children will be aired on Disney channels in 52 countries and regions and in more than 10 different languages. A milestone for China's homegrown animation industry.〔 The third movie, ''Moon Castle: The Space Adventure'' was launched in 2011. The fourth movie ''Mission Incredible: Adventures on the Dragon's Trail'' followed in 2012.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://movie.mtime.com/155890/ )〕 The theme and name of all four movies is the animal of the Chinese zodiac of the year in which it was released. The second, third, and fourth movies were all released at Chinese New Year. The seventh film is ''Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf – Amazing Pleasant Goat'' and was released on January 31, 2015. The investment banker Francis Leung, who planned to buy Toon Express Group, had plans to make ''Pleasant Goat'' a very popular and visible television show that would, as stated by ''The Wall Street Journal'', "parallel the popularity of Mickey Mouse and Hello Kitty."〔"(The Chinese Mickey Mouse? )" ''The Wall Street Journal''. Date not stated. Retrieved on November 12, 2012.〕
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