The Autobots

The Autobots (simplified Chinese: 汽车人总动员; traditional Chinese: 汽車人總動員; pinyin: Qìchērén Zǒngdòngyuán) is a 2015 Chinese computer animated film. It was released on July 4, 2015.

For the characters of the Transformers media franchise, see Autobot.
The Autobots
Traditional汽車人總動員
Simplified汽车人总动员
MandarinQìchērén Zǒngdòngyuán
Directed byZhuo Jianrong
StarringChristopher Petrosian
Production
company
Blue MTv
Distributed byBeijing G-point
Release date
  • July 4, 2015 (2015-07-04)
Running time
85 minutes
CountryChina
LanguageMandarin
BudgetCN¥3 million[1]
Box officeCN¥6 million

Production

The production company and filmmaker stated that it was an independently produced film, while several critics and people who watched the film accused it of being copied from Disney and Pixar's Cars franchise (with characters looking like cars characters). Shen Lu, Katie Hunt, and Anna Hsieh of CNN stated that Chinese title of the film was similar to the Mainland Chinese title of Cars (赛车总动员; Sàichē Zǒngdòngyuán).[2]

In July 2016, The Walt Disney Company filed a copyright case through the Shanghai Pudong New Area People's Court and on December 29, 2016 the court ruled in favor of Disney, fining Bluemtv and G-Point $190,000 and ordering them to cease copyright infringement.[3]

Sequel

A sequel for the film, The Autobots 2 was scheduled for release in Summer 2017.[1] However, the sequel appears to be put on hold or cancelled because of criticism, as the latest information is from 2016.

References
  1. "Chinese 'knock-off' of Disney's 'Cars' set for sequel". GantNews.com. 2016-04-26. Retrieved 2016-11-27.
  2. "Copycat movie? Filmmaker denies knocking off Pixar's 'Cars'" (Archive). CNN. July 7, 2015. Retrieved on July 9, 2015.
  3. Frater, Patrick (2016-12-30). "Disney Wins 'Cars' Copyright Case in China". Variety. Retrieved 2016-12-31.


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