All Wishes Come True!

A Chinese-language animated comedy arriving on July 10, 2026, *All Wishes Come True!* — subtitled with the Chinese characters 八仙！— comes from a three-way production arrangement involving Pearl Studio, CMC Pictures, and Tianjin Maoyan Weiying Culture Media. The film draws on one of the most durable mythological ensembles in Chinese folklore: the Eight Immortals, a group of figures who appear across centuries of literature, opera, and popular storytelling, each associated with a distinct personality and supernatural ability. Here, the premise strips away their divine polish entirely. These eight begin as ordinary mortals — grassroots, street-level, working with schemes and social cunning rather than cosmic power — and the film's central engine is their improbable ascent, achieved not through virtue or destiny in the conventional sense but through wit directed against gods considerably more powerful than themselves. Read more…