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Justice With A Side Of Noodles, Dumplings And Bamboo In The New Trailer For KUNG FU PANDA 3!

Kung Fu Panda 3 is opening on January 29 in the U.S. next year, and so it goes we have a new trailer this week that further guarantees a great time for fans of one of Dreamworks’s most successful franchises. Jennifer Yuh Nelson and Alessandro Carloni direct with actor Jack Black lending his devotion to kung fu once more as “the chosen one” now tasked with defending his village from another ambitious, and obviously begrudging new challenger. SYNOPSIS: In 2016, one of the most successful animated franchises in the world returns with its biggest comedy adventure yet, KUNG FU PANDA 3. When Po’s long-lost panda father suddenly reappears, the reunited duo travels to a secret panda paradise to meet scores of hilarious new panda characters. But when the supernatural villain Kai begins to sweep across China defeating all the kung fu masters, Po must do the impossible—learn to train a […]

There's No Room For Chit-Chat In The New Trailer For KUNG FU PANDA 3

Lee B. Golden III

Actor Jack Black adding kung fu movies to his resumé isn’t too far fetched an idea with the incredible work he’s put in personifying our beloved supersized bear, Po in Dreamworks’ Kung Fu Panda franchise. We have an ample story full of loveable characters worth cheering with Dustin Hoffman, Angelina Jolie, Lucy Liu, David Cross and Seth Rogen adding to the budding comedy that sees our hero rise up from underdog martial arts fan to the kingdom’s ultimate kung fu savior, dumplings and all. We now begin heading back to that very kingdom with Kung Fu Panda 3 from Jennifer Yuh Nelson and Alessandro Carloni serving as the film’s directors. With this, teaser footage has been circulating online for sometime now but we finally have a full-on first trailer that presents what we’ve been waiting for, and it looks about right! SYNOPSIS: In 2016, one of the most successful animated […]

The New KUNG FU PANDA 3 Trailer Reunites Father And Son… Or Not

Lee B. Golden III

Picturing actor Jack Black as an action hero would be something of an impossible feat to pull of, but he’s done quite so successfully in the past decade or so the lead in Dreamworks Animation’s Kung Fu Panda trilogy. The first film was absolutely brilliant and the second wasn’t as substantive but scored plenty of points for spectactle in the epic telling of a sizeable panda’s fish-out-of-water journey toward kung fu greatness in the face of evil and of self-discovery. With the third now on the way in Kung Fu Panda 3, aside from the second film’s ending, you still wonder what else is left to tell, and the latest official trailer acknowleges that rightly so. SYNOPSIS: In 2016, one of the most successful animated franchises in the world returns with its biggest comedy adventure yet, KUNG FU PANDA 3. When Po’s long-lost panda father suddenly reappears, the reunited duo […]

KUNG FU PANDA Moves Up To January 2016

Lee B. Golden III

Dreamworks Animation has been pretty busy so far in restructuring itself since the top of the year. The studio will only be releasing two films per year from now through 2018, starting next year with Kung Fu Panda 3, the third installation of the Jack Black-starring kung fu animated franchise with Twentieth Century Fox, and word has it from the Dreamworks Animation CEO himself, Jeffrey Katzenberg, that there could be another trilogy in the works beyond that point, which does feed the curiousity. Anyway, the film has been pushed back a few times between its previously-announced December 2015 and March 2016 dates, but THR is now reporting that the film will arrive just a little sooner next year with a flag planted for January 29, 2016, so it’s definitely a small sign of better prospects to hopefully come. Animation veterans Jennifer Yuh Nelson and Alessandro Carloni are co-directing the new […]

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KUNG FU PANDA 3 Adds A Second Director

Lee B. Golden III

Dreamworks Animation’s restructuring process is going to see its fair share of challenges, particularly following last month’s reported losses. Ultimately, this includes prioritizing only a handful of franchise films between now and summer of 2018 along with the recent acquisition of co-production status for the newly dated March 18, 2016 release of Kung Fu Panda 3. Bearing in mind the move also avoids going toe to toe with Star Wars: The Force Awakens this December but it is playing pretty close to the release of Warner Bros. Batman V. Superman: Dawn Of Justice. Hopefully fans of the forthcoming Kung Fu Panda trilogy will make way to show their support as we await further info on what the film will entail. In the meantime, what we now also know is that Jennifer Yuh Nelson who directed Kung Fu Panda 2 and supervised the story and action animation for the first film […]

KUNG FU PANDA 3 Gets Co-Production Status Amid Studio Layoffs And Reduced Slate

Lee B. Golden III

It hasn’t been a good week at DreamWorks Animation with their stocks hitting a 52-week low on Thursday, ultimately leading to a huge number of layoffs. This also forced the company to reduce its feature film release plan to only two a year, including the long-awaited threequel to the largely China-produced Kung Fu Panda frachise. With actor Jack Black joined by an ensemble cast once more, the film is poised for a March 18, 2016 release following its pushback from December this year to avoid crossing sabers with J.J. Abrams’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Thankfully with the way things have been for the company, the film was finally granted co-production status which grants the filmmakers a larger share of box-office receipts as opposed to what it would have gotten as a foreign film, and will also bypass China’s quota system (that won’t be solved for another few years in […]

JOURNEY TO THE WEST: CONQUERING THE DEMONS Is Getting An English-language Remake

Lee B. Golden III

How long did anyone think it would be before directors Stephen Chow and Derek Kwok’s 2013 fantasy action comedy adventure, Journey To The West: Conquering The Demons would get an English-language remake? Because, well… that’s about to happen! The inital film, one of a number of cinematc reworkings of classic Chinese folklore notably highlighting fabled legend Sun Wukong (a.k.a. The Monkey King) starred actress Shu Qi and actor Wen Zhang, and was released in China in February of last year, earning a total of well over $200 million at the box office throughout several Asian territories, beating several records previously set by director Wuershan’s 2012 fantasy thriller, Painted Skin: The Ressurrection and the Michael Bay’s 2011 blockbuster, Transformers: Dark Of The Moon. The new English-language iteration is now part of a newl diversified slate of film deals being announced this month between Oriental Dreamworks and three other Chinese companies for […]

Jackie Chan Boards English-Language SA Production, CIVILIAN

Lee B. Golden III

Things are going nuts over in Cannes this week. And for Jackie Chan fans, there’s good reason. It appears there is much ado about a lot of things that are worthy of mention for the international action superstar who is currently on the way with the production of director Sam Fell’s new film, Skiptrace, as well as Daniel Lee’s period actioner, Dragon Blade with co-star Mel Gibson, helmer Breck Eisner’s forthcoming sequel to The Karate Kid, a third Kung Fu Panda by next Winter and a yet-to-be-confirmed fourth Rush Hour movie just itching to be made official. Well, all this basically eschews any speculation of the action star’s retirement coming anytime soon, as a new report says that Chan will star in a new English-language action thriller titled Civilian, for Grudge Match helmer Peter Segal. Produced by Basil Ilwaynk for Thunder Road, the film will center on Chan who plays […]

KUNG FU PANDA 3 Cast + New Release Date

Lee B. Golden III

New developments are up today for the upcoming production of Kung Fu Panda 3. Screenrant has provided a new slate of release dates, including the CG-animated feature co-production from Dreamworks Animation and Oriental Dreamworks, starring lead voice actor Jack Black as the title character, Po, an overweight panda bear whose love of Kung Fu takes him on a journey of self-discovery in a chance opportunity to meet his destiny as “the chosen one”, battling villains and defeating evil with the help of his idolized animal kung fu heroes, the furious five. The report states the film has been moved up from its March 2016 date to December 23, 2015, in addition to other updates, where Variety also says actress Rebel Wilson and actors Mads Mikkelsen and Bryan Cranston are joining the cast of actors reprising their roles, including Angelina Jolie, Lucy Liu, Jackie Chan, Seth Rogan, David Cross and Dustin […]