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Produced by | Melissa Cobb |
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Based on | Characters created by Ethan Reiff Cyrus Voris |
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Music by | Hans Zimmer |
Edited by | Clare Knight |
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Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
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Budget | $145 million |
Box office | $521.2 million |
Kung Fu Panda 3 (Music from the Motion Picture) | |
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Soundtrack album by Hans Zimmer | |
Released | January 22, 2016 |
Label | Sony Classical Records |
Kung Fu Panda 3 is a 2016 3D American-Chinesecomputer-animated action comedy martial arts film, produced by DreamWorks Animation, and distributed by 20th Century Fox. It is the third installment in the Kung Fu Panda franchise and the sequel to Kung Fu Panda 2 (2011). In the story, Po enters the panda village and reunites with his birth father and other pandas, but problems arise when a villainous spirit warrior, named Kai, returns to the mortal realm and steals Qi from the kung fu masters. To prevent Kai from taking over all of China, Po forms the army of pandas to battle Kai's jade minions and Po must become The Master of Qi to defeat him and save his friends.
The film was directed by Jennifer Yuh Nelson and Alessandro Carloni, written by Jonathan Aibel and Glenn Berger, produced by Melissa Cobb, and executive produced by Guillermo del Toro. Jack Black, Dustin Hoffman, Angelina Jolie, Lucy Liu, Seth Rogen, David Cross, Jackie Chan and James Hong reprise their roles from the previous films with Randall Duk Kim reprising his role of Oogway from the first film. They are joined by Bryan Cranston, J. K. Simmons and Kate Hudson in the roles of Li Shan, Kai, and Mei Mei, respectively.