“Kung Fu Panda 3” showed plenty of power at the USA box office with a solid opening weekend of US$41 million (RM169.86 million) at 3,955 theatres as the durable family franchise dominated moviegoing.
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And in an interview earlier this month (Jan16), Kung Fu Panda 3 co-director Alessandro Carloni noted although several franchise instalments are in the works, all of these movies are being treated as standalone releases.
With its status as a co-production, China Film Insider speculates that it could easily surpass The Monkey King: Hero is Back (US$152m) as China’s highest-grossing animated film of all time.
This time, Kung Fu Panda 3 is on track for a better run than its predecessors, simply because it’ll have more time in theaters.
Jack Black’s latest cartoon caper Kung Fu Panda 3 has karate-kicked the opposition to take the US box office crown.
Over the weekend, Kung Fu Panda 3 topped the global movie market. The movie’s domestic total through Sunday is a projected $895 million.
Star Wars: The Force Awakens also held well in its seventh weekend.
The Revenant, a grisly tale of back-country survival and revenge starring Leonardo DiCaprio and showered with Oscar nominations, settled into second after topping the rankings last week. The film is estimated to have garnered $116 million globally, though numbers won’t be officially released until Monday. The Force Awakens will break through two more milestones this upcoming week: $900 million domestic and $2 billion global. The $80 million production is a dramatization of the true-life Coast Guard rescue of over 30 men off the coast of Cape Cod in 1952 and stars Chris Pine, Casey Affleck and Eric Bana.
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Marlon Wayans’ spoof Fifty Shades of Black generated only middling business at about US$6m at 2,075 locations and Natalie Portman’s oft-delayed Western Jane Got a Gun was almost invisible with less than US$1m at 1,210 screens.
