Kung Fu Panda [DVD] (2008)

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On December 20, 2015, federal prosecutors charged Gordon with four counts of wire fraud and three counts of perjury for allegedly fabricating and backdating drawings to support the claims in his lawsuit, and for allegedly tracing some of his drawings from a coloring book featuring characters from Disney's The Lion King franchise. In the series, Po continues to defend the Valley of Peace from all kinds of villains, while making mistakes, learning about the history of kung-fu, and meeting other kung-fu masters.

It is the second TV series in the Kung Fu Panda franchise following Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness. At the same time, Shifu holds a tournament for the Five so that Oogway can identify the Dragon Warrior, the prophesied hero worthy of reading the Scroll, which is said to grant limitless power to its reader. When the head of the production handed the script to VFX Supervisor Markus Manninen, she reportedly laughed and wished him "good luck".

Reportedly inspired by Stephen Chow's 2004 martial arts action comedy film, Kung Fu Hustle, [15] the co-directors wanted to make sure the film also had an authentic Chinese and kung-fu feel to it. DreamWorks Animation denied any wrongdoing and after a two-week trial the jurors found in favor of DreamWorks. In spring 2004, Eric Whitacre wrote a setting of The Seal Lullaby, the opening poem of The White Seal by Rudyard Kipling, which DreamWorks intended to adapt for an animated feature. Liu said that when she was presented with the project they already had artwork of her character as well as a "short computerized video version of what she would look like when she moved. The Slovenian philosopher, cultural theorist and public intellectual, Slavoj Žižek offered an admiration of Kung Fu Panda when he was invited to the talk show Charlie Rose.

Po considers quitting, but after receiving encouragement from Oogway, he endures his training and gradually befriends the Five with his resilience, culinary skill, and good humor. With 7,486,642 DVD units sold in 2008, Kung Fu Panda was the fourth highest-selling film and the first highest-selling animated film of 2008, right before WALL-E, which sold 7,413,548 units.The film's success spawned a multimedia franchise, which comprises the sequels Kung Fu Panda 2 (2011), Kung Fu Panda 3 (2016), and Kung Fu Panda 4 (2024). Panicked, Shifu sends a goose named Zeng to increase the security at Chorh-Gom Prison in Mongolia, where Tai Lung is held. Jack Black joked about the film's underdog status at the 81st Academy Awards, saying "Each year, I do one DreamWorks project, then I take all the money to the Oscars and bet it on Pixar. During this time, Po learns that Shifu's cold and distant behavior stems from his own shame over Tai Lung's betrayal, having raised him from infancy.

The first installment in the Kung Fu Panda franchise, it was directed by John Stevenson, in his feature directorial debut, co-directed by Mark Osborne and written by Jonathan Aibel and Glenn Berger, from a story by Ethan Reiff and Cyrus Voris. The game was released for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Wii, PlayStation 2, Nintendo DS and PC platforms. In a post-credits scene, Shifu and Po share a meal while a peach that Shifu had planted earlier grows into a tree in the background. In the United States, the series ended its run on June 29, 2016, with a total of three seasons and 80 episodes.Kyle Gass and JR Reed voice KG Shaw and JR Shaw, respectively, two pigs who come across Po before the Dragon Warrior Tournament. On November 18, 2016, Gordon was convicted for wire fraud and perjury, facing a sentence of up to 25 years in prison. The soundtrack also includes a partially rewritten version of the classic song, " Kung Fu Fighting", performed by Cee-Lo Green and Jack Black for the end credits. It received positive reviews from critics and was nominated for the Academy Award as well as a Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Film, but lost both awards to WALL-E. Zibach said some of the biggest influences for him are the more artful martial arts films such as Hero, House of Flying Daggers and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

However, director Stevenson instead decided to make an action-comedy wuxia film that incorporates the hero's journey narrative archetype for the lead character, in which the computer animation, this time, was more complex than anything DreamWorks had done before. the film enters instant classic status as some of the most gorgeous animation Hollywood has produced since the golden age of Disney.Producer Melissa Cobb said that originally Po was "more of a jerk," but that the character changed after they heard Jack Black. Peter Howell of The Toronto Star awarded the film two and a half stars, considering it to have a "lack of story" that "frequently manages to amuse, if not entirely to delight".