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"Nickelodeon unveiled its 2010-11 schedule at its annual up-front meeting in New York with four new animated series on its slate.
Of the series the network announced in a presentation at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City, the animated fare was announced as follows:
• Kung Fu Panda: The Series, Nickelodeon’s second collaboration with DreamWorks Animation, chronicles the further adventures of Po, the energetic, enthusiastic, always hungry martial arts panda as he protects the Valley of Peace from threats of all kind. Based on DreamWorks Animation’s hit feature film Kung Fu Panda,
"Nickelodeon has ordered “Kung Fu Panda: The Series,†a new CG-animated comedy based on last year’s boxoffice hit.
The kids network has ordered 26 episodes of the series, Nick’s second co-production with DreamWorks Animation SKG. The two companies also partnered on “The Penguins of Madagascar,†which premiered March 28 on Nick and ranked as the most-watched series premiere in the network’s history (6.1 million viewers). Since then, “Penguins†has become the second most-popular program among kids 6-11 on television, behind only "SpongeBob SquarePants.""
“In August 2008, a direct-to-video Chinese animation feature entitled Kung fu Master aka Wong Fei Hong vs Kung Fu Panda was released on DVD in East Asia by Vscape Enterprises. The film is an unofficial sequel; it reportedly combines Kung Fu Panda and Chinese martial arts folk hero Wong Fei Hung. In the film, the panda is assigned by the Buddha to protect an ancient treasure that could give the bearer the power to conquer the world. Upon losing it, the pair sets off on an adventure to retrieve it.â€
"Apparently there's a Kung Fu Panda sequel currently in the works. I'm very curious to see where the story can possibly go from here, seeing as how Kung Fu Panda was essentially an extremely condensed version of Episodes I-VI of the Star Wars series. Don't believe me? See for yourself."
With the box office success of Kungfu Panda, a bunch of knockoff Pandas has surfaced on the market. A couple of them are passable but the rest is just horrendous! No prizes for guessing where they were manufactured
Despite calls to boycott "Kung Fu Panda," the animated movie about a bear named Po with a passion for martial arts is a huge hit in China.
Dan Harmon, one of the writers of Kung Pu Panda, has written an entertaingly long rant about how much he disliked working on the film and particularly how much he disliked working with Jeffrey Katzenberg. Actually I’m not sure what’s more entertaining: that Harmon hated working with Katzenberg so much or that he’s so damn clueless about the animation process. To begin the piece, Harmon expresses incredulity that some animated films are written with storyboards and not scripts: “First they storyboard the entire film. That is the first step. Not kidding. No writers, no script, just a story, and
Sci Fi Wire talks to the cast and crew of Kung Fu Panda.
