{"id":6851,"date":"2016-02-11T16:07:12","date_gmt":"2016-02-11T16:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/jsuflash\/?p=6851"},"modified":"2016-02-11T16:07:12","modified_gmt":"2016-02-11T16:07:12","slug":"kung-fu-panda-kicks-competition-out-the-box-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/2016\/02\/11\/kung-fu-panda-kicks-competition-out-the-box-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Kung Fu Panda kicks competition out the box office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash2025\/2016\/02\/11\/kung-fu-panda-kicks-competition-out-the-box-office\/kung_fu_panda_3_poster\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6863\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6863\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash2025\/files\/2016\/02\/Kung_Fu_Panda_3_poster.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"443\" \/><\/a>Asha Wilhight<br \/>\n<\/strong><em>MC Practicum<\/em><\/p>\n<p>If you are ready to channel you inner child, \u201cKung Fu Panda 3\u201d is the movie for you.<\/p>\n<p>This animated movie which premiered Jan. 26 is sure to make you feel good. You can see it alone, with a child, or that special someone for Valentine\u2019s Day.<\/p>\n<p>This action and adventure series was directed by Jennifer Yuh Nelson and Alessandro Carloni and produced by Melissa Cobb. The production companies that help all of this come true were DreamWorks Animation and Oriental DreamWorks.<\/p>\n<p>The main cast was familiar voices and included Jack Black, Angelina Jolie, Jackie Chan, Seth Rogan and Lucy Liu.<\/p>\n<p>According to IMBD, Po\u2019s 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 village full of his fun-loving, clumsy brethren to become the ultimate band of Kung Fu Pandas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI really enjoyed the action that \u201cKung Fu Panda\u201d brought. It kept me just as entertained as the last two movies did, which were great,\u201d said Shannon Parker, a senior accounting major from Indianapolis, Ind.<\/p>\n<p>During its opening weekend, the film grossed more than $41 million.\u00a0 To date, the movie has made more than $63 million, according to IMBD.<\/p>\n<p>This movie actually surpassed the Oscar nominated movie from the number one spot, which was \u201cThe Revenant\u201d within the very first weekend of the film in theaters<\/p>\n<p>Critics have good reviews for the third installment in this series. According to RottenTomatoes.com, 80 percent of the critics agreed that the movie was good. Also on Cinemascore.com, critics gave the movie an A.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asha Wilhight MC Practicum If you are ready to channel you inner child, \u201cKung Fu Panda 3\u201d is the movie for you. This animated movie which premiered Jan. 26 is sure to make you feel good. You can see it alone, with a child, or that special someone for Valentine\u2019s Day. This action and adventure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6851","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-variety"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6851\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}