KUNG FU PANDA Moves Up To January 2016

Dreamworks Animation has been pretty busy so far in restructuring itself since the top of the year. The studio will only be releasing two films per year from now through 2018, starting next year with Kung Fu Panda 3, the third installation of the Jack Black-starring kung fu animated franchise with Twentieth Century Fox, and word has it from the Dreamworks Animation CEO himself, Jeffrey Katzenberg, that there could be another trilogy in the works beyond that point, which does feed the curiousity.

Anyway, the film has been pushed back a few times between its previously-announced December 2015 and March 2016 dates, but THR is now reporting that the film will arrive just a little sooner next year with a flag planted for January 29, 2016, so it's definitely a small sign of better prospects to hopefully come. Animation veterans Jennifer Yuh Nelson and Alessandro Carloni are co-directing the new fantasy actioner from a script by Jonathan Aibel and Glenn Berger with producers Melissa Cobb and Guillermo del Toro, the latter executive producing. Black is expected to be joined by other returning cast members, with the additions Rebel Wilson, Mads Mikkelsen and Bryan Cranston to the vocal cast.

Keep your eyes peeled for more updates!