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Kung Fu Panda 2
''Kung Fu Panda 2'' is a 2011 American animated martial arts comedy film produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by Paramount Pictures. Directed by Jennifer Yuh Nelson (in her feature directorial debut) and written by Jonathan Aibel and Glenn Berger. The film is the sequel of ''Kung Fu Panda'', and the second installment in the ''Kung Fu Panda'' franchise. The film stars Jack Black, Angelina Jolie, Dustin Hoffman, Seth Rogen, Lucy Liu, David Cross, James Hong and Jackie Chan reprising their character roles from the first film, with Gary Oldman, Michelle Yeoh, Danny McBride, Dennis Haysbert, Jean-Claude Van Damme and Victor Garber voicing new characters. In the film, Po and his Furious Five allies (Tigress, Monkey, Viper, Crane and Mantis) travel to Gongmen City to stop the evil peacock, Lord Shen, from conquering China, while also rediscovering Po's forgotten past. The film was released in theaters May 26 to positive reviews. It grossed $665 million worldwide against ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jennifer Yuh Nelson
Jennifer Yuh Nelson ( Yuh; born May 7, 1972) is a South Korean-born American story artist, character designer, television director, illustrator, and film director. She is best known for directing the films ''Kung Fu Panda 2'', ''Kung Fu Panda 3'', and ''The Darkest Minds''. Yuh is the first woman to solely direct and the first Asian American to direct a major American animated film, and has been recognized as a commercially successful Asian American director. She won an Annie Award for Best Storyboarding in an Animated Feature Production for directing the opening for ''Kung Fu Panda'' and was the second woman nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, for her work on ''Kung Fu Panda 2''. The film proved to be one of the most financially successful films directed by a woman. As a supervisor director for her work on ''Love, Death & Robots'', she won Emmy Awards two consecutive times. Biography Yuh was born in 1972 in South Korea and immigrated to the United St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |