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Kung Fu Panda 4
''Kung Fu Panda 4'' is a 2024 American animated martial arts comedy film produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by Universal Pictures. It is the fourth installment in the ''Kung Fu Panda'' franchise and the sequel to ''Kung Fu Panda 3'' (2016). The film was directed by Mike Mitchell, co-directed by Stephanie Ma Stine, written by Darren Lemke and the writing team of Jonathan Aibel and Glenn Berger, and produced by Rebecca Huntley. It features Jack Black, Ian McShane, James Hong, Dustin Hoffman, Bryan Cranston, and Seth Rogen reprising their roles from the previous films. In the film, Po (Black), who must find and train his successor as the new Dragon Warrior, teams up with fox bandit Zhen (Awkwafina) to defeat evil sorceress The Chameleon (Viola Davis), before she steals the kung-fu abilities of all deceased masters in China. Directors Jennifer Yuh Nelson and Alessandro Carloni were asked about the possibility of a fourth ''Kung Fu Panda'' film before the release of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Mike Mitchell (director)
Mike Mitchell is an American film director, writer, producer, actor and animator. He is known for directing ''Sky High (2005 film), Sky High'' (2005), ''Shrek Forever After'' (2010), ''Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked'' (2011), ''Trolls (film), Trolls'' (2016), ''The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part'' (2019), and ''Kung Fu Panda 4'' (2024). Early life and education Mike Mitchell was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. He graduated from Putnam City North High School, then subsequently moved to Los Angeles to attend the California Institute of the Arts. Career He started his career as director for Matthew O'Callaghan, Matt O'Callaghan's ''The Itsy Bitsy Spider''. He first gained critical attention when he co-wrote, produced and directed the short film ''Herd'', which won several film festival awards, including the Spirit of Slamdance Award at the 1999 Slamdance Festival. The same year, he made his feature film directorial debut with the comedy ''Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo'', star ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Ian McShane
Ian David McShane (born 29 September 1942) is an English actor. His television performances include the title role in the BBC series ''Lovejoy'' (1986–1994), Al Swearengen in '' Deadwood'' (2004–2006) and its 2019 film continuation, and Mr. Wednesday in ''American Gods'' (2017–2021). For the original series of ''Deadwood'', McShane won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama and received a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series. As a producer of the film, he was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Television Movie. His film roles include Harry Brown in '' The Wild and the Willing'' (1962), Charlie Cartwright in '' If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium'' (1969), Wolfe Lissner in ''Villain'' (1971), Teddy Bass in '' Sexy Beast'' (2000), Frank Powell in ''Hot Rod'' (2007), Blackbeard in '' Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides'' (2011), and Winston Scott in the '' John Wick'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
52nd Annie Awards
The 52nd Annual Annie Awards honoring excellence in the field of animation of 2024 was held on February 8, 2025, at the University of California, Los Angeles's Royce Hall in Los Angeles, California, presenting awards in 32 competitive categories as well as four juried special awards. Nominees were revealed on December 20, 2024. Dreamworks Animation's ''The Wild Robot'', directed by Chris Sanders and adapted from the novel by Peter Brown, led the nominations with 10, followed by ''Inside Out 2'' and '' Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl'', both with seven apiece. In the television categories, Netflix series ''Arcane'', based on the Riot Games multiplayer video game ''League of Legends'', led with seven nominations, followed by ''Dream Productions'' with six and ''Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles'' with five. During the ceremony, two fire alarms were set off forcing everyone to leave the building and the live show was delayed for minutes. Winners and nominees Product ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
2024 In Film
2024 in film is an overview of events, including award ceremonies, festivals, a list of country- and genre-specific lists of films, and notable deaths. Columbia Pictures and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) celebrated their 100th anniversaries; Toei Company celebrated its 75th anniversary; DreamWorks Pictures and DreamWorks Animation celebrated their 30th anniversaries; and the first Mickey Mouse films, including ''Steamboat Willie'' (1928), entered the public domain this year. Alongside new releases, multiple popular films like ''The Lion King'' (1994), ''Les Misérables'' (2012), '' Alien'' (1979), '' Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace'' (1999), '' Whiplash'' (2014), ''The Texas Chain Saw Massacre'' (1974), ''Shrek 2'' (2004), ''Twister'' (1996), ''Saw'' (2004), ''Coraline'' (2009), ''The Nightmare Before Christmas'' (1993), '' Hocus Pocus'' (1993), '' Interstellar'' (2014) and '' Tenet'' (2020) were re-released to either celebrate their anniversaries or fill in the gaps lef ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Jellyfish Pictures
Jellyfish Pictures was a British VFX and animation company specialising in the creation of digital visual effects and animation. History The company was founded in 2001 by Philip Dobree and Will Rockall, with a team of three artists and one producer, moving to their first studio in Soho, Central London in Poland Street in 2003. In 2005, they started their first long form TV series ''The Story of One'', following this with work on the BBC series '' Fight For Life'' in 2007, for which they won multiple industry awards including a BAFTA, RTS and VES award for 'Outstanding Visual Effects. Over the next few years they continued to expand, working on the long form CGI series ''Planet Dinosaur'' for the BBC and Discovery Channel in 2011, followed by multiple nominations and wins for their work on ''Inside the Human Body'' in 2012. In 2017, Jellyfish Pictures launched its own original content division, Jellyfish Originals - focused on the development, distribution, rights manageme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
John Powell (film Composer)
John Powell is an English film music composer and music conductor. He has been based in Los Angeles, California since 1997 and has composed the music to over 70 feature films. He is best known for composing the music for films such as ''Face/Off'', the '' Bourne'' films, the ''Happy Feet'' films, '' United 93'', '' X-Men: The Last Stand'', '' Wicked'' and its upcoming sequel '' For Good'', ''Evolution'', '' Dr. Seuss' The Lorax'', ''Migration'', '' Drumline'', ''Hancock'', '' The Call of the Wild'', ''Bolt'', '' That Christmas'', '' Thelma the Unicorn'', '' Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie'', eight Blue Sky Studios films and ten DreamWorks Animation films. His work on ''Happy Feet'', ''Ferdinand'' and '' Solo: A Star Wars Story'' has earned him three Grammy nominations. He was nominated for two Academy Awards for ''How to Train Your Dragon'' and '' Wicked''. Powell was a member of Hans Zimmer's music studio, Remote Control Productions, and has collaborated frequently with other ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Alessandro Carloni
Alessandro Carloni is an Italian film director, writer, animator, and art director, best known for his work with DreamWorks Animation in general, particularly the first three ''Kung Fu Panda'' films. He co-directed '' Kung Fu Panda 3'', alongside Jennifer Yuh Nelson. Biography Born in Bologna, Carloni spent his childhood in Urbino, a walled city and World Heritage site southwest of Pesaro, known for its remarkable legacy of independent Renaissance culture and for being the birthplace of Renaissance master Raphael Santi. But Carloni was not a young artist, at least not officially. Not even though his father worked as an illustrator for magazines, book covers and advertisements. "I was exposed to his work, but he never pushed me to be part of his studio," Carloni says. "He taught me many things. He wanted me to explore on my own." He became an artist almost despite himself. Carloni entered the University of Milan as a literature major, but to earn money, he began selling drawings ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Jennifer Yuh Nelson
Jennifer Yuh Nelson ( Yuh; born May 7, 1972) is an American story artist, character designer, illustrator, and film and television 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 States with her parents ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Viola Davis
Viola Davis ( ; born August 11, 1965) is an American actress and film producer. List of awards and nominations received by Viola Davis, Her accolades include both the Triple Crown of Acting and EGOT. ''Time (magazine), Time'' named her one of the Time 100, 100 most influential people in the world in 2012 and 2017. ''The New York Times'' ranked her ninth on its list of the greatest actors of the 21st century (2020). Davis received the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award, Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2025. A graduate of Juilliard School, Juilliard, Davis began her career in Central Falls, Rhode Island, appearing in small stage productions. She made her Broadway theatre, Broadway debut in the August Wilson play ''Seven Guitars'' (1996) for which she earned her first Tony nomination. She would later win two Tony Awards, both for Wilson plays. Her first win was for Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play, Best Featured Actress in a Play playing the character Tonya, a woman grapp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Awkwafina
Nora Lum (born June 2, 1988), known professionally as Awkwafina (), is an American actress, comedian and rapper. She rose to prominence in 2012 when her rap song "My Vag" became popular on YouTube. She then released her debut album, ''Yellow Ranger'' (2014), and appeared on the MTV comedy series '' Girl Code'' (2014–2015). She expanded to films with supporting roles in the comedies '' Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising'' (2016), '' Ocean's 8'' (2018), '' Crazy Rich Asians'' (2018), and '' Jumanji: The Next Level'' (2019). For her starring role as a grieving young woman in '' The Farewell'' (2019), she won a Golden Globe Award. Since 2020, Awkwafina has been a co-creator, writer, and executive producer of the Comedy Central series '' Awkwafina Is Nora from Queens'', where she also plays a fictionalized version of herself. In 2021, she portrayed Katy in the Marvel Cinematic Universe superhero film '' Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings''. She has also performed voice roles i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Po (Kung Fu Panda)
Master Ping Xiao Po (born Li Lotus) is the title character and protagonist of the ''Kung Fu Panda'' franchise, primarily voiced by Jack Black and Mick Wingert. He is an anthropomorphic giant panda who is improbably chosen as the champion of the Valley of Peace in the first film. Po is the prophesied Dragon Warrior or Dragon Master, as well as the Warrior of Black and White. He is the adoptive son of Mr. Ping (a Chinese goose) and is one of Master Shifu's students. Po is also the team leader of the Furious Five, although he is not properly part of it as he is considered as a second master after Shifu to the Furious Five. In '' Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness'', Po is revealed to have the ability to learn kung fu at a glance. Personality traits Po's (played by Jack Black in the films) main interest lies in kung fu. He developed a comprehensive knowledge of the lore of warriors, famous combat moves, dates and historical artifacts. His deep appreciation of the mart ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Seth Rogen
Seth Aaron Rogen (; born April 15, 1982) is a Canadian actor, comedian, and filmmaker. Known primarily for his comedic Leading actor, leading man roles in films, the accolades he has received include nominations for three Golden Globe Awards, five Primetime Emmy Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Awards, Screen Actors Guild Award, and an Independent Spirit Awards, Independent Spirit Award. Originally a Stand-up comedy, stand-up comedian in Vancouver, Rogen moved to Los Angeles for a part in Judd Apatow's series ''Freaks and Geeks'' in 1999, and was later cast on Apatow's sitcom ''Undeclared'' in 2001, which also hired him as a writer. Rogen landed a job as a staff writer on the final season of ''Da Ali G Show'' (2004), for which the writing team was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series. Apatow subsequently guided him toward a film career. His first movie appearance was a minor role in ''Donnie Darko'' (2001), and he had a supporting par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
