'Kung Fu Panda 3' bows at No. 1 at Friday box office

*It was pure panda pandemonium when the New York Premier of “Kung Fu Panda 3” was held at the New York Kips Bay cinema. At this DreamWorks Animation and 20th Century Fox event, there was face painting, games and giveaways. Weatherman Al 

Jack Black is back in, well, black — and white — as Po the martial arts-gifted panda bear in "Kung Fu Panda 3," the hotly anticipated third tale in the smash computer-animated trilogy that kicked off in 2008. But Po hasn't been on his "legendary

*It was pure panda pandemonium when the New York Premier of “Kung Fu Panda 3” was held at the New York Kips Bay cinema. At this DreamWorks Animation and 20th Century Fox event, there was face painting, games and giveaways. Weatherman Al 

So I'm happy to report “Kung Fu Panda 3” is a return to joyous form. Perhaps because it's been nearly five years since the last one, the filmmakers took a little time to figure out what they wanted to do on a third go-round. Here Po (Jack Black), the

Kung Fu Panda 3 started its theatrical run in China with a bang, earning a strong estimated $16.3 million on its first day of play. Taken on its own, that's one of the bigger single day grosses for a movie in history, just ahead of Sony 's Spectre