The shadow of Sergio Leone looms large (Wong has called this his "once upon a time of kung fu"), Ip cast as the lone sheriff or shadowy gangster in an iconic image that graces the film's moody poster.
One example is "Xibaipo," the only other animated feature in theaters at the same time as "Kung Fu Panda 2," produced by DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc. of Glendale.
In an interview with The New York Times after "Kung Fu" became a hit, Mr. Carradine said that no one was more surprised than he.
Or maybe it was kung fu movies.
River gives new meaning to the term "problem passenger". Suffering mental damage from the gruesome mind experiments the Alliance subjected her to, she's a 90-pound time bomb with kung fu skills.
A brief video instructs children to "grab an adult" to enter a password that shows they subscribe to Nickelodeon before gaining access to the last five episodes of series like "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles," "Big Time Rush" and "Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness".
In January, Paramount's "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" and "The Untouchables" and Warner Bros.' "Time Trax" and "Kung Fu: The Legend Continues" will premiere in syndication, where they will compete in many cases against prime-time network programs.
BEIJING/JIAXING, China, Dec 6 (Reuters) - Several times a week, kung fu teacher Ren Ruzhi enters a ring to spar with a bovine opponent around five times his weight and capable of killing him.
It is a bizarre action comedy based on 80s cop movies, complete with techno vikings riding on dinosaurs, mutants, killer arcade machines and time travel - introducing Kung Fury.
By the time of the millennial kung fu revival in the wake of The Matrix, martial arts had got "balletic", and some of the audience were probably a lot more affluent than in the 1970s.
