Movie Make-out

Dreamworks’ Kung Fu Panda has raked in a much-better-than-expected $160 million domestically (and counting), and it’s sure to do even better on DVD. (It will certainly get my $20; I loved it.) So it shouldn’t be too much of a surprise that the Animation Guild’s blog brings us word that “a story crew has started early work in Kung Fu Panda, the Sequel, even while animators are hand-drawing new material for the DVD of Kung Fu Panda, the original.”

On the Triple Feature (episode #75), I mentioned that this is one of the few movies I really hoped would get a sequel — hopefully one where the Furious Five features more prominently and we get more of the originals’ absolutely fantastic action sequences — so this is very, very welcome news to me. Skadoosh!

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