Academy Award Winner Angelina Jolie joins the cast of the high-kicking Dreamworks Animation Comedy "Kung Fu Panda"
Dreamworks animation announced today that Academy Award winning actress Angelina Jolie will join Jack Black, Jackie Chan, Lucy Liu, Dustin Hoffman and Ian McShane in the cast of the computer animated comedy "Kung Fu Panda". The film will reunite Jolie and Black after having voiced lead characters together in the hit 2004 animated comedy, "Shark Tale."
Jolie will play Tigress, a martial arts master who joins in training Black's Po the Panda in the art of Kung Fu. Coming off the blockbuster hit "Mr. and Mrs. Smith", Jolie recently completed work on "The Good Shepherd" and the Robert Zemeckis directed "Beowolf". She is represented by Media Talent Group.
"Kung Fu Panda" features Jack Black as Po the Panda, a lowly waiter in a noodle restaurant, who is a kung fu fanatic but whose shape doesn't exactly lend itself to kung fu fighting. In fact, Po's defining characteristic appears to be that he is the laziest of all animals in ancient China. That's a problem because powerful enemies are at the gates, and all hopes have been pinned on a prophesy naming Po as the "Chosen One" to save the day. a group of martial arts masters are going to need a black belt in patience if they are going to turn this slacker panda into a kung fu fighter before it's too late.
Slated for release in June 2008, "Kung Fu Panda" is being directed by John Stevenson and Mark Osborne and produced by Melissa Cobb. IOn the Philippines, Kung Fu Panda is released by United International Pictures and distributed by Solar Entertainment Corp.
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