Kung Fu Panda (2008)

Directors:

Mark Osborne
John Stevenson

Writers:

Jonathan Aibel (screenplay) &
Glenn Berger (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:

6 June 2008 (USA)

Genre:

Animation | Action | Comedy | Family

Tagline:

Prepare for awesomeness.

Plot:

Po the Panda is the laziest animals in all of the Valley of Peace, but unwittingly becomes the chosen one when enemies threaten their way of life.

Plot Keywords:

Panda | Lazy | Snake | Confidence | Computer Animation

Cast

Jack Black	...	Po (voice)
Jackie Chan	...	Master Monkey (voice)
Dustin Hoffman	...	Shifu (voice)
Lucy Liu	...	Master Viper (voice)
Ian McShane	...	Tai Lung (voice)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
David Cross	...	Master Crane (voice)
Michael Clarke Duncan	...	Commander Vachir (voice)
Dan Fogler	...	Zeng (voice)
James Hong	...	Mr. Ping (voice)
Angelina Jolie	...	Master Tigress (voice)
Randall Duk Kim	...	Oogway (voice)
Seth Rogen	...	Master Mantis (voice)

Directed by
Mark Osborne
John Stevenson

Writing credits
Jonathan Aibel		(screenplay) &
Glenn Berger		(screenplay)
Ethan Reiff		(story) &
Cyrus Voris		(story)

Produced by
Jonathan Aibel	....	co-producer
Glenn Berger	....	co-producer
Melissa Cobb	....	producer

Original Music by
John Powell
Hans Zimmer

Cinematography by
Yong Duk Jhun

Film Editing by
C.K. Horness

Production Design by
Raymond Zibach

Art Direction by
Tang Kheng Heng

Production Management
Rene Harnois Jr.	....	production supervisor
April Struebing	....	production supervisor

Art Department
Damon Bard	....	sculptor
Bill Kaufmann	....	visual development artist
Christophe Lautrette	....	visual development artist
Caprice Ann Ridgeway	....	art researcher
Henrik Tamm	....	visual development artist
Rachel Tiep-Daniels	....	visual development artist
Spyros Tsiounis	....	storyboard
Melchior Zwyer	....	visual development artist

Sound Department
Erik Aadahl	....	sound designer
James Ashwill	....	foley mixer
Derek Casari	....	adr engineer
Blake R. Cornett	....	sound recordist
John T. Cucci	....	foley artist
Rylee Fansler	....	voice-over recordist
Craig Heath	....	sound recordist (as Craig 'Pup' Heath)
P.K. Hooker	....	sound effects editor
Roy Latham	....	original dialogue mixer
Michael Miller	....	original dialogue mixer
Dan O'Connell	....	foley artist
Carlos Sotolongo	....	original dialogue mixer
Ethan Van der Ryn	....	sound designer

Visual Effects by
Motohisa Adachi	....	effects developer
Karla M. Alvarado	....	visual effects production assistant
William E. Arias	....	lighter
Shinsaku Arima	....	effects animator
David Bailey	....	matte painter
Brad Blackbourn	....	head of pre-viz
Silviu Borac	....	senior research & development engineer
Eric Bouffard	....	matte painter
Daniel J. Brick	....	matte painting technical director
Scott Brisbane	....	lead matte painter
Ronn Brown	....	matte painting supervisor
Stuart Campbell	....	final layout artist
Craig Cannon	....	paint fixer
Kevin Carney	....	character effects technical director
Jason Carter	....	layout artist
Chloe Chao	....	research and development
Wes Chilton	....	effects animator/developer
Sebastien Chort	....	lighting artist
Shaun Collaco	....	lead lighting and compositing artist: Dreamworks Animation
Robert Edward Crawford	....	layout/previs artist
Jonathan R. Cummings	....	technical director
Kwesi Davis	....	production engineer
Caine Dickinson	....	lighter: DreamWorks Animation SKG
Sandy Dong	....	surfacing artist
Adam J. Ely	....	digital matte painter: PDI/Dreamworks
Kolja Erman	....	effects technical director
Ken Faiman	....	character effects animator
Cassandra Fanning	....	digital effects artist
Peter Farson	....	character technical director
Oliver Finkelde	....	character effects technical director: DreamWorks
Louis Flores	....	visual effects lead
T.J. Galda	....	character technical director
Ashraf Ghoniem	....	character effects technical director
Caroleen Green	....	matte painter
Alex Gurevich	....	lighting technical director
Lei Han	....	lighting artist
Christian Hatfield	....	effects animator
Edward Helmers	....	lighter
Corey Hels	....	layout artist: Dreamworks Animation
Robert Holder	....	lighter: DreamWorks
Cindy Hong	....	lead lighter
Lucas Janin	....	effects animator
Yong Duk Jhun	....	head of layout
David Jordan	....	lighting artist
Jeff Kasunic	....	lead lighter: DreamWorks
Louis Katz	....	lead matte painting compositor
Lisa Kim	....	lighting artist
Soo Kyung Kim	....	lighter
Jennifer Leigh King	....	digital artist
Gokhan Kisacikoglu	....	digital effects artist
Domin Lee	....	visual effects
Jaewon Lee	....	modeler
Li-Ming 'Lawrence' Lee	....	lead effects animator
Victor Lew	....	visual effects artist
Benjamin Lishka	....	lead lighter
Markus Manninen	....	visual effects supervisor
Mariette Marinus	....	character technical director
Jeffrey Martin	....	character effects animator
Jason Mayer	....	effects artist
Matthew McCrory	....	lighting artist
Antonio Meazzini	....	digital effects artist
Zeki Melek	....	visual effects
Ori Neidich	....	media tools & post-production technology engineer
Rob Nitsch	....	character effects technical director: Dreamworks
Nikita Pavlov	....	visual effects
Noah Peterson	....	character finaler
Sven Pohle	....	character technical director
Bryan Poon	....	character effects
Dagan Potter	....	visual effects
Travis Price	....	surfacing
Madhava Reddy	....	digital intermediate
Paul Rivera	....	matte painter
David Schoneveld	....	visual effects
Scott C. Sells	....	digital effects artist
Chris Simmons	....	digital artist: lighting
Young Song	....	surfacing artist
Matt Steele	....	character technical director
Curt Stewart	....	effects artist
April Struebing	....	production supervisor: Character Effects
Francois Sugny	....	effects animator
Olcun Tan	....	effects developer
Hector Tantoco	....	digital artist
Amy Taylor	....	character effects technical director
Don Taylor	....	lead lighter
Dave Tidgwell	....	visual effects lead
John Truong	....	character effects animator
Ozgur Ustundag	....	lighting artist
Marla Valentine	....	matte painting compositor
David Patrick Valera	....	layout artist
Koen Vroeijenstijn	....	visual effects animator
Matthew Wang	....	layout technical director
Gina Warr	....	lead lighting artist
Jason P. Weber	....	character effects technical director
Gabriel White	....	lighting artist
Rhiannon Leffanta Wilhelmi	....	layout artist
Lori Williams	....	digital artist
Eve Wong	....	lighting technical director
Laura Wood	....	production engineer
Stephen Wood	....	visual effects animator
Joanna Wu	....	lighting artist
Greg Wuller	....	supervising technical director
Zhang Xiao	....	visual effects animator
Can Yuksel	....	visual effects animator

Animation Department
Manuel Almela	....	animator
Jeremy Bernstein	....	animator
Wee Brian	....	animator
Alessandro Carloni	....	animation supervisor
Alessandro Carloni	....	story artist
Eric Deuel	....	animator
Jed Diffenderfer	....	story artist
Raffaella Filipponi	....	animator
G. Mark Fitzgerald	....	animation production assistant
Michael Kiely	....	animator
H.B. 'Buck' Lewis	....	character designer
Kevin MacLean	....	animator
Mary Ann Malcomb	....	animator
Nicolas Marlet	....	character designer
Hezekiah McMurray	....	layout artist
Pia Miniati	....	animation rig engineer
Anna Newman	....	animation research and development
Fredrik Nilsson	....	animator
Mark Nonnenmacher	....	digital matte painting
David Pate	....	animator
Jason Reisig	....	supervising animator
Ben Rush	....	animator
William Salazar	....	supervising animator
Matthew Schmidt	....	layout artist
Jeremy Shaw	....	animator
Chris Sherrod	....	rough layout artist
Olivier Staphylas	....	animator
Mike Stern	....	animator
Paul Theren	....	senior modeler
Gary Thomas	....	story artist
Christopher Vigil	....	animation production assistant
Dan Wagner	....	head of character animation
Makiko Wakita	....	animation production coordinator
Jennifer Yuh	....	story artist
Kathy Zielinski	....	animator
Guido Zimmermann	....	character technical director

Casting Department
PoPing AuYeung	....	casting: Asia (uncredited)

Editorial Department
William J. Caparella	....	additional editor
Wayne Hellinger	....	post-production coordinator
C.K. Horness	....	editorial department
Kelly Matthews	....	editorial production assistant
Paul Neal	....	editor: high definition

Music Department
Jane Antonia Cornish	....	orchestrator
Germaine Franco	....	orchestrator
Karen Han	....	musician: erhu
Charlene Ann Huang	....	music coordinator
Henry Jackman	....	composer: additional music
Kevin Kliesch	....	orchestrator
Steve Kofsky	....	music production services
Xincao Li	....	conductor
Dave Metzger	....	orchestrator
Sunny Park	....	executive in charge of music
Adam Milo Smalley	....	music editor
Peter Oso Snell	....	assistant music editor
John Ashton Thomas	....	orchestrator
Greg Vines	....	score mixing assistant

Other crew
Holly Allen	....	production engineer
Steve Baker	....	research and development
Will Bilton	....	research and development
Jeff Chasin	....	production coordinator
Zach Clairville	....	production assistant
Jayson DeLancey	....	production engineer
Christopher Ell	....	production coordinator
Reid Gershbein	....	research and development
Tiffany Giddens	....	intern
Juli Gumbiner	....	technical resource supervisor
Audrey Holland	....	production assistant
Brent Hutchins	....	production coordinator
Joseph Izzo	....	production coordinator
Mark Jackels	....	production engineer
Geoffrey Jarrett	....	technical resource administrator
Hans Ku	....	alliance manager
Michael Lachance	....	creative executive
Michael Lynn	....	production coordinator
Kelly Matthews	....	story production assistant
Peter McCown	....	production assistant
Corrin Milewski	....	research and development supervisor
Brendan Murphy	....	assistant to producers
Brendan O'Connor	....	production coordinator
Matt Pomeroy	....	script supervisor
Travis Price	....	surfacer
Michael Riley	....	title designer
David Rosenbaum	....	production coordinator
Jeremy Shipp	....	editorial production supervisor
Allen Stetson	....	lead technical director
Lorraine Vos	....	first assistant production accountant
Makiko Wakita	....	production coordinator
Daniel Yu	....	research and development
Jennifer Yuh	....	head of story

Production Companies

• DreamWorks Animation
• Pacific Data Images (PDI)

Distributors

• Paramount Pictures
• DreamWorks Animation (2008) (USA) (theatrical)
• Paramount Pictures (2008) (France) (theatrical)
• United International Pictures (UIP) (2008) (Singapore) (theatrical)
• Universal Pictures International (UPI) (2008) (Netherlands) (theatrical)

Special Effects

• PDI DreamWorks

Other Companies

• Absolute Rentals  post-production rentals
• China National Symphony Orchestra  music performed by
• Dakota Music Services  music preparation
• Interscope Records  soundtrack
• Technicolor  prints

Also Known As:

Kung Fu Panda: The IMAX Experience (USA) (IMAX version)

MPAA:

Rated PG for sequences of martial arts action.

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Certification:

South Korea:All | USA:PG | Singapore:PG

Company:

DreamWorks Animation