Kung Fu Panda 4 in 24 Lankan cinemas from Friday

American animated martial arts comedy film Kung Fu Panda 4 will be screened in 24 cinemas in the country from Friday 8 March.

They are PVR Cinemas, Colombo City Centre, Kandy City Centre, NIT Ratnapura, NIT Kurunegala, Milano Diamond, Chaya Cinema, Amity Lite – Maharagama, Sky Lite, Maxx Lite – Moratuwa, City by Lite – Mt. Lavinia, Voxx Lite – Awissawella, Nikado – Kadawatha, 

CK Lite – Kiridiwela, Majestic SUPERIOR, Majestic GOLD, Regal Katubedda, Regal Bandarawela, Regal Dematagoda, Regal Gampaha, Regal Nuwara Eliya, Liberty Cinemas – Kollupitiya, Liberty Cinemas – Kiribathgoda, and Colombo City Centre.

Produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by Universal Pictures, Kung Fu Panda 4 is the fourth instalment in the Kung Fu Panda franchise, and the sequel to Kung Fu Panda 3 (2016).  

The film was directed by Mike Mitchell, co-directed by Stephanie Ma Stine (in her feature directorial debut), and written by Darren Lemke and the writing team of Jonathan Aibel and Glenn Berger. It features Jack Black, Dustin Hoffman, James Hong, Bryan Cranston, and Ian McShane reprising their roles from the previous films, with Awkwafina, Ke Huy Quan, Ronny Chieng, Lori Tan Chinn, and Viola Davis joining the cast as new characters. 

In the film, Po (Black), who must find and train his successor as the new Dragon Warrior, teams up with a fox bandit named Zhen (Awkwafina) to defeat evil sorceress “The Chameleon” (Davis).