Kung Fu Panda 3 is making so much waves in box office win

Kung Fu Panda 3 flexes its muscles at the North American box office, delivering $41 million on opening weekend.

KFP3 is a China co-production. It’s the best stateside debut ever for a January toon and the third-best FSS opening for the month overall behind American Sniper ($89.3M) and Ride Along ($41.5M). KFP and KFP2 cleared $631.7M and $665.7M,  respectively, in worldwide totals, and a $116.3M worldwide start for KFP3 from U.S., China, Russia and Korea is just fine.

Po the panda reunites with his long-lost father in "Kung Fu Panda 3, for a solid opening weekend at the North American box office, raking in 41 million dollars. Also new this week, Disney's "The Finest Hours," about a 1950s Coast Guard rescue mission, starring Chris Pine and Casey Affleck. But it couldn't keep pace with the pandas, generating only modest returns of 10.3 million dollars for a fourth place finish. That puts it behind Leonardo DiCaprio's "The Revenant", in second place with 12.4 million, and "Star Wars: The Force Awakens", in third place with 10.8 million. With the best opening weekend of 2016 to date, "Kung Fu Panda" fans have a lot to celebrate.