--- title: 'Kung Fu Panda 3' Tops Weekend Box Office description: 'Kung Fu Panda 3' fared better than the Disney movie, 'The Finest Hours', which also opened on Friday. canonical: https://time.com/4201528/kung-fu-panda-box-office-top/ author: Entertainment Weekly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-01-31T17:55:35.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T14:36:47.485Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: 'Kung Fu Panda 3' Tops the Weekend Box Office og:description: Other movies opening this weekend weren't as lucky og:url: https://time.com/4201528/kung-fu-panda-box-office-top/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9327f48b78262d11/69887b7c524fc04225df689c/kung-fu-panda-box-office.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Premiere Of DreamWorks Animation And Twentieth Century Fox's "Kung Fu Panda 3" - Arrivals og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: 'Kung Fu Panda 3' Tops the Weekend Box Office twitter:description: Other movies opening this weekend weren't as lucky twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9327f48b78262d11/69887b7c524fc04225df689c/kung-fu-panda-box-office.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # _Kung Fu Panda 3_ Tops the Weekend Box Office > Sponsored content. 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A general view of atmosphere at the Premiere of DreamWorks and Twentieth Century Fox's 'Kung Fu Panda 3' at TCL Chinese Theatre on January 16, 2016 in Hollywood, California.Barry King/Getty Images by [Devan Coggan / Entertainment Weekly](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Devan Coggan / Entertainment Weekly Jan 31, 2016 5:55 PM UTC Po the Panda is back at the top of the box office. Fox’s _Kung Fu Panda 3_ debuted to an estimated $41 million, earning the best opening weekend of 2016 (so far). With a star-studded voice cast, including Dustin Hoffman, Angelina Jolie, and Bryan Cranston, the third installment in the adventures of Jack Black’s titular panda may have failed to surpass the first two movies — _Kung Fu Panda_ opened to $60.2 million in 2008, and _Kung Fu Panda 2_ earned $47.7 million in 2011 — but it still earned the third best January opening of all time, just behind the first _Ride Along_ ($41.5 million) and _American Sniper_ ($89.3 million). _Kung Fu Panda 3_earned an A CinemaScore and opened in 3,955 locations. But while _Kung Fu Panda 3_ soared, this weekend’s other new releases fell a little flat. Disney’s _The Finest Hours_ faced rough waters, debuting to only $10.3 million in 3,143 locations. Starring Chris Pine, Casey Affleck, and Eric Bana, the inspirational drama did earn an A- CinemaScore, but it only managed to secure fourth place. _Fifty Shades of Black,_ on the other hand, barely managed to scrape ninth place. Marlon Wayans’ spoof of E.L. James’ _Fifty Shades of Grey_ opened to $6.2 million in 2,982 locations, earning a C CinemaScore. And the troubled _Jane Got a Gun_ only opened to $803,000 in 1,210 locations_,_ for an average of $664 per theater. The Natalie Portman-starring western has faced a long road to get to theaters, weathering a director departure, cast changes, and its previous distributor, Relativity Media, going bankrupt. While the non-animated new releases flopped, three holdovers instead populated the rest of the top five. Last week’s champion, _The Revenant,_ fared the best with an estimated $12.4 million. As expected, several of the movies faced a minimal drop after winter storm Jonas affected box office receipts last weekend, and _The Revenant_ fell only 23 percent this time. After six weeks in limited and wide release, the Leonardo DiCaprio-starring survival drama has raked in an estimated $138.2 million. _Star Wars: The Force Awakens_ also fell 23 percent, earning $10.8 million in its seventh weekend. To date, the latest entry in the _Star Wars_ saga has racked up more than $895.4 million domestically and $1.98 billion worldwide. It should cross the $2 billion global mark some time in the next week or so, becoming only the third movie in history to do so. _Avatar_ ($2.79 billion) and _Titanic_ ($2.19 billion) still stand as the highest-grossing movies of all time. _Ride Along 2_ rounded out the top five, earning $8.3 million in its third weekend. Since opening over Martin Luther King weekend, the Ice Cube and Kevin Hart-starring sequel has earned a domestic total of $70.8 million. Here are this weekend’s top five at the box office: **1\.** [**_Kung Fu Panda 3_**](http://www.ew.com/article/2016/01/27/kung-fu-panda-3-review)**— $41 million** **2\.** [**_The Revenant_**](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/12/04/revenant-ew-review)**— $12.4 million** **3\.** [**_Star Wars: The Force Awakens_**](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/12/16/star-wars-force-awakens-review)**— $10.8 million** **4\.** [**_The Finest Hours_**](http://www.ew.com/article/2016/01/22/the-finest-hours-ew-review)**— $10.3 million** **5\.** [**_Ride Along 2_**](http://www.ew.com/article/2016/01/13/ride-along-2-ew-review)**— $8.3 million** _This_ [_article_](http://www.ew.com/article/2016/01/31/box-office-report-kung-fu-panda-3-finest-hours-fifty-shades-black) _originally appeared on_ [_EW.com_](http://www.ew.com) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4201528/kung-fu-panda-box-office-top/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4201528/kung-fu-panda-box-office-top/"},"headline":"Kung Fu Panda 3 Tops the Weekend Box Office","datePublished":"2016-01-31T17:55:35.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T14:36:47.485Z","description":"Whereas 'Jane Got a Gun' flopped","url":"https://time.com/4201528/kung-fu-panda-box-office-top/","keywords":["movies"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9327f48b78262d11/69887b7c524fc04225df689c/kung-fu-panda-box-office.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Devan Coggan / Entertainment Weekly"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9327f48b78262d11/69887b7c524fc04225df689c/kung-fu-panda-box-office.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Premiere Of DreamWorks Animation And Twentieth Century Fox's \"Kung Fu Panda 3\" - Arrivals","caption":"Premiere Of DreamWorks Animation And Twentieth Century Fox's \"Kung Fu Panda 3\" - Arrivals","creditText":"Barry King/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/movies/","name":"movies"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4201528/kung-fu-panda-box-office-top/","name":"Kung Fu Panda 3 Tops the Weekend Box Office"}}]}] ```