Hoping a cuddly black-and-white national treasure will again produce
Chinese box-office gold, Walt Disney Studios is releasing "Trail of the
Panda" here Friday (May 8). The release precedes by days the first anniversary of the deadly
earthquake that uprooted the endangered species' home. It follows by
almost a year the record-breaking box-office run of DreamWorks
Animation's "Kung Fu Panda," which earned more than $14.7 million in
China last summer. Disney's second Chinese-language film, "Trail" unspools on 900 of
the country's roughly 4,000 screens via Huaxia Film Distribution.

Trail of the Panda