'Kung Fu Panda 3' tops box office, other newcomers struggle

"KUNG FU PANDA 3" chopped all competitors down to size this past weekend, dominating the North American box office with a respectable $41 million, according to Rentrak estimates.

The animated sequel fared much better than the weekend's other new openers: "The Finest Hours" debuted in fourth place with $10.3 million, "Fifty Shades of Black" earned a modest $6.2 million, "Jane Got a Gun" brought in only $803,000.

Someone's getting a write-off.

"The Revenant" and "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" took second and third place with $12.4 million and $10.8 million, respectively. Both fell only 23 percent from last weekend.

Texas authorities say

Amber Rose

's buddy

Blac Chyna

(a/k/a Angela Renee White) was arrested after being kicked off a flight to London.

Austin police say Chyna was arrested Friday night at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport after officers were summoned to deal with a passenger who appeared intoxicated and who was causing a disturbance on a flight preparing to take off.

Chyna was booked on a misdemeanor charge of public intoxication and a felony charge of possession of less than four grams of a controlled substance. Police didn't specify which substance.

And obviously it wasn't under control.

Chyna was released on bond early Saturday.

TMZ.com reported that her alleged new boyfriend Rob Kardashian drove his Bentley 1,400 miles (26 hours) to Texas to get her.

Gosh, it should make everyone in the southwest feel good to know that there was a Kardashian on the road for 26 hours.

David Bowie

wanted his ashes scattered in Bali "in accordance with the Buddhist rituals," and he left most of his estate to his family, according to his will filed Friday in Manhattan.

The 20-page document, filed under his legal name David Robert Jones, said the estate was worth about $100 million.

Wife Iman gets to keep their home in SoHo and half of the remaining estate. Bowie's son Duncan Jones (from a previous marriage) and his teenage daughter Lexi split the other half. Lexi also gets the home in upstate New York. But she gets neither the loot nor the home until she turns 25.

Bowie left $2 million to his longtime assistant Corinne Schwab and left her shares he owned in a company called Oppossum Inc. He left $1 million to Marion Skene, Lexi's Swiss nanny.

Bowie prepared the will in 2004.

* At

Abe Vigoda

's funeral yesterday, nobody made mourners smile faster than comedian/friend

Gilbert Gottfried

.

"This is the 20th time we buried Abe Vigoda," Gottfried announced.

Todd Bridges, who worked with Vigoda on a sitcom spinoff of "Barney Miller," recalled him as "a man of dignity" who protected him like a father, including when he scolded a director for yelling at children on the set.

Bridges said Vigoda backed him during the darkest times of his life, telling others: "He's a good kid. He will find his way back."

"And I did," Bridges said.

As the service ended, the theme from "The Godfather" serenaded the departing crowd.

* Although recent reports claimed former Daily News intern Bradley Cooper had broken up with superdupermodel Irina Shayk around Christmas (talk about coal in your fishnet stocking), it was all an Internet fabrication. Imagine that.

"They are still very much together," an unnamed source shared with E! News. "Irina gets along great with Bradley's mother."

"They are extremely close and hang out even when Bradley is not around," the secret source added.

Hangin' with Mrs. Cooper.

* Real Housewife of New Jersey Teresa Giudice (Inmate No. 65703-050) spent a year as a real inmate of Danbury prison and she's out to report in her new book that her time in New Jersey tops her "time" in Connecticut.

In Turning the Tables: From Housewife to Inmate and Back Again, Teresa, nicknamed "Hollywood" by fellow inmates, writes that her first day strip search, in which she had to squat naked, stick out her tongue and cough, made her want to die.

It probably wasn't so hot for the corrections officers either.

On Day Two, she writes (thanks to the New York Daily News for reading this dreck), that while she was trying to sleep she heard "muffled sounds" and . . .

"I could see two women . . . writhing around . . . I cannot believe this is happening!" she writes.

Uh, Teresa, you're in a woman's prison. Haven't you ever seen "Orange is the New Black"?

Teresa said her cell became known as "The Boom Boom Room" because of all the hoosegow hanky-panky. She also writes of straight women who became "gay for the stay" but claims she stayed faithful to her hubby Joe.

- Daily News wire services

contributed to this report.

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