Brad Allan, Stuntman and Jackie Chan Protege, Dies at 48

After a two-month blackout period in China for Hollywood movies, Disney/20th Century Studios’ Free Guy is looking to lead all pics in the country at the weekend B.O. with a $18M+, possibly $20M take. That’s a promising start for one of the first big movies from Hollywood after a long-hiatus, besting the $15M opening weekend of A Quiet Place Part II, and the $7.8M first weekend of Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway. 

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefChina announced further steps to control celebrity fan culture, which regulators say has become “chaotic.” The moves came as one of China’s most prominent stars Vicki Zhao Wei was scrubbed from the internet and another star, female actor Zheng Shuang was embroiled in a tax scandal.The Cyberspace Administration of China on Friday issued a pair of connected notices.

Michelle Keegan went all-out for her mum’s 60th birthday, taking the family out for a fancy birthday dinner and posing for plenty of snaps to capture the special day. Mum Jackie has always been very close to daughter Michelle, so it’s no surprise the actress pulled out all the stops.

“The Protégé” in January 2020, the 42-year-old actress was still recovering from a major operation on her spine two months prior. That didn’t stop her from kicking ass, jumping off balconies and being hit by a speeding car to play a vengeful assassin named Anna.“I didn’t have time to train because I had come out of surgery, and then I was on bed rest and then I had to go right into making this film,” she told The Post.

eatery was left astonished after asking a waiter for the final bill. Andy Yates stated that he was out for a birthday celebration meal with five other family members when they were told that a man, who was also dining in the restaurant at the time, had paid £160 towards their meal.

cop at Paisley’s main hospital by calling him Jackie Chan. James Deighan made the remark to PC Steve Chan during a racist rammy at the Royal Alexandra Hospital.

In the Same Breath,” debuting Aug. 18 on HBO and HBO Max, is the latest to test that appetite.

Endeavor Group Holdings has appointed tech and finance veteran Jacqueline Reses to its board of directors.

Rebecca Davis editorThe Chinese government has taken a stake and one of three board seats in a key subsidiary of TikTok owner ByteDance, reports said Tuesday, reviving debate about whether the popular short-form video app poses a national security threat.Chinese authorities now own a 1% stake in Beijing ByteDance Company, a firm that owns key licenses to operate Chinese platforms Douyin, the country’s version of TikTok, and the popular news app Toutiao.

Cavaliers Nation.Cleveland being back in the playoffs only a few years after starting their rebuild would be very impressive. If everyone on the team can stay healthy and have a productive year it is a very real possibility.

Bradley James Allan, the influential Australian stuntman, stunt coordinator and actor who was a longtime member of Jackie Chan’s team and who most recently was the supervising stunt coordinator and second unit director on Marvel’s Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, has died. He was 48.

Rebecca Davis editorChinese director Lu Chuan will be the lead director of the opening ceremony for the upcoming 2022 Asian Games in Hangzhou city, an international sports spectacle taking place months after the Beijing Winter Olympics.Held every four years, the games will occur from Sept. 10 to 25 in the verdant capital of Zhejiang province, coinciding with the Mid-Autumn Festival holiday.

Rebecca Davis editorChinese pop singer and actor Jackson Yee, who starred in the Oscar-nominated drama “Better Days,” will anchor a new blockbuster from Chinese director Wen Muye, whose “Dying to Survive” is China’s 12th highest grossing film of all time.The film, scheduled for a 2022 release, does not yet have an official English title, but its Chinese name translates to “Miracle.” It will be produced by Ning Hao and his Dirty Monkey Films.The plot is described in current reports:

BEIRUT -- The artist meticulously cuts small pieces of yellow and red glass, then lays them in a pattern to recreate the stained-glass windows that were the trademark of Beirut’s Sursock Museum, shattered in last year’s port explosion.Conservators, hunched over with magnifying glasses, fill lines of paint loss caused by the explosion with their brushes and weave together tears thread by thread under microscope.

CNN reported. Jia Jia passed away in 2016, aged 38.Hong Kong’s Ocean Park theme park, where An An has lived for the last 22 years, put together a special celebration for the landmark occasion.

Natalie Mendoza is the new Satine for the Broadway production of Moulin Rouge!

Rebecca Davis editorChinese director Chen Kaige’s U.S.-born son Arthur Chen Feiyu has swapped his American citizenship out for a Chinese one, a change widely viewed locally as a savvy move to boost his burgeoning career in the mainland.The move comes as Chinese public opinion about celebrities has hinged upon questions of nationality.