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Hong Kong has cultivated a reputation for punching above its weight. Once producing 300 films a year, the small territory hatched global martial arts superstars like Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan, Michelle Yeoh and Donnie Yen.

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Rebecca Davis editorChina’s top law-making body will consider this week a popular proposition to ban actors who have used drugs from entertainment industry for life at its annual weeklong meeting, which kicked off Friday.The National People’s Congress, the country’s rubber stamp parliament, counts some 3,000 professionals from across the country as delegates, including directors Jia Zhangke, Feng Xiaogang and Chen Kaige, as well as Jackie Chan and Yao Ming.

VanguardVanguard (Nov. 20th), featuring Jackie Chan is NOW PLAYING in theaters. The Last VermeerThe Last Vermeer (Nov.

The most deadly wave of COVID-19 infections yet has had its expected impact on the box office. With multiple states ordering closures of movie theaters, the sole wide release of the weekend, Gravitas Ventures’ “Vanguard,” grossed just $400,000 from 1,375 screens this weekend.Meanwhile, Universal/Blumhouse’s “Freaky” was able to hold on to the No.

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorSUNDAY AM UPDATE, refresh for chart and more analysis: The weekend before Thanksgiving is one of the most lucrative ones on the calendar, last year bringing in $204.9M off the opening of Disney’s Frozen II which posted November’s fifth best domestic opening of all-time at $130.3M.Who would ever think that the domestic box office would sink to such an atrocious level as this weekend.

Dennis Harvey Film CriticFew stars have worked harder to give audiences pleasure over a long haul than Jackie Chan. But lately, his screen appearances have been those of the elder statesman still trotted out to nominally preside over expensive but flavorless official diplomatic functions you doubt even he relishes.

The laziness of Jackie Chan’s latest fighting flick becomes obvious right away — when a secret security force called Vanguard heads to Africa to rescue an accountant’s daughter.We cut away from London to a sun-drenched landscape, and the screen reads: “Africa.” Africa is the second-largest continent in the world and contains 54 culturally and geographically distinct countries, from Egypt to Sierra Leone.

If nothing else, director Stanley Tong and martial arts superstar Jackie Chan’s latest effort, Vanguard, proves the law of diminishing returns. Not too long ago a Chan film guaranteed an entertaining time at the movies and heaps of awe at what the human body could endure.

Jackie Chan is 66 years old. Keep that in mind as you watch the new trailer for “Vanguard.” I know plenty of people over the age of 60 and I don’t know that any of them can do the things that Jackie Chan does.

Gravitas Ventures has picked up the North American rights to Jackie Chan's latest action film, Vanguard. Directed by Stanley Tong, a wide theatrical release of Vanguard in the U.S.

Amanda N'Duka pmc-editorial-managerGravitas Ventures has closed the deal for the North American rights to Vanguard, an action feature starring Jackie Chan and directed by his frequent collaborator Stanley Tong.

As North America's box office crumples, China's theatrical film business is back in an enormous way. A collection of high-profile local films released in China over the past week to coincide with the country's National Day and Mid-Autumn Festival holiday period, which lasts eight days.

Rebecca Davis editorWith U.S. studio tentpoles dropping out of the theatrical calendar, Chinese blockbusters may find a rare opportunity to gain some traction abroad.

Also Read: BAFTA Film Awards Pushed Back 2 MonthsThe Awards are presented annually at The British Academy Britannia Awards gala dinner, which celebrates the relationship between the British and American entertainment industries. The first Britannia Award was presented in 1989 to Albert R.

Jackie Chan is being forced to allow two of his apartments in Beijing to go up for auction due to an ownership dispute. The actor, known for movie hits like “Rush Hour,” “The Karate Kid” and “The Foreigner” finds himself locked in a legal dispute between two real estate companies that will now force him to get rid of two pieces of luxury property he bought in 2006.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefTwo apartments in Beijing that are home to movie star Jackie Chan are being forcibly put up for auction. The reason appears to be an ownership dispute.The adjacent apartments in a residential compound in the capital city’s Dongzhimen district are where Chan and his family have lived since 2007.

, Disney's live-action adaptation of both their animated classic and the 6th century fable, Yifei Liu's Hua Mulan is the hero who saves China. But, as she recalled while promoting the movie, when she found herself in a potentially perilous spot on another shoot, it was co-star Jet Li who got down to business to save her.The movie in question is 2008's, which was notable for casting Li and Jackie Chan opposite each other for the first time.

Dwayne Johnson has topped Forbes magazine’s Highest-Paid Actors list for the second year in a row.The action man raked in an estimated $87.5 million over the last year, $16 million more than second-placed Ryan Reynolds.Mark Wahlberg comes in third with $58 million, just ahead of Ben Affleck and Vin Diesel.Bollywood star Akshay Kumar, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Will Smith, Adam Sandler, and Jackie Chan also make the top 10.In total the top 10 stars made over $545 million for the year with a quarter of

Every Tuesday, discriminating viewers are confronted with a flurry of choices: new releases on disc and on-demand, vintage, and original movies on any number of streaming platforms, catalog titles making a splash on Blu-ray or 4K. This weekly column sifts through all of those choices to pluck out the movies most worth your time, no matter how you’re watching.

reportedly taken at Yagiyama Zoological Park on an unspecified date, but has since been posted to Twitter, where it’s amassed nearly 14 million views.In the high-flying footage, the 4-year-old black bear can be seen impressively whirling a martial arts staff weapon like a character in a Jackie Chan movie.

a post on his Instagram page, writing, “I can’t wait to get back to this. The 90s were the best.

This July is the last chance (for now) for Hulu subscribers to watch Christopher Nolan's Batman Begins and The Dark Knight, among other films. Lionsgate's The Forbidden Kingdom, featuring Jackie Chan and Jet Li, is also leaving the streamer at the end of the month.

1978 was a big year for Jackie Chan. After years of flailing about in serious kung fu films, with producers and directors attempting (as they did with so many of his contemporaries) to fashion Chan into the next Bruce Lee, he was loaned out to the independent production company Seasonal Films for two films.

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Jackie Chan and Arnold Schwarzenegger share the screen for the first time in the utterly bonkers The Iron Mask.

Jackie Chan is offering some words of advice and encouragement to his fans during the coronavirus pandemic.

Coronavirus rumours are spreading like wildfire on social media. At first, Jackie Chan was rumoured to have contracted the disease. The legendary actor quickly shut down the rumours and assured fans that he was fine. Now, a tweet put Harry Potter fans in worry. A rumour began when a Twitter account claimed Daniel Radcliffe has been tested positive for Coronavirus. The rumour began when a fake BBC Twitter account falsely claimed Now You See Me 2 actor was tested positive for the virus. 

Days after assuring his fans that he has not been infected by Coronavirus, Jackie Chan has donated 1 million Yuan to a Coronavirus outbreak relief program, philstar reported. According to a report by CNN, coronavirus has killed over 3,000 people worldwide and there have been more than 88,000 global cases. The infection has been recorded in every continent except Antarctica.

Jackie Chan is “very healthy and safe” despite reports the 65-year-old actor had been placed under quarantine because of the coronavirus.

Jackie Chan is addressing a rumour that’s been making the rounds, claiming that he’s been quarantined after being diagnosed with the coronavirus.

Amid growing concerns about the health risks around coronavirus, it was recently speculated that popular Hong Kong superstar Jackie Chan was under quarantine. According to a report by Aljazeera, Coronavirus has killed more than 2,800 people and infected more than 83,000 worldwide.

Actor Jackie Chan reassured his fans this week that he was safe and not under quarantine amid concerns over the coronavirus. "I’m very healthy and safe, and haven’t been quarantined," Chan wrote on his website Thursday.

Age is just a number to Jackie Chan and Arnold Schwarzenegger as the long-in-the-tooth action heroes battle it out in a new trailer for their upcoming film “The Iron Mask”.

Jackie Chan and Arnold Schwarzenegger go head-to-head in the trailer for their new movie The Iron Mask!

If you’ve long hoped for Jackie Chan and Arnold Schwarzenegger to face-off in a film, then beware what you wish for. The action legends star together in the new bonkers trailer for The Iron Mask, which is a movie that seems like a fake movie from an SNL digital short.