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Cannes: Jackie Chan Teams With Fan Bingbing On ‘Skiptrace’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday May 6, 2013 @ 11:20am PDTTags: Cannes Wrap-Up, Exclusvie Media, Fan Bingbing, Jackie Chan, Skiptrace
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Exclusive Media will produce and co-finance the Sam Fell-directed action comedy Skipttrace, with Jackie Chan starring with Fan Bingbing in a co-production between Exclusive Media’s Nigel Sinclair and Guy East and Beijing-based Talent International Film Co. President Esmond Ren. Exclusive will sell at Cannes. Pic is based on an idea by Chan, and written by Jay Longino, Brian Gatewood and Alessandro Tanaka. The action comedy follows a Hong Kong detective (Chan) who is tasked with tracking down a mouthy American gambler on the run from his creditors. The men form an unlikely partnership and attempt to take down Hong Kong’s most notorious criminal, while embarking on a wild journey through some of China’s most scenic and exotic locales.

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Global Showbiz Briefs: Jackie Chan, Sky TVNZ, Kim Dotcom

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Monday March 4, 2013 @ 12:15am PSTTags: Global Showbiz Briefs, Jackie Chan, Kim DotCom, Megaupload, Sky New Zealand

Jackie Chan Ridiculed In Hong Kong For Pro-China Stance
Hong Kong action icon Jackie Chan faces a backlash in his hometown for joining China’s top political advisory body. Hong Kong remains suspicious of the mainland and many believe Chan was selected to appear at the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference because of his visibility. Professor Sonny Ho, co-director at the Centre for Greater China Studies, describes the conference’s “united front” strategy as a campaign to promote a strong and peaceful homeland, unified with Taiwan. China’s growing clout has seen actors from Hong Kong and Macau drafted into patriotic movies that glorify the country’s past including the early Communist Party era. Chan’s appointment to the conference met derision online for his pro-Beijing stances such as calling for limits on the right to protest. Read More »

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Low-Budget Local Comedy ‘Lost In Thailand’ Breaking Records In China

By NANCY TARTAGLIONE, International Editor | Friday December 21, 2012 @ 3:23am PSTTags: China, Jackie Chan, Lost In Thailand

The Chinese-produced Lost In Thailand was made for a reported $3.1M and doubled that on its opening day. With $6.26M on December 12, it set a record for a Wednesday release, says Film Business Asia. It also took $14.9M on December 15, setting a one-day record for a domestic film and set another record for number of screenings with a massive 33,000 showings that day. The road movie, which follows two rival businessmen who travel to Thailand, beat single-day records held by Painted Skin 2, Titanic 3D and Transformers 3, Twitchfilm reports. Its unofficial cume as of Thursday was $72.2M. Financed and released by Beijing Enlight Pictures, the movie was written, produced and directed by Xu Zheng in his feature helming debut. The comedy will nevertheless face strong competition this weekend with the release of Jackie Chan’s Chinese Zodiac and Andrew Lau’s The Guillotines. There’s currently no word of Stateside distribution, but you can click over to see a subtitled trailer: Read More »

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Global Showbiz Briefs: Nat Geo Channel Picks Up ‘Highway Thru Hell’, Al Clark Honored, Jackie Chan, Berlin Film Festival

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday November 20, 2012 @ 10:37pm PSTTags: Jackie Chan

‘Highway Thru Hell’ Lands At Nat Geo US
Beyond Distribution has sold Highway Thru Hell, a documentary series examining the treacherous trucking route, the Coquihalla Highway in British Columbia, to National Geographic Channel U.S., where it will premiere next February. Produced by Vancouver’s Great Pacific Media, the docu was commissioned by Discovery Canada where it posted the highest series debut in the channel’s history in September. The eight-part series follows the heavy rescue team as it attends the scenes of numerous wrecks, removing often dangerous cargo, cleaning up twisted metal and clearing the roads.- Don Groves Read More »

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Comic-Con: Jackie Chan On ‘CZ12′ And A Lifetime Of “Hurting”

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday July 12, 2012 @ 5:39pm PDTTags: Chinese Zodiac, Comic-Con, Comic-Con Wrap-Up, CZ12, Jackie Chan

Luke Y. Thompson is contributing to Deadline’s coverage of Comic-Con.

During a funny, self-deprecating Comic-Con panel, Jackie Chan advised a crowd who gave him a standing ovation not to hurt themselves like he has. His latest movie … Read More »

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Hot Trailer: ’1911′

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday September 21, 2011 @ 7:38pm PDTTags: Jackie Chan

In this clip from 1911 released today, Jackie Chan portrays Huang Xing, the first commander-in-chief of the army of the Republic of China. The film marks the 100th anniversary of the Xinhai Revolution and founding of the Republic of China. It’s also being billed as Chan’s 100th film. He co-directs … Read More »

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Obama-Hu State Dinner Guests: Bob Iger, Wendi Murdoch, Barbra Streisand, Jackie Chan, B.D. Wong

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Thursday January 20, 2011 @ 12:54am PSTTags: Barbara Steisand, Bob Iger, Jackie Chan, James Brolin, Politics



This is the third formal state dinner of the Obama administration and each time Hollywood has been invited. Last night’s was for Chinese President Hu Jintao and … Read More »

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Jackie Chan Leaves CAA For Morris, And Paul Thomas Anderson Lands There, Too

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Thursday April 24, 2008 @ 7:53pm PDTTags: Actors, Agents, CAA, Directors, Jackie Chan, Paul Thomas Endeavor, The Forbidden Kingdom, William Morris Agency, WMA


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I’m told Jackie Chan fired CAA on the day his new movie The Forbidden Kingdom opened #1 last Friday. Today he landed with the William Morris Agency’s Phillip Button. As for the There Will Be Blood director, Paul Thomas Anderson left … Read More »

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