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NEWS ABOUT: Jet Li

Jet Li stories: 5 news summaries

 Sly, Arnie, Willis 
 to Unite Onscreen 

The Expendables also stars Rourke, Li

Sep 13, 09 5:58 PM CDT
(Newser) - Musclemen Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Bruce Willis are uniting for one last action flick, the Guardian reports. The Expendables, slated for release next year, tells the story of a band of mercenaries in Latin America, and will show the three grizzled stars together for the first time since the... More »

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entertainment • film • Arnold Schwarzenegger • Sylvester Stallone • Randy Couture • Jet Li • action movie • Bruce Willis • movies • Mickey Rourke

MOVIE REVIEW

 Time to Wrap Up Mummy  

Franchise feels distinctly creaky

Aug 1, 08 11:52 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor is more than a little musty. The third movie in the cycle features "more ancient corpses come to life amid digital effects laid on with a trowel," Jane Horwitz writes in the Washington Post, but the "tiresome and messy" result... More »

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movie review • mummy • Jet Li • action movie • Brendan Fraser

 Chan and Li Kick Up
 Box Office Winner 

Kingdom takes first, but audiences fall for Sarah Marshall

Apr 20, 08 6:29 PM CDT
(Newser) - Jackie Chan and Jet Li KO’d the competition at this weekend's box office, Entertainment Weekly reports. The Forbidden Kingdom finished first with $20.9 million, kicking raunchy romantic comedy Forgetting Sarah Marshall to second with $17.3 million. Other debuts stirred up little action: The Al Pacino... More »

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Hollywood • film • box office • Jackie Chan • Jet Li • martial arts movies • movies

NEW RELEASE

 Chan-Li Vehicle Stuck in Neutral 

Forbidden Kingdom is entertaining, underwhelming

Apr 18, 08 12:20 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Forbidden Kingdom, packing the one-two punch of Jackie Chan and Jet Li, is "great fun," David Edelstein writes in New York, once the martial-arts flick gets past "the clunky prologue." Other critics are a little more reserved in praising the film, about a modern-day teenager... More »

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Jackie Chan • Jet Li • martial arts movies • guy movies • action movie • high-concept movies

Jet Li Scores
a Record
$13M Payday

Action star's deal is priciest yet for a Chinese-language film

Nov 26, 07 7:19 AM CST
(Newser) - Action star Jet Li will bag $13 million for his role in the upcoming The Warriors, breaking his own salary record for an actor in a Chinese-language film. With Chinese films drawing more international attention, Li's fat paycheck comes from investors' confidence in him as a "guarantee" of the... More »

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China • entertainment industry • Jet Li • foreign film • Andy Lau • movies

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