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Jet Li and Jackie Chan are planning a martial arts action movie where the two will face off for the first time.

Jet Li said his latest film, "Hero" would be his last martial arts film. Jackie Chan says he's too old to fall out of a fourth story window and land on his feet, then back, then face....

Movie action man Jackie Chan is planning to make a film about last week’s devastating Chinese earthquake, which left almost 60,000 dead and more than five million homeless.
The 7.9-magnitude quake stunned the world and now Chan wants to do everything he can to help the shellshocked survivors - and that involves making a film about their plight.

Jeremiah reports that American (mostly for TV) producer Steven North is in talks to get a movie made about the Great Helmsman himself, Mao Zedong. The movie would, smartly, follows Mao in his earlier (less controversial, more "for the people") years.

"Tom Cruise action thriller "Mission: Impossible III" (M:I3) is due to be released on the Chinese mainland on July 20, a state-owned foreign movie distributor said on Friday, the same day it withdrew "The Da Vinci Code" from Chinese cinemas.

The releasing decision came after month-long rumor that the movie could be banned by Chinese censors as the movie compromises the image of Shanghai."

Take the forthcoming children's movie, "Little Soldier Zhang"... Director Sun Lijun says "I thought about including one sympathetic Japanese character, but this is an anti-Japan war movie and I don't want to confuse anyone," [He] will premier his film on International Children's Day.

A day before Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi is expected to visit a controversial shrine honouring war dead, China announces plans to film a movie based on the Nanjing atrocities. Tuesday, August 15 marks the anniversary of Japan's surrender to the allied powers (or as China would say "China's victory over Japan).

With a story just oozing "China" at the seams, this article ponders why the film wasn't even made in the Middle Kingdom...

Jackie Chan, Zhang Ziyi, Stephanie Sun and Lee-Him Wang are combining their considerable skills...at singing...to make song that will be the theme song on the soundtrack for a new movie "The One."

Lou Ye's controversial movie, Summer Palace, showed at the Toronto International Film Festival. Lou defied Chinese officials when he submitted Summer Palace for competition at the Cannes Film Festival before the film had been cleared by the country's censors.