Jackie Chan Lining Up English-Language Action Comedy
Jackie Chan Lining Up English-Language Action Comedy (Exclusive) - Hollywood Reporter
Jackie Chan is making moves to make his next action movie.
Chan’s JC Group International and Beijing-based production and distribution company Talent International Media Group are teaming up to produce the untitled project and have hired Jay Longino to write it.
Based on an original idea of Chan’s, the story is a two-hander action comedy featuring a detective (Chan) who must track down an American gambler that has skipped out on his debt owed to a Macau casino syndicate. The settings include Hong Kong, Macau, Eastern Europe and mainland China.
Chan is attached to star and will also produce, along with Esmond Ren of TIMG and David Gerson of InterTitle Films.
TIMG will co-finance the film as a Chinese co-production. Many of Chan’s recent projects, especially those made in China, have been in Chinese but this latest one will be in English.
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Chan's latest movie is Chinese 12 Zodiac, which he directed, wrote, produced and starred in. The action-adventure picture will premiere in Beijing on December 12, 2012.
Chan, TIMG, and InterTitle are repped by WME. Chan is also repped by Bloom Hergott.
Longino is a feature writer who most recently sold the pilot Raising Blind to FX with Vin Diesel and Ben Younger exec producing. He is repped by WME, ROAR and Morris & Yorn.
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Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter has topped the UK and Northern Ireland box office in its first week of release.
The film, which imagines the 16th US President leading a secret life hunting the undead, took £1.2m at the weekend.
Will Smith's Men In Black 3 remained at number two with takings of £1.07m and rom-com The Five-Year Engagement took the third spot, making £1.06m.
Last week's chart-topper Prometheus dropped to four, with UK takings now totalling £21.6m.
Both Snow White and the Huntsman and Rock of Ages, starring Tom Cruise dropped two places.
There were two more new entries into the top ten - the highest being horror film Chernobyl Diaries, which uses the real-life 1986 nuclear disaster in the Ukraine as a backdrop.
Its number seven spot was achieved with takings of £495,875, after opening in 289 cinemas across the UK.
UK and Ireland Top 5
- 1) Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (£1.2m)
- 2) Men In Black 3 (£1.5m)
- 3) The Five-Year Engagement (£1.06m)
- 4) Prometheus (£2m)
- 5) Snow White and the Huntsman (£1.3m)
The Hindi romance drama Teri Meri Kahaani edged into the top ten, at nine, despite opening at just 53 sites.
It took a total of £190,230 - giving it a higher per-screen average than Chernobyl Diaries.
Comic Book adventure Marvel Avengers Assemble continued its reign as the UK's top film of the year, hanging in at number eight, with total takings of £51.3m.
And Top Cat: The Movie landed in tenth position after four weeks of release, making £179,000 in the last weekend.
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Source: Xinhua
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