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NEW YORK -- "The Forbidden Kingdom", Jackie Chan and Jet Li's first tandem onscreen appearance, is gunning for a world's first by opening in China, Producer Casey Silver and distributor Huayi Brothers said.
If a Chinese premiere is approved by the authorities who control film releases, the much-anticipated $55 million action-adventure about a troubled Boston youth (Michael Angarano) transported magically into one of China's most famous ancient legends, would be the first major Hollywood-China co-production to premiere in the middle kingdom.
"We're awaiting a date and checking everybody's schedules. We really hope it can happen," Silver told The Hollywood Reporter. A Huayi spokeswoman in Beijing confirmed that the application to the State Administration of Radio Film and Television was awaiting approval and the world premiere date was imminent.
Lionsgate will release the film on 3,000 screens in North America on April 18. It was executive produced by Ryan Kavanaugh of Relativity Media in Los Angeles.
Silver said Angarano, 20, holds his own against Chan and Li, "which is a real complement. He's a working actor who read for the part, read for it again. Their screen time is balanced."
Cinematography was by Peter Pau ("Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon") and action choreography by Yuen Woo-ping.
Silver said government censors made requests for minimal changes that the writer and director were able to accommodate seamlessly. He would not reveal the roles played by Chan or Li, who Silver helped bring together in a tight window to shoot the film in 100 days in China between April and August.
NEW YORK -- "The Forbidden Kingdom", Jackie Chan and Jet Li's first tandem onscreen appearance, is gunning for a world's first by opening in China, Producer Casey Silver and distributor Huayi Brothers said.
If a Chinese premiere is approved by the authorities who control film releases, the much-anticipated $55 million action-adventure about a troubled Boston youth (Michael Angarano) transported magically into one of China's most famous ancient legends, would be the first major Hollywood-China co-production to premiere in the middle kingdom.
"We're awaiting a date and checking everybody's schedules. We really hope it can happen," Silver told The Hollywood Reporter. A Huayi spokeswoman in Beijing confirmed that the application to the State Administration of Radio Film and Television was awaiting approval and the world premiere date was imminent.
Lionsgate will release the film on 3,000 screens in North America on April 18. It was executive produced by Ryan Kavanaugh of Relativity Media in Los Angeles.
Silver said Angarano, 20, holds his own against Chan and Li, "which is a real complement. He's a working actor who read for the part, read for it again. Their screen time is balanced."
Cinematography was by Peter Pau ("Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon") and action choreography by Yuen Woo-ping.
Silver said government censors made requests for minimal changes that the writer and director were able to accommodate seamlessly. He would not reveal the roles played by Chan or Li, who Silver helped bring together in a tight window to shoot the film in 100 days in China between April and August.
- 3/14/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
NEW YORK -- 60 Minutes veteran correspondent Mike Wallace may have retired last March but that didn't stop him from scoring an exclusive interview Tuesday with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. And that fact wasn't lost on the controversial Iranian president, who halfway through the interview asked Wallace: "I thought you had retired." Wallace's interview will appear on the CBS Evening News on Thursday night and on Sunday's 60 Minutes. The 88-year-old Wallace, who has interviewed almost every notable person in his nearly 40 years on 60 Minutes, said Wednesday that he wasn't going to let a little matter such as retirement stop him from doing a story about one of the biggest gets these days. After getting word two weeks ago from CBS's liason in Tehran, Sia Zand, that Ahmadinejad would be willing to talk, Wallace hopped a plane to Paris and then Tehran with producer Bob Anderson and associate Producer Casey Morgan.
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