Why Jet Li Turned Down A Role In 'The Matrix'
A Jet Li The Matrix role was offered to the Chinese actor and martial artist, but Li revealed that he turned down the part for a very specific reason.
Read MoreA Jet Li The Matrix role was offered to the Chinese actor and martial artist, but Li revealed that he turned down the part for a very specific reason.
Read MoreThe live-action Mulan remake cast has added Jet Li and Gong Li. Niki Carro is directing the Disney film, which also stars Liu Yifei and Donnie Yen.
Read MoreHere is everything we know about the XXX 3 Donnie Yen casting, which sees the veteran martial artist stepping in for Jet Li in the new sequel.
Read MoreThe cast of the action sequel is certainly going to have international appeal as a new report reveals we'll see Jet Li and Tony Jaa in xXx 3 with Vin Diesel
Read MoreOne more time to help plug the leak: here's the final Expendables 3 trailer, featuring more old action stars than one trailer can coherently introduce.
Read MoreSixteen Expendables 3 posters feature Stallone, Schwarzenegger, Snipes, Gibson, Ford, Grammer, Banderas, Crews, Couture, Lutz, Rousey and many more.
Read MoreThe Expendables 3 just shot this summer, but here's the first teaser trailer ahead of the film's release at the end of summer 2014. This installment in the action series full of old guys brings Harrison Ford into the fold, and also features a mix of other returning faces and new recruits. Sylvester Stallone leads the pack, with Jet Li, Dolph…
Read MoreThe Expendables 2 came out a year ago and, since then, rumors about its sequel have popped up almost weekly. Many actors have been rumored, and some confirmed: Cage, Seagal, Snipes, Gibson, Ford, you name it. Well, The Expendables 3, directed by Patrick Hughes, began production Monday and the full cast list for the film…
Read MoreI feel like we're in between golden ages for martial arts films out of China. While a few good ones have hit in the past decade, the output of pre-changeover Hong Kong dwindled down to the point where there were only occasional memorable fight films. And now the world of martial arts moviemaking is stuck…
Read MoreThe summer of 2012 -- a summer that turned out to be rather a mixed bag, as so many hotly-anticipated movie seasons tend to -- ends with a bang, or at least an explosion. The Expendables 2 is the Simon West-directed sequel to the Sylvester Stallone film that crammed together a whole bunch of aging…
Read MoreWe've seen two teaser trailers for Simon West's sequel to The Expendables -- well, one teaser, and one trailer for this trailer. But now we've got an actual trailer, with actual footage showing some of what happens when you put Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Jet Li, Dolph Lundgren, Terry Crews, Randy Couture, Jean-Claude Van Damme,…
Read MoreHere's a pretty rote teaser trailer for Affliction: The Motion Picture... er, The Expendables 2, which puts Sylvester Stallone and Jason Statham back at the forefront of an action extravaganza that also stars Jet Li, Dolph Lundgren, Terry Crews, Randy Couture, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Chuck Norris, Liam Hemsworth, Bruce Willis, and Arnold Schwarzenegger. Check it…
Read MoreI don't have any belief that The Expendables 2 is likely to be the movie I hope it will be. After the first movie, I'm not even convinced that this sequel is fated to be a solid action movie. But magic can happen. While we wait to see any footage from the movie that Simon…
Read MoreBriefly: The focus as we've covered The Expendables 2 has been the list of actors returning from the first movie, and the other '80s and '90s action stars that might join in the sequel. All told, the list is pretty huge already: Sylvester Stallone will be joined by Jason Statham, Mickey Rourke, Jet Li, Dolph…
Read MoreThe last time we had good word on The Expendables 2, Bruce Willis and Arnold Schwarzenegger had been confirmed for meaty roles alongside returning star Sylvester Stallone and presumably returning actors Jason Statham, Dolph Lundgren, Mickey Rourke, Terry Crews and Jet Li. Donnie Yen, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Chuck Norris and John Travolta have all been…
Read MoreBriefly: There has been a crazy amount of speculation about the cast of The Expendables 2, which will shoot soon. Given that the original film isn't exactly beloved, that speculation goes to prove that the concept of putting aging action stars together into a 'one last mission'-type picture is enough to ignite significant public interest.…
Read MoreHere's something that'll get me into the theater for The Expendables 2 right quick, if it pans out: Donnie Yen, one of the current champion fighters on film, has been offered a role in The Expendables 2. That's according to Twitch, which says that producer Avi Lerner offered Yen a "tailor-made" role in the film,…
Read MoreLong-time producer and director Tsui Hark did well last year with his film Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame, then he jumped right into production on a new film. That's the 3D wuxia epic Flying Swords of Dragon Inn, with Jet Li starring. We've got the first pics from the film, as…
Read MoreWhen you put a bunch of musclebound dudes, including most of the biggest action stars in the world, into one movie, how do you go about selling it? Not with the first full trailer for The Expendables -- you do it like this. The Monocular Group has cut the first Expendables trailer that is truly…
Read MoreLionsgate has just released what I might call an outrageously confident trailer for Sylvester Stallone's new film The Expendables. Why confident? Because one of the selling points for the film has been that it unites not just all the guys in the primary cast -- Stallone, Statham, Li, Rourke, and many more -- but that…
Read MoreThe Warlords is a two-year old Chinese mini-epic starring Jet Li, Andy Lau and Takeshi Kaneshiro in a tale based on The Assassination of Ma, a story from China's mid-1800s civil war period. The film cleaned up at the 2008 Hong Kong Film Awards and is finally hitting the states courtesy of Magnet's Six-Shooter Film…
Read MorePromotional billboards and posters for Sylvester Stallone's The Expendables are on display at the Cannes Film Festival. I have compiled a collection come of the photos and even cleaned some of the images up (like above) for better web presentation. There is some discussion that these photos are fan created, and I understand why people…
Read More[No photo] Another bad ass actor has been enlisted in Sylvester Stallone's The Expendables. The Wrestler star Mickey Rourke will join Stallone, Jason Statham, Jet Li, Randy Couture, Dolph Lundgren, Forest Whitaker and Ben Kingsley in a story about an "expendable" team, hired to do jobs that no one else can or will. The team…
Read MoreSylvester Stallone will direct a new action film titled The Expendables, which he also wrote. The film will star three action stars from three different countries: Stallone, Jason Statham, and Jet Li. This kind of reminds me of when Quentin Tarantino was originally planning to fill Inglourious Basterds with a team of American action heros.…
Read MoreA lot of new posters hit the interwebs today. Here is a look at the more interesting (or not so interesting) one-sheets you can expect to see at your local cinema this weekend. Let's take a look. 20th Century Fox has released a batch of new character banners for their computer animated adaptation of Dr.…
Read MoreThe first video footage from the Jackie Chan/Jet Li collaboration The Forbidden Kingdom in now online. The Forbidden Kingdom is about a bullied New York teenager (Michael Angarano) who is obsessed with Hong Kong cinema and classic Kung Fu movies. One day he discovers a legendary warrior's staff in a Chinatown pawnshop, which transports Jason…
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