The Forbidden Kingdom, a martial arts film starring Jet Li and Jackie Chan, will premiere in China in April.
China's top media group, Huayi Brothers, will donate a percentage of every movie ticket sold to The Forbidden Kingdom (Gongfu Zhi Wang) to Jet Li's One Foundation.
Four theater chains, Beijing New Film Association, Stellar International, Shanghai United Circuit and Beijing Wanda, will donate 0.01 yuan from every ticket.
From this year, the "one ticket and 0.1 yuan donation" will be applied to all the Huayi productions and also films, which Huayi is the main investor.
The new $70 million martial arts film, which stars Li and Jackie Chan, will premiere in China and North America in April. The story follows an American boy's kungfu dream, combining Chinese myths, martial arts and American humor. This is the first time that the two kungfu stars fight in one film.
In Deadly Delicious (Shuang Shi Ji), which premiered on March 8, Chinese Women's Day, award-winning actress Yu Nan plays a desperate housewife who tries to poison her husband, with the help of the man's mistress.
The thrilling picture features beautifully made Chinese cuisine and a triangular love affair. A traditional Chinese saying goes the attraction between a man and woman is the greatest desire. Hong Kong actor Francis Ng plays against Yu, as her husband.
Yu's other film, Speed Racer, by writer/directors Larry and Andy Wachowski, creators of the groundbreaking The Matrix trilogy, opened on Sunday in America. Speed Racer marks the Wachowski brothers' first writing/directing collaboration since The Matrix movies.
Publication date: 13 March 2008
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