The Foreigner

[GeneChing]

Jackie Chan to Star in Action-Thriller ‘The Foreigner’ for STX (http://variety.com/2015/film/news/jackie-chan-foreigner-stx-1201513586/)

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June 5, 2015 | 05:16PM PT
Dave McNary
Film Reporter @Variety_DMcNary

STX Entertainment is in final negotiations with Jackie Chan to star in the action thriller “The Foreigner,” with shooting expected to start in October.

Nick Cassavetes is in talks to direct a script based on the Stephen Leather novel “The Chinaman,” which was published in 1992. The story centers on a restaurant owner in London’s Chinatown who is tracking down a group of Irish terrorists responsible for the death of his daughter.

David Marconi wrote the adaptation. His credits include “Enemy of the State” and “Live Free or Die Hard.”

Chan, 61, has acted in more than 150 films since the 1960s and is most famous for his martial arts. He starred in the “Rush Hour” trilogy for New Line.

Cassavetes’ directing credits include “The Other Woman” and “The Notebook.”

STX was launched last year by film producer Robert Simonds and TPG managing partner Bill McGlashan to produce projects in the $10 million to $80 million range — an area largely vacated by the studios in favor of superhero movies. STX aims to release as many as 15 films annually by 2017, and has lined up projects with Matthew McConaughey (“The Free State of Jones”) and Julia Roberts (“The Secret in Their Eyes”).

The company has also lined up financial backing from venture capital firm and co-founder TPG, Chinese private equity firm Hony Capital and investors Gigi Pritzker and Beau Wrigley, along with film financing from China’s Huayi Brothers.

Year-old STX has dated four films: horror-thriller “The Gift,” starring Jason Bateman and Rebecca Hall, on Aug. 7; “The Secret in Their Eyes,” starring Roberts, Nicole Kidman and Chiwetel Ejiofor, on Oct. 23; drama “The Boy,” starring Lauren Cohan (“The Walking Dead”), on Jan. 22; and Civil War drama “The Free State of Jones,” starring McConaughey, on March 11.

Marconi is repped by Bryan Brucks at Luber Roklin.


Jackie really should go back to action comedy next. At 61, he shouldn't bother fighting against typecasting if he's looking for another global hit. The world loves his action comedies.

[Jimbo]

Jackie really has no choice about being typecast. He plays himself in every film he's in. He's definitely NOT a character actor.

Daniel Day-Lewis and Gary Oldman are examples of great character actors, who can be almost unrecognizable from one role to the next. They really can't be typecast.

[GeneChing]

Martin Campbell In Talks To Direct Jackie Chan In STX Action Film (http://deadline.com/2015/07/martin-campbell-jackie-chan-the-foreigner-stx-entertainment-1201476409/)
by Mike Fleming Jr July 15, 2015 11:51am

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EXCLUSIVE: Martin Campbell is in talks to direct the now untitled film that will star Jackie Chan, with STX Entertainment eyeing a fall production start. This is the one that had been called The Foreigner, based on the Stephen Leather novel The Chinaman. It will get a new title. While everyone is talking about the financial turmoil that has Relativity circling the drain, Campbell’s pending deal here was made possible by that company’s difficulties. Campbell early on had been involved in developing The Foreigner but the helmer of Casino Royale, Edge Of Darkness and Green Lantern left to instead direct Relativity’s Hunter Killer. STX in turn had discussions with a few directors that included Nick Cassavetes. When Hunter Killer became uncertain because of Relativity’s difficulties, Campbell returned. Deals are being negotiated right now.

stxThis is a strategically important film for STX, which has received substantial slate financing from China; cracking that country is a priority. Chan is one of the most beloved action stars to come out of China. He will play a humble restaurant owner in London’s Chinatown who is forced to push his moral and physical boundaries to track down the group of rogue Irish terrorists responsible for the death of his beloved daughter after the justice system fails him. The book was adapted by David Marconi and Peter Buchman. Wayne Godfrey is producing.

Campbell is repped by CAA.

Anyone read Stephen Leather's The Chinaman?


The Chinaman (http://stephenleather.com/index.php?page=the-chinaman)- Stephen Leather

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The Chinaman understood death.

Jungle-skilled, silent and lethal, Nguyen Ngoc Minh had killed for the Viet Cong and then for the Americans. Imprisoned and tortured after the Communist victory, he escaped with his wife and baby daughter to Hong Kong - but only after being forced to watch Thai pirates rape and kill his two eldest daughters.

Now the proud owner of the Double Happiness Chinese takeaway in South London, he watches his daughter grow into a beautiful young woman, secure in the knowledge that the horrors of his homeland are finally behind him.

Until the day an IRA bomb in a Knightsbridge store snatches his family from him in a horrific maelstrom of fire and glass.

Then, simply but persistently, he began to ask the authorities who were the men responsible, what was being done. And was turned away, fobbed off, treated as a nuisance.

Which was when the Chinaman, denied justice, decided on revenge. And went back to war.

[GeneChing]

Jackie Chan & Agent Exit WME; Philip Button Joins STX (http://deadline.com/2015/09/jackie-chan-leaves-wme-his-agent-joins-stx-1201522254/)
by Dominic Patten
September 11, 2015 6:45pm

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EXCLUSIVE: One of the world’s biggest stars already is set to appear a film for mini-studio STX, and now his agent Philip Button is joining the company too. I’ve learned that superstar Jackie Chan is leaving WME and will continue to be managed by Button but go agentless for the time being. Button’s title at STX will be EVP International Production and Management, focused on building out business in Asia and Latin America. He will report directly to STX CEO Bob Simonds. It is unclear if in what or any capacity Chan will align himself formally with STX.

Both longtime members of the WME family, Chan and Button will be leaving the agency imminently. Chan essentially was Button’s sole major client at WME, and I’ve heard that everyone is parting as friends.

The martial arts icon is set to star in STX’s untitled film that had been known as The Foreigner. STX Entertainment has been bulking up lately, with hires including Kathy Savitt joining the company today from Yahoo as President of Digital and QED’s John Friedberg singing on as President of International Sales in July. It also has a deal for the next film from the Jim Henson Company.

Back in April, China’s largest privately held film firm, Huayi Brothers Media Corp made a three-year deal with STX Entertainment for a slate of 12-15 films a year. It’s structured as a revolving line of credit estimated at upward of $1 billion for movies to be co-produced and distributed with Huayi. Securing Chan is a coup for STX as he remains a megastar in China.
What is implied by that last sentence? :rolleyes:

[GeneChing]

Pierce Brosnan Joins Jackie Chan in STX Entertainment Action Movie (Exclusive) (http://www.thewrap.com/pierce-brosnan-joins-jackie-chan-in-stx-entertainment-action-movie-exclusive/)
MOVIES | By Jeff Sneider on November 19, 2015 @ 8:37 am Follow @theinsneider

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Martin Campbell is directing the film, which STX is co-financing with Beijing-based SR Media Corporation
Two of the world’s most famous action heroes are joining forces, as Pierce Brosnan is set to star opposite Jackie Chan in an untitled action thriller that Martin Campbell will direct for STX Entertainment and SR Media Corporation, TheWrap has learned.
Chan stars as a humble restaurant owner in London’s Chinatown. When the justice system fails him, he is forced to push his moral and physical boundaries to track down the group of rogue Irish terrorists responsible for the death of his beloved daughter.
Brosnan will play Liam Hennessy, a former IRA member-turned-government official.
Campbell (“Goldeneye”) will direct from a script by David Marconi and Peter Buchman, who adapted Stephen Leather’s novel “The Chinaman.”
STX Entertainment and Beijing-based SR Media Corporation are co-financing the film, which will be produced by Wayne Marc Godfrey and Arthur Sarkissian.
In the ’90s, Brosnan reinvigorated the popularity of James Bond with blockbusters such as “Goldeneye,” “Tomorrow Never Dies,” “The World Is Not Enough” and “Die Another Day.” More recently, he starred in “No Escape” with Owen Wilson; “The Moon and the Sun” alongside William Hurt; “Survivor” with Milla Jovovich; and “How to Make Love Like an Englishman” with Salma Hayek, Jessica Alba and Malcolm McDowell.
Brosnan is also a producer whose company with Beau St. Clair, Irish DreamTime, has produced 10 films to date including “The November Man,” “The Matador” and “The Thomas Crown Affair.”

I'm been reviewing old Bond films in preparation for Spectre and I've always thought Brosnan was the oddest Bond. He started out playing a caricature of Bond in Remington Steele and then went on to play Bond on the heels of Timothy Dalton. He never quite worked for me, but I've liked him in other roles, like Mrs. Doubtfire.

[GeneChing]

It's worth the read if you're into the film industry, but for the rest of you who just like to keep up on Kung Fu flicks, I'm cutting to the chase with this cut-and-paste.


Annals of Hollywood JANUARY 11, 2016 ISSUE
The Mogul of the Middle (http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/01/11/the-mogul-of-the-middle)
As the movie business founders, Adam Fogelson tries to reinvent the system.
BY TAD FRIEND

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In a market suffused with pricey superhero films, Fogelson is betting on stories on a human scale. But he says, “If you ask, ‘Can we make something great once or twice a year that violates a rational business model?,’ the answer is no!”
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Adam Fogelson, the chairman of Hollywood’s newest studio, listened to a pitch for a film called “Unmanned” with an encouraging smile. Hollywood pitches are jolly, elaborately courteous affairs. So on this sunny afternoon the filmmakers—two producers, the director, and the star, Keanu Reeves, whose black suit and black T-shirt and black beard gave him the look of a stylish sexton—had cheerfully trekked over the hill to STX Entertainment’s offices in Burbank, and STX’s executives had cheerfully welcomed them with a bottomless supply of bottled water....

...Fogelson looks at comps, too, but then he applies a three-part test. First, can the film be great? (By “great,” he means “distinguished within its genre.” When he green-lit “The Boy,” a horror film that STX will release this month, he hoped merely that it could be “a great blend of two beloved subgenres of horror: the spooky doll, and the house haunted by a ****ed-up child.”) Then, Do we know how to sell it? And, Can we make much more in success than we lose in failure?

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“Yeah, I could walk all the way to Egypt. Or you could just free them yourself using magic.”

Modest profit doesn’t suffice. STX is now filming “The Foreigner,” which stars Jackie Chan as a former assassin who comes out of retirement to hunt the I.R.A. terrorists who blew up his daughter. Fogelson was confident that he could sell it, and that it was a “free play”—that it would earn enough in China alone to recoup its costs. The low-risk strategy would be to bring in a pliable unknown to direct. “We could have got a three-hundred-thousand-dollar director,” he said. “But we worked hard to get a Martin Campbell to give it a chance to be great.” Campbell, the director of “Casino Royale” and “GoldenEye,” got paid about two million dollars, which means that STX spent an extra $1.7 million to play the greatness lottery.

However, Fogelson noted, “If you ask, ‘Can we make something great once or twice a year that violates a rational business model?,’ the answer is no! It’s not a painting—it’s tens and tens of millions of dollars. Also, none of our movies are being made with the idea that they have to turn out great. Because eighty per cent of movies don’t.” When I mentioned a number of superb films that failed at the box office, and asked whether better marketing could have saved them, Fogelson said he wouldn’t have made them in the first place. He’d have scotched “Blade Runner,” because “darkness and sci-fi is really hard”; “Fight Club,” because “watching people beat the **** out of each other is a tough ask”; and “The Shawshank Redemption,” much as he loved it, because the obvious sell—an innocent man trying to escape from prison—was a huge spoiler...

...Later that week, Fogelson drove his Tesla to Beverly Hills to meet Jackie Chan in his suite at the Montage Hotel to discuss “The Foreigner.” Noting the brutality of the story, Chan said, “We need a happy ending. Otherwise the audience leaves, and—” He stood and shuffled off, shoulders bowed.

“Otherwise, it’s not sufficient reward for the journey you’ve asked the audience to go on,” Fogelson agreed.

Chan then suggested that a female character who got killed off in the script be kept alive. “We save her for No. 2,” Chan said. “Now the I.R.A. goes after her—and that’s the story.” Fogelson grinned and shook the actor’s hand.

Chan was just the kind of brand-extension expert that Fogelson needed to crack the Chinese market—and to attract wayward American viewers. Television has posed what might be called the “Game of Thrones” problem: once cinematic sex and violence, complete with dragons, are available on your phone, why pay a sitter and drive to a mall to see them? Even as the studios seek to distinguish their franchises from television, they have begun to shape them according to television’s dictates. A sequel like last May’s “Avengers: Age of Ultron,” from Marvel, is less a self-contained film than a loose amalgam of ongoing stories. The film lays track for two future sequels and allots significant screen time to each of the film’s fourteen main characters so they can serve as calendar reminders of forthcoming spinoffs and other ancillary products, including, of course, TV shows. The film is essentially a two-hundred-and-fifty-million-dollar episode of a television drama that airs every few years.

To Fogelson, this Scheherazade sensibility makes both financial and creative sense. Driving back to the office after meeting with Chan, he remarked, “A few years ago, thinking about the sequel that way would be characterized as a lazy, greedy *******ization of the creative process. If you said that now, you’d be telling the entire world that they’re wrong. Sequels have become a duty—a form of storytelling that, thanks to great television, audiences have grown accustomed to. You can aspire to create six two-hour movies that develop your concept across multiple resolutions—which makes movies easier to sell, and creates a more predictable business model. Half the films we’ll say yes to will have sequelable potential.”


More on the Mile 22 thread (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?68475-Mile-22&p=1289952#post1289952).

[GeneChing]

Always dapper. Expect no less for an ex-Bond.


Pierce Brosnan shows off his greying hair and white beard as he suits up on set for new action thriller with Jackie Chan (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-3398039/Pierce-Brosnan-shows-greying-hair-white-beard-suits-set-new-action-thriller-Jackie-Chan.html)
By JOANNA CRAWLEY FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 14:36 EST, 13 January 2016 | UPDATED: 14:56 EST, 13 January 2016

He's reuniting with his Goldeneye director twenty years after their Bond team-up.
And while Pierce Brosnan may have cut a very different figure two decades on as he got to work on set on Wednesday, the action man was still looking decidedly dapper.

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Action! Pierce Brosnan, 62, was sporting a white beard and greying hair for a day of filming in London on Wednesday for a big screen thriller based on Stephen Leather's novel The Chinaman

Pierce was smart in a black overcoat layered over a grey suit for the day on set.
A purple tie added a pop of colour to his dapper wardrobe, while the Hollywood star wore glasses to finish off his character's ensemble.
The actor is starring opposite Jackie Chan in the untitled action thriller from director Martin Campbell, who was behind the camera for Pierce's Bond debut in 1994's Goldeneye.

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Dapper: Pierce was looking smart in a black overcoat layered over a grey suit for the day on set

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Suited up: A purple tie added a pop of colour to his dapper wardrobe, while the Hollywood star wore glasses to finish off his character's ensemble

Chan stars as a restaurant owner in London's Chinatown who embarks on a one-man mission to track down a group of rogue Irish terrorists responsible for the death of his daughter.
Brosnan has signed up to play former IRA member turned government official Liam Hennessy.
Last week the actor was feeling nostalgic for his first team-up with director Campbell back in 1994, sharing a throwback shot on his Instagram page from around the time he wrapped filming on his Bond debut.

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Talented team: The actor is starring opposite Jackie Chan in the untitled action thriller from director Martin Campbell, who was behind the camera for Pierce's Bond debut in 1994's Goldeneye

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Getting down to business: Pierce blended in with Londoners in his classic suit

The stunning photo shows the handsome star posing with his then girlfriend and now wife Keely Shaye Smith, alongside the caption: 'I had just finished Goldeneye and we went Bora.'
Pierce has been throwing himself back into work this week following the sad news of the death of his producing partner Beau St. Clair -- with whom the actor had a thirty-year friendship -- over the weekend.
'Beau was the sister I never had,' the Hollywood star said in a statement of his 63-year-old friend and colleague.

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Rolling: Pierce was seen leaving a London location and jumping into a waiting car in his smart outfit

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Thriller: Chan stars as a humble restaurant owner in London's Chinatown who embarks on a one-man mission to track down a group of rogue Irish terrorists responsible for the death of his daughter

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Complicated character: Brosnan has signed up to play former IRA member turned government official Liam Hennessy

St. Clair's publicist Jennifer Allen told the Hollywood Reporter St. Clair was at her Malibu home Saturday night when she died following a battle with ovarian cancer.
Brosnan publicly mourned St. Clair's death on Instagram Monday, posting a photograph of them together.
The caption said: 'Farewell my Darling Beau Marie... We made memories in the movies we made, and a deep friendship in the life we shared...into the Dreamtime you go now...love and always love...'

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Memories: Last week the actor was feeling nostalgic for his first team-up with director Campbell back in 1994, sharing a throwback shot with his wife Keely Shaye Smith from around the time he wrapped Goldeneye

[GeneChing]

Alas. U.K. tabloids. :rolleyes:


Jackie Chan: Time To Stop Taking Kicks To The Head? (http://www.nationalenquirer.com/photos/jackie-chan-ready-to-collapse/photo/111442/)
By Joe Diliberto
Posted on Jan 25, 2016 @ 14:24PM

Celebrated Hong Kong-born martial artist and actor Jackie Chan, 61, was looking a lot worse for wear when he was spotted filming the new movie “The Foreigner” in London yesterday. Jackie is famous for doing his own stunts, and his litany of broken bones and serious injuries is legendary. In fact, his 2013 movie “Raising Dragon” was promoted in Japan with a poster cataloging all of his major injuries!

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“The Foreigner” is an adaptation of the 1992 novel “The Chinaman,” about a restaurant owner in London’s Chinatown battling Irish terrorists who were responsible for the death of his daughter.

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Jackie appears a bit unsteady on his feet in these photos. Or, maybe his character is employing some variation of the kung fu Jackie showcased in his classic 1978 film “Drunken Master,” in which he played a martial artist who could fight better while drunk!

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While you’re waiting for “The Foreigner,” you can hear Jackie as the voice of Monkey in the animated feature “Kung Fu Panda 3” in theaters right now. A fourth “Rush Hour” movie has been announced, which would reteam him with Chris Tucker for the first time since “Rush Hour 3” in 2007. He is also set to reprise his role as Mr. Han in “Karate Kid 2,” with Jaden Smith.

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[GeneChing]

I'm guessing this is funnier if you speak Irish. ;)


The Foreigner: Jackie Chan v The IRA and definitely-not-Gerry-Adams (http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/film/the-foreigner-jackie-chan-v-the-ira-and-definitely-not-gerry-adams-1.2513834)
Jackie Chan takes on the IRA in his latest film. Here’s how we see it playing out
Fri, Jan 29, 2016, 11:30
Una Mullally

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Upcoming film The Foreigner sees Jackie Chan take revenge on Irish terrorists who are responsible for the death of his daughter. Pierce Brosnan plays the definitely-not-based-on-Gerry-Adams character of Liam Hennessy, a government official and former IRA member. The Foreigner was already a perfect Steven Seagal movie, so we’ve decided to rename the film Jackie Chan v The IRA (or potentially Jackie’s Army). And we’ve reworked the first page of the script to move it from the actual film’s setting (London), to a much more local spot (Dublin).
FADE IN. EXT SINN FÉIN SHOP, PARNELL SQUARE – NIGHT
In Dublin’s gritty north inner city, a neon map of Ireland flickers in the window.
INT SINN FÉIN SHOP
LIAM, a grey-bearded Belfast man who is definitely not based on Gerry Adams looks up from his iPhone.
LIAM
The 1977 filter on my Instagram isn’t working, and I want to post this picture of me with a lemur on my head.
SAOIRSE, a flame-haired young woman, readjusts her replica Cumann Na mBan badge to cover the Jack Wills logo on her polo shirt.
SAOIRSE
Sure you don’t want to go back to 1977, Liam?
Laughter.
LIAM
It wasn’t the worst year, Saoirse a stór . . . not that I’d know anything about that.
The door buzzer BUZZES. Saoirse presses the intercom.
SAOIRSE
Sorry, we’re closed.
VOICE
(through the intercom) I’m looking beat for Liam Hennessy.
LIAM stands up, hurriedly gathering his belongings off the TABLE he was sitting at and shoving them into his BAG.
LIAM
If it’s Mary Lou tell her I’m at a children’s party. On a bouncy castle or something. Or at a petting zoo.
SAOIRSE
I’m afraid Mr Hennessy isn’t here right now, and I’m about to lock up.
QUAN, an ageing Hong Kong man with a stricken look on his face, crashes through the WINDOW, the toe of his shoe stuck in the neon loop that forms LOUGH NEAGH.
QUAN
I guess I’ll have to let myself in then.

[GeneChing]

Epic Bus Explosion for Jackie Chan Movie Causes Panic in London (http://www.etonline.com/news/181847_epic_bus_explosion_for_jackie_chan_movie_ca uses_panic_london/)
by Raphael Chestang 12:21 PM PST, February 08, 2016

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Onlookers were sent into a panic on Sunday morning when a double-decker bus exploded in London as a part of a stunt for an upcoming Jackie Chan movie.

Londoners tweeted their frustration, complaining that they weren't properly warned about the realistic-looking explosion, which some feared was a terrorist attack.

"Hey, film types, next time you blow up a bus on Lambeth Bridge maybe tell us first so children in park aren't freaked?" author Sophie Kinsella tweeted.


Sophie Kinsella (https://twitter.com/KinsellaSophie/status/696281681326686208/photo/1)
‏@KinsellaSophie
Hey film types next time you blow up a bus on Lambeth Bridge maybe tell us first so children in park aren't freaked?

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According to People, the film crew posted warnings that the explosion would be taking place, but the large fireball that ripped off the roof of the bus could be seen from far away.

"The scale and realism of the explosion would have worried a lot of people who were quite a long way off and not able to see the film crew and cameras," Parliament member Nigel Huddleston told The Guardian. "Walking past parliament a few minutes later, some tourists clearly had no idea whether it was real or not."

The blast was especially worrisome as it stirred up memories of the 7/7 bombings in London that took 52 civilian lives on July 7, 2005. With this in mind, Huddleston tweeted a video of the explosion, letting his followers know that it was fake.

"Anyone worried about the exploding bus on Lambeth Bridge just now?" he wrote. "It was just for a movie."


Nigel Huddleston (https://amp.twimg.com/amplify-web-player/prod/source.html?video_url=https%3A%2F%2Fvideo.twimg.co m%2Fext_tw_video%2F696279941810405376%2Fpu%2Fvid%2 F1280x720%2FCRpz3EABWJbD3l6A.mp4&content_type=video%2Fmp4&scribe_playlist_url=http%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2FHud dlestonNigel%2Fstatus%2F696280033808269312%2Fvideo %2F1&image_src=https%3A%2F%2Fpbs.twimg.com%2Fext_tw_vid eo_thumb%2F696279941810405376%2Fpu%2Fimg%2FCy4zoYs Qc6Pb2NpJ.jpg&video_owner_id=568249574&language_code=en&media_id=696279941810405376&json_rpc=1) MP @HuddlestonNigel
Anyone worried about the exploding bus on Lambeth Bridge just now? It was just for a movie.
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The scene was reportedly being filmed for The Foreigner, starring Chan and Pierce Brosnan.

JC films - the new terrorism.

[GeneChing]

Harry Potter star Katie Leung takes the driving seat as she films action thriller The Foreigner with Jackie Chan (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-3454970/Katie-Leung-takes-driving-seat-films-action-thriller-Foreigner-Jackie-Chan.html)
By REBECCA LAWRENCE FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 13:10 EST, 19 February 2016 | UPDATED: 13:19 EST, 19 February 2016

She made a name for herself as Cho Chang in the Harry Potter series.
But Katie Leung was swapping her magic skills for driving skills as she filmed scenes for her latest film, The Foreigner, in London on Thursday.
Joined by the movie's leading man, Jackie Chan, the 28-year-old seemed in good spirits on set, beaming as she filmed her scenes.

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In the driving seat: Katie Leung, 28, was swapping her magic skills for driving skills as she filmed scenes for her latest film, The Foreigner, in London on Thursday

Working on what appeared to be a high speed chase scene, Katie took the driving seat during the production.
Chatting with the cast and crew of the film, Katie looked ready for action whilst Jackie settled himself in for a long day of work.
Racing around the set, the 61-year-old looked half his age as he worked behind the scenes.

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The Karate Man: Racing around the set, Jackie Chan looked half his 61 years of age as he worked behind the scenes on his latest action thriller which will see him show off more of his action skills

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All smiles: Joined by the leading man, Jackie, the Harry Potter actress seemed in good spirits on set, beaming as she filmed her scenes and chatting away with the members of cast and crew

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Fast car: Working on what appeared to be a high speed chase scene, Katie took the driving seat during the production and looked ready for action whilst Jackie settled himself in for a long day of work

Also starring fellow action man, Pierce Brosnan, The Foreigner is based on Stephen Leather's 1992 novel The Chinaman.
Starring as Quan in the film, Jackie plays the role of a Chinatown restaurant owner who is forced to track down a group of Irish terrorists responsible for the death of his daughter after the police fail to.
Filming for the movie began in January, but the crew found themselves heavily criticised after setting up a stunt that proved so realistic that police were called to the scene.

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Action King: The Foreigner is based on Stephen Leather's 1992 novel The Chinaman, and Jackie will star as Quan in the film, a Chinatown restaurant owner who is forced to track down a group of Irish terrorists

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Revenge: Following in the lead of his previous action roles, the fast paced film will see Jackie tearing through the streets of London to avenge the death of his daughter who was killed by terrorists
Earlier this month, filmmakers blew up a double decker bus on Lambeth Bridge which left terrified Londoners fearing a terrorist attack had taken place and called the police.
Social media websites were filled with pictures and concerned tweets surrounding the explosion, but the emergency services were quick to assure the public that it had been a controlled incident.
A Met spokesman told MailOnline that they received two calls after the incident but their team knew there was filming on the bridge and were able to reassure the panicked callers.

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Star-studded: Jackie was seen on set without his co-star Pierce Brosnan who will also play a leading role

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Too realistic: Earlier this month, filmmakers blew up a double decker bus on Lambeth Bridge which left terrified Londoners fearing a terrorist attack had taken place and called the police

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Panicked: A Met spokesman told MailOnline that they received two calls after the incident but their team knew there was filming on the bridge and were able to reassure the panicked callers



One of my metrics for anything coming out of the U.K. is the Harry Potter (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/ezine/article.php?article=978)factor = how many HP stars are in the production.

[GeneChing]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wJYrddFU4c

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Coincidentally, there's mention of this film in my latest ezine offering, INTO THE BADLANDS: Women Warriors and Whitewashing (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/ezine/article.php?article=1347) because Orla Brady is in both.


China Date Set For Jackie Chan Pic ‘The Foreigner’ – CinemaCon (http://deadline.com/2017/03/jackie-chan-the-foreigner-movie-china-release-date-stx-1202053954/)

by Anita Busch
March 28, 2017 1:47pm

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The Foreigner, starring Jackie Chan, has landed a September 29 release date in China. The news came out of STX’s CinemaCon presentation Tuesday morning in Las Vegas, where STX motion picture group chair Adam Fogelson noted that the project is a Chinese co-production. Chan is a beloved star in the Middle Kingdom; his past two films — Kung Fu Yoga and Railroad Tigers — did gangbuster business in the country.

The Foreigner is based on the book The Chinaman by Stephen Leather about a humble restaurant owner in London’s Chinatown who is forced to push his moral and physical boundaries to track down the group of rogue Irish terrorists responsible for the death of his beloved daughter after the justice system fails him. The book was adapted by David Marconi (Enemy of the State, Mission Impossible 2).

The film was fast-tracked into production by STX a couple of years ago and quickly got director Martin Campbell on board. The actioner also stars Pierce Brosnan. Chan will next star in Bleeding Steel from writer/director Lijia Zhang for Chinese production company Heyi Pictures.

[GeneChing]

Yesterday, 10:30 am
Jackie Chan's THE FOREIGNER Gets Brooding U.S. Poster (http://screenanarchy.com/2017/06/jackie-chans-the-foreigner-gets-brooding-us-poster.html)
Peter Martin
MANAGING EDITOR; DALLAS, TEXAS, USA (@PETERAMARTIN)

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Jackie Chan remains as busy as ever. Within the past year, we've seen the Chinese period piece Railroad Tigers and the modern Chinese/Indian fusion Kung Fu Yoga, which both showed him in his familiar guise as a heroic action figure.

The Foreigner promises to show him in a different light, as a man seeking vengeance for his family. Reportedly, it will emphasize the action in the premise; Chan plays a restaurant owner in London whose family is victimized by Irish terrorists. It's based on Stephen Leather's novel The Chinaman (?!), first published in 1992.

Pierce Brosnan, who's done quite a variety of colorful roles since his days as James Bond, is Chan's costar, along with Katie Leung and Tao Liu. Speaking of Bond, Martin Campbell, perhaps best known for Bond installments GoldenEye and Casino Royale, is directing.

The film is scheduled for release this fall -- October 13 in the U.S. The first U.S. poster has now been released, which you can see in full below (via Reddit.) I'm quite intrigued, but I'm an unbridled optimist. What say you?

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Strong Bond connection. I'm interpreting that as promising.

[GeneChing]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFCM6L6Nl5E

[GeneChing]

Jackie Chan’s New Film Sparks Outrage Because His Character is ‘Vietnamese’ (https://nextshark.com/jackie-chan-is-vietnamese-in-the-foreigner/)
By Ryan General Posted on July 3, 2017

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The trailer for Jackie Chan’s new film “The Foreigner” has since been released to much acclaim, but another issue with Chan’s character is now creating a buzz online.

Based on the 1992 novel “The Chinaman” by Stephen Leather, the new thriller is directed by “Casino Royale” director Martin Campbell. Chan’s latest role marks a departure from his usual comedic action style in favor of a brooding serious tone that shows off his acting prowess.


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But while many are understandably excited about the action legend’s return to the big screen, some people have expressed criticisms over his casting.

The negative reaction apparently stems from the interpretation that Chan’s character in the film is Vietnamese. A scene in the trailer showed a passport identifying the character as a Vietnamese immigrant in London named Ngoc Minh Quan.


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Twitter user @linhtropy posted a series of tweets pointing out how “You can’t mix-and-match people’s ethnicities.”

@Linhtropy further explained that having a Chinese actor play a Viet character can be a form of erasing Vietnamese culture, especially since China has been one of the countries that colonized Vietnam in the past.

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Asian-American user @Reappropriate added that the film itself is a problem as it is based on a book titled with a racial slur.

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Both critics also pointed out that while having an Asian actor star in a Hollywood movie already means a lot for representation, miscasting ethnicities misses the whole point.

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However, a representative for the film revealed that Chan’s character is actually Chinese, and the plot involves some mysteries on the hero’s real identity.

In a statement released to Teen Vogue, a spokesperson for STX Entertainment said:

“SPOILER ALERT: The character is Chinese in the movie and is being brought to life on screen by Jackie Chan, one of the most beloved and popular actors known throughout the world. We can’t wait for audiences to see Jackie in this extraordinary role (with extraordinary plot twists about his true identity).”

We’ll all find out soon enough how well all this plays out as “The Foreigner” opens stateside on October 13, 2017.

Twitter is just a place to ***** about stuff nowadays. :rolleyes:

[GeneChing]

Good Jackie interview - best I've read lately.

Jackie Chan talks battling Bond and learning to build (fake) bombs for The Foreigner (http://ew.com/movies/2017/08/17/the-foreigner-jackie-chan-interview/)
The martial arts icon plays a grieving father hunting down the terrorists who killed his daughter
SHIRLEY LI@SHIRKLESXP
POSTED ON AUGUST 17, 2017 AT 9:30AM EDT

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CHRISTOPHER RAPHAEL/STX

Jackie Chan may be a martial arts legend, but he admits he could use a break from the stunts.

The 63-year-old actor says he had been searching for more dramatic roles when the perfect project arrived in the form of The Foreigner, a thriller based on a 1992 novel titled The Chinaman by Stephen Leather about a despondent immigrant who sets out to hunt down those responsible for the London terrorist attack that killed his daughter. Chan leaped at the opportunity to play Quan, the soft-spoken-but-deadly antihero, even if it meant some new bruises along the way. “I’m too used to injuries,” he admits. “But if I want to keep making movies, I have to change.”

EW spoke with Chan in July about filming the action-drama opposite Pierce Brosnan (who plays British government official Hennessy, a man who knows more about the bombing than he lets on) and getting a chance to flex his acting muscles along with his literal ones. (Note: This interview was conducted in Mandarin, and has been translated below.)

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: What drew you to The Foreigner, to doing a drama?

JACKIE CHAN: To put it simply, I’m not young anymore. [Laughs] If I still want to keep making movies, I have to be, like, an Asian De Niro, Dustin Hoffman, or Clint Eastwood, who at 80 can still be actors. When you think about it, in Japan, Hong Kong, China, U.S., there are so many action stars, but a lot of them now are no longer working.

So that’s why I’m saying I have to change. After all these decades, I’m sure you’ll understand, I’m always changing, looking for a good story. I believe that after these years the audience will understand that Jackie Chan is an actor and no longer just an action star, just a kung fu star. So today I’m still working in action, and it’s not easy, but if I want to keep making movies, I have to change.

What about the story itself attracted you to this role? Did you read the novel?

Yes. A few years ago, the screenwriter was talking to me about the story, and he said to me, “If you don’t do this role, no one can.” And I really liked the story, I liked the character. He’s someone who’s been through a tough past, but found a comfortable life and stays out of trouble, he retired and he doesn’t want to let anyone know about his past, but very sadly, he meets another tragedy. Because of that, he has to rely on his old skills and use them to protect other innocent people, and take revenge on what happened to his daughter.

But even then, this method of revenge isn’t good either, you know? It’s not the best solution. I hope through this film people will understand that violence shouldn’t be the only answer. You can’t say, you screwed with me and now that you’ve done that I’m going to also hurt your people. That’s not right either.

A lot of the stunts in The Foreigner aren’t huge set pieces, but smaller, hand-to-hand combat scenes that take place in corridors and confined spaces instead of, say, through entire hotels or major landmarks.

Yes, because at this age, that helps with my work. And I play the owner of a restaurant in the film, who has spent many years not moving around… So my fighting style in this has to be believable. He’s old, so in the beginning I’m walking slowly. And after I set out for vengeance, then I could start to bring out the force of my fighting style. Just, depending on what scene it is or situation it is, you have to match your fighting style to it.

How intense were those fight scenes? Any injuries?

I’m too used to injuries. To me, if you don’t end up in the hospital, then those don’t count as injuries. [Laughs] That happens very little, but of course, I definitely got some in this; they always happen when you do action films.


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Let’s talk about your character a little more. He’s a father who decides to hunt down the terrorists who bombed an ordinary street in London, killing his daughter (Katie Leung). Why do you think a story like this, adapted from a novel published in 1992, is important to tell now?

Because when you look at these past decades, how many innocent people have been killed by bombings and by terrorism? They were innocent, and it’s devastating, and I hope this film will open hearts and help people see that they shouldn’t hurt people and shouldn’t do anything like this. Through The Foreigner, and through the music I write, I want to make it clear that it’s devastating to see so many innocent people hurt in these attacks. Why isn’t it possible for the world to find peace? We can’t let a small group of people hurt this many people. That’s why I filmed this…. The Manchester bombing hadn’t happened yet when we were filming. After we finished, it happened. And something like what happened in Manchester, around there, all around the world, in every corner, things like that are happening.

So filming this was a chance to talk about peace. We, all of us, need peace, in order to build a peaceful world and live a peaceful life. I filmed that, and then I looked around and saw there were bombings everywhere…. I really think, if what I do can help spread peace, then I’m happy! I hope that this movie, after people see it, hopefully there will be fewer bombs, maybe it’ll take away one or two. Even that I feel like would be a positive effect on the world.

Well, speaking of bombs, Quan does build quite a few intricate homemade ones throughout the film to threaten the officials keeping information from him. Was there someone on set who helped you through those sequences?

Yes, on set, there was an expert who taught me.

Wait, so you know how to build a bomb?

Oh, no, no, no. I don’t know how to build them, that’s way too hard. [Laughs] It’s just for appearances.

What was it like working with Pierce Brosnan and director Martin Campbell (Casino Royale)?

Martin is, out of all the directors I’ve met over the years and worked with over the years, one of the most hard-working directors I’ve met. Really! He’s even more hard-working than I am. [Laughs] He works hard, he’s always prepared.

Pierce Brosnan, well, he’s excellent, very focused on his work. He’s an actor who, I’ll tell you this, there was one day he woke up at 6 [in the morning] and got dressed and ran lines and trained with me and then I said, “Okay, now you’re off to hair and makeup?” And he said, “No, I’m going back to bed,” and I said “What?! You came here just to help me rehearse?! Wow!” I was very emotional; I mean these days, how many actors are there who would do that for you? So I felt, I thought my partners and collaborators were very professional, very hardworking. I was very happy.

Did it ever cross your mind that you were in scenes with a former James Bond?

No, we’re just two actors… I’ve met him before, actually. We were in Africa together once for Miss World [in 1993, when Chan was a judge and Brosnan a presenter], but I never thought we’d get a chance to work together. And I remember through Michelle Yeoh, I’ve also met him, so I’m very happy to get to work with him. On set, he could teach me and help me with my English, and when it came to fighting, I would help him. We worked together really well.

What’s next for you, after this film?

I hope every year I can get to make different films and do different things, maybe voice more animated films, or make films where you see me doing things you haven’t seen me try before, or even ones where you see me do familiar things. And on top of that, I want to continue singing songs. It’s all to demonstrate that I can do more [than fighting]. I hope the more you see me, the more you can understand that I’m capable of many things.

The Foreigner arrives in theaters October 13.

[GeneChing]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQiSQyNcPIc

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72dZ65Fs-LY

[GeneChing]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FI3_6AvnoL8

[GeneChing]

Jackie Chan Wants To Be Play A Romantic Lead (http://teamcoco.com/video/jackie-chan-wants-to-be-play-a-romantic-lead?playlist=x;eyJ0b3RhbCI6MTA0OTQsInR5cGUiOiJyZW NlbnQiLCJpZCI6bnVsbH0)

September 14, 2017

Jackie wants to star in a movie where he kisses women on the beach in slow motion, but he fears he’s too old — like Conan.

Jackie is great with Coco.

The Foreigner (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?68698-The-Foreigner) (and Rush Hour (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?63743-Rush-Hour-4))

[GeneChing]

You must follow the link to see the vid (although at this rate, we'll see all the fight scenes before the film comes out).


Exclusive
Jackie Chan fights his way out of a tight corner in The Foreigner clip (http://ew.com/movies/2017/09/29/jackie-chan-the-foreigner-exclusive-clip/)
Shirley Li@shirklesxp
Posted on September 29, 2017 at 11:00am EDT

Even at 63, Jackie Chan can still kick ass.

In the exclusive clip above from upcoming thriller The Foreigner, Chan stars as Quan, a father hunting down the terrorists who carried out the bombing that killed his daughter (the Harry Potter franchise’s Katie Leung). Here, a group of men hoping to keep him quiet have found him first, but he makes a brutal escape, taking them down one by one until he crashes through a window.

It’s one of several fight scenes in which Chan says he tried to capture his character’s (and his own) age. “I play the owner of a restaurant in the film, who has spent many years not moving around,” he told EW. “So my fighting style in this has to be believable.”

The Foreigner, also starring Pierce Brosnan, hits theaters Oct. 13.

[GeneChing]

I got nothing on Never Say Die (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?70487-Never-Say-Die) but it beat out both Jackie's The Foreigner (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?68698-The-Foreigner) and Donnie's Chasing the Dragon (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?69767-Chasing-the-Dragon) (and Orlando's S.M.A.R.T. Chase (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?69719-S-M-A-R-T-Chase-Fire-amp-Earth), which we do care about because Orlando is cool and rocks Feiyues (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?41187-Tiger-Claw-brand-Feiyue&p=1013333#post1013333)) for the Moon Fest (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?58432-Happy-Autumn-Moon-!!!) movie rush, so I guess I should check it out.


China Box Office: Martial Arts Comedy Opens to $46M, Topping Jackie Chan's 'The Foreigner' (http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/china-box-office-martial-arts-comedy-earns-46m-topping-jackie-chans-foreigner-1044772)
2:46 AM PDT 10/2/2017 by Patrick Brzeski

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'The Foreigner'

Local comedy 'Never Say Die' outperformed Chan's STX-backed action thriller, which earned $21.9 million on Saturday and Sunday.
Martial arts comedy Never Say Die came out swinging at the Chinese box office over the weekend, opening with $46.2 million on Saturday and Sunday.

The slapstick hit relegated Jackie Chan to a rare second-place finish, as his STX-produced action thriller The Foreigner opened with $21.9 million over the same two days.

Sunday was the start of one of China's so-called "Golden Weeks," a lucky succession of national holidays that results in most Chinese employees getting a full seven days off work. In recent years, this reprieve has translated into brisk business at Chinese multiplexes. In response, Chinese regulators have taken to blocking Hollywood movie openings during the holiday, putting the focus on Chinese culture while giving local studios a boost.

Never Say Die was produced by Beijing theater group Mahua Fun Age, the creative force behind last year's comedy smash Goodbye Mr. Loser ($226 million). Never Say Die tells the story of a boxer and a journalist who mysteriously swap bodies after they are zapped by electricity, sending the duo spinning through a series of slapstick misadventures. The film is an adaptation of a hit Mahua stage comedy of the same name. Directed by Song Yang and Zhang Chiyu (the director pair behind the play), the film stars Ai Lun and Ma Li, two of the leads from Mr. Loser.

Directed by Martin Campbell and co-starring Pierce Brosnan, The Foreigner finds Chan in "serious Jackie Chan" mode, playing a humble London businessman whose mysterious past erupts in a revenge-fuelled vendetta when his teenage daughter dies in a terrorist attack. The English-language film earned just shy of $2 million on Imax screens over the weekend. Respectable word of mouth suggests the movie will hold onto second place throughout the week. A U.K.-China co-production, The Foreigner is set to open in North America on Oct. 13.

Chasing the Dragon, a slick martial arts drama starring Hong Kong favorites Donnie Yen and Andy Lau, landed in third place with $14.2 million. It was followed by Sky Hunter, a patriotic air force action flick directed by and starring Li Chen, which earned $13 million. Fan Bingbing, Li's real-life fiance, co-stars as the romantic lead.

Although Hollywood movies are blocked from opening over National Day, one other familiar Western face did pop up on Chinese screens over the weekend. S.M.A.R.T. Chase, a Chinese road race thriller produced by Shanghai-based Bliss Media and starring Orlando Bloom, also debuted Saturday. The film hit the track with a sputter, however, taking just $1.5 million for the frame.

[GeneChing]

Funny how perspective plays out on the same data. :rolleyes:


OCT 1, 2017 @ 11:00 AM
Box Office: Jackie Chan's 'The Foreigner' Kicks Butt In China, 'Flatliners' Flatlines (https://www.forbes.com/sites/scottmendelson/2017/10/01/box-office-jackie-chans-the-foreigner-kicks-butt-in-china-flatliners-flatlines/#7a153ebe1f7d)
Scott Mendelson , CONTRIBUTOR I cover the film industry.
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Jackie Chan and Pierce Brosnan in 'The Foreigner'

First, a digression over in China, where Jackie Chan and Pierce Brosnan's The Foreigner scored $11.4 million on its opening day in China on Saturday, before earning around $8.5m on Sunday for a $19.9m two-day total, or $21.1m with online ticketing fees. The Martin Campbell action thriller, about a former government agent who puts his skills back to work to avenge the death of his daughter, is one of a few big releases in advance of National Day.

The top movie was actually a Chinese comedy titled Never Say Die, which earned $20.1 million on Friday. But since The Foreigner is the first live-action Jackie Chan movie in seven years to get a major North American theatrical release (STX Entertainment opens it here on Oct. 13), I am beyond curious as to whether this is his first big (recent) Chinese hit to also cross over into American cinemas as well. With a $35m budget, it doesn't really have to.

The $11.4 million opening day (not counting online fees) is lower than the $18.7 million opening day of Dragon Blade, but it's worth noting that Kung Fu Yoga earned $39m in its first two days before exploding for what would be a $254m Chinese total earlier this year. The Martin Campbell-directed thriller, which I haven't yet seen, is (presumably) less of a family-friendly crowdpleaser compared to Kung Fu Yoga or even the Jackie Chan/Johnny Knoxville action comedy Skip Trace which earned $133m in China last year.

But, again, those films had limited domestic theatrical releases and made pennies in theaters while testing their fates in the VOD markets. We'll see if a post-Karate Kid absence has made the heart grow fonder.

The only "big" domestic opener this weekend aside from American Made was Flatliners, which snuck into theaters sans pre-release reviews or even Thursday night advance screenings. Yeah, I'm wondering if the whole "no Thursday previews" thing is a new way to hold off a terrible Rotten Tomatoes score too, but we'll see how that goes. As of this morning, the ill-advised and allegedly quite flat Flatliners remake had a 0/35 score with an average critic ranking of 3.5/10.

The Niels Arden Oplev-directed picture is a remake of a 1990 Joel Schumacher movie that is famous for both a pretty great premise and a white-hot cast (Keifer Sutherland, Julia Roberts, Kevin Bacon, Oliver Platt, William Baldwin). This remake actually has both, with the same "med students kill themselves to bring themselves back to life and tell of the afterlife" premise and a pretty decent cast in Ellen Page, Diego Luna, Nina Dobrev, James Norton and Kiersey Clemons.

But star power isn't what it used to be and the whole "remake an old movie because it's now IP" thing isn't nearly as sure of a bet as Hollywood thinks. The new film didn't look any bigger or more outlandish than the original, and the original is available to rent on Amazon Prime for $3 right now. So, anyway, sans good reviews or any real buzz, the film grossed $6.7 million over the weekend, an admittedly strong weekend 3x multiplier.

Sony is only on the hook for around 75% of the film's $19m budget, but this is still not a good look for the studio. Once again, one cannot survive on Spider-Man alone, so fingers crossed for Only the Brave, Denzel Washington's Roman J. Israel Esq, The Star and Jumanji.

There were two blink-and-you-miss-them newbies this weekend as well. Newbie distributor Novus opened Til Death Do Us Part in 550 theaters this weekend. The Chris Stokes (You Got Served) thriller, starring Jessica Vanessa DeLeon, Taye Diggs and Stephen Bishop, is a loose variation on Julia Roberts' Sleeping with the Enemy.

Had it done better this weekend, I could have opined about the value of the rip-off versus the remake. It earned $1.533 million for the weekend, again with an oddly strong 3.3x weekend multiplier. Still, there is a case to be made that, relatively speaking, the remake was no more successful than the loose rip-off, with the difference being that folks might actually discover Til Death Do Us Part in the years to come while most folks will opt for the original Flatliners.

Pureflix’s faith-based film A Question of Faith opened in 661 theaters and grossed $1 million for the weekend.



Never Say Die (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?70487-Never-Say-Die) vs. The Foreigner (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?68698-The-Foreigner).

Dragon Blade (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?67531-Dragon-Blade)
Kung Fu Yoga (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?68161-Kung-Fu-Yoga)
Skiptrace (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?65866-Skiptrace)

[GeneChing]

I saw the screener last night but am under embargo until Friday, when I'll drop my review. I will say this - best Jackie film in years.

Also those netizens that trolled this film because of racism or whatev that was (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?68698-The-Foreigner&p=1303722#post1303722) based on the trailer were so wack. The film explains this very intelligently and anyone who knows about Asian history will see that it's totally valid. Just goes to show you can't judge a book by its cover or a film by its trailer.


The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (http://www.cbs.com/shows/the-late-show-with-stephen-colbert/video/taIu_UKw_cN7pEnd8ILA_9HWhmpPSmRb/jackie-chan-has-done-everything-but-mamma-mia-/)
Jackie Chan Has Done Everything But 'Mamma Mia!' S3 (7:59)
'The Foreigner' star has done it all in his illustrious career on the silver screen. Well, almost everything... except sing ABBA.

[GeneChing]

More Rush Hour 4 (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?63743-Rush-Hour-4) buzz from Jackie's Foreigner (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?68698-The-Foreigner) press appearances but this one is hilarious - of course Tucker is going to do it - Tucker would pay to do it now. :p


Jackie Chan hypes up Rush Hour 4, threatens to kill off Chris Tucker to make it happen (http://shanghaiist.com/2017/10/11/jackie-chan-rush-hour-sequel.php)
BY SHANGHAIIST IN NEWS ON OCT 11, 2017 8:30 PM

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It's been ten years since the last Rush Hour movie opened in theaters to the universal disgust of critics but relative enthusiasm from moviegoers, making $258 million at the box office. Now, Jackie Chan is looking to get the band back together for a sequel.
The 63-year-old actor and self-defense instructor tried to stir up some hype for Rush Hour 4 during an appearance yesterday on the Today Show to promote his latest martial arts flick, The Foreigner. During that broadcast, and another appearance following it on Live with Kelly and Ryan, Chan repeatedly tried to bully his former co-star Chris Tucker into signing onto a sequel, threatening that if he does not, the new movie will open with his funeral.
"If you're not going to do it, the beginning of the movie: funeral, he died," Chan said. "His son take over."


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AyBFXjE-hA

Chan first teased Rush Hour 4 in a radio interview last Thursday, saying that he had already agreed to a script and was just waiting for his partner-in-crime-fighting to sign on as well.
"For the last seven years we've been turning down the script, turning down the script... yesterday we just agreed. Probably end of this month they'll have a second draft. Next year, they'll probably start, I hope -- if Chris Tucker agrees," Chan said.
In the first Rush Hour film, Chan played a dedicated Hong Kong detective who is teamed up with a loud, over-the-top LAPD detective, played by Tucker, and tasked with rescuing the Chinese consul's kidnapped daughter. The premise made for a bearable action-comedy that was even somewhat enjoyable at points. However, not so much for the sequels, which stretched the premise thin and repeated gags and jokes from the first movie with limited success. There is likely little hope that a fourth movie would help to redeem the series.

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A decade ago, Chan also blamed his buddy Tucker with delaying Rush Hour 3, which took six long years to come out. Since the turn of the century, Tucker has only acted in four movies: Rush Hour 2, Rush Hour 3, Silver Linings Playbook and Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk.
By Máté Mohos

[GeneChing]

Still got nothing on this film. But we do have a thread on Goodbye Mr. Loser (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?69015-Goodbye-Mr-Loser-%26%2322799%3B%26%2327931%3B%26%2329305%3B%26%2329 033%3B%26%2324817%3B)


China Box Office: 'Never Say Die' Hurtles Past $200M (http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/china-box-office-never-say-die-hurtles-past-200m-1046897)
9:08 PM PDT 10/8/2017 by Patrick Brzeski

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'Never Say Die'

STX Entertainment's Jackie Chan thriller 'The Foreigner' came in third place in its second weekend, with its total climbing to $67 million.
Local comedy Never Say Die dominated China's Golden Week autumn holiday period this year.

The body-swapping comedy from Mahua Funage, a Beijing theater troupe turned box-office powerhouse, earned $65.3 million in its second weekend, taking its nine-day total to a massive $220 million. The blockbuster pulled in around $25 or more every day of the weeklong holiday, nearly tripling the individual totals of the various local titles that trailed it.

The film will easily surpass Goodbye Mr. Loser, Mahua's debut release, which wildly surpassed expectations by earning $226 million in 2015.

Jackie Chan's gritty English-language thriller The Foreigner slipped to third place in its second weekend, earning $15.2 million behind Hong Kong martial arts drama Chasing the Dragon with $17 million. A U.K.-China co-production, backed by STX Entertainment, The Foreigner has earned $67 million after nine days. That's well below Chan's recent martial arts action comedies, such as Kung Fu Yoga ($254.5 million) and Railroad Tigers ($101.5 million), but it's less surprising given that the foreign-themed thriller sits far outside Chan's usual family-fun wheelhouse.

Although it's nudged ahead in daily earnings recently, Chasing the Dragon, which stars Donnie Yen and Andy Lau, is still a step behind The Foreigner for the full holiday period, with its nine-day total sitting at $59.7 million as of Monday.

Musical movie City of Rock, directed by and starring Chengpeng Dong (Jian Bing Man, $186 million in 2015), added $12 million in its second weekend. After 10 days, it has earned $38.7 million.

Fan Bingbing's patriotic air force movie Sky Hunters is the fifth-place finisher for the holiday, having earned $10.6 million in its second frame and $37.8 million overall.

STX Entertainment will be back in the China market later this week, with the studio's local partner Huayi Brothers set to release The Space Between Us on Friday.

Never Say Die (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?70487-Never-Say-Die)
Jackie's The Foreigner (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?68698-The-Foreigner)
Donnie's Chasing the Dragon (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/forum/showthread.php?69767-Chasing-the-Dragon)

[GeneChing]

New Jackie film! Read Jackie Chan’s Serious Side is THE FOREIGNER to Americans (http://www.kungfumagazine.com/ezine/article.php?article=1382) by Gene Ching

[GeneChing]

OTT 15, 2017 @ 11:00 AM 20,340 2 Free Issues of Forbes
'The Foreigner' Box Office: Jackie Chan Actioner Tops $100M Worldwide (https://www.forbes.com/sites/scottmendelson/2017/10/15/box-office-how-jackie-chan-succeeded-where-matt-damon-failed/#4fff27cf3670)
Scott Mendelson , CONTRIBUTOR
I cover the film industry.
Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own.

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STX Entertainment
'The Foreigner'

With the all-important caveat that budgets matter, The Foreigner may prove to be an important little B-movie potboiler. The $35 million action drama, starring Jackie Chan as a grief-stricken avenger and Pierce Brosnan as the government bureaucrat who becomes an incidental target, earned $12.84m this weekend. That's not an insane figure, heck it's less than the $15m that American Assassin snagged last month or the $14m that John Wick opened with three years ago. But the STX Entertainment release is both a much-needed win for the upstart distributor that has suffered in the Netflix-and-Chill era and a prime example of an American/Chinese two-hander that will be a hit on both shores.

Again, that's as much to do with the budget as anything else, but The Foreigner is already a hit. The Martin Campbell-directed film has already earned $78 million from China, and STX and friends expect an $88m overseas cume by today, meaning that the picture is right at $100m worldwide, or almost triple the production budget. Unlike Matt Damon's The Great Wall which earned $334m worldwide on a $150m budget after scoring $171m in China but underperforming essentially everywhere else, and the $165m Warcraft which earned $220m in China after striking hot and fast with fans of the game and flopped everywhere else, this one isn't so expensive that it needs to be a blockbuster on both coasts.

Huayi Brothers Pictures and Wanda Pictures' The Foreigner opened in China two weeks ago to decent results, holding its own against the blockbuster comedy Never Say Die. And yeah, since this is a grim, R-rated action drama, it was never going to do Kung Fu Yoga or Skip Trace business in China. This is closer to A Walk Among the Tombstones than Taken. The film snagged a decent $5,105 per-location average in 2,515 theaters as well as a solid 2.7x weekend multiplier (it went up 3% on Saturday) and an A- from Cinemascore. It played 59% male with (to quote STX's press release) Asian audiences significantly overdelivering. "Imagine that...," he said with a droll smile. Oh, and it earned 8.4/10 from Mao Yan, which is a leading Chinese audience metric.

Where it will go from here is an open question. It may leg it to $35 million+, which would make it Jackie Chan's second-biggest import, even adjusted for inflation, behind Rumble in the Bronx ($32m in 1996, $65m adjusted). Or maybe it'll burn out once the fans get their fill. Obviously, the extent to which this one is an American success depends on if you view it as an American Jackie Chan movie like Shangai Noon or The Tuxedo (Rush Hour and The Karate Kid are on different planets) or an import like Super Cop or Operation Condor. But the key is that this American-Chinese co-production was cheap enough that it didn't need to break records in either territory to break out. But this is a promising performance for Chan's first wide theatrical release in over seven years. And unlike Edge of Darkness (Mel Gibson's similar comeback vehicle, courtesy of Martin Campbell, after nearly a decade away), it didn't cost $80m.
I wouldn't have called this a little B-movie potboiler. Critics always look down on Jackie and action film. :mad:

[GeneChing]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shAkaYdAMjg

Check out my Kung Fu Shidi & Dragon Crewman Mahn-Tong at 30:57 rocking his got qi? shirt (http://www.martialartsmart.com/95-036w.html).

[GeneChing]

I have yet to see American Made. I might someday, but it's not queued in any of my streaming services. We never bothered to start a thread on it here. Anyone here see it?


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Scott Mendelson , CONTRIBUTOR
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STX Entertainment
'The Foreigner'

Think of this as an excuse to do a "box office catch-up" on two smaller-scale action dramas from the last six weeks. As I discussed back in late September, there was a skewed irony in Tom Cruise's American Made opening in North America on the same day that Jackie Chan's The Foreigner opened in China. Both films opened outside of North America well ahead of their North American debuts, and both films made well more than half of their money overseas. And in the battle of old-school movie stars headlining old-school star vehicles, well, it was essentially a tie.

To wit, American Made has thus far earned $50.7 million in North America, which is about equal to the film's $50m production budget. That's not a great figure, but it is a promising one for what was the first Tom Cruise starring vehicle in nearly a decade that wasn't a franchise-friendly and/or hard fantasy action title. The Doug Liman dramedy, where most of the action is confined to ariel escapades (as opposed to outright action violence), featured Tom Cruise as "just a guy," which is a big change of pace over the last decade.

Be it causation or correlation, the Cruise output since that whole "couch jumping" scandal in the summer of 2005 have been somewhat engineered to sell the idea that Tom Cruise is a still a bankable movie star. Yes, Edge of Tomorrow and the last two Mission: Impossible movies were excellent, and I liked Valkyrie, Knight and Day, Jack Reacher and Oblivion. But what we lost as Cruise transitioned from "movie star who occasionally does action" to full-on action star (a transition that, to be fair, began with John Woo's Mission: Impossible II in 2000), was the guy who could power a critically-acclaimed hit movie without running, gunning or copious explosions.

To the extent that American Made is arguably less of a conventional action movie than Valkyrie, it marked his first non-actioner starring vehicle (Rock of Ages was a supporting turn) Lions for Lambs back in late 2007. And the film, distributed in most of the world by Universal/Comcast Corp., earned $132.8 million worldwide. That's not too far off from the 2015 caper Focus, which offered Will Smith in a refreshingly adult-skewing (his first R-rated movie since Bad Boys II in 2003) romantic thriller. That Warner Bros. release earned $53m domestic and $159m worldwide on a $50m budget.

American Made wasn't a blow out hit, but I'm hopeful that the halfway decent box office and even better critical notices will encourage Cruise to make more of its ilk alongside Mission: Impossible sequels. Because, all due respect, the world doesn't really need (or want) Edge of Tomorrow 2. They don't need Top Gun 2 either, but that ship has sailed. Furthermore, Joseph Kosinski's Only the Brave was so good that I'll give that one something resembling the benefit of the doubt.

That brings us to STX Entertainment's The Foreigner. That too was something of a homecoming for its top-billed star. While it was a Chinese/American co-production, it was also the first live-action Jackie Chan movie to get a wide theatrical release in North America since Sony's The Karate Kid remake in June of 2010. And it was marketed in North America as Chan's big comeback since it stands to reason that most general audiences haven't seen the huge hits he's been knocking out in China for the last few years.

Helmed by Martin Campbell, The Foreigner is less of a boisterous crowdpleaser than (for example) Skip Trace or Kung Fu Yoga. The grim and violent R-rated political thriller was something of a change-of-pace for the action star (less so for co-star Pierce Brosnan), but it still made pretty solid money. The film earned $33 million domestic, which is just above the (unadjusted) $32m domestic cume of Rumble in the Bronx back in 1996, making it Chan's biggest grosser for a live-action film that wasn't explicitly intended for Hollywood consumption.

And at $133 million worldwide, it earned 3.8x its $35m production budget and stands above the global grosses of Shanghai Noon, Shanghai Knights and The Tuxedo. Heck, it outgrossed, worldwide, the likes of The Forbidden Kingdom ($128m in 2008) and Dragon Blade ($122m in 2015). Once it earns $1m more, it'll be past the $134m gross of the Chan/Johnny Knoxville romp Skiptrace from last year. Thanks to halfway decent grosses outside of China, the film will have outgrossed every Jackie Chan movie that isn't a Kung Fu Panda movie, a Rush Hour film, The Karate Kid ($359 million) and Kung Fu Yoga ($254m).

So on one hand, the film was cheap enough that it only needed to do "relatively well" in China ($81 million) to be profitable. That is in sharp contrast to American Made, which was relying on overseas grosses (where Cruise is arguably a bigger draw) than on box office might in his home country. Conversely, it was due to halfway decent North American numbers that the theoretically less commercial The Foreigner found itself on an equal global footing with pure escapism like SkipTrace or even Dragon Blade.

But while obviously Cruise's dramedy cost more and thus was less profitable than Chan's thriller, I am amused that both films will essentially make the same amount in terms of raw global box office. The battle between American Made and The Foreigner, both good movies featuring fine performances from their leading men, ended in a relative tie. And the lesson, to the extent that there needs to be a lesson, is that North American box office still matters. American Made needed more in America to be a super hit, while The Foreigner was quite successful because it didn't just rely on China.

Although that it only really needed its home turf is an entirely different lesson.

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Mendelson gives a good overview of Jackie live-action feature films for 2017.

[amina]

Hey, I recently watched The Foreigner and I fell in love with it!
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But I'm not sure that I will like these films. I do not want to waste time on uninteresting films. Recommend a movie similar to The Foreigner 2017

[wolfen]

Hey, I recently watched The Foreigner and I fell in love with it!
I hope you guys can help me out with finding movies similar to The Foreigner. I tried to find similar movies on the Internet, but found only a selection of similar movies on the site http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1615160/?ref_=nv_sr_1 and https://bestsimilar.com/movies/57457-the-foreigner
But I'm not sure that I will like these films. I do not want to waste time on uninteresting films. Recommend a movie similar to The Foreigner 2017

Wind River
Wind River 2017 (American neo-Western murder mystery) is an excellent thriller but quite serious. The scenes have stayed with me long after I watched it.
"Storyline


WIND RIVER is a chilling thriller that follows a rookie FBI agent (Elizabeth Olsen) who teams up with a local game tracker with deep community ties and a haunted past (Jeremy Renner) to investigate the murder of a local girl on a remote Native American Reservation in the hopes of solving her mysterious death"

7.8 on IMDB and I'd give it 5 stars Lots of glowing reviews. (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5362988/)


Jumanji
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so fingers crossed for Only the Brave, Denzel Washington's Roman J. Israel Esq, The Star and Jumanji."

Jumanji has a strong gratuitous transgender male gay fantasy in it. It gets graphic- I took my 3D glasses off and stared at my popcorn for a while trying to imagine a world without Jack Black. It would have been nice if the advertising had some kind of warning in it. I decided to see it as I had never seen a 3D film before. Big Mistake.
Thanks Hollywood , I'm sure the .1 to .3 percent demographic sure appreciates your SJW agenda. I sure didn't - it was like getting sucker punched. NOT SUITABLE FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY - and certainly not kids.
Nowhere do I see any mention of this content in any review or description. I would suspect everyone is afraid of being labeled "phobic". Anyway it sure isn't a selling point, I wouldn't mention it either if I wanted a good box office.
Hollywood is really messed up.
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Afterwards I realized in the Jumanji world of the film,there were seven guys and one girl and I would rate her as a 7 or 8 and modestly dressed. I think Dwayne didn't want any competition for his muscles. lol

The Foreigner

The foreigner is a real treat. Jackie still has it and he still fights Jackie style. I saw it clean unperturbed by any advertising because I don't watch TV or read MSN news.... as in ZERO.
As Gene writes, the terrorists were all white. That is not really a twist. The Globalists who own Hollywood are in the business of whitewashing Islam and Islamic Jihad. Even though there have been hundreds or even thousands of Islamic Jihadist attacks of all kinds (including rape, individual violence and mass murder) in the last year in Europe we all know that Islamic Terror and Islamic Jihad has nothing to do with Islam. :rolleyes:

It's pretty unrealistic that you would get such a number of people in Ireland today so fiercely dedicated to violence for a cause that is essentially historical. But Hollywood needed bad guys and according to the Hollywood agenda the only safe group to make as "bad guys" are whites. Or maybe more correctly, in leftist Hollywood with the Marxist method of attacking the social order, the enemy always has to "us" whoever "us" is. That's why there were no Nazis in Dunkirk ,"we" are always the ones who are wrong.


In fact the conventional non-MSN wisdom is that it's gone far beyond crime, aggression and terror, Europe is dead, finished by a combination of Globalist dictatorship and Islamification. State fascism on one side and Islamic fascism on the other. Germany has done it again. Merkel has created a Fourth Reich , put Europe under the yoke and used Islamic Migrants as her stormtroopers. This time nothing can save Europe, not even America. The Globalists think they can win, but the dog they have unleashed to achieve power will probably eat them. In any case, the European people will lose. The MSN battery cell sleepers have a rude awakening coming. But the whole point of the whitewash is that by the time they awake it's too late. If there is any movie to be made it's one in the background of the reality of the Death of Europe. Why not examine the monsters that exist rather than the ones that don't?
I wouldn't have seen The Foreigner if I knew it was about "terrorism" because the Hollywood absurdism about the subject is beyond sickening in it's disinformation intent. But this was Jackie, so it was worth it. It's a vehicle for him.

..
"With Brexit looming, The Foreigner may be spot on to recall Ireland’s rebellious nature."
Brexit "looming"? So the UK people having voted for their freedom from the European Union Dictatorship is something "looming". Sounds like a Globalist agenda there equating Brexit with terrorism.
Ireland today is firmly under the control of Cultural Marxist Globalists and their propaganda machine. There is no crack in that machine. You will be hard pressed to find anything "rebellious" in the country today. Ireland is firmly under the yoke of the Globalist Warlords - maybe it's more SJW-Marxist ludicrous than California, just give a listen to Dave Cullen from Computing Forever. But who knows? Maybe the Globalists are worried about the Irish regaining their sanity.

[GeneChing]

Our staff writer Emilio Alpanseque posted this little gem on my facebook (https://www.facebook.com/Kung-Fu-Tai-Chi-Magazine-135964689362/) just now.


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