Li Fights Against Formulaic Action Films
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Jet Li wants to touch your soul before he kicks your butt. The Hong Kong action star says too many martial-arts movies ignore heart and emotion in favor of vengeance and gore.
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The action film holds on to the top box office spot.
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Tommy Lee&#039;s new star may fizzle before it fully gets to shine.
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With Korean companies like Hyundai and Samsung now industry giants, Hyung Rae Shim, a film producer based in Seoul, wants to pull off a similar feat with his film âDragon Wars.â
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Chinese martial-arts thriller &quot;Hero,&quot; directed by acclaimed director Zhang Yimou and starring action star Jet Li, snatched the No.
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As Hollywood's labor dispute continues and rancor between the two sides grows,  some are looking to the directors to shout, "Action"
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The fight for the Oscar is often a bloody one, metaphorically speaking. But this year an unusual amount of mayhem is showing up in the movies themselves.
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``Presented by Quentin Tarantino,&#39;&#39; Zhang Yimou&#39;s long-delayed ``Hero&#39;&#39; often seems less like filmmaking than sorcery.
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Hollywood legend Lauren Bacall may have  some 50 films under her belt, but she doesn't go out of her way  to catch them in the cinema.
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The Chinese martial-arts epic Hero, starring Jet Li, has topped the US box office in its first weekend. The film, which was nominated for the Best Foreign Language Oscar in 2002, grossed $17.
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Director of game-to-movie stinkers like Bloodrayne proves that his films are quality by fist-fighting his critics. Did we mention Boll is a semi-pro boxer? From the Game|Life blog.
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With flying feet and a unique style, Thailand's Tony Jaa is ready to take on Jackie Chan and Jet Li
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The Chinese call them &quot;wuxia,&quot; which translates to chivalry in battle, but now refers to movies in which dazzling martial arts are employed to preserve honor, most often in historical or fantastical settings.
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China's top Communist Party training  academy has slammed Oscar-nominated director Zhang Yimou's  latest film "Curse of the Golden Flower" as the latest in a  line of bloodthirsty blockbusters smearing modern Chinese  cinema.
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Jet-Li&#39;s action flick &quot;Hero&quot; beat out &quot;Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid&quot; as the weekend&#39;s most-watched movie, according to media reports.
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Gong Li says the biggest challenge she faces in Hollywood isn't the language barrier, but rather tackling non-Chinese characters.
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rights to Chinese director Zhang Yimou&#39;s martial-arts epic, &quot;Ying xiong,&quot; or &quot;Hero.&quot; Miramax, Biskind says, hoped that &quot;Hero&quot; might become the next &quot;Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.&quot; It didn&#39;t, though. The company bungled the picture&#39;s release, reportedly ...