Mummy 3, Red Cliff, Forbidden Kingdom Shoot in China

The China Film Group, which wields an unusual amount of clout over who can do what and where moviewise in China, is going public. The more I learn about this mysterious organization, the more I want to know.

One person who seems to understand its workings is producer Bill Kong, who is featured in my column on how Hollywood is taking big-budget productions to China, including Rob Cohen's The Mummy: The Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, starring Brendan Fraser, Jet Li and Michelle Yeoh; and Rob Minkoff's The Forbidden Kingdom, starring Li and Jackie Chan. It took four Asian countries to finance John Woo's $80-million Red Cliff, starring Tony Leung.

Here's The Forbidden Kingdom trailer. The movie opens April 18.

Comments

[Christian Johnson]

This was one of the previews that played before the showing of SPIDERWICK my wife and I attended. I had been mildly skeptical with the inclusion of a "western teen" into a Monkey King story. Fears of that pretty bad made for TV version of JOURNEY TO THE WEST came to mind.

Then I heard excited chatter from a number of young voices behind me, and my cynicism melted away.

[David C]

Some of us are also looking forward to:

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