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Ask Jackie Chan!

Got something you want to ask Jackie Chan? If you click over to the Official Site, there’s a tab on the lower left hand side of the page. Click the screen cap and it’ll take you there…

Awesome. Talk Asia was the program with the excellent Jet Li appearance from a few months back.

Premiere and Release Date Info

We’ve gotten a couple of emails about release dates and though all of them haven’t been announced, we did find this article announcing that the premiere will be held in Beijing, China…

Forbidden Kingdom to have world premiere in Beijing

Sen-lun Yu in Hong Kong

18 Mar 2008 16:00

US producer Casey Silver has confirmed that the world premiere of martial arts action adventure The Forbidden Kingdom will take place in Beijing on April 16. The film will open in the US two days later and in China on April 24.Silver was in Hong Kong to promote the $75m film, which features the first on-screen pairing of Jet Li and Jackie Chan, at a press conference at Filmart yesterday.

Directed by Robert Minkoff, the kung-fu extravaganza was filmed at various locations in China, including Hengdian World Studios, last year. Beijing-based Huayi Brothers is the Chinese co-production partner and will handle the Chinese release. Emperor Motion Pictures will handle distribution in Hong Kong.

Lionsgate and The Weinstein Company will co-release the film in the US and are also splitting distribution in select international territories while Relativity Media is handling sales in other territories.

A consortium of three South Korean effects houses – Macrograph Inc, Digital Tetra Inc (DTI) and Footage – was assembled specifically to work on the big-budget action epic.

The cast also includes Michael Angarano, Collin Chou and Chinese actresses Liu Yifei and Li Bingbing.

From Screen Daily

Also, these dates, from IMDb:

Russia 17 April 2008
USA 18 April 2008
Hong Kong 24 April 2008
Singapore 24 April 2008
South Korea 24 April 2008
France 25 June 2008