The Forbidden Kingdom (2008) Movie Review

According to Jackie Chan, he had talked with Jet Li about the two of them making a movie together many years ago when both were in Hong Kong, but the opportunity never presented itself. Fast-forward to 2007, when Hollywood comes calling. “The Forbidden Kingdom” is that long-awaited collaboration...

May 24th, 2008 | Read More

Jet Li and Jackie Chan Survives Sarah Marshall

It was close, but as we predicted, the combination of Jet Li and Jackie Chan’s first-ever onscreen collaboration in “The Forbidden Kingdom” was just strong enough to survive a furious challenge from the Judd Apatow-produced comedy “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” to take #1 at...

April 20th, 2008 | Read More

Weekend Throwdown: Kung Fu vs. Sarah Marshall vs. Al Pacino

Jackie Chan by himself may not be enough to take down Sarah Marshall and her wacky Hawaiian vacation, or Al Pacino and his goatee (and something about a murder mystery involving young women way too hot for him), but Jackie Chan teaming up with Jet Li? Okay, so maybe they still might not have enough muscle...

April 18th, 2008 | Read More

Reader Review: The Forbidden Kingdom (2008)

Nix here. I plan on reviewing “The Forbidden Kingdom” when it hits theaters later this month. What, I’m not going to see the first-ever martial arts collaboration between Jackie Chan and Jet Li? Yeah, yeah, I haven’t been a big fan of Chan, but I am a humongous fan of Li, and...

April 8th, 2008 | Read More

Three Clips from The Forbidden Kingdom, plus Li-Chan Fight

You know how I feel about Jackie Chan (stop doing those movies if you don’t like them, you idiot!), and you know how I feel about Jet Li (great guy, love his movies, too bad most of them are just crap — thanks, Hollywood?), now put the two of them together in a movie, and how could it possibly...

April 1st, 2008 | Read More

Jet Li and Jackie Chan to Work Together Again

Let’s face it, if I was a producer on “The Forbidden Kingdom”, I would dock Jackie Chan a thousand dollars every time this dope went out in public and badmouth the movie, which Chan has done regularly ever since starring in the Hollywood film alongside Jet Li. But nevermind all that....

March 18th, 2008 | Read More

New Forbidden Kingdom Poster Features Li and Chan

Via the geeks over at geekland, AICN, here’s another poster for the upcoming Jet Li/Jackie Chan collaboration “The Forbidden Kingdom”. The new spanking poster (thumbnail to your left, bigger version below) features the film’s main selling points — namely, Li and Chan, high-kicking,...

March 11th, 2008 | Read More

The Forbidden Kingdom (2008) Movie Images Gallery

The Forbidden Kingdom (2008) Movie Images Gallery Plot: A discovery made by a kung fu obsessed American teen sends him on an adventure to China, where he joins up with a band of martial arts warriors in order to free the imprisoned Monkey King and defeat the evil Jade Warlord. Starring: Michael Angarano,...

March 8th, 2008 | Read More

More The Forbidden Kingdom Images

What’s that, you say? You can’t get enough images from “The Forbidden Kingdom”, the first Jet Li/Jackie Chan collaboration in, like, ever? Well you’re in luck, because Yahoo! Movies has posted new images from the film, and we’ve extracted the ones we haven’t...

March 6th, 2008 | Read More

First Look at Jet Li as the Monkey King

Here’s your first look (as far as I know) of Jet Li playing the Monkey King in the upcoming martial arts movie “The Forbidden Kingdom”. The Monkey King is one of two roles that Li will be playing; his other role is the Silent Monk (seen already in the white robes). But this is, I believe,...

March 4th, 2008 | Read More

New The Forbidden Kingdom Images Shows Li/Chan Fights

How ridiculous is it that it took Hollywood, of all places, to not only think of the idea of putting Jackie Chan and Jet Li in the same movie (and have them fight), but to also pull it off. Shouldn’t Hong Kong have done this, like, years ago? Oh well. From everything I’ve seen of it, “Kingdom”...

February 29th, 2008 | Read More

New Forbidden Kingdom Trailer, Images

Despite having seen the trailer and all the promo images for “The Forbidden Kingdom” numerous times, I still can’t figure out if this thing is going to be good or bad, or somewhere in-between. The idea of Jet Li and Jackie Chan sharing the same screen in a martial arts movie is pretty...

February 8th, 2008 | Read More

Character Posters for The Forbidden Kingdom

Jet Li and Jackie Chan sorta do battle in their first cinematic collaboration, “The Forbidden Kingdom”, a Hollywood movie about an ancient Chinese tale set in ancient China. So yeah, don’t bother looking for authenticity with this thing, but from everything I’ve seen, it looks...

January 30th, 2008 | Read More

Official Trailer for The Forbidden Kingdom

The previous trailer, strung together with footage from the movie, was pretty cool, but now here’s your official look at “The Forbidden Kingdom’s”, well, official trailer. Starring Jackie Chan, Jet Li, Liu Yifei, Michael Angarano, Collin Chou, and directed by Rob Minkoff. Based...

December 21st, 2007 | Read More

Movie Poster: The Forbidden Kingdom

It’s funny, but it just occurred to me when I saw this poster for “The Forbidden Kingdom” over at Cinematical that we’ve already gotten the trailer AND a ton of stills from the movie, but we’ve never actually gotten the poster. Which, again, is very odd from a movie marketing...

December 19th, 2007 | Read More

The Forbidden Kingdom Movie Trailer!

Wow, how long has it been since I heard about this monumental team-up between two of Asia’s most exciting martial arts star? Years, it seems. Hopes were high, but they were quickly dashed by those asinine posts by the always inane Jackie Chan via his blog about how the movie will probably suck,...

November 15th, 2007 | Read More

Jackie Chan and Jet Li Thinks The Forbidden Kingdom Will … Suck?

Maybe something got lost in the translation from Chinese to English, but man, it sure sounds like Jackie Chan and Jet Li don’t think all that highly of their upcoming Hollywood collaboration, “The Forbidden Kingdom”. I mean, damn, boys, this isn’t the best way to sell a movie,...

September 19th, 2007 | Read More

Images from Jackie Chan and Jet Li’s Forbidden Kingdom

There are probably only two sure things about the upcoming Jet Li/Jackie Chan collaboration, “The Forbidden Kingdom”: The Chinese Government will probably find another reason to ban it, and the action is going to be kick-ass. How could it not, with action choreographer Yuen Wo-Ping literally...

August 23rd, 2007 | Read More

Jet Li Talks About the Monkey King in The Forbidden Kingdom

Jet Li recently took time out from filming “The Forbidden Kingdom”, his long-awaited collaboration with Jackie Chan, to talk about the movie — or, more specifically, his Monkey King character, and problems he had (that were resolved) with the original script. Apparently Jet had been...

July 9th, 2007 | Read More

Collin Chou Joins The Forbidden Kingdom Cast

Speaking of Jet Li and Jackie Chan in “The Forbidden Kingdom”, here’s another name to add to the cast: Collin Chou has joined the crew as the Jade War Lord. The cast of Chou is actually not all that significant (I imagine he’d be the villain or background character), but I do...

June 14th, 2007 | Read More