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EXCLUSIVE: International action star Donnie Yen has been set to star in the live action Mulan based on Disney’s classic animated film and the legendary ballad. Yen will play Commander Tung, a mentor and teacher to Mulan. The Chinese actress Liu Yifei had previously been set to play the title role. The film will be…

EXCLUSIVE: Who best to start a new IP for Neal Moritz’s Original Film (Fast and Furious) than the Ip Man himself? Martial artist Donnie Yen is set to star in a new feature from Moritz entitled Sleeping Dogs, which is based on the top-selling video game by Square Enix. Yen, who recently co-starred in Rogue One: A Star W…

EXCLUSIVE: Well Go USA Entertainment has acquired rights to Chasing the Dragon and The Golden Monk, a pair of films from Hong Kong director Wong Jin. The Chasing the Dragon deal reunites the indie distributor with Donnie Yen, who most recently appeared in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story and xXx: Return Of Xander Cage…

Riz Ahmed’s role in Nightcrawler was a breakthrough for the talented actor, who had, up until then, proved himself mostly at home in the UK, with the likes of Four Lions, Shifty and The Road to Guantanamo. With Hollywood unable to deny Ahmed's versatility and fastidiousness, 2016 has been a banner year. Kicking off…

Disney has dropped the Chinese trailer for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story and this newer version features additional footage, giving fans more of a glimpse at the film's big Chinese stars Donnie Yen and Jiang Wen. It also shows more scenes of a bombing mission involving Wen's assassin character Baze Malbus. The…

In addition to Disney dropping the new trailer for Star Wars spinoff Rogue One, it also delivered a fresh set of images. Among those MIA in the new trailer are the characters played by Mads Mikkelsen and Riz Ahmed. Here’s a glance at who’s on deck.

International martial arts and Ip Man star Donnie Yen has another big studio job to follow Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. He’ll square off against Vin Diesel in xXx 3: The Return Of Xander Cage at Paramount. Yen will play an alpha-warrior named Xiang, who battles the extreme sports-turned-secret agent Cage in a race…

UPDATE: I have just been informed that Ip Man 3 (see below) has had its release pushed back and is no longer coming out in December. There is currently no mainland date. Point Break got in under the wire last Friday to become the final Hollywood movie of 2015 to release in the Middle Kingdom. Now that the December…

Catch up on the film stories you missed this week: 'God's Not Dead's Kevin Sorbo Takes Hollywood & Media To Task As He Backs Crowdfunding Campaign For Telefilm On Convicted Abortion Doctor Kermit Gosnell By Anita Busch EXCLUSIVE: Kevin Sorbo is co-star of the past two weekends' box office pleaser God's Not Dead…

EXCLUSIVE: China’s top action star Donnie Yen has signed with CAA, and his new reps just closed his deal to star in Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon II: The Green Destiny, which Woo-ping Yuen is directing from a John Fusco script for The Weinstein Company. That deal was started by Paradigm, where Yen recently left. His…