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Ng Man-tat, the star Shaolin Soccer and frequent collaborator of Kung Fu Hustle filmmaker Stephen Chow, has died. The iconic Hong Kong actor, accompanied by his wife and children, died peacefully on Saturday of liver cancer. He was 70. Born in China’s Fujian province in 1951, Ng began his career with acting classes…

Shanghai-based Pearl Studio, formerly Oriental DreamWorks, is teaming with Kung Fu Hustle and The Mermaid director Stephen Chow to develop an animated feature The Monkey King based on the popular Chinese legend. Chow’s involvement was announced today at animation festival Annecy in France and represents an exciting…

Stephen Chow's The Mermaid on Friday became the highest-grossing movie ever in China. Coming off of a Lunar New Year debut February 8 that saw it break records for first-day gross of a Mandarin-language film, the estimated 2.49B yuan ($382M) box office through Friday takes it past last year's Monster Hunt, at about…