ROTTEN TOMATOES: Jet Li's "Fearless" Hits Big in Asian Box Office

Jet Li's "Fearless" Hits Big in Asian Box Office

by Binh Ngo | February 02, 2006

According to the official Hong Kong website for "Fearless", the latest offering from Jet Li, directed by Ronny Yu and choregraphed by Yuen Wo Ping, has scored a big box office take in it's first weekend of release. With a total of US$7,467,555 from six territories (China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia) it has performed better than "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", "Hero" and "House of Flying Daggers" during their first weekends in the same markets.

[Editor's Note: According to the Hollywood Reporter, Focus Features has nabbed the domestic rights to Li's "Fearless" for release later this year.]

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Impavido writes:
on Feb 02 2006 09:03 PM

Isn't this supposed to be Jet Li's last action film...according to him at least

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obsolete8210 writes:
on Feb 02 2006 09:21 PM

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well, he is going to be in a movie called Rouge. Jason Statham is also in it. Jet Li is the villian named Rogue.

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renny2077 writes:
on Feb 02 2006 09:29 PM

Wow...cant wait to see this one. Hero was awesome!

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Callpacas writes:
on Feb 03 2006 01:26 AM

this movie was released just right b4 the Lunar New Year, went to the cinemas with my parents. Great marketing decision. The fight scenes are somewhat better then Crouching Tiger too ( at least for the audience who had grown up with this kind of fighting style)---no flying around, Just to clear things up, this is his last Wunxia-era film. ( the pigtail and early British influence.)

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narom writes:
on Feb 03 2006 04:23 AM

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He said that this would be his last Wushu film, or Martial arts film. Not his last film period. In chinese cinema, as you probably know, there is a distinction between martial art films and action films. In the u.s. people lump them all together, but for the people who have to make the films, these types of martial art films are much more demanding on the body than your typical gun-fu type roles, or straight action roles.

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