Last updated: Monday, November 26, 2007

LI EARNS RECORD SALARY FOR CHINESE-LANGUAGE FILM

Action superstar JET LI has been paid 100 million yuan ($13 million/GBP6.5 million) for his latest movie, a record salary for an actor in a Chinese-language film.

JET LI

Li stars in The Warlords, budgeted at 300 million yuan ($40 million/GBP20 million), alongside Andy Lau, Takeshi Kaneshiro and Xu Jinglei.

The previous salary record of 70 million yuan ($9.1 million/GBP4.6 million) was also held by Li, which he was paid for 2002 movie Hero.

The Warlords director Peter Chan says, "Without Jet Li, we would not dare to invest $40 million in a Chinese-language film."

The Warlords will be released in Asia next month (Dec07).

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Source: WENN

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