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).

Source: WENN