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Thank Jackie Chan. The Internet has a new meme, and it rhymes (sort of) with “wrong.” It’s “duang!”

In a CraveOnline interview, producer Arthur Sarkissian says he's working on Rush Hour 4 with Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker. It doesn't sound like he has a story yet but he wants it to be “more down to earth” and “more gritty” than Rush Hour 3.

At Cannes, Jackie Chan has announced his retirement as an action star, saying he is too old for stunts and the world is “too violent”.

Considering that this year's Jaden Smith-starring return to "The Karate Kid" actually dealt with the martial art of kung fu, today's news about the coming sequel is sort of fitting. Cyrus Voris and Ethan Reiff, the writing duo who penned the fairly excellent 2008 CG-animated flick "Kung Fu Panda," have been hired to pen a ...

Who would have thought a 12-year-old descended from Hollywood royalty would be the summer box office savior?

FRIDAY PM UPDATE: My studio sources tell me that very early numbers show that Sony's kid-friendly Karate Kid reboot starring Will Smith's son will be #1 this weekend with nearly $50M. Expectedly, Fox's film action version of the 80's TV series The A-Team will finish #2 -- but only with about $30M which is embarrassing for what was supposed to be the start of another franchise. (Read my backgrounder, 11 WRITERS LATER: 'The A-Team'.) I'll have more info later tonight.

More trailers hit the web and theaters including Leonardo DiCaprio in "Inception," a new "Sex and the City 2" teaser, an impressive "karate Kid," Jennifer Aniston in "The Bounty Hunter," Tom Cruise in "Knight and Day" and much more.

Microsoft Windows continues to dominate the PC market with a 90 percent market-share stronghold, but when it comes to smartphones, Microsoft is getting beat up worse than a mustachioed villain in a Jackie Chan movie.

The king of kung fu cinema is set to star in a new movie about China's famed shrine of martial arts, the Shaolin Temple.

Actor to play opposite on Jaden Smith -- Jackie Chan will play the wise kung-fu master in a Hollywood-Chinese remake of the 1984 hit "The Karate Kid" that kicked off filming in the Chinese capital at the weekend, a movie company publicist said Monday.