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Jet Li, Jackie Chan, Crystal Liu, and Li Bingbing attend a press conference prior to the world premiere of the film in Beijing, China on Tuesday.

The Forbidden Kingdom is about an American teenager who is obsessed with Hong Kong cinema and kung-fu classics and makes an extraordinary discovery in a Chinatown pawnshop: the legendary stick weapon of the Chinese sage and warrior, the Monkey King.

With the lost relic in hand, the teenager unexpectedly finds himself traveling back to ancient China to join a crew of warriors.

The Forbidden Kingdom is directed by Rob Minkoff (The Lion King) and will be on Friday. This project is the first time Jet Li, 44, and Jackie Chan, 54, are working together.

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Chinese action star Jet Li (Romeo Must Die and Lethal Weapon 4) will score 100 million yuan ($13 million) for his latest movie, a record for an actor in a Chinese-language film, reports Reuters.

Nearly half of the $40 million budget for The Warlords went to the cast, among whom were Hong Kong heartthrobs Andy Lau and Takeshi Kaneshiro.

“Without Jet Li, we would not dare to invest $40 million in a Chinese-language film,” Xinhua news agency quoted director Peter Chan as saying.

The Warlords, a war epic based on a Qing Dynasty story, is slated for release in Asia in mid-December and in North America from next March.