by Larry Richman
March 25, 2008 10:12 AM

To recap: the World Premiere of The Forbidden Kingdom will take place in Beijing on April 16. The film is being released in the US jointly by Lionsgate and The Weinstein Company on April 18. Maple Pictures releases in Canada the same day. The film expands worldwide on April 24. Rob Minkoff directed from a John Fusco script. Casey Silver produces.

The Forbidden Kingdom also "previews" at the AFI Dallas Film Festival on April 4 and the Philadelphia Film Festival on April 11 and 13. I'll be at the April 11 screening -- watch for my report.

We've been posting stills, posters, trailers, and links to sites over the last several months. Now we have some more very high resolution pictures from the good folks at Lionsgate.


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Silent Monk (Jet Li, left), Lu Yan (Jackie Chan), Jason Tripitikas (Michael Angarano) and Golden Sparrow (Crystal Liu) (L)
Ni Chang (Li Bing Bing) (R)


Jade War Lord (Collin Chou) (L)
Lu Yan (Jackie Chan) (R)


Golden Sparrow (Crystal Liu, left), Jason Tripitikas (Michael Angarano) and Silent Monk (Jet Li) (L)
Ni Chang (Li Bing Bing) and Jason Tripitikas (Michael Angarano) (R)


Silent Monk (Jet Li) and Lu Yan (Jackie Chan) (L)


Silent Monk (Jet Li, left) and Lu Yan (Jackie Chan)

All photos by Chan Kam Chuen
Courtesy Lionsgate