Jackie Chan filmography

Chan in July 2016

Jackie Chan began his film career as an extra child actor in the 1962 film Big and Little Wong Tin Bar. Ten years later, he was a stuntman opposite Bruce Lee in 1972's Fist of Fury and 1973's Enter the Dragon. He then had starring roles in several kung fu films, such as 1973's Little Tiger of Canton and 1976's New Fist of Fury. His first major breakthrough was the 1978 kung fu action comedy film Snake in the Eagle's Shadow, which was shot while he was loaned to Seasonal Film Corporation under a two-picture deal.[1] He then enjoyed huge success with similar kung fu action comedy films such as 1978's Drunken Master and 1980's The Young Master. Jackie Chan began experimenting with elaborate stunt action sequences in The Young Master[2] and especially Dragon Lord (1982).[3]

1983's Project A saw the official formation of the Jackie Chan Stunt Team and established Chan's signature style of elaborate, dangerous stunts combined with martial arts and slapstick humor, a style he further developed in a more modern setting with 1984's Wheels on Meals and notably 1985's Police Story, which contained numerous large-scale action scenes[4] and is considered one of the best action films of all time.[5] Chan continued his style of slapstick martial arts mixed with elaborate stunts in numerous other films, such as: the Police Story sequels, the Armour of God series, Project A Part II (1987), Dragons Forever (1988), Twin Dragons (1992), City Hunter (1993), and Drunken Master II (1994), among others. Rumble in the Bronx (1995) made Jackie Chan a mainstream celebrity in North America, leading to a successful Hollywood career with the Rush Hour and Shanghai series. In 2000, Chan produced an animated series Jackie Chan Adventures, which ran until 2005.[6] In 2010, Jackie Chan appeared in his first dramatic role in an American film, The Karate Kid.[7] In 2017, the Chinese-Indian co-production Kung Fu Yoga became his highest-grossing film in China.[8] As of 2021, Jackie Chan has appeared in nearly 150 films.[9]

At the box office, ten of his films earned nearly US$200,000,000 (equivalent to $570,000,000 in 2023) worldwide between 1985 and 1989.[10] By the mid-1990s, he had become the most popular action movie star in Asia and Europe, with at least 20 films (out of 40 films) up until then, earning him a net income of $5 million per film.[11] In East Asia, his films collectively grossed HK$1.14 billion (US$146 million) in Hong Kong between 1973 and 2010,[12] ¥48.4 billion (US$607 million) in Japan between 1979 and 2012,[13] and over US$72 million in South Korea between 1991 and 2010,[14] while topping the Taiwan box office ten times between 1982 and 1994.[15] In Europe, his films collectively sold about 84 million tickets between 1973 and 2010.[16] As of 2021, his films have grossed over CN¥14 billion (US$2.17 billion) in China,[17] and US$1.84 billion[18] (more than US$2.44 billion adjusted for inflation) in the United States and Canada.[19] As of 2018, 48 of his films listed by The Numbers have grossed more than US$5 billion at the worldwide box office.[18]

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  2. ^ Havis, Richard James (14 June 2020). "Jackie Chan on Project A, the martial arts film that set a creative template for his decades of show business success". South China Morning Post. Archived from the original on 27 December 2020. Retrieved 30 December 2020. I had worked out that for myself. I was actually already doing these kind of things in The Young Master.
  3. ^ "Dragon Lord". Love HK Film. Retrieved 14 April 2011.
  4. ^ Chan, Jackie. "Jackie's Aches and Pains: It Only Hurts When I'm Not Laughing". Random House. Archived from the original on 27 September 2013. Retrieved 19 December 2012.
  5. ^ "The 100 best action movies". Time Out. 29 April 2016.
  6. ^ "Voice actors of Jackie Chan Adventures". Cast list. VoiceChasers. Archived from the original on 4 December 2010. Retrieved 29 February 2012.
  7. ^ Warmoth, Brian. "'Karate Kid' Remake Keeping Title, Taking Jaden Smith to China". MTV Movie Blog. Archived from the original on 8 May 2009. Retrieved 29 February 2012.
  8. ^ "Jackie Chan caper 'Kung Fu Yoga' tops China's box office during New Year holiday". Los Angeles Times. 7 February 2017.
  9. ^ Sledge, Philip (25 April 2021). "The Best Jackie Chan Movies And How To Watch Them". CinemaBlend. Retrieved 16 April 2022.
  10. ^ Leslie, Ian (1989). "The Reporters: Jackie Chan". 60 Minutes (television). Event occurs at 8:04. Channel 4. Australia. Archived from the original on 19 December 2021. Retrieved 3 June 2020. He's tight-lipped about his personal fortune, but his ten most recent films have earned nearly $200 million.
  11. ^ Meyers, Chris (29 February 1996). "Jackie Chan Rumbles in the U.S.A.". The Daily Utah Chronicle. p. 14. Retrieved 18 April 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. ^ 【ジャッキーチェン興行成績】 第8回：香港での興行収入 [(Jackie Chan Box Office Results) 8th: Box Office in Hong Kong]. KungFu Tube (in Japanese). 2010. Retrieved 29 November 2018.
  13. ^ 【ジャッキーチェン興行成績】 第12回：日本での興行収入 [(Jackie Chan Box Office Results) 12th: Box Office in Japan]. KungFu Tube (in Japanese). 2012. Retrieved 21 November 2018.
  14. ^ 【ジャッキーチェン興行成績】 第10回：韓国での興行収入 [(Jackie Chan Box Office Results) 10th: Box Office in Korea]. KungFu Tube (in Japanese). 5 September 2010. Retrieved 7 December 2018.
  15. ^ Zhang, Yingjin (2 August 2004). Chinese National Cinema. Routledge. p. 306. ISBN 978-1-134-69086-2. Retrieved 23 March 2022.
  16. ^ Soyer, Renaud (4 February 2014). "Jackie Chan Box Office". Box Office Story (in French). Retrieved 1 July 2020.
  17. ^ "Jackie Chan". Maoyan (in Chinese). Tianjin Maoyan Culture Media. Archived from the original on 29 November 2018. Retrieved 28 November 2018.
  18. ^ a b "Jackie Chan - Box Office". The Numbers. Retrieved 8 December 2018.
  19. ^ "Jackie Chan Movie Box Office Results". Box Office Mojo. Archived from the original on 29 November 2018. Retrieved 28 November 2018.