The new remake of the 1984 blockbuster action movie, ‘The Karate Kid’ starring Jackie Chan will be released from July 3 at the Majestic cinema, Colombo.
Directed by Harald Zwart, the new ‘Karate Kid’ marks the comeback of Jaden Smith, the son of superstar parents Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith. In his feature film debut, Jaden blew audiences’ away with his heartwarming dramatic performance as a homeless son in ‘The Pursuit of Happiness’ (2006), his co-starring his father. Now Jaden play the lead with Jackie Chan in the film which topped the box office on its opening day June 11, grossing $18.8 million box office records.
Co-produced by Jaden’s parents Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith themselves, the film depicts a 12-year-old boy from Detroit who moves to China with his mother and incurs the wrath of the neighborhood bully.
Dre Parker (Jaden Smith) is a 12-year-old living in Detroit when his mother Sherry (Taraji Henson) gets a job in China. Once in China, Dre misses home and wants to go back to the US. His mother tells him that China is home now, and he must learn to accept his new home. Dre begins to like China when he falls for his classmate Mei Ying (Wenwen Han).
Dre’s feelings for Mei Ying are seen by Cheng (Zhenwei Wang) the class bully who is out to stop it. Cheng puts Dre to the ground with ease using his Kung Fu training. Dre doesn’t have a chance using the little karate that he knows, and Cheng proves it the next time he sees Dre. Dre is getting beaten badly when Mr. Han (Jackie Chan) the maintenance man, secretly a Kung Fu Master, stops the fight. Dre persuades Mr. Han to teach him Kung Fu. With this knowledge, Dre must now face down Cheng in a fight to win his respect in a Kung Fu tournament.
The Karate Kid topped the box office on its opening day, grossing $18.8 million, and in its opening weekend, grossing $56 million [3] in North America, beating The A-Team, which grossed an estimated $9.6 million on the same opening day, and $26 million in its opening weekend.
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