Jackie Chan

It was a good news/bad news weekend for "Blue Beetle," the latest superhero film to hit North American theaters and the first built around a live-action Latino protagonist.

The DC Studios/Warner Bros. production topped the charts for the Friday-through-Sunday period and even dethroned "Barbie," that reigning queen of pinkness, industry watcher Exhibitor Relations said on Aug. 20.

Wrestler-turned-movie star Dwayne Johnson clung to the top slot on the list of the world's highest-paid male actors for a second straight year, according to an annual tally released by Forbes magazine on Aug. 11.

Handpicked by the great martial arts master, filmmaker, action hero and comedian Jackie Chan, the Long Yun Kung Fu Troupe travels from Beijing to Athens for the first time on November 30 for a run of heart-stopping shows at the Olympic Hall in Galatsi.

Mark Wahlberg is currently the highest-paid actor in the world, according to Forbes.
Wahlberg took home $68 million this past year according to Forbes — his biggest yearly paycheck to date.

The biggest leak in journalist history, called the Panama Papers, has revealed a global network of corruption and tax avoidance, and includes many rich and famous people.

?They picked the wrong man,? says the Irish-Kuwaiti tourist who took down an army of shopkeepers in Istanbul, becoming a hero on Turkish social media. One of the attacking shopkeepers says it was ?like he was made of concrete?

China on June 24 gave its first-ever assessment of the scourge of drug abuse, saying it caused annual economic losses of 500 billion yuan ($80.54 billion) and as many as 49,000 deaths last year. 

China has intensified a crackdown on drugs as the rise of a new urban class with greater disposable income has fuelled a surge in the numbers of drug addicts. 

Hong Kong movie star Jackie Chan said Wednesday he felt "ashamed" of his son's detention on drug-related charges, adding he had "failed to educate" his child.
      
Jaycee Chan, who like his father is a singer and actor, was detained last week after police found more than 100 grams of cannabis at his home in Beijing, according to Chinese state-run media.