Next year, Seth Rogen portrays popular crimefighter the Green Hornet in a film directed by Michael Gondry. Missing, until now, had been the sidekick role of Kato, most notably played by Bruce Lee in a 60's television version. News out today is that Taiwanese superstar Jay Chou will play the part.
So who is Jay Chou? Unfamiliar with him myself, I checked that bastion-of-everything Wikipedia. It turns out he has quite the Wiki page. As long as it is all accurate (heh), it seems Chou is quite a big star throughout Asia. He is a best-selling musician (over 25M albums sold), and has acted as well (his biggest known film in the US is Curse of the Golden Flower starring Chow Yun-Fat. Wiki reports Chou was the most searched-for male artist by Chinese Internet users in 2002, and 05-07. As for co-stars, the last I heard was that Nicholas Cage and Cameron Diaz were in talks to join as well.
So what does this mean for the HSX stock [GHRNT]? It means the film is nearing the start of filming, which to make it's current release date of July 9, 2010, is a good thing. Films with a solid release date, and moving into production, usually see a healthy rise in value. Personally, I am not sold on this non-typical superhero film, but that's a debate for closer to the release date.
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