$13mln for “The One”
The latest Chinese movie, the Warlords, enriched Jet Lee’s budget with over $13 mln. Lee now holds a record because he just became the best paid Chinese actor in a native production.
Chinese producers pay Lee that much because he is the ambrosia of their movies, allowing their scripts to be taken to the next level and winning countless amounts of viewers. Without him the producers would not have dared invested so much in their production, but his appearance not only added a famous name on the cast list, but also gave investors the courage to spend a bigger budget or maybe go over it on occasion, pursuing perfection for their masterpiece.
