Worldwide Gross: $427,343,298
While The Matrix Revolutions didn't gross as much as its predecessor, The Matrix Reloaded, the third installment still went on the gross $427 million worldwide. Fans and critics didn't give it the rave reviews to the threequel that they did to the original, but many bought a ticket to a show to say goodbye to Neo (Keanu Reeves) and the gang.
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Hong Kong action choreographer Yuen Woo-ping has signed up to direct the China-Canada martial arts co-production Vigilantes: The Lost Order, which will be his first Hollywood film.
Production is set to begin next year. The English-language movie will feature a Hollywood cast.
Yuen, known for his work on The Matrix, Kill Bill and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, will be bringing his Chinese shingle Film Can Production into a collaboration with Art Birzneck of Dragon Star Pictures and Birch Tree Entertainment, who are repping the project at AFM.The Lost Order is planned to be the first of a trilogy.
Described by Birch Tree as “The Matrix meets Wall Street,” the film centers on a female assassin whose efforts to avenge her father’s murder lead her to uncover a conspiracy in the world of international high finance.
Film Can president Anthony Wong said the film is designed to become “the next big international action franchise.”
Having worked as action choreographer for a string of Hollywood films since the success of The Matrix, Yuen is making his first directorial foray in English-language cinema. His most recent directing stint was on the Hong Kong-mainland China co-production True Legend, and he also is behind the action scenes of Wong Kar-wai’s upcoming The Grandmaster.
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