Fact: The TV spin-off of Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker's action movie franchise Rush Hour has been cancelled by bosses at CBS. The show, starring Justin Hires and Jon Foo, launched last month (Apr16), but failed to attract viewers. But there is good news for former Friends star Matthew Perry - hit sitcom The Odd Couple has been picked up for a third season by the network.
Fact: Rush Hour filmmaker Brett Ratner is helping to bring Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Goldfinch to the big screen by signing on as a producer. Studio bosses at Warner Bros. picked up the rights to author Donna Tartt's 2013 best seller, which tells the story of a young boy who steals Carel Fabritius' pricey painting The Goldfinch from New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. A director has yet to be appointed to take on the job.
Quote: "If I can find him! Where's Chris? Call me please!" Action star Jackie Chan is keen to reteam with Chris Tucker to make a new sequel in the Rush Hour franchise.
Fact: Rush Hour singer Jane Wiedlin has turned herself into a comic book superheroine for a new graphic novel series, called Lady Robotika. The Go-Go's star will launch her new comic book at the Comic Con International festival in San Diego, California in July (10).
Fact: Rush Hour director Brett Ratner is to launch a new publishing house with three new book reprints. The 40-year-old director/producer's Rat Press will focus on Hollywood stars. The first tomes, released in America later this week (ends27Mar09), will chronicle the lives of Marlon Brando, Jim Brown and Ratner's mentor Robert Evans.
Fact: Comedian Chris Tucker has only made three films since 1998 - all of them Rush Hour movies.
Quote: "Mel Gibson and Danny Glover in Lethal Weapon are first. Second are Eddie Murphy and Nick Nolte in 48 Hrs. Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder in Stir Crazy are third. We rank below them." Actor Chris Tucker rates his partnership with Jackie Chan in the Rush Hour buddy movies.
Fact: Rush Hour director Brett Ratner's grandmother has landed her own reality TV show in America. FANITA PRESMAN has shot a VH1 pilot called MY GRANDSON, THE DIRECTOR, in which she lives and parties with Ratner in Hollywood.
Fact: The latest Rush Hour movie features a fight scene between Chris Tucker and the second tallest man in the world, Chinese giant SUNMING MING.