Jet Li didn’t pick the name that would join Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan in the ranks of global martial-arts movie stars. When he saw a poster for his first movie, 1982’s “The Shaolin Temple,” he ...

In 2000, Jet Li's Romeo Must Die offered an action-packed reinvention of William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet. The late 1990s saw Hollywood embrace Hong Kong filmmakers and stars, as American action ...