Chinese Zodiac
Twelve heads. Five continents. One man.
Asian Hawk leads a mercenary team to recover several lost artifacts from the Old Summer Palace, the bronze heads of the twelve Chinese Zodiac animals which were sacked by the French and British armies from the imperial Summer Palace in Beijing in 1860.Assisted by a Chinese student and a Parisian woman, Hawk stops at nothing to accomplish the mission.
- Director
- Jackie Chan
- Worldwide
- $171M
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Cast
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What It's About
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Asian Hawk leads a mercenary team to recover several lost artifacts from the Old Summer Palace, the bronze heads of the twelve Chinese Zodiac animals which were sacked by the French and British armies from the imperial Summer Palace in Beijing in 1860. Assisted by a Chinese student and a Parisian woman, Hawk stops at nothing to accomplish the mission.
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Box Office & Release
Chinese Zodiac returned 6.6× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $26M
- Opening weekend
- —
- Domestic gross
- —
- International gross
- —
- Worldwide gross
- $171M
- Release date
- Dec 20, 2012
- Runtime
- 2h 3m
- MPAA rating
- PG-13
- Language
- English, Spanish
- Country
- China, Hong Kong
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