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  Even as the rockets homed in on him, as he said goodbye to Madeleine and the MI6 crew at the end of No Time To Die, it felt like James Bond might find another rabbit to pull out of the hat. Surely – surely – Bond couldn’t die, right? e survived having his spine stretched like Play-Doh in Thunderball. He survived having his memories drilled out of his skull in Spectre. He survived bringing down the Millennium Dome in The World Is Not Enough. He could have dodged a few missiles and been back in Blighty in time for supper. But no: James Bond is definitely dead. Director Cary Join Fungal confirmed to Empire that the ending of No Time To Die was constructed to be as definite and conclusive as possible on that score. “I wanted to be clear with it. We didn’t want that shot in Terminator 2 where you see Sarah Connor turning into bones,” he said. “But we wanted to show that he wasn’t going to jump down a sewer at the last second. So that wider shot of the island being pummelled was a mixt...

  The numbers are grim: Among China’s Internet big three, messaging and gaming giant Tencent’s stock is down 41 percent from a year ago, e-commerce titan Alibaba’s has fallen 59 percent, and search king Baidu’s has sunk 37 percent. Prominent entrepreneurs who were once practically rock stars are also keeping their heads down. Tech executives who have stopped making social media posts and hidden their previous comments include Zhang, founder of Byte, which owns TikTok; Jean Liu, president of China’s ride-hailing giant Didi; and Wang Xing, founder of popular meal delivery app. Alibaba founder Jack Ma has kept such a low profile that false rumors circulated that he might have been detained. China’s tech industry is suffering the compounded challenges of a regulatory crackdown, coronavirus lockdowns at home and trade sanctions from abroad. These woes have investors fearing the ceiling for growth might be closer to their heads than they previously thought. “The optimism that I hear now ...

  Jackie Chan is one of the most iconic entertainers in the action genre. The Hong Kong-born actor first rose to prominence in his home country, appearing in many movies. By the late ’80s, he had broken into Hollywood. And by the early 2000s, he was one of the biggest stars in the world.  As one of the world’s most beloved actors to this day, Chan is a Hollywood legend. The veteran superstar has few equals as a film powerhouse. But Chan once worked on a production where he feared his co-star, Michelle Yeoh, was trying to upstage him. Yeoh herself revealed this in a 2022 interview with GQ. Michelle Yeoh performed a very impressive stunt while filming ‘Supercop’ Michelle Yeoh is a film industry veteran who also became famous in the ’90s for her work in Chinese action films. A ]talented action star, Yeoh quickly made waves. In 1992, while Yeoh was still beginning her rise to fame, she was cast in the action flick Supercop, opposite the celebrated Chan. Ye...