SUPER ASIAN MOVIE TEAM UPS

The Asian film biz has become a crazy quilt mix n'match game as name-brand players are shuffled around by wily producers looking for the next big hit. Here's the latest matches:

- Tsui Hark and Stephen Chow are reportedly going to make a live-action adaptation of WARM BLOODED SOCIETY, a cartoon about which I know nothing. It looks like those 6 sequels to SEVEN SWORDS are going to be delayed.

- Jackie Chan and his "older brother" Sammo Hung are teaming up to make PROJECT BB in which they play thieves who steal a baby. Benny Chan is directing, and Eric Tsang is also starring as the third thief. Now who's the fool who couldn't get Yuen Biao on board for this one?

- Tony Jaa (ONG BAK) and Wu Jing (SHA PO LANG) are teaming up with Yuen Wo-ping to do a martial arts movie, produced by the Thai-Chinese director Peter Chan. The deal hasn't been finalized yet.

- Zhang Yimou may be adding Jet Li to the cast of his upcoming Jackie Chan movie. The director is still working on the script, but says it'll present a new image for Jackie Chan (isn't this about the 5,000th time someone has presented a "new image" for Jackie Chan?) and mentions that he may approach Jet Li to appear, as well. Li has retired from action movies, but can reportedly still be lured back by the right script.