BRUCE LEE BEATEN BY BOSNIANS; HONG KONG BEATEN BY MICKEY MOUSE

The beatings came fast and furious over the past week.

  Bosnia beat Hong Kong to the Bruce Lee punch by unveiling their Bruce Lee statue one day before Hong Kong whipped the cloth off theirs. The Bosnian statue was smaller (and shinier) but it was the first so hooray for Bosnia. Unfortuantely, a few hours later, "hooligans" stole one of the statue's nunchuks. As a bystander said, "Once again we've shown what Balkan savageness is!"

Meanwhile, Disney is playing "Hide the Numbers" with the majority stakeholder in Hong Kong Disneyland: the Hong Kong government. Some SCMP reporters stood by the gate and counted admissions to the park, coming up with numbers just over 10,000 which is a far cry from the 15,000/day number the park needs to fulfill financial expectations. Disney said it wasn't going to reveal their numbers to anyone because it was proprietary information. However, they finally relented and said that the park has had 1 million admissions in 100 days, which still averages out at about 10,000 visitors per day. Even worse, critics are saying that this 1 million number includes the park's pre-opening phase (before the Sept. 12 grand opening) when heavily discounted and free tickets were given away like candy in a Halloween parade.

Humanity received a crushing blow as the world's least-anticipated sequel, RUSH HOUR 3, was greenlit with Chris Tucker making $20 million and Jackie Chan making $15 million.

And, finally, it looks like no one can stop the upcoming release of the giggle-inducing Bollywood remake of Korea's OLDBOY, ZINDA. Despite threats from the Korean producers, the movie's website went live over the weekend, offering up further damning evidence that ZINDA isn't just inspired by OLDBOY but is a frame-for-frame copy with worse wigs and more musical numbers.