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Stephen Chow Makes His Return to the Sport With ‘Kung Fu Soccer,’ Closing International Rights Deal More Than Two Decades After ‘Shaolin Soccer’

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Stephen Chow is returning to action-comedy with Kung Fu Soccer, more than twenty years after Shaolin Soccer. The China-Hong Kong co-production follows a women's football team competing in a martial arts tournament. Encore Films has secured worldwide theatrical distribution rights outside Mainland China for the film, according to Variety.

Source: https://variety.com/2026/film/news/stephen-chow-kung-fu-s...

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