Starring two of Asia's hottest pinups - the actress Zhang Ziyi, of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, and Aaron Kwok, a huge Cantopop star - it's set to be one of the biggest Chinese films of 2011.

If Zhang and Ecker's hybrid produces anything like that anticipated windfall, it will have proven more than Chinese enough.

As well as being a useful reference work, Wikipedia is also the moststriking example of the idea that volunteers working together online cancollectively produce something valuable.

Supposedly these two companies will be churning out the next generation of cool smartphones designed to really help small business owners like me.

This year her pay cheque's came from The Bounty Hunter, the yet to be released The Switch, a comedy about a woman who has a baby on her own, and Just Go With It, co-starring Adam Sandler.