Anne Hathaway Rumored for Stephen Chow's Hollywood Film Debut

China.org is reporting that Oscar nominee Anne Hathaway is looking set to star in Hong Kong comedy filmmaker Stephen Chow's Hollywood debut.

Chow's "Kung Fu Hustle" was the highest grossing foreign-language film in the U.S. in 2005.

The filmmaker will write and direct the comedy starring himself and American actor Jack Black, the Oriental Morning Post reported on Tuesday, citing Wei Dasen, a representative from Chow's company. To read the entire article click here.

Anne Hathaway is up for an Oscar for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role for "Rachel Getting Married".
Anne Hathaway's first major role came in the short-lived television series "Get Real" (1999). She gained widespread recognition for her roles in The Princess Diaries (2001) and its 2004 sequel as a young girl who discovers she's a member of royalty, opposite Julie Andrews and Heather Matarazzo.

Her biggest screen success so far has been The Devil Wears Prada (2006) opposite Meryl Streep, and Becoming Jane (2007), in which she played a young Jane Austen.

This past summer she appeared in the action comedy Get Smart.

Hathaway also starred this summer in a full table reading and sing-through of the musical Promises, Promises by Neil Simon, Burt Bacharach and Hal David. The show has never been revived as a first class production on Broadway since it originally opened in 1968, 40 years ago, with Jerry Orbach and Jill O'Hara. (Except for a brief run at Encores in 1997 that starred Martin Short.)

Craig Zadan and Neil Meron produced the hush hush reading. If the show moves forward, this would be Zadan and Meron's Broadway producing debut after making the hit movies of Chicago and Hairspray.

The reading also starred Sean Hayes along with a full cast plus several background singers, and was staged by director/choreographer Rob Ashford.