{"id":308318,"date":"2025-11-25T19:13:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T19:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/308318\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T19:13:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T19:13:08","slug":"rush-hour-4-in-the-works-at-paramount","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/308318\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Rush Hour 4’ in the Works at Paramount"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\t\u201cRush Hour 4<\/a>\u201d is in the works, with Paramount<\/a> on board to distribute the newest installment in the buddy-cop series. The long-gestating sequel is reportedly the beneficiary of some Oval Office intervention: President Donald Trump had personally requested that the studio revive the franchise, as first reported by Semafor<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tBrett Ratner, who directed the first three installments before his career was derailed in 2017 by #MeToo allegations, is returning to direct the fourth film. The filmmaker has gotten close to the first family while directing the \u201cMelania\u201d documentary, which Amazon paid $40 million to release. \u201cRush Hour 4,\u201d which will see the return of original stars Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker will mark Ratner\u2019s first feature film since 2014\u2019s Dwayne Johnson-led \u201cHercules.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tParamount will be paid a flat distribution fee to release \u201cRush Hour 4\u201d theatrically, sources say, and won\u2019t be on the hook to market or finance the film. Meanwhile Warner Bros. \u2014 whose New Line label backed the original 1998 \u201cRush Hour\u201d and the sequels in 2001 and 2007 \u2014 will get first-dollar gross, meaning the studio receives a percentage of box office revenues before the financiers recoup any costs. Multiple distributors were approached after Warner Bros. let the director and producers shop the new \u201cRush Hour\u201d around town, but none wanted to be attached due to Ratner\u2019s involvement.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cRush Hour,\u201d which follows two police officers who are forced to work together to rescue a Chinese diplomat\u2019s abducted daughter, was a huge hit with $244 million globally. The two follow-up films, \u201cRush Hour 2\u201d and \u201cRush Hour 3,\u201d were even bigger commercial successes with $347 million and $258 million, respectively, despite mixed reviews. In the time since those films dominated in theaters, comedies have mostly fallen out of favor at the box office. It\u2019s unclear the timeline of \u201cRush Hour 4,\u201d though Chan, whose martial artistry was central to the hijinks of the plot, is 71 while Tucker hasn\u2019t headlined a movie since the 2007 \u201cRush Hour\u201d threequel.<\/p>\n

\n\tParamount, which was recently acquired by Skydance, needs new films to populate its slate \u2014 the company has a goal of moving from its current eight annual releases to 15 by 2026, 17 by 2027 and 18 by 2028.\u00a0Paramount\u2019s new chairman and CEO David Ellison is the son of Larry Ellison, one of Trump\u2019s most prominent financial supporters. Trump has publicly praised the Ellison\u2019s leadership of the media company. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cRush Hour 4\u201d is in the works, with Paramount on board to distribute the newest installment in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308319,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,134,344,14627,175278],"class_list":{"0":"post-308318","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-movies","12":"tag-paramount","13":"tag-rush-hour-4"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}