Who would have thought the two biggest Chinese stars in Hollywood would do well in China, right? Well, they’re off to a good start, but nothing amazing. The Jackie Chan and Jet Li fantasy made $2.3 million in its first day at the Chinese box office.

Nothing amazing for Hollywood standards I must say, since it was the biggest opening in China this year. Still, it only topped the $15 million Yuan opening by the Chinese movie ‘Warlords’ by $1 million Yuan. “It is reasonable to assume box office income will top 100 million in [its] first week,” said the vice president of the Shanghai United Cinema Line.

Their fellow Asians liked ‘The Forbidden Kingdom’ too, taking the number one spot in Korea with $2.6 million in its first weekend. Especially good if you consider the Korean box office isn’t doing that well these days.

Nobody was in a rush to buy movies at the Tribeca Film Festival the last days. The buyers are there again, but the situation is different this year. “It’s not the heated bidding situation that it used to be because the marketplace is in a slump,” said Peter Goldwyn, vice president of acquisitions for Samuel Goldwyn Films.

The Robert De Niro vehicle “What Just Happened?,” which debuted at Sundance, still doesn’t have a distributing deal. The only movies generating some interest are ‘Trucker’ with Michelle Monaghan and ‘From Within’ with Rumer Willis, the daughter of Bruce Willis and Demi Moore. But sales agent John Sloss isn’t in a rush to sell those either. “We’re hanging back until we can see where the market is and then we’ll trigger it,” he casually noted.

Still, Tribeca is not the place to look for bidding wars. “If something does sell, it’s not going to happen during the festival,” Goldwyn said.

In another slow weekend at the box office, ‘Forgetting Sarah Marshall’ took the top spot overseas, making an estimated $7 million at 1000 screens — yes, that’s $7000 per screen. Since the male nudity picture is launching in different territories during the whole summer, it managed to make this in only 9 countries. Leading the box office success was the UK, with $4.1 million during the weekend, followed by the second week in Australia with $1.6 million.

‘21′ is still doing well with $6.2 million and a $30.7 million total. ‘Horton Hears a Who!’ also made another $6.2 million, with a total of $127.2 million overseas. ‘Street Kings’ did $6.1 million, while ‘Fool’s Gold’ added $5.1 million to their total. And lastly, ‘The Spiderwick Chronicles’ is still pulling in some good numbers with $4.4 million for the weekend and a $81 million total overseas.