CZ12: Chinese Zodiac is an action film directed and starring by Jackie Chan, featuring a group of bounty hunters chasing a bronze statue of the head of the twelve zodiac animal in Yuanmingyuan. Locations include Paris, Beijing, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Australia, Latvia and other places. [1] Jackie Chan said this will be his last major action film. The film was released in mainland China and Hong Kong on December 20, 2012. The film’s cumulative box office in the mainland reached 880 million yuan, and the cumulative number of viewers exceeded 20 million. It ranked second in the Chinese film history at the box office (second only to The box office of "Thailand" of the same period is 1.2 billion yuan). [3] The global box office totaled more than 170 million US dollars.