Chinese NBA star Yao Ming will make a cameo appearance in an upcoming basketball-themed movie also featuring Taiwanese pop star Jay Chou and South Korean singer BoA, a news report said Thursday.

Houston Rockets center Yao will spend a day filming for the Chinese-language film whose title translates as "Dunk," the Xinxi Shibao newspaper said, citing the film's Taiwan's producer Wu Dun.

Chou, one of Chinese pop's biggest stars, will have the lead role, and his South Korean counterpart BoA, has also signed on, the report said.

The report said Chou's lead character is a kung fu fighter turned basketball player.

Chou has been developing his film career, appearing in the Japanese comic inspired film, "Initial D," and he is currently filming famed Chinese director Zhang Yimou's "Curse of the Golden Flower."

Thursday's report also said the budget of "Dunk" is estimated at $10million.

(AP via China Daily July 3, 2006)