Your request appears to be from an automated process. If this is incorrect, notify us by clicking here to be redirected.Please note that most of the functionality of this website is unavailable in your current browser, including buying tickets and filling out forms. You will find the latest version here: Internet ExplorerChromeFirefox Buy tickets for this movie This movie is also available inThe third movie in the Divergent series of films is battling another tertiary installment from a popular franchise - Kung Fu Panda. Based on the novels by Veronica Roth, Allegiant stars Shailene Woodley and Theo James battling to survive in post-apocalyptic Chicago. Kung Fu Panda 3 stars Jack Black as a cuddly panda who kicks butt. MORE: The Official Top 40 Biggest Selling DVDs/Blu-rays of 2016 so far revealed Just 8,000 copies separate the two movies in the tight race, with Allegiant in the lead with sales of 42,000. Should Allegiant hold on to Number 1 by Sunday, it will the third in the trilogy to do so following Divergent's three weeks at the top in 2014, and Insurgent's sole week at the helm in 2015.
Former Number 1 Deadpool sits at 3, last week's Number 1 Grimsby falls to 4 and The Revenant slips two places to 5. Another six new entries look to enter this week's Top 40. Sticking with Allegiant and Kung Ku Panda, boxsets packaging their franchises land at 21 and 34. Elsewhere in the Top 10, psychological horror The Boy is a strong starter at 6, George Clooney's Hail, Caesar! begins at 7, and Forsaken starring both Kiefer and Donald Sutherland is new at 9. Up 47 places to Number 10 is The BFG, off the back of a remake soon to be released in cinemas. More high climbers include the Ghostbusters/Ghostbusters 2 double package (up 5 to 11), this year's second biggest seller Spectre (up 28 spots to 18) and The Good Dinosaur which is set to rise by 21 places (19). Lego: Justice League - Gotham Breakout is also gaining ground, climbing 10 spots to 20. Finally, a packaging of Hail, Caesar! and its associated film Burn After Reading starts out at 34, and is sandwiched by two rising Game of Thrones series.
Season 4 rockets 56 places to 29 and Season 3 storms 98 rungs to this week's 35. every Sunday at 5.45pm. Click here to see the latest Top 100.Building a Galaxy With CodeModern browsers, smartphones, tablets | More inspirational videos featuring role models and celebrities More inspirational videos featuring professionals in technology fieldsGoodbye speculation, hello LEGO Rock Band, the game you were never really expecting but you'll probably stand up and cheer for anyway. You know, like LEGO Final Fantasy. I mean, the hypothetical legal red tape involved had to be staggering. LEGO Group, MTV Games, Harmonix, Warner Bros., Travellers Tales, Backbone Entertainment, another dozen I'm probably forgetting yet to be announced...what are the odds?Like the LEGO-less version of Rock Band, this presumably kid-friendlier version with cute claw-grip plastic abstractions is due for the Xbox 360, PS3, and Wii, release date vaguely heralded as "holiday 2009." Oh, and a version for the Nintendo DS, too.
Sounds like a clip-on peripheral a-brewin', though the DSi's lack of an old-style Gameboy cartridge slot leaves the question of "how?" hanging in the wind. Ad hoc wireless peripheral?Traveller's Tales, who've handled the trunk LEGO games (Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Batman) thus far, will cover all three console versions partnered with Harmonix, the guys responsible for the first two Guitar Hero games and the trunk Rock Band series. Backbone Entertainment (they did Rock Band Unplugged for PSP) will work with the TT and Harmonix on the DS version."Boys and Girls" (Good Charlotte)"Kung Fu Fighting" (Carl Douglas)"Song 2" (Blur)"So What" (Pink)"The Final Countdown" (Europe)The predictably upbeat and informationally tasteless blurb, courtesy Warner Bros.:LEGO Rock Band combines the multiplayer music experience of Rock Band with the fun, customization and humor of the LEGO videogame franchise packed with brilliant chart-topping songs and classic favorites suitable for younger audiences.Here's another, from LEGO Group veep Henrik Taudorf Lorensen:We’re thrilled to offer another LEGO branded gaming experience that will deliver humorous and social play for families and friends.
is built around the same values of imagination and family-friendly creative role play that is present in other LEGO videogames. It will deliver innovative new elements of game play that complement the fun of theAnd one final slice of vanilla enthusiasm, from TT Games' Managing Director Tom Stone:LEGO Rock Band combines two compelling properties and creates an experience that family members of all ages will enjoy playing together as a group. Harmonix and MTV Games are the world experts in music gameplay, and we’re genuinely thrilled to bring the unique and humor-filled LEGO experience to theirBuild your own LEGO rockers and bands, travel around the planet to various venues, rock out in fantasy locations (yo Indiana Jones?), travel off planet (aloha Star Wars?), and I'm sure they'll find a way to sneak Batman and Robin in somewhere. The press release confirms what you'd expect — it'll be fully compatible with existing Rock Band controllers, and a few others too.Why no PSP version?
How's the DS version going to work? Do you mean DS as in DS-original-only? How's the LEGO version supposed to be any more family friendly? Isn't the original already? Will you be able to import Rock Band and Rock Band 2 songs and/or downloads? Export LEGO Rock Band tracks to other versions?Now if they offer a LEGO version of Will Arnett dancing on stage with LEGO cards, scarves, and knives as Joey Tempest wails along with "The Final Countdown's" unmissable synth-Baroque riff, I'm probably hook-line-and-sold. To comment on this article and other PCWorld content, visit our Facebook page or our Twitter feed.Have you managed to see Rogue One: A Star Wars Story yet? If so, you probably found yourself mesmerised by the performance of Donnie Yen, who stars in the film as blind Force sensitive Chirrut Imwe. Trailer scenes of the steely warrior monk taking down a group of stormtroopers with just a wooden staff whet our appetites for his appearance in the film... and if the rapturous Twitter reaction is anything to go by, the final result has more than lived up to expectations.
Star Wars fans will be very happy with #RogueOne. It's fun, action packed, doesn't feel neutered by reshoots. Donnie Yen and K2so standouts.— Peter Sciretta (@slashfilm) December 11, 2016 Imwe, not to mince words, is completely, utterly badass. Without spoiling too much, it's also fair to say that he plays a pivotal (and beautifully, movingly staged) role in Rogue One's climactic battle scenes. Unless you're a big martial arts or Asian cinema fan, however, you may not have been that familiar with Yen prior to his casting in the Gareth Edwards-directed prequel. The 53-year-old actor (yes, he really is 53) was born in China, lived in Hong Kong until he was 11, and then moved to the US with his family. As a child, he began studying martial arts, including Tai chi and Taekwondo – his impressively accomplished mother, Bow-sim Mark, is a martial arts master – and spent time training in Beijing. These days, he defines himself as a mixed martial arts (MMA) specialist: the sport allows combatants to draw upon a variety of different styles and fighting techniques.
Before Star Wars, Yen's movie career, which consists of over 30 films (including the critically acclaimed Ip Man series), was predominantly confined (although "confined" probably isn't the right word to use about such a dangerously talented man) to Hong Kong and Chinese martial arts films. His career "kicked off" in 1984, when he starred in a film titled Drunken Tai Chi, directed by the legendary action movie director Yuen Woo-ping (known over here for his Jackie Chan movies, for his fight choreography on the acclaimed Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, and for directing the film's somewhat less acclaimed sequel). "Of course, I knew Yuen’s work, and realised it was a great opportunity to work with him," Yen told Asian Movie Pulse in 2014, following another collaboration with the director, Kung Fu Jungle. "I always treat him as my ‘Sifu/Shrfu’, which means ‘fatherly teacher’. I learned a lot from him, and then later moved on to develop my own style." Across the years, Yen's popularity as a genre movie star has been aided by various legends about his real-life prowess.
An off-cited story from the late Nineties, covered at the time by Hong Kong news outlets, tells of how the actor was standing outside a nightclub with his then-girlfriend, when a group of men began harassing her. The gang later tried to corner and attack Yen...and all eight members, the story goes, ended up in hospital. (It's almost impossible not to think of that Rogue One stormtrooper scene.) While his MMA skills are an obvious factor in his success, however, Yen has also spoken about how, for him, acting is a very physical thing: the way his characters move and attack is dictated not just by a desire to show off Yen's best moves, but by his sense of personality. It was this desire to be authentic, he says, that really helped inform his scenes as Imwe.. Asked how the film's choreography measured up to his previous work, Yen told Screen Rant: "I don’t make comparisons between any movies. All my actions, performances, all my films, they are driven by the characteristic."
"If I’m playing a cop, then I give him a particular style – I may not know that style, but as an actor I have to be responsible; to do your homework and do your research and training and stuff like that," he added. "To play this character, he lives in this world. He is, I believe, the spiritual center in the film. Therefore, automatically as an actor, without ever thinking about it, it slowly form together." While Yen was both pleased and proud to be the first Chinese actor cast in a Star Wars movie, he recently admitted, during an interview with Collider, that his Star Wars-loving kids (he has two with wife Cissy Wang, and one from a previous marriage) were the "main reason" he decided to take on the film. In fact, he says, at first he wasn't even all that sure about accepting the part. "I got a call from my agent, saying, 'Disney just called me. "I was like, 'Are they going to make me a lightsaber or something?', you know. 'Are they going to ask me to get Darth Vader?'"