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Ip Man features Yen in his signature role as Yip Man, the Wing Chun grandmaster who is best known for training Bruce Lee.

That's when the movie's exuberance really takes hold: Thor finds himself captured by the booze - guzzling bounty hunter Valkyrie (Tessa Thompson, wonderfully rambunctious), a wayward Asgardian warrior who drags the god into the captivity of the planet's ruler, a flamboyant, psychedelic tyrant named Grandmaster who's basically Jeff Goldblum playing himself.

Jeff Goldblum takes on the role of Grandmaster who is in charge of the planet Sakaar.

Another highlight is Korg, voiced by Waititi himself, a captor of the Grandmaster who dreams of revolution.

Not exact matches

«U.S. multinational firms are the global grandmasters of tax avoidance schemes that deplete not just U.S. tax collection but the tax collection of most every large economy in the world,» said Edward D. Kleinbard, a former corporate tax adviser to such companies who is now a law professor at the University of Southern California.

As part of this late exercise in autodidactism, they suggested that I read various books — some of which were subsequently acquired — by formidable chess grandmasters including Nimzowitsch and Alekhine and others who left permanent stamps on the game.

I can forgive an Arsenal player who «allegedly» sucked off Grandmaster Flash, but not for meeting Mourinho in a hotel room to engineer a move to Chelsea... of for texting after an England game, «I hate the English.»

Grandmaster William Lombardy, who was Fischer's second when he won the world title, has not talked to Fischer since 1978 in Pasadena, when the U.S. championships were held at the Worldwide Church's Ambassador College.

Meanwhile, Mjolnir-less Thor ends up becoming a sort of cosmic gladiator on Sakaar, a faraway planet run by the Grandmaster (Goldblum, Independence Day: Resurgence), who pits him against the fiercest opponent in the galaxy, fellow Avenger, Hulk (Ruffalo, Now You See Me 2).

The Grandmasters stars the director's frequent collaborator Tony Leung as the legendary martial arts master who instructed Bruce Lee, and features action sequences choreographed by Yeun Woo - ping (the man behind The Matrix, Kill Bill, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, and countless other films).

One follows Thor and his adopted brother Loki (Tom Hiddleston), who faked his death in the previous movie, as they try to escape from a planet run by the egocentric Grandmaster (a very funny Jeff Goldblum).

Meanwhile, as Thor and Loki flee from Hela, Thor crashlands in a junkyard on planet Sakaar, where he's picked up by Scrapper 142 (Tessa Thompson), who takes him to the Grandmaster (Jeff Goldblum).

The green goombah pops up at the 50 - minute mark, first grappling with Thor in a gladiatorial contest after both are imprisoned on the planet Sakaar, a place ruled by the Grandmaster, a mumbling psychedelic thrill - seeker who is more than one toke over the line.

While racing back to Asgard to protect it from her, however, Thor and Loki are knocked out of the rainbow tunnel and land on a random junk planet run by a Grandmaster (Jeff Goldblum, now at the stage of his career where he starts playing himself) who befriends Loki and forces Thor to be a gladiator.

Jeff's Grandmaster is the foolish kind of evil who makes you laugh but you can sense that it has the capacity to turn menacingly evil.

Played by Jeff Goldblum with all of his quizzical, hesitant Jeff Goldblum - ishness, and sporting a golden wizard's outfit that would have been rejected as being over-the-top by Elton John in the 1970s, The Grandmaster forces Thor to take part in a brutal gladiatorial contest, but the thunder god runs into two people who might just help him get back to Asgard: a mysterious warrior (Tessa Thompson) with a link to his past, and his old pal the Hulk (Mark Ruffalo).

The Grandmaster, a kind of perverse Vince McMahon of space who pits warriors from throughout the galaxy against his legendary champion (who, if you've seen the trailers, is obviously the Hulk), gets his hands on Thor and tosses him into his fighting pit.

Director Mamoru Hosoda (The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, Summer Wars) continues to grow as an animator, and this film will only add credence to the argument that Hosoda is poised to replace Hayao Miyazaki as the new grandmaster of Japanese animation.

Then he's been captured by a bounty hunter named Valkyrie (Tessa Thompson) on a strange planet called Sakaar, given a haircut and forced to compete in gladiatorial combat against Hulk (Mark Ruffalo), which is controlled by a man called The Grandmaster (Jeff Goldblum) who's hanging around with his brother Loki (Tom Hiddleston).

Practically all of the attempts at humor fall flat, particularly Jeff Goldblum's Grandmaster, who adds nothing.

Inside Sakaar's HQ (look, Beta Ray Bill and Man - Thing Easter Eggs), Jeff Goldblum does all things Jeff Goldblum for wacky slave owner, the Celestial Grandmaster, who is introduced to Thor through a VR welcome video played with «Pure Imagination.»

The Grandmaster — who ruled over Sakaar — is an Elder of the Universe, making him hundreds of years old.

Based on the real life of Ip Man — the Wing Chun master who trained Bruce Lee — The Grandmaster aims to tell the true story...

Goldblum, 63, will play Grandmaster, a cosmic being who plays chess with lesser life - forms such as humans, said The Hollywood Reporter.

«The Grandmasters» Synopsis: The story of martial - arts master Ip Man, the man who trained Bruce Lee.

Appearing in «Ip Man 2 ′, Lo Mang was the only actor who was able to take part in «The Grandmaster».

Half - ish of the movie takes place on a distant garbage planet ruled by Jeff Goldblum's delightfully loopy Grandmaster, an ageless being who spends his time toying with various collected creatures in a gladiatorial arena.

Song Hye Kyo, the South Korean actress who played the wife of Ip Man (Leung) in The Grandmaster, had found working with the director difficult.

And of course one has to mention Jeff Goldblum, who as The Grandmaster not only steals every scene he is in, he proves that no matter the film, no matter the genre, he delivers.

For his part, the Grandmaster is a wonderfully eccentric leader with the role being played with great delight by Goldblum, who seems like the perfect fit.

Mick quickly realizes he's in over his head, playing chess with a grandmaster of a client, a hustler who may find himself out - hustled, disbarred or worse.

For starters, he ends up enslaved by the Grandmaster (played by Jeff Goldblum), a quirky, malevolent dictator on another planet who makes him participate in a life - or - death gladiator match.

Grandmasters, starring Tony Leung, Zhang Ziyi and Chang Chen, is a biopic of famed martial artist Ip Man, who practiced the art of Wing Chun and is best known as the man who taught Bruce Lee.

Valkyrie (Tessa Thompson), who finds fighters for the planet's charismatic ruler, The Grandmaster (Jeff Goldblum), forces Thor into the arena where he discovers that the reigning champion is the Hulk (Mark Ruffalo).

Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash on the Wheels of Steel (1981) Anyone who missed Grandmaster Flash's seminal early DJ sets could get a taste of them on this seven - minute turntable masterclass, sampling the likes of Blondie and Queen.

Large portions of the film take place instead in a spectacularly cluttered, Mad Max landfill metropolis, where Thor is taken prisoner by a drunken mercenary «scrapper» (Tessa Thompson) and sold into the gladiatorial ranks of hedonistic aristocrat The Grandmaster (a hilarious Jeff Goldblum, who's like Jabba The Hutt by way of... well, Jeff Goldblum).

Prepare for Jeff Goldblum as the Grandmaster — the most polite villain we've seen in awhile, and one who looks to be straight out of the 1960's «Batman» series.

Yesterday, Tony Leung Chiu - wai, Yuen Woo - Ping, and Lau Ka Yung attended the Hong Kong University's «Who Is The Grandmaster film forum».

Most of the attention went to the cast of The Grandmasters, including Tony Leung Chiu - wai, Zhang Ziyi, Chang Chen, Zhao Benshan, Song Hye - kyo, Xiao Shenyang and Wang Qingxiang, who rushed from the Guangdong set.

In the interim its lead actor Tony Leung, who has focused on making and not taken any other role, recently accepted a role in Derek Yee's «The Great Magician» whilst he waits for «The Grandmasters» to resume.

Wong has been widely acclaimed: the visionary auteur who helped catapult Maggie CHEUNG and Tony LEUNG Chiu - wai to international stardom; the first Asian to win Best Director at Cannes Film Festival (for his 1997 work Happy Together); one of the top three in Sight & Sound's list of Top Ten Directors of Modern Times; and the meticulous perfectionist behind this year's Berlinale opener The Grandmaster.

It's also we get a Marvel movie that doubles as a weird buddy comedy that pairs Thor with Mark Ruffalo's Bruce Banner / Hulk, who spend much of the film stranded on an alien - junkyard planet ruled by Jeff Goldblum's royal Grandmaster, a supreme oddball who finds great entertainment in staging gladiator - style coliseum fights.

«Hero» director Zhang Yimou who was in Beijing also showed his support for «The Grandmaster» and met with Wong Kar - wai, Zhang Ziyi, and Chen Daoming after the premiere for a brief chat and photos.

For Plummer, who is no relation to Christopher Plummer, it was a chance to work with a grandmaster director and see Ridley Scott in action.

In comic book lore, the Grandmaster is often paired with Guardians of the Galaxy's the Collector (Benicio del Toro) as part of the Elders of the Universe, who for a time held control of the Infinity Gems.

The Final Master — Xu Haofeng, who wrote Wong Kar - wai's The Grandmaster, directs his own script about a Wing Chun master hoping to open a dojo in Tianjin in the mid-1930s.

It's up to the Guardians to find, protect and ultimately destroy the Cosmic Seed in order to keep it out of the hands of those who would abuse its power, from galactic big boss Thanos, to the conniving brothers the Collector and the Grandmaster, to a resurrected Ronan, to the ultimate trickster, Loki, in order to save the universe.

(That said, considering The Grandmaster is one of the universe's immortal Elders who, in comic book canon, can cause death to others just by wishing it, he's likely not in too much trouble.)

Director Wong, who is known for long shooting periods, started filming «The Grandmasters» in 2009.

Bobby Fischer was a chess prodigy who became the youngest grandmaster in the history of the game.