Terracotta triumphs and terrors

Starring Jet Li, Brendan Fraser and Michelle Yeoh, The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor is likely to be this month's smash hit in mainland theaters.

The adventure franchise moves to ancient China, where Rick O'Connell and his wife Evelyn, this time played by Maria Bello, have to stop a mummy woken from a 2,000-year-old curse from taking over the world.

Li plays the mummy and Yeoh is the witch who curses him. The two have dazzling kungfu fight scenes dwarfing the 1,000 visual-effect shots.