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‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ Tops $1 Billion Worldwide LOS ANGELES - Disney-Lucasfilm’s “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” has cleared the $1 billion milestone in worldwide grosses in less than three weeks. “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” pulled in $120.4 million globally on the New Year’s Eve weekend with $52.4 million at 4,232 domestic venues and $68 million internationally during the Friday-Sunday period. “The Last Jedi” is now the eighth highest-grossing domestic movie of all time with $517.1 million -- only $15 million behind last year’s “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” in the seventh spot. On the worldwide chart, it’s now 24th with $1.04 billion, edging Universal-Illumination’s “Despicable Me 3.” The tentpole’s international total, currently at $523.2 million, will see a significant jolt when it opens on Jan. 5 in China, its final market. “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” has also topped Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast,” which grossed $504 million in North America, for the top spot among 2017 releases domestically. It’s the fourth 2017 title to go past $1 billion worldwide, along with “Beauty and the Beast” at $1.26 billion, “The Fate of the Furious” at $1.24 billion and “Despicable Me 3” at $1.03 billion. “The Last Jedi” is also winning the domestic weekend box office crown for the third time with $52.4 million,
edging Sony’s “Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle,” which took in $50.6 million at 3,765 locations for the FridaySunday. However, Sony’s projection showed the “Jumanji” sequel grossing $16.5 million on New Year’s Day on Monday -- well above Disney’s forecast of $13.2 million for “The Last Jedi.” Should those numbers hold, “Jumanji” would edge “Jedi” over the four-day period with $67 million, winning by $1.4 million. “Jumanji” has been “The Last Jedi’s” biggest competitor by far since it opened on Dec. 20. The action-comedy should wind up with an 11-day domestic total of $186.3 million by the end of Monday. The action-comedy, starring Dwayne Johnson and Kevin Hart, has a $90 million budget. It’s also performed impressively in international markets with $107 million thr0ugh Dec. 28. “Jedi” and “Jumanji” helped lift the entire domestic box office for 2017 to $11.12 billion, down 2.3% from last year’s $11.38 billion and off slightly from 2015’s $11.14 billion, according to comScore. The gap for 2017 had been more than 6% at the end of the worst summer in a decade but performances by “It,” “Thor: Ragnarok,” “Justice League,” “Jedi” and “Jumanji” closed most of that margin. (rtr)
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Jay-Z ‘confesses’ to Beyonce in ‘Family Feud’ music video
LOS ANGELES - Jay-Z released a music video on Friday that features the rapper addressing the pain of infidelity as he appears in a confessional booth opposite his wife Beyonce.
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This file photo taken on December 12, 2017 shows Stormtrooopers and Praetorian guards posing on the red carpet for the European Premiere of “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” at the Royal Albert Hall in London.
Set partly in a church and also featuring the couple’s 5-year-old daughter Blue Ivy, the “Family Feud” video pays tribute to family ties and female empowerment. “We all lose when the family feuds,” Jay-Z sings. “A man that don’t take care of his family can’t be rich.” The video is the latest from JayZ’s hit album “4:44,” in which he responds to allegations of cheating revealed by Beyonce in her 2016 Grammy-winning album “Lemonade.” It briefly shows an unidentified couple having sex, until the woman stabs the man in
the back. Within an hour of its release, the video was the top trending item on Twitter. Jay-Z, 48, confirmed in a New York Times interview in November that he had been unfaithful to Beyonce earlier in their nine-year marriage. The rapper’s soul-baring “4:44” album on love, life and social issues was widely seen as an apology to his wife. The couple, one of the richest and most influential in the music industry, have reconciled and Beyonce gave birth to their twins
in June. Heavy on symbolism, the eight-minute-long “Family Feud” video shows the musician walking into a church holding the hand of a white-clad Blue Ivy and taking a seat in the confessional booth. Beyonce, dressed in a black, priestess-like robe, watches silently from a pulpit and later sits listening on the other side of the confessional screen. Directed by filmmaker Ava DuVernay, the video also envisions a future in which a grown-up Blue Ivy and other women of color, portrayed by actresses Mindy Kaling, Rosario Dawson, America Ferrera, Thandie Newton and Niecy Nash, appear to rule the world. (rtr)
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Supporters of George Weah, former soccer player and presidential candidate of Coalition for Democratic Change (CDC), celebrate as their leader arrives at party headquaters in Monrovia, Liberia December 27, 2017.
Liberia’s Weah under pressure to deliver after election win
MONROVIA - Now that George Weah has emphatically won Liberia’s presidency, an even more daunting task awaits: delivering tangible benefits to expectant supporters in the face of a gutted economy and waning donor support. Weah was met by hundreds of screaming supporters on his arrival at his party headquarters on Friday. Many have waited over a decade - since his failed bid for the presidency in 2005 - to see a man they consider their own come to power. Those supporters come with high expectations that the former soccer star may have to carefully temper if he is to keep his widespread support, particularly among the West African country’s disaffected youth. In a farewell address on Friday to the senate, where he has served since 2015, Weah struck a unifying note but steered clear of policy specifics, as he did throughout the campaign. “We all are colleagues, we are Liberians. It is time for us to work together to move the country forward,” he said. Weah, who grew up kicking
a raggedy soccer ball on the dusty streets of the capital Monrovia’s Clara Town slum and later played for top European clubs, successfully tapped into dissatisfaction with Ellen Johnson Sirleaf’s 12-year presidency. Johnson Sirleaf won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2011 for helping secure peace after civil wars from 1989-2003, but she has been criticised over persistent poverty and corruption scandals. The challenge of lending substance to vague campaign promises is steep in a country that ranks 177th out of 188 on the U.N. Human Development Index.
“People are expecting too much of him, but we know he will do us proud,” said Diane Fbarh, a 24year-old accounting student as she waited for Weah to appear at his party headquarters. “I don’t think he will let us down.” Chronic problems with electricity delivery leave most of the country without power and even downtown Monrovia is frequently in the dark. Much of rural Liberia is effectively cut off from the capital when summer rains flood the pitted dirt roads. Liberia’s economy has been hit hard by a 2014-16 Ebola outbreak
that killed thousands, low prices for its chief exports, iron ore and rubber, and declining foreign aid. Remittances from Liberians living abroad account for more than a quarter of gross domestic product. The economy contracted last year and the International Monetary Fund last month lowered its GDP growth forecasts for 2017 and 2018, citing sluggish commodity prices and the drawdown of the country’s U.N. peacekeeping mission. Johnson Sirleaf’s administration was also dogged by several corruption scandals. She suspended her son and 45 other government officials in 2012 for failing to declare their assets to anti-corruption authorities and faced accusations of nepotism. She denied those charges.
‘GOVERNMENT OF INCLUSION’ Weah, 51, has vowed to form a “government of inclusion” in a country still riven by divisions based on ethnicity, class and political affiliation, but opponents have criticised his lack of political experience and education. “It boils down to the team he puts together. He needs people with integrity and skill to implement change,” said political analyst Robtel Neajai Pailey. Continued to page 6 News can also be heard in “Bali Image” at Global Radio FM 96.5 from 9.30 until 10.00 am. Listen to Global Radio FM at http:// globalfmbali.listen2myradio.com or live video streaming at http:// radioglobalfmbali.com and http:// ustream.tv/channel/global-fm-bali.