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Entertainment
Tuesday, November 4, 2014
‘Nightcrawler’ scares up Halloween box office, Kidman flops Agence France-Presse
LOS ANGELES - Creepy thriller “Nightcrawler” edged out horror movie “Ouija” in the Halloween weekend box office battle in North America, estimated figures showed Sunday. “Nightcrawler”, which stars Jake Gyllenhaal as a sleazy videojournalist who patrols Los Angeles at night hunting for gory footage to sell to a local television network, opened with $10.9 million. Just a fraction behind in second spot was horror movie “Ouija,” estimates from box office tracker Exhibitor Relations showed. Third place was taken by Brad Pitt World War II tank drama “Fury,” with $9.1 million, ahead of David Fincher thriller “Gone Girl” starring Ben Affleck, which added another $8.8 million to its five-week haul. Animated comedy “The Book of Life,” featuring the voices of Zoe Saldana and Channing Tatum, was
in fifth place at $8.3 million. “John Wick,” starring Keanu Reeves as an ex-hitman who returns from retirement to take revenge on gangsters who attacked him, raked in just under $8.1 million in ticket sales to take sixth place. “St. Vincent,” a comedy starring Bill Murray, Melissa McCarthy and Naomi Watts, held onto seventh place. The film, about a young boy who befriends the crusty war veteran living next door, earned $7.8 million. Disney’s “Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day” -- based on a children’s book of the same name and starring Steve Carell and Jennifer Garner -came in eighth place at just under
$6.5 million. Legal drama “The Judge,” pairing Robert Duvall and Robert Downey Jr, was ninth with $3.4 million. Action-horror film “Dracula Untold” -- depicting the vampire as a flawed hero in a tragic love tale -- rounded out the top 10 with $2.9 million. Elsewhere this weekend, Nicole Kidman suffered her worst ever large scale opening in the the thriller “Before I Go to Sleep,” which took just over $2 million after a wide release across 1,935 theaters. The movie stars the Australian Oscar-winner opposite Colin Firth as a woman suffering from chronic amnesia who wakes up every morning with no recollection of her life from her early 20s onwards. The weak opening marks another disappointing flop for Kidman after “Grace of Monaco,” which was booed at the Cannes festival earlier this year and savaged by critics.
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This photo provided by Universal Pictures shows, from left, Douglas Smith, as Pete, Olivia Cooke, as Laine, and Ana Coto, as Sarah, in the film, “Ouija.” Creepy thriller “Nightcrawler” edged out horror movie “Ouija” in the Halloween weekend box office battle in North America, estimated figures showed Sunday.
Sesame Street marks 45th birthday Associated Press
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kids watch the show on phones and computers instead of TV. NEW YORK — You don’t get And there’s less time spent on to be the longest-running chil- the street with human characters. dren’s show in TV history by do- They’re just not energetic enough ing the same thing over and over. for today’s viewers. So even though parents who grew That “Sesame Street” still exists up watching “Sesame Street” can at all says a lot. In 1973, it was one still see old favorites like Big Bird, of two TV shows for preschoolers. things on the street have changed Now it’s competing with 84 kids’ since the show debuted 45 years shows on TV and countless othago on Nov. 10, 1969. ers online. Yet “Sesame Street” Cookie Monster now exercises still holds its own, ranking 20th self-control and sometimes eats among kids ages 2 to 5 with fruits and vegetables. Millions of 850,000 viewers per TV episode, according to Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit organization behind the show. In this Aug. 22, 2001 file photo, But now half the viewers watch original muppet characters it in digital formats. Options inBert, left, and Ernie, from the clude SesameStreet.org, PBSKids. children’s program “Sesame Street,” are shown in New York. org, Netflix, Amazon, iTunes and
some 50 apps. A “Sesame Street” YouTube channel has a million subscribers and 1.5 billion views. And touchscreens have been “a magic wand for us in terms of engagement,” says “Sesame Street” senior vice president Scott Chambers. Kids can trace letters or point to colors or shapes, and the app provides positive reinforcement. “Sesame Street” also has the highest “co-viewing” experience — meaning adults watching with kids — of any preschool show: 49 percent of “Sesame Street” viewers are over age 18. “We’re very proud of that,” said Chambers. “We design the show to engage the parent because we know that’s more educational. If you have a parent watching with you, you’re going to learn much more.”
Green belt at Megati
Annexed by investor, farmers unable to cultivate IBP/bit
Polemic on the revocation of green belt at Megati, East Selemadeg, now controlled by investor continuously still rolls out.
Bali Post
TABANAN - Polemic on the revocation of green belt at Megati, East Selemadeg, now controlled by investor continuously still rolls out. As a result, the farmers at Subak Aseman II protested because their wetland area with a total of 45.65 hectares were threatened not to grow crops. It happened because the irrigation channel irrigating the fields at Subak Aseman II located behind the Subak Aseman I was closed as the impact of the warehouse development project owned by a leading private company at the former green belt of Subak Aseman I, Jelijih Tegeh hamlet, Megati, East Selemadeg. As has been known, at the lo-
cation will be built a warehouse owned by one of the renowned dealers. However, the green belt had been revoked by the Tabanan House of the 2009-2014 tenure at the end of their term a few months ago. It was based on the reason for developing the subdistrict town. Even, the discussion on the revocation of the green belt had gone through a tug since the revocation
plan was alleged to have been influenced by investors. Surely, before long released, the former green belt was suddenly leveled. Lately, it was known if the land of approximately 2 hectares was owned by a renowned dealer. Related to the warehouse construction, the chief of Subak Aseman II, Nengah Sukanama, accompanied by subgroup head of Munduk Lantang, Made Widarma, was disappointed because there was no coordination at all when closing to the irrigation channel of Subak Aseman II. gAlthough the project location is at Subak Aseman I, but the closed irrigation channel also flows to the area of Subak Aseman
II. Even, we have not been included in the covenant between the Subak Aseman I and the investor,h he said. One of the points in the agreement mentions that the second party (investor) is prohibited from closing or destroying the irrigation channel owned by the subak at downstream area. Meanwhile, another point mentions if the first party (Subak Aseman) approved to the water diversion and the second party is obliged to build a new irrigation channel on the land owned by the second party. Besides, the second party is not allowed to close the old irrigation channel before the new one can
function properly. But the fact in the field indicates if the irrigation channel to Subak Aseman II has now been closed and cannot operate any longer. gOther than not being involved, we are also disappointed because the irrigation channel was closed arbitrarily. Obviously, we are very much harmed,h he said. He hoped the relevant parties could immediately intervene to resolve the problems. gWe have predicted that the revocation of green belt initially meant to develop the subdistrict town, but it is then controlled by investor,h he explained. Continued on page 6