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Wednesday, November 6, 2013
‘Ender’s Game’ battles to U.S., Canada box office win
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This image released by Summit Entertainment shows Viola Davis in a scene from “Ender’s Game.”
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LOS ANGELES/NEW YORK - “Ender’s Game,” the futuristic story of children forced to fight an enemy race, battled to the top of box office charts in the United States and Canada, defeating senior citizen buddy comedy “Last Vegas” and animated turkey tale “Free Birds.” Based on a best-selling 1985 novel, “Ender’s Game” collected $28 million in ticket sales over its first three days, according to studio estimates released on Sunday. Raunchy comedy “Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa,” which topped last weekend’s charts, dropped to second place with $20.5 million. “Last Vegas” debuted in the No. 3 spot, grabbing $16.5 million. Elsewhere, Marvel action hero Thor hammered into international theaters for sequel “Thor: The Dark World,” hauling in $109.4 million from Wednesday through Sunday, distributor Walt Disney Co said. The movie debuts in the United States and Canada on Friday.
“Ender’s Game” stars Asa Butterfield as Ender Wiggin, a young boy who is singled out for his superior intellect and put through advanced warfare training. Harrison Ford plays Colonel Graff, the man who isolates Ender from his comrades and manipulates him into commanding a war. The movie is the latest adaptation of a young adult novel brought to the big screen by studios hoping to start a new blockbuster franchise like “Twilight” and “The Hunger Games.” “Ender’s Game” finished in line with projections from box office analysts, who forecast a $25 million to $30 million start. The movie was produced for $110 million by Lions Gate Entertainment’s Summit
Entertainment studio, Oddlot Entertainment and visual effects company Digital Domain. More than half - 54 percent - of the audience was over age 25, making its appeal to younger moviegoers and potential for a sequel less clear. “It looks like ‘Ender’s Game’ is oneand-done,” said Jeff Bock, senior box office analyst at Exhibitor Relations Co., noting that with next week’s big domestic opening of “Thor” “there won’t be much of the box office pie left for ‘Ender’s Game.’” A-LIST CAST “Last Vegas” stars an A-list cast of Oscar-winning actors Robert De Niro, Michael Douglas, Morgan Freeman and Kevin Kline, playing four lifelong friends who reunite for a bachelor party. Mary Steenburgen plays a Vegas lounge singer in the movie, produced by CBS Films, a unit of CBS Corp, with a small budget of $28 million.
‘The Pike’ wins Samuel Johnson nonfiction prize Associated Press Writer
LONDON — A biography of Italian fascist Gabriele D’Annunzio has won Britain’s leading nonfiction book prize. “The Pike,” by Lucy Hughes-Hallett, was awarded the 20,000 pound ($32,000) Samuel Johnson Prize on Monday. The book tells the story of D’Annunzio, a debauched Italian artist who became a national hero. Martin Rees, who chaired the judging panel, praised Hughes-Hallett’s “intricate crafting” of the narrative and said readers will be transfixed by her portrayal of “repellent egotist” D’Annunzio. “Her original experimentation with form transcends the conventions of biography,” Rees said. Hughes-Hallett has written two other books: “Cleopatra: Histories, Dreams and Distortions” and “Heroes: Saviours, Traitors and Supermen.” For the Samuel Johnson Prize, she beat out other finalists including Charles Moore’s “Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography;” Charlotte Higgins’ portrait of ancient Britain, “Under Another Sky;” and “A Sting in the Tale” by bee conservationist Dave Goulson. “Empires of the Dead,” a history of World War I cemeteries by David Crane, and William
Dalrymple’s 19th-century Afghan saga “Return of the King” also were on the shortlist.
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President of Indonesia, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (middle) during the opening session of Bali Democracy Forum V, last year. The Indonesian Foreign Affairs Ministry will hold the Bali Democracy Forum (BDF) VI in Nusa Dua, Bali Province to support developing democracies throughout the world.
Indonesia to host BDF VI Antara
DENPASAR - The Indonesian Foreign Affairs Ministry will hold the Bali Democracy Forum (BDF) VI in Nusa Dua, Bali Province to support developing democracies throughout the world.
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New Zealand author Eleanor Catton, center, holds her prize and stands with the Duchess of Cornwall and Robert Macfarlane, Chair of judges, after winning the Man Booker Prize for Fiction, in central London, Tuesday Oct. 15, 2013.
“We have chosen the theme Consolidating Democracy in a Pluralistic Society for BDF VI. We will return the running of BDF VI to its original format, that is at a ministerial level meeting,” said Indonesian Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa during a press conference. According to the Foreign Minister, the Ministry will hold a forum on November 7-8, 2013 at the Bali Nusa Dua Convention Cen-
ter (BNDCC) in Nusa Dua, Bali Province. Marty said a number of Heads of State will attend the forum, including Sultan of Brunei Darussalam Hassanal Bolkiah, Prime Minister of Timor Leste Xanana Gusmao and Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, who will open the forum on the first day. “The Forum will be inaugurated by President Susilo Bambang
Yudhoyono, along with the Sultan of Brunei Darussalam and Prime Minister of Timor Leste. There will be at least 81 countries and 3 international organizations attending the meeting,” Marty said. He added that at least 30 ministers will join the forum. There are two sub-themes that will be discussed during BDF VI, including the explanation of free and fair general elections held in participating BDF countries. The second sub-theme is an explanation of how to build and strengthen democratic institutions in each country. “This forum reflected Indone-
sia’s contribution in creating a conducive situation in Asia Pacific. The representatives will also explain what has been done to establish democracy and, at the same time, we also learn from other countries about what they are doing to develop democracy,” Marty said. Establishment of democracy The establishment of democracy in a number of countries will be discussed at the 6th Bali Democracy Forum scheduled in Nusa Dua, Bali, on November 7-8, a foreign ministry official said. “We think during the discussions that the Arab Spring, or the devel-
opment of democracy in a number of countries in the Middle East and Africa, would also be touched upon,” the director general of information and public diplomacy, A.M. Fachir, said. He said participating countries would discuss the evolving of democracy in various countries, in view of democratic movements in Syria and Egypt. He said there are three principles that could be offered by the BDF to the participating countries, including that democracy can be the foundation of a nation, but it must grow out of its own will.
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