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Tuesday, October 8, 2013
‘Gravity’ soars to top of weekend box office
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Associated Press Writer
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Chinese President Xi Jinping, left, Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, center, and Russian President Vladimir Putin attend the Leaders Retreat during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum in Bali, Indonesia, Monday, Oct. 7, 2013.
LOS ANGELES — The Sandra Bullock-George Clooney space drama “Gravity” rocketed to the top of the box office and into industry record books during its opening weekend. The Warner Bros. adventure debuted with $55.55 million in North American ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday — the biggest October opening ever and the biggest openings for Bullock and Clooney. The film also dominated the international box office, adding another $27.4 million overseas. “It’s all good news,” said Dan Fellman, Warner Bros. president of domestic distribution. He credited director and co-writer Alfonso Cuaron, who takes viewers into orbit with a story set almost entirely in space that explores challenges faced by two astronauts during a spacewalk. Cuaron’s team developed equipment and technology to replicate the weightlessness of space. “It’s never been seen before, visual effects like this,” Fellman said. “Just the space shots are mind-boggling. It looks like you’re right there.” Last week’s top movie, Sony’s “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2,” rolled
into second place with $21.5 million. The animated sequel features the voices of Bill Hader and Anna Faris and a cast of “foodimals,” like tacodiles and shrimpanzees. R-rated fare rounds out the top six. Twentieth Century Fox’s “Runner Runner,” starring Ben Affleck and Justin Timberlake, opened in third place with $7.6 million. Warner Bros.’ “Prisoners,” starring Hugh Jackman and Jake Gyllenhaal, locked onto the fourth spot. Universal’s racing tale “Rush,” starring Chris Hemsworth, drove into fifth place, followed by “Don Jon,” Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s directorial debut about a porn addict looking for love. “The adult drama is back, and fall is the season for the adult drama,” said Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst for box-office tracker Rentrak. “This is when you get your more challenging films, some of the more esoteric fare, and a lot of those movies, by their nature, have to be rated R.”
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The “Gravity” premiere red carpet as seen from a reflection in an astronaut’s helmet at the AMC Lincoln Square Theaters on Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2013, in New York.
Elizabeth Smart details kidnapping in new memoir Associated Press Writer
SALT LAKE CITY — Minutes after 14-year-old Elizabeth Smart was snatched from her bedroom in the dead of night, a police cruiser idled by along a neighborhood street as she was forced to the ground at knifepoint. “Move and I will kill you!” her captor hissed. It was one of several fleeting times Smart watched a rescue slip away during her nine-month ordeal, she recounts in “My Story,” a 308-page book being released by St. Martin’s Press on Monday. She writes that she was so terrified of the street preacher who kidnapped her that when she was rescued by police in a Salt Lake City suburb in March 2003, she only reluctantly identified herself. Between the heartbreak of missed chances, Smart writes, she was treated as a sex object by Brian David Mitchell and as a slave by his wife, Wanda Barzee. She says they denied her food and water for days at a time. A U.S. attorney called it one
of the kidnapping crimes of the century. Smart, a quiet, devout Mormon who played the harp and loved horses, vanished without a trace from her home high above Salt Lake City. Her case galvanized attention just months after Salt Lake City took the world stage with the 2002 Winter Olympics. Smart, now 25, is married, living in Park City, finishing a music degree at Brigham Young University and traveling across the country giving speeches and doing advocacy work. She created the Elizabeth Smart Foundation to bring awareness to predatory crimes against children. For her, the book was another way to help bring nine months of brutality to a close. “I want people to know that I’m happy in my life right now,” Smart told The Associated Press in an interview. “I also, even more so, want to reach out to people who might not be in a good situation. Maybe they’re in a situation that was similar to the one that I was in.”
APEC Summit
China grabs limelight Agence France-Presse
NUSA DUA - China took centre-stage on Monday as Asia-Pacific leaders opened an annual economic summit in the shadow of global growth clouds that are darkening by the day with the US government paralysed by infighting.
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FILE - In this May 7, 2013, file photo, Elizabeth Smart talks with a reporter before an interview in Park City, Utah.
The US federal shutdown has stopped President Barack Obama from attending the two-day Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit on the Indonesian island of Bali, and another summit this week of East Asian leaders in Brunei. US Secretary of State John Kerry stressed anew Obama’s determination to remain engaged with the Pacific Rim region, but his absence has left the arena clear for the leader of one-party China to trumpet the mounting heft of the world’s second largest economy. Interviewed by the Jakarta Post, President Xi Jinping said the “world economy has entered a period of deep readjustment” but China was ready to lead the way to a brighter day as part of “the world’s most dynamic and most promising region”. The communist leader has been touring Southeast Asia,
where there is much disquiet about China’s territorial ambitions, and also touted the benefits of free trade pacts after securing commercial deals worth tens of billions of dollars in Indonesia and Malaysia. China is involved in talks on a trade agreement grouping 16 East Asian nations just as Washington’s rival “TransPacific Partnership” (TPP) of 12 countries appears to be running into trouble. While sympathetic to Obama’s political plight, the leaders of US allies in APEC such as Singapore expressed disappointment that he had been unable to throw his presidential weight personally behind the TPP and Washington’s stop-start “pivot” towards Asia. Foreign friends and rivals alike, as well as financial markets, are worried by a threat bigger even than the shutdown: the possibility that the US government might
default on its colossal debts unless Congress raises the federal borrowing limit by October 17. An unprecedented default by the holder of the world’s reserve currency would affect “the entire planet, and not just those countries with a strong geographical and economic linkage to the US”, Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto said at an APEC business summit. Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed similar sentiments to the business leaders gathered for the event. “The dollar of the United States is still the biggest reserve currency in the world, so it is of utmost importance to all of us,” he said.” But Kerry, taking Obama’s place at APEC, said the president’s epic tussle with the Republicans was merely “a moment in politics” that did not deflect the United States from its strategic goals. “I want to emphasise that there is nothing that will shake the commitment of the rebalance to Asia that President Obama is leading,” Kerry told the business forum. The United States is stumbling politically at a moment when, according to a statement by APEC foreign and trade ministers, the world economy can ill afford more instability following the 2008 financial crisis.