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Tuesday, October 13, 2015
‘Pan’ lacks magic at the box office; ‘The Martian’ soars
LOS ANGELES — “Pan” produced no Neverland magic at the box office. The fantasy, which cost an estimated $150 million to produce, earned $15.5 million in its opening weekend, according to Rentrak estimates Sunday making it one of the worst bombs of the year. Early tracking did not look promising for the Joe Wright-directed film but still predicted that “Pan” would open at least in the $20 million range. The PG-rated epic, sold as a Peter Pan origin story and a lavish visual feast, has had a bumpy ride from the beginning, starting when actress Rooney Mara, who is white, was cast as Tiger Lily, who is historically Native American. The film, starring Hugh Jackman and Garrett Hedlund, also had been pushed from July to October. It has not been well-received by critics, either. “Pan” now ranks among 2015’s biggest flops, including “Fantastic Four” and “Tomorrowland.” International earnings don’t look promising either. The film brought in a weak $20.5 million. For comparison, “The Martian” earned $58.1 million. “This had a lot going against it,” said Paul Dergarabedian, a senior media analyst for Rentrak.
He also believes competition in the family market from the Halloween-themed animated feature “Hotel Transylvania 2” hurt “Pan.” “Family films always have an audience, but that audience is extremely fickle and hard to please, just like the kids who go to these movies,” Dergarabedian said. “You just never know what’s going to resonate.” Sony’s high-wire spectacle “The Walk” also stumbled in its first weekend in wide release, after debuting on IMAX screens last week. The tale of Philippe Petit’s tight-rope walk between the towers of the World Trade Center earned $3.7 million this weekend, bringing its total to $6.4 million. Joseph Gordon-Levitt stars in film directed by Robert Zemeckis. Not all was bleak at the box of-
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Foreign tourists offer prayers at Bali Bomb Monument
MANGUPURA - Scores of foreign tourists offered prayers and flowers at the Bali Bomb Monument, known as “Ground Zero,” on Monday in memory of the victims of the October 12, 2002, explosion. The tourists brought flowers to lay at the monument and to offer prayers to the victims of the senseless attack that had a profound and lasting impact on the survivors, families, and friends of the victims. “I have come here to offer my prayers as today, we commemorate with great sadness the tragic event that took place in Bali on October 12, 2002, killing 202 people, including 88 Australians,” said Steve Douglas, a tourist from Australia. The attack was the worst terrorist incident in the history of Indonesia, with 202 civilians dead and more than 100 wounded, for which Jemaah Islamiya, an alQaeda-linked terrorist organization, was held responsible. The attack in Bali’s crowded Kuta tourist district began with
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This photo provided by courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures shows, Rooney Mara, left, as Tiger Lily, and Levi Miller as Peter, in a scene from the film, “Pan.” The movie releases in U.S. theaters on Friday, Oct. 9, 2015. fice, though. Ridley Scott’s space adventure “The Martian” earned a solid $37 million in its second week in theaters, nabbing the top spot once more. Its domestic total now stands at $108.7 million. “Hotel Transylvania 2” took second place in its third weekend with $20.3 million, bumping its total to $116.8 million. “Pan” came
in at No. 3. Nancy Meyers’ workplace comedy “The Intern” earned $8.7 million, and the border thriller “Sicario” brought in $7.4 million, rounding out the top five. Outside the top 10, “Steve Jobs,” the biopic of the late Apple CEO directed by Danny Boyle and written by Aaron Sorkin, opened in
four theaters in New York and Los Angeles to a powerful $520,942. Its $130,000 per-theater average ranks as the best of the year and should bode well for the film’s expansion across the next two weeks. “This is a movie everyone’s talking about, and now they’re going to be talking about it even more,” Dergarabedian said. (ap)
Aerosmith frontman asks Trump campaign to stop using song
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LOS ANGELES — Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler is asking Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump to stop using the power ballad “Dream On” at campaign events. Attorneys for Tyler sent a second ceaseand-desist letter to Trump’s campaign committee on Saturday. The letter says that Trump does “not have our client’s permission to use ‘Dream On’” or any of Tyler’s other songs and that it “gives the false impression that he is
connected with or endorses Mr. Trump’s presidential bid.” Tyler, who is a registered Republican, attended the GOP contenders’ first debate in August. Attorney Dina LaPolt said in a statement that the letter is not a “political” or “personal issue with Mr. Trump,” but it’s one of permission and copyright. Representatives for Trump did not immediately respond to request for comment. (ap)
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A Japanese prays during his visit to Bali bombing memorial on the 13th anniversary of the 2002 blasts that hit the Kuta district near Denpasar on Indonesia’s resort island of Bali on October 12, 2015. The 2002 blasts, blamed on the militant Jemaah Islamiyah network linked to Al-Qaeda, tore apart a busy night club strip on the resort island of Bali killing 202 people, including 88 Australians.
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Bali has 33,000 unemployed people
BALI’S unemployment rate is relatively low with just 33,611 out of a total workf o r c e of 2.4 million who are without work. The government has attempted to facilitate employment by holding job fairs, however the number of applicants has been far less then expected. “Bali has the lowest unemployment rate in Indonesia, and this is clearly due to the stability of our economy” said Acting Spokesman for Bali’s provincial government, I Ketut Teneng, recently in Denpasar.
Teneng explained that job fairs and training have been provided through the Training Center (BLK) specifically aimed at absorbing high school and college graduates into the job market. “We have been cooperating with various employers to facilitate this process,” said Teneng. However, as IGA Sudarsana, Head of the Bali Manpower Agency, the turn outs have been low. For example, only 1,500 job applicants showed up for a job fair held at the Ngurah Rai Stadium last August, whereas 6,5000 jobs were available.
a suicide bombing inside a tourist bar that funneled panicking victims into the street, exposing the crowd to the full blast of a car bomb parked next to the neighboring Sari Club. Douglas noted that besides offering prayers, his visit to the Ground Zero site was to pay his respects to the victims of the Bali bombing tragedy. The 2002 bombings and the subsequent terrorist attacks have also brought Australia and Indonesia closer and strengthened their resolve to eradicate the threat of violent extremism in the region and globally. Douglas affirmed on Monday that he had the opportunity to remember those who suffered and died, and his thoughts were with all who continue to grieve over the loss of their loved ones. (ant)
“If all the job positions could be filled, that would be very good as it would reduce employment rates. However for some reason, there has been very little interest in this program from unemployed people from all regions of Bali, even though the exact figures for Denpasar have yet to be tabulated, we know that people in Gianyar have not shown much interest,” he emphasized. Sudarsana added that his agency is now looking into why it is that so few people have shown interest in here job fairs and job training programs, to find out whether it is because
people do not want to work of it is for some other reason. “Obviously, the unemployment rate is very low so it is hard to reduce it anymore, despite efforts on the part of county and municipal governments to have these jobs filled. We must think about this together,” he explained. Sudarsana explained that the unemployment of high school graduates in Bali is 3.18 percent, while University Graduates have a 1.43 percent rate of unemployment. Continue to page 1 Unemployment ...