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Thursday, April 18, 2013
‘Man of Steel’ promises poignancy from Superman Associated Press Writer
LAS VEGAS — Zack Snyder is hoping his Superman reboot “Man of Steel” turns out to be not just a blockbuster, but a movie with a capital “M.”
Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP
Zack Snyder, director of the forthcoming film “Man of Steel,” addresses the audience during the Warner Bros. presentation at CinemaCon 2013 at Caesars Palace on Tuesday, April 16, 2013 in Las Vegas.
There are panoramic aerial battles on Krypton, there are touching moments between young Clark Kent and both his biological and adoptive fathers, there are close-ups of a fist pounding into ice, and there is lots and lots of big-budget flying. “I wanted the movie to be a big moviegoing experience, full of action, full of emotion and full of the biggest super hero in the world,” Snyder said Tuesday before giving the Las Vegas movie theater convention CinemaCon a brief glimpse. “I wanted to give to the cinemas of the world a big, giant ‘movie’ movie.”
The film follows in the modern tradition of the naturalistic superhero movies. It takes place in a gritty-looking, color-drained world of grays, brown and icy blues. All the better to set off that red cape, perhaps. The scenes of Clark Kent’s Kansas childhood are drenched in Americana, complete with freshly laundered flannels flapping on the clothes line. Snyder, who also directed the superhero film “Watchmen,” said he wanted to find a poignancy to add to
the familiar story. We get some hints of that tenderness in conversations between Kent and his farmer father, played by Kevin Costner, as they struggle to keep the young superhero’s powers hidden. But then we see Kent grow up, learn to fly and begin to take on an assortment of foes. It’s this part of the legend — not the troubled childhood — that seems to most animate Snyder. “I’ve been a big fan of the character my whole life,” Snyder said. “He is the greatest super hero. There’s no competition between super heroes, but if there was, he’d win.”
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Tourists trying a water sport facility in Serangan Island, Bali Island. Room occupancy rate of star hotels in Bali in February 2013 reached averagely 58.05 percent, increasing 0.48 point compared to the occupancy rate in January 2013 amounting to 57.57 percent.
Indian court gives Dutt 4 more weeks before prison
Associated Press Writer
NEW DELHI — Bollywood star Sanjay Dutt was granted more time to work before going to prison for a 1993 weapons conviction linked to a deadly terror attack, though he likely won’t be able to finish his four pending films. The Supreme Court’s order Wednesday gives him four more weeks beyond the original deadline, which was Thursday. Dutt had appealed to the court that he needed six months to complete his pending film commitments, which film industry experts have said are worth at least $20 million. Last month the top court sentenced Dutt to five years in prison for illegal possession of weapons supplied by Muslim mafia bosses linked to the terror attack that killed 257 people in Mumbai, India’s financial and entertainment hub. The 53-year-old actor originally had been sentenced to serve six years in prison on the charge of possessing an automatic rifle and a pistol that were supplied to him by men subsequently convicted in the bombings. Dutt served 18 months in jail before he was released on bail in 2007 pending an appeal. The Supreme Court reduced his prison sentence to five years. The actor’s case is part of a sprawling Mumbai bombings trial that has lasted 18 years. Dutt maintains he knew nothing about the bombing plot and that he asked for the guns to protect his family — his mother was Muslim and his father Hindu — after receiving threats during sectarian riots in Mumbai. The 1993 bombings were seen at the time as the world’s worst terrorist attack, with 13 bombs exploding over a two-hour period across Mumbai. Powerful explosives were packed into cars and scooters parked near India’s main Bombay Stock Exchange and other sites in the city. In addition to the 257 dead, more than 720 people were injured in the attack. The bombings were believed to have been acts of revenge for the demolition of a 16th century mosque by Hindu nationalists in northern India in 1992. After the demolition, religious riots erupted, leaving more than 800 people dead, most of them Muslims.
Room occupancy rate of star hotels in Bali increases
Bali Post
AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool, File
FILE- In this March 28, 2013 file photo, Indian Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt, gestures during a press conference at his residence in Mumbai, India.
DENPASAR - Room occupancy rate of star hotels in Bali in February 2013 reached averagely 58.05 percent, increasing 0.48 point compared to the occupancy rate in January 2013 amounting to 57.57 percent. The highest room occupancy rate occurred in Badung County namely at 79.58 percent, while the lowest was in Tabanan County at 30.29 percent. The Head of Central Statistics Agency (BPS) Bali, Gde Suarsa, said that compared to the occupancy rate in January 2013, the occupancy
rate in Badung, Gianyar and Buleleng County showed an increase respectively 12.30 points, 4.47 points and 8.89 points. Meanwhile,
in Tabanan, Karangasem and Denpasar the occupancy rate decreased respectively by 11.44 points, 2.45 points and 1.18 points. “According to hotel classification, the room occupancy rate in five star hotels reaches 60.03 percent denoting the highest occupancy rate compared to the other hotel classification. The lowest occupancy rate occurred in two-star hotels reaching 48.04 percent,” explained Suarsa.
Nevertheless, the average length of stay of foreign and Indonesian tourists in star hotels in Bali reaching 2.98 days (February 2013) indicated a decrease of up to 0.16 point compared to the average length of stay during January 2013 reaching 3.14 days. “Overall, the average length of stay of foreign tourists in February reached. 3.20 days, much longer than the length of stay of Indonesian tourists reaching 2.43 days,”
he said. Meanwhile, the number of foreign tourist arrival to Bali in February, said Suarsa, reached 241,868 people. This figure had increased by 7.02 percent compared to the same month a year earlier. Most of those tourists came to Bali through the airport as many as 236,971 people (97.98 percent), while through seaports amounted to 4,897 people (2.02 percent). Continued on page 6