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Tuesday, February 23, 2016
Iran’s Haghighi is proud his Berlin “Dragon” film is “a mess”
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Actor Ed Skrein arrives for the premiere of “Deadpool” in New York, February 8, 2016.
Box Office:’Deadpool’ dominates’The Witch,’’Risen’ LOS ANGELES - “Deadpool” dominated the box office for a second consecutive weekend, racking up $55 million. That’s roughly what Fox, the studio behind the $58 million comicbook adaptation, had predicted that the film would open to a week ago. Of course, it shattered those projections, destroying February records with a $152.2 million President’s Weekend launch. After two weeks, “Deadpool” has now earned $235.4 million domestically, re-established Ryan Reynolds as a major Hollywood star, and created a new superhero franchise to rival the likes of Iron Man and the X-Men. The picture, a very R-rated affair, centers on a mercenary with accelerated healing abilities and a penchant for bawdy humor.
“It’s one of those times where a movie becomes a touchstone in culture,” said Chris Aronson, Fox’s domestic distribution chief. “It just becomes part of the zeitgeist and one of those movies you just have to see. That’s due to its uniqueness. People have never seen anything like this before.” A few brave new releases tried to ride out “Deadpool” mania. “Risen,” a faith-based drama about a soldier investigating the death and resurrection of Jesus, fared best, pulling in a solid $11.8 million from 2,915 locations to snag third place. Sony’s Affirm label produced the picture for $20 million, and courted church leaders with the hopes of
producing another “War Room” or “Heaven is for Real,” two films that turned out Christian moviegoers in droves. The studio will follow the same formula with the upcoming Easter release “Miracles From Heaven.” “This is in our wheelhouse,” said Rory Bruer, Sony’s distribution chief. “We’ve really embraced being in the faith-based business and it’s certainly paid off.” “The Witch,” a critically acclaimed look at a Puritan family torn apart by supernatural terrors, debuted to $8.7 million from 2,046 theaters for a fourth place finish. The picture is the widest debut in the history of A24, the indie label behind “Ex Machina” and “Room,” and its biggest ever premiere. (rtr)
BERLIN - Iranian director Mani Haghighi says his Berlin competition movie “Ejhdeha Vared Mihavad!” (A Dragon Arrives!) is a hodge-podge of genres ranging from crime film to “X-Files”, but he trusts viewers will find it an entertaining and thought-provoking mix. “It’s a mess, yeah, it’s a mess,” Haghighi told Reuters in an interview on Friday, the day of the film’s festival premiere. “The idea was to make a mess and see how it goes.” “As I went along I realised that maybe one genre wasn’t going to do the trick and it would be just the same old boring thing. “So what would happen if you put science fiction, paranoia ‘XFiles’-type things together with Philip Marlowe, Dashiell Hammett detective stuff plus Jules Verne and Tintin and Indiana Jones and then some Iranian films and local colour and put it all together?
“The idea was to make it as complex in terms of genre-bending as possible.” The film, which is in competition for the Berlin film festival’s main Golden Bear prize to be awarded on Saturday, suggests it is aiming for a Monty Python-esque slant by stating at the outset it is “a true story” but delivering anything but. What viewers get instead are some striking images of the hulk of an immense wooden ship stranded in a desert landscape in Iran, a shaggy dog story of a political dissident who has either hanged himself or been murdered inside the ship, but who has left intriguing scribblings all over its interior walls, plus police agents driving around in a vintage Chevrolet Impala. And there is something under the earth in a cemetery right outside the ship that causes a localised earthquake to occur whenever a dead body is buried there. (rtr)
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Indonesia Trying Hard to Reduce Plastic
JAKARTA - Indonesians have embrace the new policy of paying for plastic bags each time they purchase groceries. It is obviously that the environmental benefits outweigh the hassle of bringing their own bags. President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) and some 35 communities declared the national movement on the Hotel Indonesia Roundabout, Jakarta Sunday, Director General of trash and waste management of the Environment and Forestry Ministry Tuti Hendrawati Mintarsih said here Saturday. “President Joko Widodo participate to promote the movement campaign by having a teleconference
with four city mayors and asking the attendants to do kerja bakti (community service),” Mintarsih said. As many as 706 local communities all over Indonesia also stated their support to the national movement in which they can elaborate the movement in a website (http:// bergerak.bebassampah.id) and social media using #bebassampah2020 tagline.
During the launch of the movement, the government will also conduct a socialization of a policy trial on a plastic bag charge conducted in 22 cities and the entire regions of Jakarta. The government has issued a regulation on plastic bag charge which oblige modern retailers to charge customers for plastic bags starting Sunday. The policy is aimed at reducing the use of plastic bags. “That Indonesia will no longer become the second largest plastic garbage producer after China,” Mintarsih said.
The movement has gained a lot of support, founder of Greeneration Indonesia Bijaksana Junerosano said. “Various communities in Indonesia are enthusiastic about joining the movement. Some are willing to clean the garbage in the ocean, rivers, mountains or in cities,” Junerosano said. Indonesia ranks second among the world’s largest plastic waste producers, behind only China, using 187.2 million tons each year, according to a study published last year in the journal Science. The policy will run as a trial for six months, before being implemented
elsewhere if proven successful, Environment and Forestry Minister Siti Nurbaya Bakar said. Although the ministry recommends charging customers Rp 200 per bag, the actual costs are decided by provincial and city governments. But some are skeptical charging such a low sum will significantly reduce plastic waste — which takes dozens of years to decompose in the overflowing landfills across the country’s major cities. (ant) News can also be heard in “Bali Image” at Global Radio FM 96.5 from 9.30 until 10.00 am. Listen to Global Radio FM at http:// globalfmbali.listen2myradio.com or live video streaming at http://radioglobalfmbali.com and http:// ustream.tv/channel/global-fm-bali.
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Actors Homayoun Ghanizadeh, Kiana Tajammol, director Mani Haghighi, and actors Amir Jadidi and Ehsan Goudarzi (L-R) pose during a photocall to promote the movie ‘Ejhdeha Vared Mishavad!’ (‘A Dragon Arrives!’) at the 66th Berlinale International Film Festival in Berlin, Germany February 19, 2016.
The final disposal place is filled with garbage which is mostly made from plastic. The action to reduce the use of plastic must be done immediaetly.
AEC, become a user or just a consumer?
FOLLOWING the enactment of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) 2016 the boundaries between countries are no longer considered to be based on sea and parapet delineations. This will have a tremendous impact on the lives of every individual within this new
territory, and the lives of Indonesians -including Balinese, are no exception. A variety of business opportunities are opening up and new opportunities will continue to emmergeìThis is possible due to the rapid development of information and technology. The opportunities that will come in various forms and packaging, require adequate capabilities for people to receive this information,î said business expert, John
Sadewa on Sunday (Feb. 21). These new conditions, continued John, require that there be focus placed on the capabilities of Bali’s human resources. Every opportunity must be greeted with readiness, willingness, ability and courage by our human resources. Competition is already present and now that the doors of globalization have been flung wide open – rampant competition is inevitable, he said.
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ìIf Balinese people do not realize what is going on, then many of us will simply become spectators of the new economy in our home land. Those who will be the main actors and directors on the stage of our economy will be predominantly foreigners.,î said said John, initiator of the Business Investor Club (BIC). Continue to page 2 AEC... ...