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Wednesday, December 24, 2014
In this image released by Universal Pictures, director Angelina Jolie appears on the set of “Unbroken.”
Angelina Jolie’s latest incarnation: filmmaker AP Photo/Universal Pictures, David James
NEW YORK — In a life that has been notable for its many metamorphoses — screen starlet, Goth vixen, United Nations ambassador, mother of six, breast cancer awareness advocate — Angelina Jolie’s latest incarnation is as filmmaker. Rarely has an actor, particularly of Jolie’s stature, so fully given over to the other side of the camera. On Thursday, she’ll release her second directorial effort, the inspirational World War II survival tale “Unbroken,” which follows her Bosnian War drama “In the Land of Blood and Honey.” She has already shot her next movie (an intimate marriage drama in which she also co-stars with her husband, Brad Pitt), and made plans for her fourth film, “Africa,” about elephant poaching. Meanwhile, she’s virtually disappeared from the screen, starring in only one live-action film (“Maleficent”) in the last four years. The transformation is complete, even if the new title gives her some hesitation. “I’m shy to call myself a director still. When someone says,
‘What do you do for a living?’ I don’t know if I’ve earned that,” Jolie said in a pair of recent interviews, one in a Manhattan hotel, the other by phone. “I do love directing. I much prefer it to acting.” It’s admittedly unlikely that Jolie is beset by queries about her occupation (“And this Mr. Pitt, is he in show business as well?”). But if there were any doubt, the scope of “Unbroken” — a classical epic that spans war and sea, a prestige picture with major below-the-line talent, a Christmas Day release amid awards season — certainly makes clear Jolie’s ambition. “If you would have said to me a few years ago, ‘What kind of film are you looking for?’ I would have never said a film with shark attacks and bombing raids and the Olympics,” says Jolie.
“I would have picked something very intimate and character driven. But I fell in love with this story.” The story is of Louis Zamperini, who before enlisting in the Air Force to fight in World War II was a track star who ran in the 1936 Olympics in Berlin. During the war, his B-24 bomber crashed in the Pacific. He and two crewmates survived on a raft at sea for 47 days, only to be captured by the Japanese and put into a brutal prisoner-of-war camp. Zamperini’s incredible life was chronicled in a 2010 bestseller by Laura Hillenbrand, though his tale had been kicking around in Hollywood since 1956, when Universal Pictures bought the rights to Zamperini’s memoir with plans for Tony Curtis to star in the film. (ap)
Jackie Chan’s son hit with China drug charge BEIJING - The son of kung fu star Jackie Chan has been charged with providing a venue for others to use drugs, the state Xinhua news agency reported Monday, citing prosecutors. Jaycee Chan, who like his father has worked as an actor and singer, was detained in August after police said they found 100 grams of marijuana in his Beijing home. Prosecutors will now bring the evidence against Chan to a court, which can still decide whether or not to accept the case. Prosecutors had no information on the latest development on their website late Monday. The younger Chan and Ko Chen-tung, a Taiwanese actor also known as Kai Ko, both tested positive for marijuana, according to Xinhua. Chan has featured in several films but has not so far won the acclaim earned by his father, one of Asia’s best-known actors with a string of Hollywood hits to his name. Shortly after his son’s detention, Chan’s father said in a post on China’s Twitter-like Sina Weibo service that he is “extremely angry and extremely shocked”. “As a public figure, I am ashamed. As a father I feel terrible,” he said in August.
Justin Lin to direct third ‘Star Trek’ film
LOS ANGELES — The USS Enterprise is about to get a little faster. “Fast & Furious” director Justin Lin is taking the helm of the third installment in Paramount’s rebooted “Star Trek” franchise. Lin’s rep confirmed the news Monday. Lin is no stranger to franchises. He directed several of Universal’s “Fast & Furious”
films, including the massively successful “Fast & Furious 6,” which made more than $788 million worldwide. J.J. Abrams directed the first two films in the rebooted “Star Trek” series. Roberto Orci was the co-writer on those first two films. He was slated to step into the director’s chair after Abrams left to work on “Star Wars: The Force Awakens,” but he exited that role in early December. Orci will still serve as a writer and producer on the film. It’s s lated f o r a 2016 release. (ap)
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Wednesday, December 24, 2014
India’s BJP looks set to make gains in state polls
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Over 3.4 million foreign tourists visit Bali
DENPASAR - Foreign tourist arrivals in Indonesia’s tourist resort province of Bali this year can exceed 3.5 million as 3.4 million arrivals have already been recorded for the January-November 2014 period, noted a tourism observer. “Bali still remains the main foreign tourists’ destination in Indonesia,” tourism observer Tjok Gede Agung noted. He remarked that foreign tourists preferred Bali as their destination, which is evident by the number of international travelers arriving at Bali’s Ngurah Rai International Airport. He emphasized that Bali’s target to attract 3.5 million foreign tourists in 2015 was easily achievable as the target was too small, taking into consideration the current up-
ward trend. The tourism observer said that Badung, Bali’s most visited district by foreign tourists, has even set up a Tourism Promotion Board (BPPD). The district will undeniably implement aggressive strategies to lure more foreign tourists. “I think the target of 3.5 million arrivals is too low,” he said. He forecast that in the last month of 2014, the number of foreign tourists will further increase by 300 thousand, thereby reaching a total of 3.7 million annual foreign
visitors. Agung noted that Bali will still attract about 3.5 million foreign tourists in 2015 even without promotional campaigns. He affirmed that most of the tourists arriving in Bali this year were Australians reaching 893,873 visitors or 26.15 percent, followed by Chinese with 539,252 tourists, and Malaysians with 197,052 visitors. The Bali provincial administration had earlier hoped of seeing an increase of 500 thousand in the
number of foreign tourists visiting the island in 2015. “At least, we hope to chalk up an increase of 500 thousand to around 4 million in 2015,” head of the regional tourism office Anak Agung Gede Yuniarta Putra remarked on Thursday. This year, the number of foreign visitors to Bali is forecast to reach 3.5 million, Yuniarta remarked. He revealed that his office will launch promotional campaigns to ensure that the target will be reached. He forecast that an increase is expected in the number of visitors from the five countries of Australia, Japan, China, South Korea, and
Russia, whose citizens are offered visa-free facility.
Indian Increase
The number of Indian tourists visiting Bali reached 78,023 during January-November 2014, or an increase of 36.72 percent from 57,068 recorded during the same period in 2013. The increase was the largest reported over the past five years, Made Sudana, an observer and businessman of the tourism industry, stated on Tuesday. Both Indians and Balinese are mostly Hindus, and their cultures are similar, he affirmed. Increasing number of Balinese also visited India, particularly to see the Gangga River, he added. (ant) Top Three Countries --------------------------------------Country Visitors --------------------------------------Australia 893,873 visitors China 539,252 visitors Malaysia 197,052 visitors ---------------------------------------
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Tourists crowded Dreamland Beach, Badung Regency recently. Foreign tourist arrivals in Indonesia’s tourist resort province of Bali this year can exceed 3.5 million as 3.4 million arrivals have already been recorded for the January-November 2014 period.