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Thursday, March 28, 2019

Jordan Peele’s ‘Us’ shatters box office

Thursday, March 28, 2019

US county declares state of emergency amid measles outbreak

LOS ANGELES - Jordan Peele’s new thriller, “Us,” blasted its way to the top of the North American box office over the weekend with $71.1 million in ticket sales, industry watcher Exhibitor Relations said on Monday. The opening marked one of the best launches ever for a horror film and cemented Peele’s draw as one of Hollywood’s top filmmakers following his Oscar-winning film debut “Get Out.” The Universal production, which stars Lupita Nyong’o, Winston Duke and Elisabeth Moss in the story of a family that encounters horrifying versions of themselves, had the second-best launch of the year, trailing only blockbuster “Captain Marvel,” Exhibitor Relations said. Peele impressed Hollywood with his first production, “Get Out,” another horror film with heavy social commentary that won an

Oscar as Best Original Screenplay and was the 10th most profitable film of 2017. The new film has a 94 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes, rare praise for a horror flick. “Us” pushed Disney’s “Captain Marvel” down to second place, at $34.3 million for the weekend, but that female-led blockbuster had little to complain about. With Brie Larson starring as a former fighter pilot with superpowers, the film has taken in a combined $910 million at home and abroad. In third spot was Paramount’s animation “Wonder Park,” at $8.8 million. The film, about an amusement park based on a young girl’s

imaginings, is voiced by Brianna Denski, Jennifer Garner, Matthew Broderick and John Oliver. Fourth spot went to CBS/Lionsgate’s teen drama “Five Feet Apart,” at $8.5 million. It stars Haley Lu Richardson and Cole Sprouse as teens who fall in love but must keep their distance while being treated for cystic fibrosis. And in fifth was “How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World,” at $6.5 million. It tells the story of young Hiccup and his dragon Toothless on a quest for a dragon utopia. Jay Baruchel, America Ferrera and Cate Blanchett provide the voices. (afp)

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Jordan Peele, Lupita Nyong’o and Winston Duke attend the “US” premiere at Museum of Modern Art on March 19, 2019 in New York City.

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This handout picture released on March 25, 2019 shows Dutch art detective Arthur Brand posing with stolen Picasso painting “Buste de Femme (Dora Maar)” on March 14, 2019 at his Amsterdam home.

Stolen Picasso unearthed by ‘Indiana Jones of art’

THE HAGUE - A Dutch art detective dubbed the “Indiana Jones of the Art World” has struck again, finding a Picasso painting worth 25 million euros stolen from a Saudi sheikh’s yacht on the French Riviera in 1999. Arthur Brand said he had handed back the 1938 masterpiece entitled “Portrait of Dora Maar”, also known as “Buste de Femme (Dora Maar)” to an insurance company earlier this month. The discovery of the rare portrait of Maar, one of Pablo Picasso’s most influential mistresses, is the culmination of a four-year investigation into the burglary on the luxury yacht Coral Island, as she lay anchored in Antibes. Two decades after its theft and with no clues to its whereabouts, the French police were stumped -and the portrait, which once hung

in the Spanish master’s home until his death in 1973, was feared lost forever. But after a four-year trail which led through the Dutch criminal underworld, two intermediaries turned up on Brand’s Amsterdam doorstep 10 days ago with the missing picture. “They had the Picasso, now valued at 25 million euros wrapped in a sheet and black rubbish bags with them,” Brand told AFP. It was yet another success for Brand, who hit the headlines last year for returning a stolen 1,600-year-old mosaic to Cyprus. He won world fame in 2015 after finding “Hitler’s Horses”, two bronze statues made by Nazi sculptor Joseph Thorak -- a discovery about which he had a book out earlier this month. (afp)

A New York county hit by a measles outbreak declared a state of emergency Tuesday and banned non-vaccinated minors from public places in a bid to prevent the onceeliminated disease from spreading. The measure, which defines a public place as anywhere “more than 10 persons are intended to congregate” -- including public transport -- was announced by officials in Rockland County, 25 miles (40 kilometers) north of New York City. Due to come into effect at midnight Wednesday for 30 days, it appears to be the most radical step by US officials following outbreaks in several regions blamed on an anti-vaccination movement. “We must do everything in our power to end this outbreak and protect the health of those who cannot be vaccinated for medical reasons and that of children too young to be vaccinated,” said county executive Ed Day. Day also criticized the “resistance” of some locals to health inspectors. “They’ve been told ‘we’re not discussing this, do not come back,’ when visiting the homes of infected individuals as part of their investigations,” he said, branding such responses “unacceptable and irresponsible.” Rockland County, with a population of over 300,000, has registered 153 cases of measles, which was declared officially eliminated in 2000. Despite major vaccination campaigns since the outbreak began in October, around 27 percent of minors aged one to 18 remain unvaccinated, Day said. The worst affected neighborhoods are those with a high ultra-Orthodox Jewish population, where many oppose vaccines on religious grounds. Vaccinations are in theory required to go to school in the United States, but 47 of the 50 states -- including New York -- allow exemptions, notably for religious reasons. (afp) 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.

In this file photo taken on March 30, 2016 a nurse injects a boy with a measles vaccine in a pediatric polyclinic in Kiev. Eleven people have died and more than 30,000 have been infected this year in a major outbreak of measles in Ukraine, the European country worst hit by the disease, Kiev said on March 18, 2019.

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