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Wedneday, January 29, 2014
This photo released by Universal Pictures shows, from left, Taylor Kitsch, as Michael Murphy, Mark Wahlberg as Marcus Luttrell, Ben Foster as Matt “Axe” Axelson, and Emile Hirsch as Danny Dietz in a scene from the film, “Lone Survivor.”
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Wednesday, January 29, 2014 China halts poultry trading after new H7N9 cases
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Thailand to go ahead with Feb. 2 election, despite warnings of chaos
Germany’s Puma ousts Nike as Arsenal kit supplier
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‘Ride Along’ cruises to a second win at U.S. box office Reuters
LOS ANGELES/NEW YORK - “Ride Along,” a buddy cop comedy starring Kevin Hart and Ice Cube, raced to the top of the weekend box office charts for the second week in a row, collecting $21.2 million in ticket sales. The Afghanistan war tale “Lone Survivor” took the No. 2 spot with ticket sales of $12.6 million. Mark Wahlberg plays the role of the only one of four U.S. SEALs to return from a vicious fire fight with Taliban fighters. The animated film “The Nut Job,” featuring the voices of Will Arnett and Katherine Heigl, was third with $12.3 million in sales at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to studio figures provided by Rentrak. In a week in which the top three films mirrored last week’s results, “I, Frankenstein,” an action film in which Victor Frankenstein’s creation is reimagined as a hero battling gargoyles, was the only major new release. It opened in sixth place with ticket sales of $8.3 million. “Ride Along” received mostly negative reviews, with only 17 percent positive writeups according to aggregator website Rottentomatoes. But the movie opened far stronger than expected a week
ago with ticket sales of $41.2 million to easily surpass Hollywood projections. The film has collected sales of just over $75 million since its Jan. 17 release. Universal Pictures, the studio behind both “Ride Along” and “Lone Survivor,” said the films’ one-two punch marked the first time a single studio’s films have grabbed the top two spots for two consecutive weeks in nearly two decades. Warner Bros. last achieved the feat in February 1994, with “On Deadly Ground” and “Ace Ventura.” “I, Frankenstein,” which fell short of industry forecasts of an opening weekend between $10 million and $15 million, received generally poor reviews, but 57 percent of the audience said they
liked it, according to Rotten Tomatoes. Based on actor Kevin Grevioux’s graphic novel, it takes place in a dark, dystopian world. Actor Aaron Eckhart plays the title role, with not much resemblance to the monster in earlier films based on Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel. Less gruesome, he is blessed with extraordinary speed and endurance. Lionsgate Films acted chiefly as its distributor, with Lakeshore Entertainment funding most of its reported $65 million production costs. Disney’s longrunning animated hit “Frozen” claimed the No. 4 spot with $9 million. The musical is nearing $350 million in domestic sales in its 10th week in release. “Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit,” starring Chris Pine as the late author Tom Clancy’s fictional CIA analyst, rounded out the top five with ticket sales of $8.8 million. The strongest finisher among major Oscar-nominated films was “American Hustle,” which took seventh place selling $7.1 million worth of tickets for a total domestic haul of $127 million.
Billy Joel begins Madison Square Garden residency Associated Press Writer
NEW YORK — Billy Joel has begun his residency at Madison Square Garden with an energetic show that covers a wide swath of his musical catalog. Joel and his band came out to thunderous applause Monday night and launched into “Miami 2017,” a song Joel wrote in the early 1970s about post-apocalyptic New York City. Throughout his set, he covered many of his signature songs, as well as a few more obscure tracks. The Grammy Award-
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Tourist playing watersport at Nusa Lembongan. Foreign tourist visit to Bali in 2013 was the highest in the last five years, at 3.2 million people, or 13.37 percent, as compared to 2.8 million people in the same period in 2012.
Foreign tourists visiting Bali highest in 2013
winning icon announced in December that he will perform at the famed New York City venue every month for as long as New Yorkers demand. He’s set to perform sold-out shows until September with more being added later in the year. His next show is on Monday. His May 9 show commemorates his 65th birthday.
DENPASAR - Foreign tourist visit to Bali in 2013 was the highest in the last five years, at 3.2 million people, or 13.37 percent, as compared to 2.8 million people in the same period in 2012.
Billy Joel performs his first show of his Madison Square Garden residency, on Monday, Jan. 27, 2014, in New York.
“There was a surge in the percentage of foreign tourists visiting in 2013 due to the APEC meeting in Bali in 2013. The earlier highest ranged between four percent and 13 percent a year,” stated the Bali tour-
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ism analyst Tjokorda Gede Agung in Denpasar. According to Gede Agung, there are several factors that have caused the increase in foreign tourist visitation to Bali in 2013, one of them be-
ing the completion of infrastructure development in various locations, reducing congestion and pollution. In addition to that, there has been an increase in the revenue from Australian tourists who have a great opportunity to travel to Bali. Similarly, the growth of the Asian economy has been able to add to the increasing number of foreign tourist visitation to Bali. Gede Agung explained that the
Bali Mandara highway, which was operational after being inaugurated by President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, has had a positive impact on the tourism in Bali. The development of infrastructure in various locations will ease traffic toward existing tourist sites and provide comfort to the tourists. Gede Agung added that the number of foreign tourists who came directly from their countries stood
at 3.2 million people during 2013. It exceeded the set target of three million people. Meanwhile, the foreign tourist visitation to Bali in 2009 was just 2.2 million, up by 13.26 percent from the previous year, which had only 1.9 million people. In 2010, tourist visitation increased by 11.8 percent to 2.4 million people and in 2011, it rose by 10.57 percent to 2.7 million people.