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Tuesday, October 9, 2012
Neeson doubles the take with $50M ‘Taken 2’ debut This image released by 20th Century Fox shows Liam Neeson in a scene from “Taken 2.”
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seas a weekend earlier, added $55 million more in about 50 international markets to raise its worldwide total to $117 million. The previous weekend’s No. 1 movie at the U.S. box office, Adam Sandler’s animated hit “Hotel Transylvania,” dropped to second-place with $26.3 million. The Sony release raised its domestic total to $76 million, and it has taken in $29.3 million overseas for a worldwide haul of $105.3 million. Expanding into nationwide release after a limited debut a week earlier, Universal’s music tale “Pitch Perfect” moved up to third-place with $14.7 million. The movie stars Anna Kendrick as a college freshman spicing things up for her a cappella singing squad. Sony’s sci-fi thriller “Looper,” starring Bruce Willis and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, fell from second-place to fourth with $12.2 million, lifting its domestic haul to $40.3 million. Tim Burton’s animated monster tale “Frankenweenie” had a slow start, taking in $11.5 million to round out the top-five. The Disney release is an update of Burton’s 1984 live-action short film, about a boy who
LOS ANGELES — The Dorothy dress is going up for auction. Celebrity auctioneer Darren Julien says Judy Garland’s original costume from “The Wizard of Oz” could sell for half a million dollars when it hits the auction block next month. The white puff-sleeve blouse and blue gingham pinafore has inspired countless Halloween costumes
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Stories of survivors become education kit in Australia IBP
PERTH - The true stories of Bali bombing survivors are set to help counter violent extremism and homegrown terrorism in Australia, in a positive move forward as the region prepares to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the 2002 tragedy.
brings his dead dog back to life. Released by 20th Century Fox, “Taken 2” gave a big boost to Hollywood revenues, which have lagged most weekends since late summer. Domestic business totaled $138 million, up 45.5 percent from the same weekend last year, when “Real Steel” led with $27.3 million. While the first movie got respectable reviews, “Taken 2” was panned by critics as a replay of the original. Audiences rarely care what critics say, though. “Most people go to the movies for a certain dose of escapism,” said Chris Aronson, head of distribution for 20th Century Fox. “It doesn’t have to be high art. It doesn’t have to be serious and contemplative. They go to the movies to be entertained, and my gosh, that’s what this movie does.” “Frankenweenie” had a modest debut compared to Burton’s last animated feature, “Corpse Bride,” which took in $19.1 million in its first weekend of wide release in 2005. Both films were made through stop-motion animation, using puppets moved incrementally and photographed a frame at a time.
The experiences of Aussie rules footballer Phil Britten, Bali Muslim leader Haji Bambang and Kuta surf lifesaver Made Sudikta are highlighted in Beyond Bali, an education kit to be available to all Australian high schools for the 2013 year. Developed by the Bali Peace Park Association and Curtin University, Beyond Bali uses television news footage in an interactive format to drive home messages about the futility of violence and the value of peace, posing ethical and moral questions along the way. It asks students to embrace nonviolence, using the Bali Peace Park as a guiding concept. The peace park project is an ongoing quest to secure the main site of the 2002 attacks to build a memorial park and small museum. Beyond Bali has been recently trialed in two schools – Perth Modern School and the Australian Islamic College, Kewdale – with students and teachers enthusiastic about the program. Beyond Bali also suggests schools establish their own peace park project, a recommendatoin being taking up by Perth Modern School. Development of the kit began 14 months ago, after the Bali Peace Park Associa-
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LOS ANGELES — Critics don’t like “Taken 2,” but Liam Neeson’s action sequel has proved twice the hit among fans as the original movie was. “Taken 2” led the box office with $50 million domestically over opening weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday. That’s double the haul for Neeson’s “Taken,” which took in $24.7 million in its U.S. debut in early 2009. “Taken” went on to become a $145 million smash for Neeson, the Academy Award-nominated star of “Schindler’s List” who has become an unlikely action hero in his 50s. In “Taken 2,” Neeson returns as a retired CIA agent using his expert espionage and killing skills to take on a gang of thugs out for revenge against him and his family. “He gives hope to aging men,” said Paul Dergarabedian, an analyst for box-office tracker Hollywood.com. “He’s done the reverse of most actors, where you do the action stuff when you’re younger then do the more introspective work when you’re older. He’s sort of turned it around. When he’s 80, he’ll probably be kicking even more butt.” “Taken 2,” which began rolling out over-
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since the film was released in 1939. Although several identical dresses were made for the production, the dress to be sold is the only version seen in the film and the only complete original dress to survive. The outfit will be on view at London’s Stafford Hotel beginning Tuesday, before being exhibited at Julien’s Auctions in Beverly Hills, Calif., Nov. 5-9, prior to the auction Nov. 9-10. AFP PHOTO / SONNY TUMBELAKA
tion secured a $55,000 grant from the Federal Attorney-General’s Building Community Resilience fund, which aims to stamp out violent extremism. Under the guidance of anti-terrorism researcher Dr Anne Ally, Curtin University school curriculum developers Lily Taylor and Saul Karnovsky interviewed a number of Bom Bali survivors, building the education program on their stories. They also consulted with Australian Muslim communities. They will use feedback from both trial schools to fine-tune the program before it is released for general use by teachers in late 2012. Beyond Bali is designed to be flexible and staged so that teachers may cater to the diverse learning needs of their students. Teachers can spend as much time as required to meet the outcomes set out in each module of the program, teaching and learning activities are specifically designed with a collaborative and information learning technology focus to promote engagement, discussion and ‘big picture’ thinking about the content presented. Continued on page 6
A Balinese woman raises the Australian flag at the monument for the 2002 Bali bombing victims four days before a commemoration ceremony to mark the 10th anniversary of the attack in the Kuta tourist area of Denpasar on the Indonesian resort island of Bali on October 8, 2012. The 2002 blast, blamed on the militant Jemaah Islamiyah network linked to Al-Qaeda, tore apart a busy nightclub strip on the resort island of Bali killing 202 people, including 88 Australians.