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| 'G.I. Joe' commands box office lead with US$40.5 mil Posted: 01 Apr 2013 11:31 PM PDT LOS ANGELES: Long-delayed sequel G.I. Joe: Retaliation led the North American box office in its debut weekend, earning US$40.5mil, industry figures showed Monday. The action film about a fantasy elite military unit starring Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, Channing Tatum and Bruce Willis is based on toy figures from the 1960s, and later turned into an animated TV series in the 1980s. Paramount had postponed the sequel to 2009's G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra from its original June release in order to add 3D effects. Stone-age cartoon The Croods, DreamWorks Animation's latest family crowd pleaser voiced by Nicolas Cage and Emma Stone, dropped to second spot. The feel-good film, about a prehistoric family battling with fire and other new inventions, took US$26.7mil on its second weekend in theaters, according to box office tracker Exhibitor Relations. New release Tyler Perry's Temptation, starring Jurnee Smollett-Bell, Lance Gross and Kim Kardashian, landed in the Number Three spot with US$21.6mil. With US$14.1mil in box office receipts, the fourth spot went to action thriller Olympus Has Fallen, a tale of terrorism in the US capital and a kidnapped president starring Gerard Butler and Morgan Freeman. In fifth was Walt Disney's 3D fantasy adventure flick Oz the Great and Powerful, which earned US$11.7mil in its fourth week in theaters. The Host, a new action-adventure film adapted from the novel by Twilight author Stephenie Meyer, made its entry in theaters by taking sixth spot with US$10.6mil. Seventh place went to The Call, a thriller starring Halle Berry as a 911 operator trying to rescue a young girl who has been abducted. It earned US$4.9mil in its second week, for fourth spot. Tina Fey romantic comedy Admission dropped from fifth to eight spot, taking US$3.2mil, followed by timely US vacation movie Spring Breakers with US$2.8mil. Rounding out the top 10 was The Incredible Burt Wonderstone, a comedy about rivalry among magicians starring Steve Carell, Steve Buscemi and Jim Carrey, earned US$1.3mil during its third week in theaters. - AFP |
| Couple’s short film ‘A Stray Hero’ in international film fest Posted: 01 Apr 2013 06:12 PM PDT PETALING JAYA: A short amateur film by a husband-and-wife duo about Pak Mie and his wife who rescue stray animals has been shortlisted for screening at an international film festival, making Malaysia the only representative from the Asean region. Hisyam Salleh and Rahmah Ghazali's eight-minute documentary titled A Stray Hero, which recently went viral online (it has notched 105,000 views on video-sharing website Vimeo), captured the attention of Cluj Shorts International Film Festival organisers who invited the duo to submit their film in February. To their surprise, they found out their documentary had been shortlisted together with 85 others worldwide and will be screened from April 19-20 at Cinema Victoria, Cluj-Napoca in Romania. The shortlisted documentaries were among the 400 short films submitted to the film festival. "We were informed through e-mail on Sunday night about this. We couldn't believe it. We didn't expect to go this far. We are happy to represent Malaysia," said Hisyam, 29, a freelance video journalist. Their documentary is about former contractor Pak Mie or Muhd Azmi Ismail and his wife, who dedicated their lives to rescuing stray dogs and cats in Alor Setar, Kedah despite being Muslims. The couple have rescued over 600 animals and sleep in their car parked outside their makeshift shelter to ensure the safety of the animals. The heartwarming film had touched the hearts of Malaysians, with many rallying around Pak Mie to raise funds for his shelter. Among those who had helped were one of The Star's radio station Red FM, which organised a Teh Tarik Party recently and Pet Project Malaysia. Hisyam said they spent RM3,000 to make the documentary and was thankful their efforts were recognised internationally. "We made two trips to Kedah to follow Pak Mie as he went about his daily routine as well as interviewing other people. "We spent three days there in November last year and another four days in January," hetold The Star in an interview. Rahmah, who is a journalist, said they would not be attending the festival due to budget constraints. However, the couple are not resting on their laurels, and are already planning their next project. "We will focus on Malaysian unsung heroes," Rahmah said. |
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