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Tuesday, October 1, 2013
Rio de Janeiro dreams of (being) Hollywood Associated Press Writer
RIO DE JANEIRO — For Mayor Eduardo Paes, it’s not enough that Rio de Janeiro is both an Olympic and a World Cup host city. He’s determined to turn Rio into a Woody Allen city, too, and has gone to extraordinary lengths to persuade the director to shoot a movie here, meeting with Allen’s sister, dispatching him handwritten notes and even pledging to underwrite 100 percent of production costs. Allen hasn’t taken Paes up on his offer, but the mayor continues to lobby hard. Scoring a film by the legendary director would help
cement Paes’ vision for the city: to turn Rio into a cinema hub, the Los Angeles of South America.
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Argentina’s director Juan Jose Campanella talks during an interview at the Rio Film Festival in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Saturday, Sept. 28, 2013.
While Hollywood needn’t watch its back just yet, there’s no doubt that Brazil’s film industry is booming. The country is on track to make 100 feature films this year, up from 30 in 2003, and it’s increasingly sought out by foreign productions cashing in on the government’s generous subsidies and incentives. New studio complexes are in the works, and cinemas are mushrooming across Brazil to keep pace with ever-growing numbers of movie-goers, many of them new members of the middle class who were pulled out of poverty by a decade of booming economic growth. “The big shift is that now many more people have disposable income,” said Adrien Muselet, chief operating officer of RioFilme, the city government’s film finance company. “Once you’ve covered your basic necessities, bought your fridge and your washing machine, what do you want next? Fun. And for many people, that means the movies.” The new viewers have helped push Brazil’s box office gross from $327 million in 2008 to $737 million last year, according to the trade publication Filme B. That puts Brazil among the top 10 movie consuming countries in the world, said Muselet, and the industry is taking note. With its population of 204 million, this South American
giant is increasingly factoring into the major United States studios’ strategic calculations. “When you take an American blockbuster and you set it here in Brazil, even for just a couple of scenes, it just explodes in the box office here,” said Muselet, pointing to “Breaking Dawn,” part of the “Twilight” series of teen vampire movies, which was filmed partially on location in Rio and the coastal colonial city of Paraty. Brazilians flocked to the movie, and the country ended up being the film’s second biggest market. Other big Hollywood productions such as “Fast Five” of the “Fast and Furious” franchise and the Sylvester Stallone vehicle “The Expendables” were also partially shot here in recent years. “Billy Elliot” director Stephen Daldry’s “Trash” is currently rolling.
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Tuesday, October 1, 2013 Car bomb kills 40 in northwest Pakistan
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Roma crushes Bologna 5-0 to return top of Serie A
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Israel’s Netanyahu warns White House about Iran
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Do or die as US
Congress face government shutdown
‘Breaking Bad’ is ending run still looking good Associated Press Writer
NEW YORK — The supply is running low and you know there won’t be more. “Breaking Bad” stands to leave its fans reeling. For five seasons of wickedness, this AMC drama has set viewers face-to-face with the repellent but irresistible Walter White and the dark world he embraced as he spiraled into evil. With the end imminent (Sunday at 9 p.m. EDT), who can say what fate awaits this teacher-turneddrug-lord for the havoc he has wreaked on everyone around him. This is more than the end of a TV series. It’s a cultural moment, arriving as the show has logged record ratings, bagged a best-drama Emmy and even scored this week’s cover of The New Yorker magazine. Up through the penultimate episode, “Breaking Bad” has been as potent and pure as the “blue sky” crystal meth Walter cooked with such skill. Judging from that consistency in storytelling and in performances by such stars as Bryan Cranston (Walter White), Aaron Paul (his sidekick Jesse Pinkman), Anna Gunn (who just won an Emmy as Walt’s wife) and Betsy Brandt, the end will likely pack unforgiving potency. But one thing is dead sure: It will be
beautiful. “Breaking Bad” has often been described as addictive, and if that’s so, the look of the show is its own habitforming drug. Michael Slovis, the series’ four-times-Emmy-nominated director of photography, has been cooking up that look since the series’ sophomore
season. “I go for the emotion in the scene, not to overtake it, but to help it along,” said Slovis over a recent lunch in Manhattan. “With ‘Breaking Bad,’ I recognized very early that I had a story and performances that could stand up to a bold look.” Agence France-Presse
WASHINGTON - Lawmakers have one final day to try to prevent the first US government shutdown in 17 years, but a deal appeared remote Monday as congressional leaders showed little intent to compromise.
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This 2012 photo released by AMC shows cinematographer Michael Slovis, left, taking a measurement as Bryan Cranston, center, and costar Aaron Paul, background right, stand by on the set of “Breaking Bad.” The series finale will air on Sunday, Sept. 29.
With Congress going into crunch sessions ahead of an 11:59 pm (0359 GMT Tuesday) deadline, a House Republican leader offered a glimmer of hope when he hinted that his party could offer a new plan that might pass muster in the Democratic-held Senate. “I think the House will get back together in enough time, send another provision not to shut the government down, but to fund it, and it will have a few other options in there for the Senate to look at again,” number three House Republican Kevin McCarthy told Fox News Sunday. Congress must pass a stopgap funding measure before the new fiscal year begins Tuesday or much of the US federal government will close down. The procedure became dramatically more complicated when Republicans linked the budget legislation to an attempt to thwart President Barack Obama’s health care law. Continued on page 6
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Storm clouds hang over Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Sept. 27, 2013. awmakers have one final day to try to prevent the first US government shutdown in 17 years, but a deal appeared remote Monday as congressional leaders showed little intent to compromise.