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lifestyle TUESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2015 Music & Movies Grateful Dead, John Mayer giving away 10K tickets to NY show embers of the Grateful Dead and John Mayer are free and we get to promote our music and share it with and I’m not going to tell you that we have them entirely giving away 10,000 free tickets to a concert next people,” Bob Weir said in an interview with The Associated locked down, but we have a good handle on them.” The Mmonth. The veteran band and Mayer, who joined Press on Saturday. Fans can enter to win tickets today band is encouraging fans who attend the show or watch forces for the supergroup Dead & Company this summer, through Thursday on Dead & Company’s website. No tick- the livestream to donate to the Robin Hood Foundation, an announced yesterday that 5,000 fans will have a chance to ets for the show will go on sale. organization fighting poverty in New York City. — AP win two tickets each to their Nov 7 show in New York City. Grateful Dead’s Weir, Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann The group has partnered with American Express for its are part of Dead & Company with Mayer; Phil Lesh is not music series, “American Express Unstaged,” for the sweep- involved. They group is performing a string of US dates on File photo shows John Mayer stakes. Film director Brett Ratner will direct the concert’s a fall tour, which kicks off Oct 29 in Albany, New York. arrives at the 57th annual Grammy livestream from Madison Square Garden. “We’re about halfway in and rehearsals are going well, if I Awards at the Staples Center in “People who want to hear the music get to hear it for may say,” Weir said. “We’ve been through 45 or 50 tunes Los Angeles. — AP Rapper Fetty Wap Estranged South Korean director rules US chart days after accident Kim Ki-duk looks to China apper Fetty Wap’s debut album opened Sunday at or the past two decades, South Korean maverick film- number one on the US chart, triumphing even as he maker Kim Ki-duk’s low-budget movies have given recovers from being hit by a car the day after the R him international acclaim, highly coveted awards and release. Fetty Wap’s self-titled album sold 129,000 copies or F many controversies. Now, one of the most accomplished the digital equivalent in the week ending Thursday to top and critically acclaimed Asian directors is turning to China the main Billboard chart, tracking service Nielsen Music to make his first multimillion-dollar film. Kim recently said. A day after his highly anticipated first album came signed a $24 million deal with a Chinese production com- out, Fetty Wap was hit by a car on September 26 as he pany to make an epic war movie with Buddhism as a cen- drove his motorcycle in his hometown of Paterson, New tral theme, with another $6 million set aside for marketing. Jersey. “This movie is not just targeting the Chinese market. The He was rushed to a hospital, with “#PrayForFetty becom- subject will interest the U.S. and Europe as well,” Kim said in ing a trending topic on Twitter. He released a video on an interview at the Busan International Film Festival. “I want Instagram saying he expected a full recovery but that he to talk about how politics manipulates religion.” Although broke a leg in three places. He has canceled a number of religion inspired many of his previous works, the new proj- concerts that were planned to promote the album. Fetty ect will be an outlier in Kim’s career. The budget for the Wap rose quickly from obscurity and a rough childhood movie, written by Kim and tentatively titled “Who Is God” in with “Trap Queen,” a melodious tale of love and drug-deal- English, is nearly three times bigger than the sum of the ing in which he both sings and raps.—AFP budgets for all of his 21 other films. It will be his first time South Korean director Kim Ki-duk speaks during an inter- working with a full Chinese cast in a Chinese language view at the Busan International Film Festival in Busan, movie. The staggering growth of the Chinese movie indus- South Korea. — AP try has been irresistible to many South Korean movie directors. But Kim, who visited Busan with his latest work, “Stop,” said it was not the commercial success that attracted him to Primary education China. It was the film set and the filmmaking system in When Kim and actors from the murder thriller went to Fetty Wap China that appealed to him at a time when he felt worn out cinemas to meet audiences, they had to greet largely emp- and alienated from the South Korean movie industry. ty theaters. The spectacular failure happened only two years after Kim received big welcomes at home after he Japanese couple won the Venice Film Festival’s top prize with “Pieta,” a brutal “I’m too exhausted. It was so hard to make ‘Stop’ alone,” story of revenge and redemption. Feeling “so sorry” to staff the veteran moviemaker said. “Now I just want to sit on a and actors, he soul-searched to figure out why South (director’s) chair and look at the monitor.” When he saw the Korean moviegoers had shunned his film. “Stop” was his Busan: Indian filmmaker Chinese film set, with each director sitting before a modern ground zero, a do-over. “It was ruthless training,” he said. 60-inch monitor, he thought: “This could perhaps let me Kim may be weaning himself off the country that never make the most of my ability.” “Stop,” the story of a young seemed to have loved him. Growing up, he received little Anurag Kashyap Japanese couple conflicted about a pregnancy after mov- schooling beyond primary education, spending his ing to Tokyo from an area near the disaster-struck teenage years toiling at factories, while envying kids in juggles many projects Ava DuVernay to Fukushima nuclear plant, was filmed entirely by Kim, with school uniforms. no cinematographer, no art director and no lighting tech- Although he became an internationally acclaimed direc- ulti hyphenate Anurag Kashyap’s pioneering directori- nician. He made props in the morning and filmed in the tor - his earlier works “Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter ... and al efforts like “Black Friday” and “Dev D” went a long head Mumbai jury afternoon, while the actors served as their own costume Spring” and “Three Iron” still inspire young filmmakers way toward making indies visible to mainstream audi- designer and offered their homes for the film set. Costing around the world - at home he hasn’t enjoyed the popular- M va DuVernay, director of the Oscar and Golden less than $10,000, it was filmed in 10 days. ity or reverence reserved for peers such as Park Chan-wook ences and encouraged a whole new generation of Indian film- Globe winning “Selma,” will head the makers. His partnership with producer Guneet Monga (co-pro- “Stop” may not stand out for the profound insight into and Bong Joon-ho. Many Koreans, especially females, say AInternational Competition jury at the Jio MAMI human nature that made Kim a top film director. Some crit- Kim’s works are too difficult to watch because of their bru- ducer of Busan opener “Zubaan”) yielded Cannes selections Mumbai Film Festival. The competition is open to debut “Gangs of Wasseypur,” “The Lunchbox” and “Masaan,” among ics called the work “amateurish” and “sloppy.” But the anti- tality and grisly details of violence, rape and castration. Kim filmmakers worldwide who have made films within one nuclear energy movie will stand as evidence of Kim’s said that top Korean movie stars and K pop stars are reluc- others. His current outfit Phantom Films, along with Fox Star calendar year of the festival. DuVernay said, “I’m thrilled Studios India, produced his 2015 big budget directorial ven- attempt to find an alternative movie-making venue out- tant to join his projects. Kim, the willful outsider, said he to have been invited to head the international jury for side of the South Korean system, where the top three film wants to stop telling stories as a Korean and wants to deal ture, the period drama “Bombay Velvet,” starring Bollywood MAMI and look forward to celebrating the work of a star Ranbir Kapoor, that left Indian critics and audiences disap- distributors control nearly three quarters of the movie the- with issues concerning humanity. “Removing prejudices diverse array of filmmakers with energetic, engaged aters. Without support from one of them, a Korean movie between people and class,” he said. “I think that’s the cine- pointed, but received a standing ovation from an 8,000-strong audiences in the dynamic city of Mumbai.” Festival Locarno Piazza Grande audience. “It was an indie film at a stands no chance of succeeding at the box office. ma’s goal.”— AP director Anupama Chopra said, “Ava DuVernay is one of “To be popular in South Korea, one has to have three mainstream cost,” says Kashyap, quoting his Phantom business the most exciting talents working in cinema today. Ava’s partner Vikas Bahl (director of “Queen”). (elements): Major investment, major distribution and a presence will inspire our filmmakers and energize our well-known actor,” Kim said. “I have come too far away from festival.” The Mumbai festival plays Oct 29-Nov 5. — those things.” Kim embarked on the solitary making of Q: What are you working on these days? Reuters A: I am in a writing phase right now.

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