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Lifestyle FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2014

British detective writer PD James dies aged 94 ritish detective writer PD James, who was best known for her mystery series featuring policeman Band poet Adam Dalgliesh, died yesterday at the age of 94. “It is with great sadness that the family of author P. D. James, Baroness James of Holland Park OBE... announce that she died peacefully at her home in Oxford on the morning of 27 November 2014, aged 94,” Faber & Faber said in a statement. The Oxford-born author drew inspiration from working for three decades as a civil servant, first in the National Health Service and then the police and criminal policy departments of the Home Office or interior ministry. She began writing in the 1950s and her works were adapted into popular television series in Britain and the United States from the ‘Hunger Games’dominating 1980s. She has won multiple international awards for crime writing. Her book “The early Thanksgiving box office Children of Men”, a dystopi- an novel set in England in ionsgate’s “The Hunger Games: $117 million in the US and $209.6 mil- performer at $331 million. Overseas, 2021 was turned into a 2006 Mockingjay-Part 1” flew to a pow- lion worldwide. “Mockingjay” is also turning in an film starring Clive Owen and Lerful $14.5 million on Wednesday The Wednesday before Thanksgiving impressive performance and should hit Julianne Moore. Faber & at the pre-Thanksgiving box office to lift has been a historically strong day for around $195 million internationally-top- Faber hailed her as “one of its six-day domestic total to $158 mil- moviegoing with “The Hunger Games: ping the total of last year’s “The Hunger the world’s great writers”. lion. The Jennifer Lawrence franchise Catching Fire” taking in an impressive Games: Catching Fire” at the same point. “She was so very remarkable outdistanced a solid debut from $20 million on the day last year. This “Catching Fire” wound up with $440 mil- in every aspect of her life, an Fox/DreamWorks’ “The Penguins of year’s totals may have been held down lion internationally. inspiration and great friend Madagascar,” which drew $7 million due to freezing weather in the East. to us all,” it said. “Working Wednesday-signaling a total in the $42 Despite being down roughly 25% from “Penguins of Madagascar” with her was always the best million to $44 million range for the five “Catching Fire,” and $80 million holiday DreamWorks Animation’s spin-off from of times.” She was awarded days through Sunday. weekend domestic total for “The Hunger its successful “Madagascar” series, did an OBE (Officer of the Order New Line’s launch of “Horrible Bosses Games: Mockingjay - Part 1”-in line with not offer Tuesday night showings. of the British Empire) honor 2” also turned in a decent showing on forecasts-would leave the film at about Forecasts have been in the $45 million in 1983 and was named as a Wednesday in the $5 million range, $220 million in the US for its first 10 to $47 million range for the five-day hol- A file picture dated January life peer in the House of including $1 million in Tuesday night days, or more than halfway to the $425 iday in 3,750 theaters. “ 2001 shows British author Lords, the British parlia- showings. The R-rated comedy sequel is million final come for “The Hunger brings back the trio of , P.D. James at her London ment’s upper chamber, in projected to take in about $35 million Games: Catching Fire.” At $220 million, it and along home. —AFP 1991. — AFP for the Wednesday-Sunday would be the seventh highest domestic with , and Thanksgiving holiday period. The origi- grosser this year and be two-thirds of . It debuts in 3,321 loca- Cameron on ‘Avatar’ sequels: nal “Horrible Bosses” opened in July, the way to topping Disney-Marvel’s tions on Wednesday and expands to It will take 2011, with $28.3 million on its way to “Guardians of the Galaxy” as the top US 3,375 today. — your breath away Film Music feels the love of European Festivals ilm music seems to get a lot more respect at film festivals in Europe than in the US. Take Belgium’s Film Festival Gent, Fwhich ran Oct 14-25, including a concert of Nino Rota’s movie music performed by the Brussels Philharmonic Orchestra, and culminating in the World Soundtrack Awards. Both affairs stood as testaments to the power of the film score as its own inde- pendent art form. Although the Rota concert was mostly devoted to his music for Federico Fellini, it was the composer’s themes for Francis Ford Coppola’s ‘The Godfather’ that tugged at the heartstrings. No mat- ter how many times one had seen the gangster saga that defined all subsequent mob movies, the musicóstirringly interpreted by the 80-piece Brussels Philharmonicótook on a life of its own. But this European respect for film music extends beyond art; it Natalie Portman eyed boosts commerce as well. Dirk Brosse, the perennial maestro of the WSA, who also conducted the Rota tribute, describes movie music for female lead in ‘Jobs’ ust in case audiences weren’t sufficiently excited for the as one of the Brussels Philharmonic’s core businesses. ‘When you three planned sequels to James Cameron’s 2009 epic look at the orchestras in this country and in many other coun- atalie Portman is in talks for the female lead in J“Avatar,” or if they had perhaps forgotten how utterly the triesóeven the New York Philharmonic, the Berlin Philharmonic, the Steve Jobs biopic at Universal. Michael first film blew their minds, Cameron promised that the new the Amsterdam Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, one of the best NFassbender is talks to play Jobs with Seth films will indeed be “amazing’.” orchestras in the worldóthey all program film music.’ Rogen in talks to play Steve Wozniak. Danny Boyle is “I can tell you one thing about them,” Cameron told And while Americans are no strangers to such material per- set to direct. The news comes following Universal Empire Magazine. “They’re gonna be talking’. You will watch it formed live, film festivals in the US lag far behind those in Europe coming on board as the film’s distributor after Sony with your mouth wide open.” in terms of dedicated film-music programming. Overseas fests put the pic in turnaround. 20th Century Fox’s first “Avatar” sequel is due in theaters devoted to movie composers have sprung up in Gent’s wake, Scott Rudin, Mark Gordon and Guymon Casady are December 2016, with successive films expected to bow in including two in Spain (Tenerife, Cordoba), two in Poland (Krakow, producing. The studio is eyeing an early spring pro- December 2017 and 2018, respectively. Original cast members Transatlantyk), one in Austria (Hollywood in Vienna) and one in duction date. Portman, who is repped by CAA, can be Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana and Sigourney Weaver will all France (Festival des musiques a l’image). —Reuters seen next in Relativity’s “Jane Got a Gun.” The news return for the sequels. — Reuters was first reported by . — Reuters