Riva is an operator, a man with charm and ambition in equal measure. Kinshasa is an inviting place. With petrol in short supply in DRC's capital, he and his sidekick pursue a plot to get hold of a secret cache - barrels of fuel they can sell for a huge profit. Of course they're not the only ones who want the stuff. Cesar is a ruthless, sharply dressed foreigner thriving in Kinshasa's lawless streets. A female military officer joins the fray. Even the church will betray its tenets for a piece of the action. But Riva's main nemesis is Azor, a crime boss in the classic style: big, decadent and brutal. He's not a man to mess with, but his girlfriend, Nora, may just be the most seductive woman in all of DRC. Riva catches sight of her dancing at a nightclub and it's not long before Nora matches the fuel cache as a coveted object of his lust. Written by Anonymous ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1723120/plotsummary )
"2016: Obama's America" features an interview with the president’s half brother and opened in a single theater in Texas over the weekend, where it grossed an impressive estimated $31,750.
An anti-Obama documentary featuring an interview with the president’s half brother opened in a single theater in Texas over the weekend and, despite alleged complaints from some consumers who were upset with the film’s content, it grossed an estimated $31,750, a strong showing for any independent release.
Sources say some moviegoers sat in the aisles Thursday and waited as much as 90 minutes to meet D’Souza andGerald Molen, one of the Oscar-winning producers ofSchindler’s List, who was a co-producer of2016 along withDoug Sain. For some of its regular showings over the weekend, the theater offered2016on multiple screens, including three sold-out auditoriums for the 7 p.m. Friday showing.The film, 2016: Obama’s America, based on conservative author Dinesh D’Souza’s book The Roots of Obama’s Rage, had a free, promotional screening at Edwards Houston Marq’E Stadium 23 & Imax on Thursday. Management had planned to show it in one of its medium-sized auditoriums, but bumped it to one the multiplex’s largest rooms and turned away 200 people.
If the weekend estimate from the movie’s distributor, Rocky Mountain Pictures, holds when final numbers are reported Monday, the film will have bested the per-theater number posted by the Al Gore documentary about global warming, An Inconvenient Truth, which opened to $123,549 in four theaters in 2006 for a per-theater average of $30,887.
That film, which had the benefit of a mainstream distributor in Paramount Vantage and, eventually, two Oscar wins, went on to earn $24 million domestically. The box-office record for politically-charged documentaries is held by Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11, which grossed $119 million domestically in 2004. It opened on a Wednesday, in just two theaters, taking in $83,922 on its first day, for a one-day, per-theater average of $41,961. Still, for any documentary to pass the $25,000-per-theater mark on its opening weekend represents an unusually strong showing, according to box office observers.
The management at the Regal Entertainment-owned theater did receive some complaints over its decision to present 2016. “The theater manager said they received a lot of phone calls from people arguing they shouldn’t show the movie,” Sain said. “His response was, ‘We don’t make movies, we just show them.’ “
According to Sain, the manager compared the reaction to 2016 to that of Fahrenheit 9/11, but said it was not as dramatic as some complaints over The Passion of the Christ that same year. The manager told Sain that during the controversial Mel Gibson film people went into the theater to try to disrupt the film and that it was necessary to have security remove them.
“So they weren’t flying by the seat of their pants with 2016. They know how to respond to controversy,” Sain said.
Regal spokesman Russ Nunley said some people “were around the box office wearing pro Obama tees to express their view.” But he said the protest was “very low key and not confrontational.” He also said theater managers received “many positive comments thanking them for playing the film.”
At the Houston theater over the weekend, only The Amazing Spider-Man and Ice Age: Continental Drift grossed more than 2016, according to Sain.
“We’re getting tremendous media coverage and box office results. More than, frankly, we ever hoped for,” Sain said. “We thought we’d be really lucky with $15,000 for the entire week, but we doubled that in just this weekend.”
2016 had been scheduled to expand to 120 theaters on July 27, but Sain said he’s confident that Rocky Mountain Pictures can bump it to about 400 theaters given the initial popularity of the film.
I was going
through my old journal yesterday and I came across this entry dated Friday 10th
September, 2010. I couldn’t help but laugh hysterically. Read on…
A penny for a
thought… come to think of it, the African society is a very welcoming society
to a visitor. A feast must be held incase one is paid a courtesy call.
Then why were the
ICC and the World Community all fuss about President El Bashir visit to Kenya
over the Promulgation celebrations, and yet the President and his entourage
were fasting over the Muslim Eid and didn’t partake in the feast.
One thing we
appreciate as a Blog is when we see inspiration among others to follow and
achieve a dream that resonates deep within. Dr Dwayne Dyer, often called the
father of motivation once said;
“Nothing is
impossible with an idea whose time has come. When an ides has come and it
resonates within you, it can’t be stopped.”
Today we travel to
Kenya
to meet talented youths who given the right exposure and investment can be a
force to reckon with in soccer.
HOW SAFE ARE WE? KENYANS ASK AFTER A 15 MAN
GANG RAID A CHURCH IN BROAD DAYLIGHT.
This past weekend
an incident happened in NairobiKenya that put
the security portfolio again on the hot seat on how safe are Kenyans wherever
they are. We obtained footage of the broad daylight church raid and we let you
decide how safe are you?
Today we venture
into the world of great African physical features and milestone landscape. You might
save this list as a bucket list of some of the destinations you must at least
visit before you kick the same bucket!
1.Maasai Mara ( wild beast migration and 7th wonder
of the world- Kenya / Tanzania)
2.The Zambezi / Victoria falls ( Zambia )
3.The Egyptian pyramids ( Egypt )
4.Mount Kilimanjaro ( Tanzania )
5.The Drakensberg mountains ( south Africa )
6.The Great Rift valley
7.Lake Tanganyika ( Tanzania )
8.Atlas mountains ( Morocco )
9.Sahara desert ( sahel region of northern Africa )
BEWARE AFRICA
GRACE AMSALU IS A PRANKSTER ON THE LOOSE: ( PART 3.)
The drama
continues and as we saw in part 2 what we expected came through this email. The
same email word for word as we had anticipated…. In part 2, a fraudsters
website (http://www.lightstalkers.org/posts/fraud
) had already discovered this prank and they posted the same emails. I now post
the email from the website and note the word for word notation between both…
Amsalu Tina amsalu_tina@yahoo.com
5:18 PM (2 hours ago)
to me
Dearest,one
I thank you ones again this day. I will also like to see you face
to face and will use this opportunity to let you know thatGODhas chosen you to help me out among
other people on earth its now left for you and God who directed you to me to
help me out from this predicament i found myself. I know you are the one i am
going to depend and put my life on. I am not going to give your trust and love
to any other one because i know you will satisfy me,
Please i have not told anyone except you and the reverend about the existence
of this money and i will like you to please keep it secret to other people
because since it is (MONEY) all eyes will be on it.
Remember i trust you that is why i am giving you all this informations!. My
trust is for you and you alone, I have informed the bank about my plans to
claim this money and the only thing they told me is to look for a foreign
partner who will stand on my behalf due to my refugee status and the laws of
this country. You will have 15% of the total money for helping me and the
remaining money will be managed by you in any business of your choice.
In this regard i will like you to contact the bank immediately
with this information, tell them that you are my foreign partner and that you
want to know the possibilities of assisting me in transfering the ($4.5 Million
US Dollars) deposited by my late father of which i am the next of kin to your
account in your country.
The contact informations of the bank is as follows,
The name of the transfer officer is Dr Derick Frank.
Telephone number: +447031815297 +447031815299
Fax +447031815306
Information about the deposit code are as follows.
Name of depositor: Mr Jonhson Bakri Amsalu
Nationality: sudan
Next of kin : Miss Tina Amsalu
Amount deposited:$4.5 Million
Account Number: TSBUK744503429160/QB/91/A
Princess is the name my parents called me while they were alive
and Tina is the name that people and friends know me with .Contact them now on
how to transfer the $4.5 million Dollars deposited by my late father of which i
am the next of kin.I have maped out 15% for your assistance and 5% for any
expenses that might come up in this transfer. My dear i am glad that God has
brought you to see me out from this situation and i promise to be kind and will
equally need you in every area of my life plus investing this money since i am
still too young to manage this amount of money.
As i told you before, this camp is just like a prison and my
prayers is to move out from here as soon as possible. Please make sure that you
contact the bank so that after the transfer you can send some money from that
money for me to prepare my travelling documents to meet with you in your
country.
Awaiting to hear from you soonest .
Yours forever in love
Below is what she
sent to us today. It is already clear that this is a scam and its beyond us
because the internet has “GHOSTS” BUT BE
WARE AND CAUTIOUS ALL THE SAME OUT THERE!!!!
Dearest,one
I thank you ones again this day. I will also like to see you face to face and
will use this opportunity to let you know that GOD has chosen you to help me
out among other people on earth its now left for you and God who directed you
to me to help me out from this predicament i found myself. I know you are the
one i am going to depend and put my life on. I am not going to give your
trust and love to any other one because i know you will satisfy me,
Please i have not told anyone except you and the reverend about the existence
of this money and i will like you to please keep it secret to other
people because since it is (MONEY) all eyes will be on it. Remember i trust
you that is why i am giving you all this informations!. My trust is for you
and you alone, I have informed the bank about my plans to claim this money
and the only thing they told me is to look for a foreign partner who will
stand on my behalf due to my refugee status and the laws of this country. You
will have 15% of the total money for helping me and the remaining money will
be managed by you in any business of your choice.
In this regard i will like you to contact the bank immediately with this
information, tell them that you are my foreign partner and that you want to
know the possibilities of assisting me in transfering the ($4.5 Million US
Dollars) deposited by my late father of which i am the next of kin to
your account in your country.
The contact informations of the bank is as follows,
TRIODOS BANK PLC SCOTLAND.
(transferdeptriodosbak@hushmail.com)
(transferdeptriodosbk@aim.com)
The name of the transfer officer is Dr Derick Frank.
Telephone number: +447031815297 +447031815299
Fax +447031815306
Information about the deposit code are as follows.
Name of depositor: Mr Johnson Bakri Amsalu
Nationality: sudan
Next of kin : Miss Grace Amsalu
Amount deposited:$4.5 Million
Account Number: TSBUK744503429160/QB/91/A
Princess is the name my parents called me while they were alive and Grace is
the name that people and friends know me with .Contact them now on how to
transfer the $4.5 million Dollars deposited by my late father of which i am
the next of kin.I have maped out 15% for your assistance and 5% for any
expenses that might come up in this transfer. My dear i am glad that God has
brought you to see me out from this situation and i promise to be kind and
will equally need you in every area of my life plus investing this money
since i am still too young to manage this amount of money.
As i told you before, this camp is just like a prison and my prayers is to
move out from here as soon as possible. Please make sure that you contact the
bank so that after the transfer you can send some money from that money for
me to prepare my travelling documents to meet with you in your country.
Awaiting to hear from you soonest.
KNOWING THAT THIS IS A CAT AND MOUSE GAME WE HAVE DECIDED TO END OUR INVESTIGATIONS!!!!! WHATEVER YOU ARE ON THE INTERNET IT IS A REALITY AND IT NEEDS YOU TO BE CAUTIOUS!
