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Shia LaBeouf's 'Man Down' Likely to End U.K. Run With Just 3 Tickets Sold

Shia LaBeouf's 'Man Down' Likely to End U.K. Run With Just 3 Tickets Sold.

A box-office jump of 200 percent since its much-derided opening will bring the film's final theatrical haul in the U.K. to $26.

While a 200 percent box-office leap is something most producers might offer their right arm for, the team behind Man Down probably aren't finding much reason to celebrate.

The film — starring Shia LaBeouf as a PTSD-suffering U.S. soldier returning home from Afghanistan — made headlines Tuesday after it was found have opened in the U.K. with just one solitary person buying a cinema ticket.

However, speaking to the cinema manager, The Hollywood Reporter has learned that the film has since tripled its box-office takings.

"I think we've sold three tickets in total," she revealed, adding that she hadn't "experienced anything like it before.".

As for the individual responsible for the entirety of Man Down's opening haul — surely now a celebrity in cinema circles — the manager said that she hadn't been able to identity who it was.

9yo girls 'physically & spiritually' ready to marry – Malaysian MP

Authored by rt.com

Girls as young as nine are “physically and spiritually” ready for marriage, a Malaysian MP says, also claiming there’s “nothing wrong” with females marrying their rapists.

It comes after Malaysia failed to criminalize child marriage in a recent law.

Only 140 of the 12,987 cases of child sexual abuse cases reported to authorities between 2012 and July 2016 resulted in convictions.

Trump's chief strategist Steve Bannon stripped of national security council role

Authored by theguardian.com

Donald Trump’s political strategist Steve Bannon has lost his place on the national security council in a staff shakeup, documents show.

A presidential memorandum dated 4 April took Bannon, the former Breitbart News executive and chief White House link to the nationalist rightwing, off the country’s main body for foreign policy and national security decision-making.

It also empowers homeland security chief Tom Bossert and economic policy chief Gary Cohn to prepare Trump for key decisions requiring presidential action “at the sole discretion of the national security adviser”.

U.S. coal companies ask Trump to stick with Paris climate deal

Authored by uk.reuters.com

WASHINGTON Some big American coal companies have advised President Donald Trump's administration to break his promise to pull the United States out of the Paris Climate Agreement – arguing that the accord could provide their best forum for protecting their global interests.

The coal industry was interested in ensuring that the Paris deal provides a role for low-emission coal-fired power plants and financial support for carbon capture and storage technology, the officials said.

They also want the pact to protect multilateral funding for international coal projects through bodies like the World Bank.

'Grand finale' for cassini mission at saturn

Authored by hiase.com

In 2010, NASA resolved to terminate the mission with a decisive dive into Saturn this year to secure and preserve the planet’s moons for exploration, particularly the possibly habitable Enceladus.

As it gets off its terminal orbits in the next 5 months, the mission will score a remarkable catalogue of scientific achievements.

Cassini will move to its ultimate orbits, with a final close flyby of Saturn’s giant moon Titan, on Saturday, 22nd April.