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Updated 9:47 p.m. ET HONG KONG (AP) – A boat packed with holiday revelers collided with a ferry and sank off Hong Kong, killing 36 people and 온라인카지노 injuring dozens more, authorities said. The boat was carrying staff members of a utility company and their family members to Hong Kong’s famed Victoria Harbour to watch a fireworks display Monday night on the long holiday weekend celebrating China’s National Day and mid-autumn festival. It was carrying about 120 people when it collided with the ferry near Lamma Island off the southwestern coast of Hong Kong Island. The government said 25 bodies had been recovered by Tuesday morning and the search was continuing. More than 100 people were rescued and sent to hospitals, and nine had serious or critical injuries, the government’s statement said. “There was a boat that came in close and crashed,” said Yuen Sui-see, director of operations at Power Assets Holdings Ltd., which was using the vessel to take staff on the outing. “After the crash, the other boat continued away, it didn’t stop.” He denied the vessel was overloaded, saying it was carrying 121 passengers and three crew but had capacity for more than 200 passengers. Television channels showed the boat half submerged with the bow pointing straight up. Helicopters circled overhead with searchlights as government vessels surrounded the boat and divers prepared to enter the water....

Critic David Edelstein previews the latest offerings from Hollywood, and finds even the comedies are grim: Glum though I am about the end of summer, with fall comes … no superhero movies! And no 3-D! Well, a lot less, which means fewer headaches, so sell your Tylenol stock. Fall opened strong last Friday with “Moneyball,” and next Friday brings another bright comedy called “50/50,” after hero Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s odds of surviving his spinal cancer. Yes, it’s grim, too, obviously. But the film is less about his illness than other peoples’ dumb behavior in the face of it. And in the case of Anna Kendrick as his novice therapist, she’s so lovably dumb you’re almost happy a horrific disease helped ’em meet cute. More downbeat than the cancer movie is “Take Shelter,” from brilliant young director Jeff Nichols, about a man played by Michael Shannon ravaged by visions of apocalypse. It’s arty and creepy and as barmy as its hero in the end. But it might just capture the national mood. The downbeat goes on in George Clooney’s latest as director and actor, a political melodrama called “The Ides of March,” starring Ryan Gosling as a campaign aide to lefty presidential candidate Clooney whose high ideals plummet to Earth, don’t cha know, when it’s time to win. I like the first half, before all that smug cynicism. Hollywood’s money is...

LOS ANGELES — Brad Pitt was unable to put the cat out of first place at the weekend box office. Walt Disney’s “The Lion King” reissue was No. 1 for the second-straight weekend with $22.1 million, according to studio estimates Sunday. That puts it just ahead of Pitt’s baseball drama “Moneyball,” a Sony Pictures release that opened at No. 2 with $20.6 million. Debuting closely behind at No. 3 was the Warner Bros. family film “Dolphin Tale” with $20.3 million. “Dolphin Tale” stars Harry Connick Jr., Ashley Judd and Morgan Freeman. The 3-D reissue of 1994’s “The Lion King” has taken in $61.7 million since opening the previous weekend to a much bigger audience than expected. That’s on top of nearly $800 million worldwide the movie made in its original run and a 2002 re-release. Photos: Dolphin’s prosthetic tale comes to big screenImages: Angelia, Brad play “Moneyball”Photos: Fall films 2011 The film has done so well that Disney plans to leave it in theaters longer than the two-week run the studio initially planned as a prelude to its Blu-ray home-video debut Oct. 4, said Dave Hollis, Disney’s head of distribution. The studio has not yet decided how long or how widely the film would play theatrically after the Blu-ray release, Hollis said. “Consumers I think will be happy to consume it in multiple ways for this kind of franchise,...