D Friday, December 11, 2009 METRO in cINemAs NOW ...the must see film of DecemberThe Irish Independent HHHHSFX HHHHUNCUT HHHHEMPIRE HHHHQ MAGAZINE ONE OF MY FAVOURITE FILMS OF THE YEARJONATHAN ROSS, FILM 2009 HHHHHTOTAL FILM Magical...bursting with imaginationDAVE CALHOUN, TIME OUT HHHHHPaul Byrne, Movies.ie I THINK I LOVE YOU ... HHHHEvening Herald Entertainment.ie Actress Zoe Saldana arrives for the world premiere of Avatar in London last night. It is the first film James Cameron has directed since Titanic and is the most expensive ever made at more than 332million Picture: PA Zoe, the AvA-stAr of the show Driver convicted for killing a duck A MAN who ran over and killed a mother duck walking her 12 ducklings across a Massachusetts parking lot has been sentenced to a year of probation. Witnesses say Joshua Linhares deliberately drove at the ducks in the parking lot. Surveillance video has supported their account. After testifing he didnt see the ducks, jurors took 15 minutes to convict him of cruelty. The ducklings are now back in the wild. BOX office records were smashed yesterday after film fans flocked to cinemas to escape the misery of the recession. Ticket sales passed the $10billion milestone in the US and Canada, eclipsing the previous record of $9.67billion in 2007. Box offices this month are counting on movies such as Avatar and Sherlock Holmes to push sales even higher. Film ticket sales top $10bn mark 11pm on November 27. His colleagues at Filte Ireland became worried about him when the Phibsboro resident did not turn up for work the following Monday and failed to contact anybody. His mobile phone was also turned off. Friends said this was completely out of character for him. More than 13,000 people have joined the Find Damian page on Facebook, and fami- ly and friends handed out hundreds of fliers in the area where he disappeared. Members of the National Union of Jour- nalists were asked to assist in the search. Mr OBrien was a member of the union and had attended a union officer training course on the day he disappeared and after- wards had been at a pre-Christmas party in Percy Place where he was said to be in great form. A Garda spokesman said the body had yet to be formally identified. Missing Damian: Body is recovered from the canalA POST-MORTEM examination is due to be carried out this morning on the body of a man recovered from the Grand Canal in the city yesterday. The body was discovered around 1pm in the water near Baggot Street Bridge. Garda divers had been searching the canal in recent days as part of an investiga- tion into the disappearance of Cork man Damian OBrien. The 37-year-old was last seen by friends at Percy Place off Baggot Street around by JoAnne Ahern Missing: Mr obrien New scare on rio-Paris flight FRENCH aviation investigators are examining an emergency distress call from an Air France plane flying from Rio de Janeiro to Paris, it emerged yesterday. The agency, BEA, is examining the case of flight AF 445 on November 29 the same route, aircraft and carrier that crashed in June, killing all 228 people aboard, including three Irish doctors, Aisling Butler, Jane Deasy and Eithne Walls. Le Figaro newspaper reported yesterday that heavy turbulence and a distress call on flight 445 took place ten nautical miles from the area where the previous jet went down. The BEA said its inquiry could help explain why the June flight crashed. index.html2.html3.html4.html5.html6.html7.html8.html9.html10.html11.html12.html13.html14.html15.html16.html17.html18.html19.html20.html21.html22.html23.html24.html25.html26.html27.html