ABC World News reported that Arizona Governor Jan Brewer recently signed a bill that makes illegal immigration a state crime and requires local police to check the status of those believed to be living in Arizona illegally. The report doesn't explicitly explain what the law does until well after the midpoint of the report.
NBC Nightly News also reports on it the new law. Both reports heavily covered the political aspects of the signing of the law, discussing the protests, Obama's condemnation of the signing, and Republicans rushing to the defense of the bill. ABC World News singles out former presidential candidate and Arizona Senator John McCain's support for the law, despite having a history of being in favor of immigration rights.
Both reports also try to bring in a human aspect by showing interviews with Hispanic Arizona residents, all of whom condemn the new law.
Republican supporters, such as Arizona Senator Russell Pearce, was showed being outspoken in favor of the law to protect the U.S. border from "the destruction of the nation." The Republicans main argument was that this was an overdue law to protect America from dangerous drug dealers while opponents who decried the law as nothing more than legal racial profiling. Something Gov. Brewer and Republican supporters shot down as simply untrue. "Racial profiling is illegal in America. It will not be tolerated in America, and it certainly will not be tolerated in Arizona," Governor Brewer said. The protests outside the state capitol as the bill was being signed was giving a bit of coverage.
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The remake of the 1981 movie "Clash of the Titans" was the number one movie at the box office, earning $61.4 million during the weekend, and an additional $2.7 million counting Thursday screenings, Reuters reports.
According to Entertainment Weekly, that is the new best Easter box office, beating out the 2006 Easter weekend record set by "Scary Movie 4" when it opened with $40.2 million.
The movie managed to beat out competition from "How to Train your Dragon," and "Alice in Wonderland," all of which are fighting for limited 3-D screens.
According to an article in Time, the movie could have grossed $100 million had it wrestled all the 3-D screens the studio had wanted from "Wonderland," and "Dragon." This could have been done if the studio released the movie later in April, as opposed to the weekend immediately following a new 3-D release, the article states.
Box office reports nowadays always seem to add a bit about 3-D. Ever since "Avatar" broke box office records domestically and internationally, studios have been clamoring to release movies in 3-D. This sudden surge in interest in 3-D technology has left theaters clamoring to convert to 3-D. When studios release 3-D movies as close to each other as they did this week, theater owners have to choose between which movie they think will be more profitable.
