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Zac Efron to star in rom-com “Are We Officially Dating?” Reuters
LOS ANGELES - Zac Efron has signed on to star in the romantic comedy “Are We Officially Dating?” for Treehouse Pictures. Tom Gormican will direct the film from his own screenplay about three friends in New York City who make a pact to remain single just as they each start to fall in love. The film will start production this fall in New York. Treehouse Pictures’ Justin Nappi and Kevin Turen are producing the film with Scott Aversano and Andrew O’Connor. QED International is handling international sales. “We strongly believe in the global appeal of this project and we’re excited to work with the team at Treehouse Pictures to bring it to market in Toronto,” QED International CEO Bill Block said in a statement. The film is the latest addition to QED’s growing sales slate as it heads into the fall markets. At Toronto and AFM, QED will
be handling international sales for a number of upcoming films, including “Haunt,” written by Andrew Barrer and directed by Mac Carter; “Ten” directed by David Ayer and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger; and “Fading Gigolo,” directed by John Turturro and starring Turturro and Woody Allen. Treehouse Pictures’ “At Any Price,” starring Dennis Quaid and Zac Efron and directed by Ramin Bahrani, is premiering at the 2012 Venice International Film Festival and has been acquired by Sony Pictures Classics. Treehouse Pictures is a film finance and production company with offices in Los Angeles and New York.
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Jay-Z has Rocky-like moment at Made In America
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Hotspots reached southern slopes
PHILADELPHIA — Jay-Z’s entrance said it all: He bounced up and down on top of the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, mimicking Rocky before he took the stage in front of nearly 50,000. His song “Made In America” played in the background. Jay-Z, like Rocky Balboa, has a married to superstar Beyonce and rags to riches American dream sto- owns a music management comry, and the 42-year-old entertainer pany, fashion line, nightclub and — who grew up in the Brooklyn restaurant; he’s also a co-owner projects and released his debut of the Brooklyn Nets. “Since you in 1996 — shared some of that were so good to me, Philly, I’m through songs in his 90-minute set going to be good to you tonight, Saturday night at the “Budweiser Philly,” Jay-Z yelled. Rappers Pusta T and Big Sean Made In America” festival. He entered from the back of the hit the stage, and Kanye West stage after running down the steps followed, receiving an electrifyto perform “Public Service An- ing roar from the crowd. They nouncement.” That was followed performed a medley of hits, such with the night’s first cameo: A as “Mercy,” ‘’Dance” and “Can’t pre-recorded video with President Tell Me Nothing.” Jay-Z also brought out his forBarack Obama. Obama urged the crowd to vote this fall. He also mer protégés and Philadelphians said Jay-Z’s story is “what Made Freeway, Chris and Neff, as In America means” and added that well as Memphis Bleek. he enjoys listening to the rapper’s Common, 2 Chainz and Swizz Beatz also made music on his iPod. Jay-Z headlined the first night appearances. of the two-day festival he curated, performing hits like “99 Problems,” ‘’Dirt Off Your Shoulder,” ‘’Big Pimpin’” and “Empire State of Mind.” He called it Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP “the first annual Made Jay-Z performs at the “Made In America festival.” In America” music festival The event is the first on Saturday, Sept. 1, 2012, kind for the entreprein Philadelphia, PA. neurial Jay-Z, who is
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Up to the second day on Saturday (Sep 1), the forest fire on Mount Agung still looked to expand. Hotspots have penetrated the southeastern to southern slopes of Mount Agung beneath the Kedampal Hilltop. Bali Post
AMLAPURA - Up to the second day on Saturday (Sep 1), the forest fire on Mount Agung still looked to expand. Hotspots have penetrated the southeastern to southern slopes of Mount Agung beneath the Kedampal Hilltop. I Wayan Putra, the farmer group head of Batudawa Kaja right beneath the Mount Agung protected forest on fire on Saturday (Sep 1) revealed that he and other residents had felt irritating to the eyes. Allegedly, the eye irritation was caused by smog accompanied with ashes of the forest fires on the mountains in the west of Batudawa Kaja settlement. The smog and ash were blown by strong winds and some
had reached the residential areas scattered at the foot of the mountain. “I think this eye irritation is only felt by me and excessive heat is unlike the usual heat in Kubu. It is hotter and I think it happens due to forest fire in the western area above our village. In fact, the other residents also feel the same,” said Putra. He asked the Karangasem and Bali Government to pay attention
and take action promptly to put out the fire continuing to expand to protected forests. Apart from causing the residents anxious due to hot weather and eye irritation, it was a pity if the forest fire continuously spread out. He estimated that thousands of hectares of forest had burned out from the foot to the top of mountain. “If possible, it will better to extinguish the fire by spraying water by a helicopter. Without such a serious effort, we think the fire cannot be extinguished, and we fear it will continue to expand. In dry season as today, everything has wilted or dried ranging from the grasses, shrubs, remaining leaves and twigs on the forest floor. Meanwhile, the
persistent strong winds make the fire continue to widespread. It is hard to extinguish the fire manually by hitting with twigs because the terrain is difficult to achieve as almost the entire areas at mountaintop is steep,” he said. Aside from attempting to extinguish the fire at this time, the farmer group head also called for the government to disseminate continuously the important function of protected forests on the slopes of Mount Agung. The forest located on the barren slopes above the Abang, Kubu subdistrict to Ban village almost caught fire every year during dry season. Putra asked the government to socialize or make sustainable program to enhance the
public awareness around the forest and at the foot of Mount Agung so that no one would carelessly throw fire if they searched for honey bee, or deliberately burned shrubs, dry grasses and crop residues in their field. It was to prevent the forest fire happening again and again. Putra did not quite believe if the hotspots of forest fires originated from the friction between the tree branches or twigs. He alleged it was kindled by fire remains of honey bee seekers or someone intentionally burned the grasses and then the fire continued to spread out to the top because of strong winds constantly and strongly blew in this season. Continued on page 6