Top 4 American Idol EPs Unleashed In Time For The American Idol Live Tour on September 20 and 21!

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Top 4 American Idol EPs Unleashed In Time For The American Idol Live Tour on September 20 and 21!

September 2011 PRESS RELEASE

Get the best of the best of American Idol (AI) with the release of Season 10 highlight EPs of the top 4 finalists: winner Scotty McCreery, runner-up Lauren Alaina, Haley Reinhart and James Durbin.

Coming from a momentous win, Scotty McCreery offers an EP featuring 5 exceptional songs performed during his time on the show including his current worldwide hit single “I Love You This Big”. Hear these phenomenal tracks from the ultimate idol, presented in their extended studio versions.

An adorable singer with a sweet yet powerful voice, Lauren Alaina collects her best performances during the 2011 season of American Idol. As with winner Scotty, Lauren favors a contemporary country style. Listen to unique interpretations of Lauren‘s take on the Miley Cyrus track “The Climb“, and her debut ballad single “Like My Mother Does.”

Bringing a fresh sound to the American Idol song book like you’ve never heard before, be captivated by Haley Reinhart’s powerhouse voice as she takes on a cutting edge rendition of Adele‘s new-age classic ‘Rolling In The Deep‘ and Alanis Morissette’s ‘You Oughta Know.’

With his amazing vocal prowess, you’ll surely love James Durbin’s versions of Carole King’s “Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow” and Green Day’s “Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life)” in his 5-song EP.

With the 11 American Idol finalists coming to Manila (their only stop in Asia) for the much-awaited 2-day concert at the Araneta Coliseum on September 20 and 21, fans will surely have the time of their lives as they witness their idols perform ‘live’, giving them a satisfyingly better experience other than what they have seen on TV!

Support their music and collect these 4 must-have memorabilia exclusively distributed under MCA Music.

Catch your favorite Idols up close and personal at your favorite Ayala Malls on September 18 in Trinoma (1PM), in Alabang Town Center (5PM) and on September 19 in Market Market and Glorietta at 4PM. Buy any AI album and get a free poster plus a chance to have these signed!

Brought to you by MCA Music, Ovation Productions, ETC, JackTV and Odyssey and Odysseylive.net, the exclusive music retail partner for American Idol Live in Manila 2011.

Tracklisting (American Idol Season 10 Highlights):

Scotty McCreery:
1 I Love You This Big
2 The River
3 Amazed
4 Gone
5 Are You Gonna Kiss Me or Not

Lauren Alaina:
1 Like My Mother Does
2 Flat On the Floor
3 The Climb
4 I’m the Only One
5 Wild One

Haley Reinhart:
1 House of the Rising Sun
2 Bennie and the Jets
3 Rolling In the Deep
4 What is and What Should Never Be
5 You Oughta Know

James Durbin
1 Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow
2 Maybe I’m Amazed
3 Uprising
4 While My Guitar Gently Weeps
5 Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)

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SANDLER, STALLONE, CHER LEAD VOICE CAST OF “ZOOKEEPER”

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SANDLER, STALLONE, CHER LEAD VOICE CAST OF “ZOOKEEPER”

September 2011 PRESS RELEASE

Columbia Pictures attracted a truly all-star cast of comedy voices to play the animals in the romantic comedy “Zookeeper.” “We were incredibly fortunate to get the voice cast that we have. Adam Sandler got on board first to play the monkey – and now, I can’t imagine anybody else playing that part,” says director Frank Coraci.

In the film, the animals at the Franklin Park Zoo love their kindhearted caretaker, Griffin (Kevin James). Finding himself more comfortable with a lion than a lady, Griffin decides the only way to get a girl in his life is to leave the zoo and find a more glamorous job. The animals, in a panic, decide to break their time-honored code of silence and reveal their biggest secret: they can talk! To keep Griffin from leaving, they decide to teach him the rules of courtship – animal style.

“Adam is so talented, he could have voiced any animal in this movie, but I can’t think of a better match than the monkey,” says co-screenwriter Nick Bakay. “The monkey is one of our best animal actors – it did incredible faces and exhibits tons of personality, just like Adam.”

Cher joins the film as the zoo’s lovely and loving lioness, with Sylvester Stallone as the king of the jungle himself. Nick Nolte plays Bernie, the gruff gorilla, who becomes an unlikely friend to Griffin. The voice cast also includes Judd Apatow as Barry the elephant; Jim Breuer as a neighborhood crow; Jon Favreau and Faizon Love as Jerome and Bruce, a pair of quarreling grizzly bears; Richie Minervini as an ostrich; Maya Rudolph as a Mollie the giraffe; and UFC fighter Bas Rutten as Sebastian the wolf.

“If the lion is king of the jungle, Janet is the power behind the throne,” says Cher of her character. “But she totally plays it cool. Like all powerful ladies, she can let her man play the big man – it’s enough for her to know that he knows who’s in charge.”

Adam Sandler plays Donald, a Capuchin monkey with a big mouth and big ideas for Griffin on how he can win his lady love. “I was first on board, and I’m a producer on the movie, so I got to pick which animal I wanted to be,” Sandler explains. “The monkey was the only animal smart enough, handsome enough, and funny enough to handle my voice coming out of its mouth.”

Sylvester Stallone brings his unique voice to Joe, the lion. “Joe likes to think he’s the king, but the rest of the animals have other ideas about who’s really in charge,” says the actor.

Though the filmmakers opted to use real animals wherever possible, one instance required movie magic. “Gorillas are endangered,” says producer Mark Forbes. “No private party can own a gorilla. So, we used an animatronic gorilla suit to play the role of Bernie.”

The first step was to capture Bernie’s voice, and the filmmakers turned to Nick Nolte. “Nobody has muscles like Bernie, and nobody has the voice of Nick Nolte,” says Coraci.

How did he capture a gorilla’s distinctive growl? “I kind of have a growl to my voice anyway,” says Nolte. In the movie, Bernie has been isolated from the other animals and most other people, and Nolte was determined to express the character’s loneliness in his vocal performance. “I played that detached feeling,” he says. “That started working right away – ‘Keep going,’ they said – and we decided to do the whole movie in that first session.”

Opening across the Philippines on Sept. 21, “Zookeeper” is distributed by Columbia Pictures, local office of Sony Pictures Releasing International. Visit www.sonypictures.com.ph to see the latest trailers, get free downloads and play free movie games.

“FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS” HOLDS SNEAK PREVIEWS SEPT 19 & 20

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“FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS” HOLDS SNEAK PREVIEWS SEPT 19 & 20

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Acclaimed as one of the year’s best romantic comedies, Columbia Pictures‘ “Friends with Benefits” will have whole-day sneak previews on Monday and Tuesday, Sept. 19 & 20, in selected theaters everywhere.

From the director of “Easy A,” the film stars Justin Timberlake and Mila Kunis as liberal singles Dylan and Jamie, respectively, who think it will be easy to add sex to their friendship, but they discover that getting physical always leads to complications.

Timberlake notes, “Our characters meet each other in that time where they’ve both recently split up from other relationships and we’re both in that headspace where we kind of want to just be single.”

Mila Kunis saw her character Jamie as someone who “believes in true love and believes that Prince Charming is out there and is desperately seeking that.” Jamie doesn’t wear her heart on her sleeve, though. “She’s a typical New Yorker,” laughs Kunis.

With Dylan working hard to establish himself at a new job in a new city and no time to pursue life’s more frivolous aspects, and Kunis’ Jamie meeting too many “nice” guys who turn out to be not-so-nice, the two come to an agreement asserting mutual benefits without the emotional complications of dating. ‘Cause after all, everyone has physical needs, they convince themselves. What could possibly go wrong?

Opening across the Philippines on Sept. 28, “Friends with Benefits” is distributed by Columbia Pictures, local office of Sony Pictures Releasing International.

Visit www.sonypictures.com.ph to see the latest trailers, get free downloads and play free movie games.

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Never borrow from the future

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An Angel says, 'Never borrow from the future. If you worry about what may happen tomorrow and it doesn't happen, you have worried in vain. Even if it does happen, you have to worry twice.'

1. Pray 

2. Go to bed on time. 

3. Get up on time so you can start the day unrushed.

4. Say No to projects that won't fit into your time schedule, or that will compromise your mental health.

5. Delegate tasks to capable others. 

6. Simplify and unclutter your life. 

7. Less is more. (Although one is often not enough, two are often too many.) 

8. Allow extra time to do things and to get to places.

9. Pace yourself. Spread out big changes and difficult projects over time; don't lump the hard things all together. 

10. Take one day at a time. 

11. Separate worries from concerns . If a situation is a concern, find out what God would have you do and let go of the anxiety . If you can't do anything about a situation, forget it.

12. Live within your budget; don't use credit cards for ordinary purchases.

13. Have backups; an extra car key in your wallet, an extra house key buried in the garden, extra stamps, etc. 

14. K.M.S. (Keep Mouth Shut). This single piece of advice can prevent an enormous amount of trouble.

15. Do something for the Kid in You everyday.

16. Carry a Bible with you to read while waiting in line. 

17. Get enough rest 

18. Eat right. 

19 Get organized so everything has its place.

20. Listen to a tape while driving that can help improve your quality of life. 

21. Write down thoughts and inspirations.

22. Every day, find time to be alone. 

23. Having problems? Talk to God on the spot. Try to nip small problems in the bud. Don't wait until it's time to go to bed to try and pray. 

24. Make friends with Godly people.

25. Keep a folder of favorite scriptures on hand. 

26. Remember that the shortest bridge between despair and hope is often a good 'Thank you Jesus ' 

27. Laugh. 

28. Laugh some more! 

29. Take your work seriously, but not yourself at all. 

30. Develop a forgiving attitude (most people are doing the best they can).

31. Be kind to unkind people (they probably need it the most). 

32. Sit on your ego 

33 Talk less; listen more. 

34. Slow down.

35. Remind yourself that you are not the general manager of the universe. 

36 Every night before bed, think of one thing you're grateful for that you've never been grateful for before. GOD HAS A WAY OF TURNING THINGS AROUND FOR YOU.

'If God is for us, who can be against us?' (Romans 8:31)

OPM boyband 1:43 handpicked to open American Idol mall tours

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POP HEARTTHROBS 1:43 (pronounced as “one forty-three”) was handpicked by international label MCA Music as guest performers in the much-anticipated American Idol Season 10 mall tours in Trinoma and Market! Market! on Sunday and Monday, respectively.

The mall tour features the Top 11 finalists of American Idol Season 10 including Casey Abrams, Haley Reinhart, Jacob Lusk, James Durbin, Lauren Alaina, Naima Adedapo, Paul McDonald, Pia Toscano, Stefano Langone, Fil-American Thia Megia and winner Scotty McCreery. This is the very first time for these idols to perform in Asia.

“It’s such an honor to perform in the American Idol malls shows. We are a big fan of the reality TV show for so long now that’s why I still can’t believe until now that we’ll have an opportunity to share the stage with its top 11 finalists,” says 1:43 lead vocals Yuki Sakamoto.

A fusion of Asian looks and genuine Original Pilipino Music (OPM) pop music, the boyband is composed of Sakamoto, an HRM student from Centro Escolar University (CEU), Anjo Resurreccion, a University of Santo Tomas (UST) Psychology graduate and a member of a university theater group; Gold Aquino, a Business Administration student from CEU and a campus heartthrob; and Kim Nicolas a Nursing student from Trinity University of Asia and a Candy Magazine model.

1:43’s debut slambook inspired album titled “Time for Love” is recognized by record bars Astroplus and Odyssey as one of today’s bestselling album. It contains 10 tracks of original OPM pop music including its hit single “Pag-Ibig Na Kaya?” or “PiNK” and the controversial “Merry Christmas Na” which was released as a digital single in 2010.

American Idol is one of the most popular reality-based series on American television and has gained a worldwide fan base. The show seeks to discover new recording artists through a series of televised auditions and competitions.

Finalists and winners must get the approval of the three judges and votes of viewers. Viewers cast their vote by calling one toll-free telephone number assigned for each finalist.

American Idol holds the record of being the number one TV show for seven consecutive seasons. The tenth season’s panel of judges include Jennifer Lopez, Steven Tyler and Randy Jackson.

“We are excited to meet the AI finalist in person, especially my crush Thia. I find her extremely talented and beautiful and I am proud that she’s also Filipino,” relates Gold.

Fans of 1:43 are encouraged to support the boy band as they perform with some of the biggest stars of Hollywood for an unforgettable day of great music and world-class live performances, covering the genres of country music, jazz, pop and rock.