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LOS ANGELES, March 26, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Empire Post Media, Inc. (OTCQB:EMPM.PK - News) announced that the company's senior production executive Brian Trenchard Smith has commenced screenplay and pre-production work on a feature film version of "In Search of Yamashita's Gold," a true story about the exploits of modern day treasure hunters seeking to recover millions of ounces of gold buried by the Japanese as they retreated from the Philippines at the end of World War II.

Empire previously announced that, after a feasibility study, the company had entered into an agreement to option all rights to the underlying story, with the intention of developing the material across a number of platforms, including interactive e-book, feature film, documentary, television series and videogame.

Trenchard Smith, director of 42 feature films and over 40 television programs, plans to center the production in Australia, with locations in Fiji and the Philippines. He is currently writing the script and will direct the film.

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LOS ANGELES, March 26, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Empire Post Media Inc. (OTCQB:EMPM.PK - News) has decided to take, in house, the distribution chores previously contracted to The Fremantle Corporation with the addition of six-time Emmy nominee Stuart Schwartz to the production team of "Journey Beyond" as executive producer and showrunner.

Empire CEO Peter Dunn stated, "The addition of Stuart to the team, along with his great pedigree and connections in the television business, provides an opportunity to manage the distribution of our products in-house, thus eliminating third-party sales costs and commissions thereby increasing bottom line revenues to the company.

"Due to the global popularity of the 'Journey Beyond' genre, projected revenues, assuming a five year run, and based on current market data, are estimated at $35,000,000, with each episode in the first season expected to generate approximately $260,000, and growing to over $400,000 per episode in the fifth year, not including revenue from the 3D version, which could be substantial," Dunn added.

Empire has previously announced a $1,500,000 finance facility, in place, to produce the show.

Schwartz, a former top executive with Cosgrove/Meurer, has produced 174 episodes of perennial TV hit "Unsolved Mysteries."

"Journey Beyond," which was created by Ellen Fontana and Richard Mann, principals of Empire's wholly owned subsidiary Hybrid-Reality Entertainment, deals with paranormal and psychic events, based on the real stories of real people. The show is being produced in 3D for delivery in 2D HD and 3D.

Further information about Empire Post Media can be obtained from the company's web site, http://www.empirepostmedia.com.

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Despite President Saakashvili's record of reforms, Georgia consistently ranks low on press freedom indices. Similar news reports on the country's three main TV stations are the latest hint of a tightly controlled media.

Earlier this month, newscasters on Georgia's three main TV channels, Rustavi 2, Imedi TV and the public broadcaster Channel 1, read out very similar reports on a controversial death in police custody. The incident has renewed suspicion that the government of President Mikheil Saakashvili maintains firm control of its media, despite its publicly declared commitments to democratic reform.

The news story was about how opposition politicians, linked to Saakashvili's main political rival, billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili, had supposedly politicized the death of 46 year-old Solomon Kimeridze. Authorities maintain Kimeridze, a burglary suspect, tripped and fell three floors to his death while in police custody. The story focused on the opposition politicians' reactions, which journalists portrayed as inappropriate, and only briefly mentioned the fact that the politicians were questioning the suspicious circumstances of a man's death in police custody.

Each of the three TV stations used nearly identical video footage and news scripts.

Journalist Nino Zuriashvili wasn't surprised by the similar broadcasts

According to the watchdog group Transparency International, such "coordinated news coverage is a strong indication for a lack of editorial independence of the country's major broadcasters." For independent journalists and ordinary citizens in Georgia, that's not surprising.

"This is not the first time. It happens a lot that the sequence of news stories and the topics of these stories are the same on different channels," said Nino Zuriashvili, an investigative journalist who worked for Rustavi 2 until it dropped its popular investigative program when Saakashvili was elected president in 2004.

Little trust in information

The private owners of Rustavi 2 and Imedi TV have close ties to the Saakashvili administration, while Channel 1 is state-owned. These three are the only nation-wide channels that provide news programs. They never broadcast news negative to the government. Instead the president's ribbon-cutting ceremonies and speeches are covered extensively.

There have been protests calling for more balanced coverage by Georgia media

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By KATHLEEN E. CAREY kcarey@delcotimes.com

MEDIA From branding ones self to extreme couponing, speakers and panelists presented a myriad of tips at the sixth annual Womenomics Forum on Saturday.

Womenomics was developed by the Business and Professional Womens Foundation to bring business, government and civic representatives to identify and talk about working women issues.

Saturdays session was sponsored by the Friends of the Delaware County Womens Commission, the Delaware County Business and Professional Women, the Delaware County Womens Commission, The Center Foundation, PathWays PA, Delaware County Council and the Womens Resource Center.

The keynote speaker, Polly Moore, director of human resources at the Centennial School District in Bucks County, shared her story while encouraging women to find and showcase their identity.

Ladies, Im here to tell you now is not the time to play small, she said. We have to play big.

Moore told them to identify their strongest attribute, their sense of worth, and encompass that in engaged morals to create their own unique brand.

Then, she quoted Stephen Covey as saying, On every level, in every relationship, your brand makes a difference.

Moore told of when she was director of compliance for a national financial services company where she was directed on a Friday shed have to lay off her entire staff.

She crafted a severance letter and emailed it to her boss and by 8:30 a.m. Monday, she was the one having it read to her.

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The buildup for the house party on Allison Road was brazen - spread rapidly and broadly through Twitter, Facebook and fliers for days in advance. Free liquor all night, bikinis, foam and disc jockeys were promised for an entry fee of at least $10.

When the event - held at what some called "the mansion" - eventually happened last week, it spiraled out of control with hundreds attending, streets crammed with vehicles and a shooting that left one high school senior dead.

The slaying has trained a spotlight on the large-scale, sometimes illegal parties spread through social media. Authorities and experts say while teenage partying is not a new phenomenon, such large-scale, organized events spread through social media are growing and difficult to monitor.

Meanwhile, neighbors and the family of the 18-year-old - whose funeral is Saturday - are asking what more could have been done to prevent his death.

"It was too late by the time the party occurred," said Assistant Chief Brian Lumpkin of the Houston Police Department. "Because of social media, the party drew folks into the neighborhood."

The house in a quiet southeast Houston neighborhood was notorious for previous loud, raucous parties, neighbors said. Officials said the gathering was likely illegal from the beginning, held without a permit and serving alcohol to teens.

Two off-duty HPD officers provided security at the party, but had left before the shooting.

As many as 600 people are estimated to have attended the March 13 gathering, which fell during spring break for many of the high-schoolers. Around midnight, HPD officers arrived, responding to noise complaints and gunshots.

Ownership unclear

Police are trying to determine who shot Ryan Spikes, interviewing witnesses and attempting to find out who allowed the party to take place. It is unclear who owns the property, and police are not releasing the name of the occupant, who officers said is the nephew of the former owner.

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