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Asunción Asunción
Clockwise from top: skyline of the city from the Paraguay River, Citibank Tower, the Cabildo of Asunción, the National Pantheon of the Heroes, Palacio de los López, Hotel Guaraní[disambiguation needed ]
Flag Seal
Nickname(s): Mother of Cities[disambiguation needed ]
Asunción Location in Paraguay
Coordinates: 25°16′55.91″S 57°38′6.36″W / 25.2821972°S 57.6351°W / -25.2821972; -57.6351Coordinates: 25°16′55.91″S 57°38′6.36″W / 25.2821972°S 57.6351°W / -25.2821972; -57.6351
Country	Paraguay
autonomous capital district	Gran Asunción
Founded	August 15, 1537
Government
• Intendant	Arnaldo Samaniego
Area
• City	117 km2 (45.2 sq mi)
• Metro	1,000 km2 (400 sq mi)
Elevation	43 m (141 ft)
Population (2009[1])
• City	542,023
• Density	4,411/km2 (11,420/sq mi)
• Metro	2,329,061
Demonym	Asunceno (m), Asuncena (f)
Area code(s)	+595 21
HDI (2008)	0.837 – high
Website	http://www.mca.gov.py

Cabildo of Asunción in 1854.

Asunción (Spanish pronunciation: [asunˈsjon], Guarani: Paraguay) is the capital and largest city of Paraguay.

The Ciudad de Asunción is an autonomous capital district not part of any department. The metropolitan area, called Gran Asunción, includes the cities of San Lorenzo, Fernando de la Mora, Lambaré, Luque, Mariano Roque Alonso, Ñemby, San Antonio, Limpio, Capiatá and Villa Elisa, which are part of the Central Department. The Asunción metropolitan area has more than 2 million inhabitants. Asunción is located at 25°16′S 57°40′W / 25.267°S 57.667°W / -25.267; -57.667 (-25.2667, -57.6667). The Municipality of Asunción is listed on the Asunción Stock Exchange, as BVPASA: MUA, a unique feature of any city.

It is the home of the national government, principal port, and the chief industrial and cultural centre of the country. Local manufacturing production includes footwear, textiles, and tobacco products.

History[link]

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Asunción is one of the oldest cities in South America and the longest continually inhabited area in the Rio de la Plata Basin; for this reason that it is known as "Mother of Cities". It was from here that the colonial expeditions departed to found other cities, including the second foundation of Buenos Aires and of other important cities such as Villarrica, Corrientes, Santa Fe and Santa Cruz de la Sierra.

The site of the city may have been first visited by Spanish conqueror Juan de Ayolas, on his way north, up the Paraguay River, looking for a passage to the mines of Alto Perú (present-day Bolivia). Later, Juan de Salazar y Espinosa and Gonzalo de Mendoza, relative of Pedro de Mendoza, were sent in search of Ayolas, but were unable to find him. On his way up and then down the river, de Salazar stopped briefly at a bay in the left bank to resupply his ships. He found the natives friendly, and decided to found a fort there, in August, 1537. He named it Nuestra Señora Santa María de la Asunción.

In 1541, natives destroyed Buenos Aires, and the Spaniards fled to Asunción. Thus, the city became the center of a large Spanish colonial province comprising part of Brazil, present-day Paraguay and northeastern Argentina: the Giant Province of the Indies. In 1603 Asunción was the seat of the First Synod of Asunción, which set guidelines for the evangelization of the natives in their lingua franca, Guaraní.

Asunción's Downtown in 1872

In 1731, an uprising under José de Antequera y Castro was one of the first rebellions pene against Spanish colonial rule. The uprising failed, but it was the first sign of the independent spirit that was growing among the criollos, mestizos and natives of Paraguay. The event influenced the independence of Paraguay, which then materialised in 1811. The secret reunions between the independence leaders to plan an ambush against the Spanish Governor in Paraguay Bernardo de Velasco were held at the home of Juana María de Lara, in downtown Asunción. On the night of May 14 and May 15 the rebels succeeded and were able to force governor Velasco to surrender. Today, Lara's home is known as Casa de la Independencia (House of the Independence) and serves as a museum and historical building.

After Paraguay became independent, there was significant change in Asunción. Under the presidency of Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia roads were built throughout the city and the streets were named. However, it was during the presidency of Carlos Antonio López that Asunción (and Paraguay) progressed, as the new president implemented new economic policies. More than 400 schools, metallurgic factories and the first railroad service in South America were built during the López presidency. After López died, his son Francisco Solano López became the new president and led the country through the disastrous Paraguayan War that lasted for five years. After the end of the armed conflict, Asunción was occupied by Brazilian troops until 1876.

Many historians have claimed that this war provoked a steady downfall of the city and country, since it massacred two thirds of the country's population. Progress slowed down greatly afterwards, and the economy remained stagnated.

After the Paraguayan War, Asunción began a slow recovery attempt. Towards the end of the 19th Century and during the early years of the 20th Century, a flow of immigrants from Europe and the Ottoman Empire came to the city. This led to a change in the appearance of the city as many new buildings were built and Asunción went through an era more prosperous than any since the war.

Demographics[link]

The population is approximately 540,000 people in the city proper.^[1] Roughly 30% of Paraguay's 6 million people live within Greater Asunción. Sixty-five percent of the total population in the city are under the age of 30.^[2]

The population has increased greatly during the last few decades as a consequence of internal migration from other Departments of Paraguay, at first because of the economic boom in the 1970s, and later because of economic recession in the countryside. The adjacent cities in the Gran Asunción area, such as Luque, Lambaré, San Lorenzo, Fernando de la Mora and Mariano Roque Alonso, have absorbed most of this influx due to the low cost of the land and easy access to Asunción. The city has ranked as the least expensive city to live in for five years running by Mercer Human Resource Consulting.^[3] These cities have also experienced significant economic growth and expansion.^{[citation needed]}

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Main socio-demographic indicators:

• Percentage of population under 15 years: 26.9%
• Percentage of population 15 to 29 years: 30.4%
• Percentage of population 30 to 59 years: 32%
• Percentage of population 60 and older: 10.6%
• Average number of children per woman: 2
• Percentage of illiterates in the district: 2.1%

Asunción's Downtown.

Religion[link]

Most of the population professes the Catholic religion Asunción. But in Paraguay's capital oratorios are also established centers of worship and temples of various other religious minorities such as the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, etc.

Language[link]

The main language spoken is Spanish (56,9%), Guaraní language is spoken by (11,1%), the (27,4%) of the population speaks Jopará, which is a positive dialect of mixing (pidgin) from Spanish to Guaraní. Other languages ​​show a presence of 4.5% in the population.^{[citation needed]}

Districts[link]

Asunción is organized geographically into districts and these in turn bring together the different neighborhoods. The 6 districts of the city of Asunción are:

Districts of Asunción

Neighborhoods[link]

Neighborhoods of Asunción

Geography[link]

Asunción is located between the parallels 25° 15' and 25° 20' of south latitude and between the meridians 57° 40' and 57° 30' of west longitude. The city sits on the left bank of the Paraguay River, almost at the confluence of this river with the River Pilcomayo. The Paraguay River and the Bay of Asunción in the northwest separate the city from the Occidental Region of Paraguay and Argentina in the south part of the city. The rest of the city is surrounded by the Central Department.

With its location along the Paraguay River, the city offers many landscapes; it spreads out over gentle hills in a pattern of rectangular blocks. Places such as Cerro Lambaré, a hill located in Lambaré, offer a spectacular show in the springtime because of the blossoming lapacho trees in the area. Parks such as Parque Independencia and Parque Carlos Antonio López offer large areas of typical Paraguayan vegetation and are frequented by tourists. There are several small hills and slightly elevated areas throughout the city, including Cabará, Clavel, Tarumá, Cachinga, and Tacumbú, among others.

Climate[link]

Asunción has a humid subtropical climate, characterized by hot, humid summers and cool winters. Relative humidity is high in the summer, so the heat index is higher than the true air temperature. The average annual temperature is 23 °C (74°F). The average annual precipitation is 1,400 mm (55 in), distributed in 83 days yearly.

Asunción generally has a very short dry season that only covers the month of July and a wet season that covers the remainder of the year. The climate of Asunción can be described as hot and humid for most of the year. During the wet season, Asunción is generally hot and humid though towards the end of this season, it becomes noticeably cooler. In contrast, Asunción's dry season is pleasantly mild. Asuncion's precipatation values observe a dominating summer maximum, due to severe subtropical summer thunderstorms which travel southward from northern Paraguay, originating in the Gran Chaco region of the northwestern part of the country. The wettest and driest months of the year are April and July respectively. receiving 166 mm (6.54 in) and 39 mm (1.54 in) of average total monthly precipitation respectively.

Asunción downtown

The Mariscal Lopez Avenue, one of the most important in town

Asunción at night

The National Pantheon of Heroes is one of the most significant buildings in Asunción.

Democracy Square

Aunción's New Financial Center, where the World Trade Center Asunción's is being constructed.

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Education[link]

Schools[link]

The city has a large number of both public and private schools. The best-known public schools are the Colegio Nacional de la Capital (which is one of the oldest schools in the city, founded in 1877), Colegio Nacional Presidente Franco and Colegio Nacional Asunción Escalada. The best-known private schools are Colegio Inmaculado Corazón de María, Salesianito, Colegio Cristo Rey, Colegio Internacional, Colegio San José, Colegio San Ignacio de Loyola, Colegio Santa Teresa de Jesús, American School of Asunción, Colegio Dante Alighieri, Colegio Santa Clara, Colegio Campoalto, Colegio Goethe and Colegio de la Asunción.

Universities[link]

Universidad Americana

The main universities in the city are the Universidad Católica Nuestra Señora de la Asunción (private Catholic university) and the Universidad Nacional de Asunción (state-run). The Católica has a small campus in the downtown area next to the Cathedral and a larger campus in the Santa Ana neighborhood, outwards toward the adjoining city of Lambaré, while the Universidad Nacional has its main campus in the city of San Lorenzo, some 5 km eastward from Asunción. There are also a number of smaller privately run universities such as Uninorte, Universidad Americana and Universidad Autónoma de Asunción, among others.

Economy[link]

In terms of commerce, it should be noted that this sector has grown considerably in recent years stretching towards the suburbs where shopping malls and supermarkets have been built. Paraguay's only stock exchange, the BVPASA, is located here. The city itself is listed on it, as BVPASA: MUA.^{[citation needed]}

In Asuncion, the most important companies, businesses and investment groups are headquartered. This city is the economic center of Paraguay, followed by Ciudad del Este and Encarnación.

In 2013, the World Trade Center will be operating in the new financial center of the city, the investment exceeds 50 million dollars and up a building complex of 4 towers of 20 floors and a parking block for 1000 vehicles.^{[citation needed]}

The distribution of the economically active population varies across economic sectors and indicates that this population is principally involved in the tertiary sector (trade and services), taking up to 8 out of 10 individuals. The secondary sector (industry and construction) accounts for 16% of the economically active, while the share in the primary sector (agriculture) is negligible, since Assumption is a strictly urban area. On trade, it should be noted that this area has developed considerably in recent years, moving from the historic center to the suburbs, where they extend shopping, shopping and business trips.

Major international banks have their headquarters in the capital, among them we find Citibank, Itau Bank, HSBC, BBVA, etc. While among the Paraguayan capital banks are the National Development Bank, Family Bank, Bank Amambay, Regional Bank, the Bank Vision, etc.26 At the same time, the Central Bank of Paraguay has its headquarters in this city. Its mission is to preserve and ensure the stability of currency value, promote efficiency and financial system stability and fulfill its role of bank of banks and financial agent of the state. This has several powers in monetary, financial, credit and international changes.

Municipal expenditures budgeted and executed in Asunción totaled $ 544 441 in 2008. Of this amount $ 408 364 were executed, the balance of $ 136 077 was transferred the next year presupuestario.28 surveys have been conducted in 144 cities on the planet to find out the cheapest for foreign staff. The survey revealed that Asuncion is the cheapest and support rigorously the title for the fifth consecutive year.

Main Economic Indicators These are the main economic indicators:

• Working-age population: 433 558 inhabitants. (83.5% of the total population)
• Economically Active Population (EAP): 257 353 inhabitants. (49.6% of the total population of working age)
• Economically Inactive (PEI): 176 205 inhabitants. (34% of the total population of working age)
• Working Population: 93% of the EAP
• Underemployed population: (25.7% of the employed population)
• Unemployment: 7% of the EAP
• Percentage EAP in the Primary sector: 1.7%
• EAP percentage in the Secondary sector: 16.8%
• Percentage EAP in the Tertiary sector: 81.3%

Major financial buildings in Asunción

Transportation[link]

Because the Paraguay River runs right next to Asunción the city is served by a river terminal in the downtown area. This port is strategically located inside a bay and it is where most freight enters and leaves the country. There is a lesser terminal in the Sajonia neighbourhood, and a shuttle port in Ita Enramada, almost opposite the Argentine city of Clorinda.

Asunción's new buses

Main access roads

Public transportation is used heavily and is served through buses that reach all the regions of the city and surrounding dormitory communities. The main long-distance bus terminal is on the Avenida República Argentina and its bus services connect all of the Departments of Paraguay, as well as international routes to nearby countries such as Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia and Uruguay.

Silvio Pettirossi International Airport

Silvio Pettirossi International Airport (IATA: ASU, ICAO: SGAS) is Paraguay's main national and international gateway, located at Luque, suburb of the capital Asunción.

Tourist attractions[link]

Traditional buildings in Calle Palma

The Lopez Presidential Palace

The city is home to the Godoi Museum and the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (which contains old paintings from the 19th century), the Church of La Encarnación and the Metropolitan Cathedral^{[disambiguation needed ]}, and the National Pantheon of the Heroes, a smaller version of Les Invalides in Paris, where many of the nation's heroes are entombed. Other landmarks include the Palacio de los López, the old Senate building (a modern building opened to house Congress in 2003), the Cathedral Metropolitana and the Casa de la Independencia (one of the few examples of colonial architecture remaining in the city).

Calle Palma is the main street downtown where several historical buildings, plazas, shops, restaurants and cafes are located. The "Manzana de la Rivera", located in front of the Presidential Palace, is a series of old traditional homes that have been restored and serve as a museum showcasing the architectural evolution of the city. The old railway station maintains the old trains that now are used in tourist trips to the cities of Luque and Areguá.

Asunción also has luxurious malls that contain shops selling well-known brands. The biggest shopping malls are Shopping del Sol; Mariscal López Shopping, Shopping Villa Morra in the central part of the city, and the Mall Excelsior downtown.

Sports[link]

Football is the main sport in Paraguay, and Asunción is home to some of the most important and traditional soccer teams like Olimpia, Cerro Porteño and Club Libertad, Club Nacional, Club Guaraní, Club Sol de América, which have their own stadiums and sport facilities for affiliated members. The Defensores del Chaco stadium is the main football stadium of the country and is located in the neighbourhood of Sajonia, just a few minutes away from the centre of Asunción. Since it is a national stadium sometimes it is used for other activities such as rock concerts. Asunción is algo the heart of Paraguayan rugby union.

The nightlife revolves around two areas: one in the downtown part of the city and the other in the neighbourhoods of Manora and Las Carmelitas, a night full of nightclubs and bars.

Metropolitan Cathedral.

Culture[link]

Asunción also hosts several symphony orchestras, and ballet, opera and theater companies. The most well known orchestras are the City of Asunción's Symphony Orchestra (OSCA), the National Symphony Orchestra and the Northern University Symphony Orchestra. Among professional ballet companies, most renowned are the Asunción Classic and Modern Municipal Ballet, the National Ballet and the Northern University Ballet. The main opera company is the Northern University Opera Company. A long-standing theater company is Arlequín Theater Foundation's. Traditional venues include the Municipal Theater, the Paraguayan-Japanese Center, the Central Bank's Great Lyric Theater, the Juan de Salazar Cultural Center, the Americas Theater, the Tom Jobim Theater, the Arlequín Theater and the Manzana de la Rivera.

The 7 treasures of cultural heritage material of Asunción[link]

The choice of the seven treasures of cultural heritage material has been developed Asunción during the months of April and May 2009. Promoted by the "Organización Capital Americana de la Cultura", with the collaboration of the paraguayan authorities participating in the election was carried out with the intention to disclose the material cultural heritage of Assumption a didactic, educational, entertaining and, in turn, motivate the visit of the sites proposed and elected and establish a new tourism route that allows visitors themselves Paraguayans and synthetically know the rich heritage of the American Capital of culture 2009.

A total of 45 candidates have chosen to become one of the treasures of cultural heritage material Assumption. The result of the vote, which involved 12,417 people, is as follows:

The 7 treasures of Asunción
Palacio de los López	Panteón Nacional de los Héroes	Cabildo
Catedral Metropolitana de Asunción	Hotel Guaraní	Teatro Municipal Ignacio A. Pane
Iglesia de la Santísima Trinidad

Media[link]

Newspapers[link]

The most read newspapers are: Diario ABC Color, Diario Popular, Diario La Nación, Diario Última Hora and Diario Crónica. But the most successful are: Diario Popular and Diario ABC Color.

National TV Channels[link]

The National TV Channels are: SNT Cerro Corá, Red Guaraní, Telefuturo, Paravisión, Canal 13^{[disambiguation needed ]}, La Tele(Paraguay) and TV Pública (Paraguay).

Twin towns — Sister cities[link]

Asunción is twinned with:

• Rosario, Argentina
• La Plata, Argentina,^[10]
• Buenos Aires, Argentina
• Formosa, Argentina
• Corrientes, Argentina
• Resistencia, Argentina
• Posadas, Argentina
• Santa Fe, Argentina
• Iquique, Chile
• Campinas, Brasil
• Curitiba, Brasil
• São Paulo, Brasil
• Caracas, Venezuela, 1982^[11]
• Trujillo, Peru
• Chimbote, Perú
• Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
• Chiba, Japan
• Madrid, Spain
• Liverpool, England
• Miami, Estados Unidos^{[disambiguation needed ]}
• Nashville, United States
• Taipei, Taiwan
• Bogotá, Colombia
• Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia
• Ciudad de México, Mexico
• Puebla de Zaragoza, Mexico, 2009

References[link]

External links[link]

South America portal

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Asunción

• 3dLatinamerica.com Many 3-dimensional high-quality images of Asunción and other cities in Latin America (also viewable in standard 2-D)
• Senatur Asunción Info (in Spanish)
• Map of downtown area and a downloadable map of the city (part 1)
• Municipality of Asunción

Jesse Eisenberg
Eisenberg at the 2007 release of The Living Wake
Born	Jesse Adam Eisenberg (1983-10-05) October 5, 1983 (age 28) Queens, New York, U.S.
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1996–present

Jesse Adam Eisenberg (born October 5, 1983) is an American actor. He made his screen debut with the comedy-drama television series Get Real from 1999 to 2000. After his first leading role in the film Roger Dodger (2002), he appeared in such films as The Squid and the Whale (2005) and The Education of Charlie Banks (2007).

In 2004, Eisenberg was honored with the Vail Film Festival Rising Star Award.^[1] In 2009, he starred in the comedy drama Adventureland and the horror comedy Zombieland, for which he won critical acclaim. He then played Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Network (2010), for which he received a Golden Globe and Academy Award nomination in the Best Actor category. He also starred in Holy Rollers (2010), which was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. Since then, he has voiced the main character in the animated film Rio (2011), and starred in the comedy 30 Minutes or Less (2011). He will once again voice Blu in Rio 2, which is scheduled for a 2014 release.

Early life[link]

Eisenberg was born in Queens, New York City. His mother, Amy (née Fishman), worked as a clown at children's parties, and his father, Barry Eisenberg, ran a hospital and later became a college professor.^[2][3] He has two siblings, Hallie Kate Eisenberg, a former child actress who was once famous as the "Pepsi girl" in a series of commercials, and Kerri.^[4] He was raised in a secular Jewish family^[5] that originated in Poland and Ukraine.^[6][7] Eisenberg grew up in Queens and East Brunswick Township, New Jersey, attending the East Brunswick Public Schools at Frost School, Hammarskjold Middle School, Churchill Junior High School, and spending his sophomore year at East Brunswick High School.^[8]

Eisenberg struggled to fit in at school and began acting in plays at the age of 10, stating "when playing a role, I would feel more comfortable, as you're given a prescribed way of behaving."^[9] Eisenberg studied contemporary architecture at The New School in New York City's Greenwich Village neighborhood. Originally, he had applied and was accepted to New York University, but declined enrollment in order to complete a film role.^[10][11]

Career[link]

Eisenberg's first professional role was in Arje Shaw's off-Broadway play, The Gathering. Eisenberg made his Broadway debut as an understudy in a 1996 revival of Summer and Smoke. He made his screen debut in the 1999 television series Get Real, which was canceled in 2000. In 2001, Eisenberg appeared in a Dr. Pepper commercial in the UK. After appearing in the made-for-television film Lightning: Fire from the Sky, he starred in the independent film Roger Dodger (for which he won an award at the San Diego film festival), and in The Emperor's Club, both of which were released in 2002 to generally positive reviews.

In 2005, Eisenberg appeared in Cursed, a horror film directed by Wes Craven, and The Squid and the Whale, a well-reviewed independent drama also starring Laura Linney and Jeff Daniels.^[10] In 2007, he starred opposite Richard Gere and Terrence Howard in The Hunting Party, a comic thriller in which he plays a young journalist in Bosnia. In 2009, Eisenberg played the lead role in Adventureland, a comedy directed by Greg Mottola and filmed in Kennywood Park near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Filming ended in October 2007,^[12] and the movie premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2009. In November 2007, Eisenberg was cast in the indie comic-drama Holy Rollers. He played a young Hasidic Jew who gets lured into becoming an ecstasy dealer. Filming took place in New York in 2008.^[13] During the late 2000s, he also had roles in the independent films Solitary Man, playing Cheston, and Camp Hope, a horror film directed by George Van Buskirk.^[14][15]

Eisenberg's breakthrough starring role was as the neurotic Columbus in Zombieland. The horror comedy, which paired him with Woody Harrelson on a roadtrip through a post-zombie apocalypse America, was a surprise hit. In 2010, he starred alongside Andrew Garfield in the role of Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg in the film The Social Network, for which he earned the Best Actor Award from the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures,^[16] and nominations for Best Actor at the Golden Globes and Academy Awards.

On November 22, 2010, Eisenberg was honored, along with Whoopi Goldberg, Joycelyn Engle and Harvey Krueger, at the Children at Heart Celebrity Dinner Gala and Fantasy Auction, to benefit The Children of Chernobyl. Steven Spielberg is Chair of the event each year.^[6] On January 29, 2011, Eisenberg hosted Saturday Night Live on NBC, with musical guest Nicki Minaj. During his opening monologue, Eisenberg was joined by Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg.

In 2011, he starred in the box-office animated hit Rio, as the main character Blu, a Spix's Macaw who learns how to fly, starring alongside Anne Hathaway, his former co-star (and onscreen sibling) from Get Real, George Lopez, Jake T. Austin, Tracy Morgan, Jemaine Clement, Leslie Mann, Rodrigo Santoro, will.i.am, and Jamie Foxx. He contributed his singing voice for one of the songs in the soundtrack, "Real in Rio". He also starred in 30 Minutes or Less, released August 2011.

In October 2011, Eisenberg made his playwriting debut Off-Broadway in Rattlestick Playwrights Theater's production of Asuncion, presented at Cherry Lane Theatre. Eisenberg also acted in the play that was directed by Kip Fagan. The play highlights two liberal-minded friends whose assumptions are challenged by their new Filipina roommate, played by Camille Mana.^[17][18]

In 2012, he will star alongside Melissa Leo in Predisposed, a drama about a drug addict mother and her piano prodigy son^[19] and in the romantic comedy Nero Fiddled. Also in 2012, he filed a $3 million dollar lawsuit claiming he was exploited by the producers of the direct-to-DVD movie, Camp Hell. According to the lawsuit, in 2007 Eisenberg agreed to appear in Camp Hell as a favor to his friends. He was on set for only one day of filming, and logged only a few minutes of total screen time. Because he was only minimally involved in the movie, he was surprised to see that his face was prominently featured on the cover of the DVD, implying that he starred in the film. His lawsuit asserts various California law causes of action, including claims for unfair business practices and publicity rights.^[20]

Eisenberg plans to write for stage and screen.^[21] He has joined the cast of Richard Ayoade's comedy, The Double, set to shoot in spring or summer 2012.^[22] Deadline.com reported that he has signed up to reprise his role as Blu for Rio 2, which is scheduled for a 2014 release.^[23]

Personal life[link]

Eisenberg is fond of cats and has been involved in fostering the animals.^[24] He has been associated with Farm Sanctuary and has presented at several of their galas.^[25] Eisenberg has mentioned that he has obsessive–compulsive disorder.^[26][27] He has also mentioned enjoying riding his bicycle in New York City.

Filmography[link]

Eisenberg at the Zombieland world premiere at Fantastic Fest on September 25, 2009

References[link]