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NEW YORK, Jan. 31, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The Academy Award®-nominated documentary feature 5 BROKEN CAMERAS, co-directed by Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi, returns to theaters in select cities by popular demand. The film is also available on DVD, Netflix, iTunes, Hulu, Amazon and VOD outlets making it the most widely available of all the films nominated in the Documentary Feature category of the 85th Academy Awards®. To view the multimedia assets associated with this release, please...

CULVER CITY, Calif., Jan. 30, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- As Hollywood gets ready for its big night with The Academy Awards® on Sunday, February 24, Sony Movie Channel (SMC) is providing die-hard movie buffs with a month-long Oscar® celebration. Starting February 1 through the 28th, SMC is airing films daily that either won an Oscar® or were nominated. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120322/LA74713LOGO) True film aficionados will enjoy using SMC's easy-to-follow...

CHARLESTON, S.C., Dec. 27, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Renaissance Weekend, the non-partisan retreat founded in 1981 to build bridges among innovative leaders from diverse fields, tomorrow brings 1,200 participants to Charleston, South Carolina, for 500 lectures, seminars, discussions, and performances concluding with their traditional singing of "Auld Lang Syne" and "God Bless America" at the stroke of the New Year. The tradition was founded and is hosted by the former US Ambassador to the...

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 19, 2012 /PRNewswire/ - Director Jean-Pierre Jeunet engaged the talents of Dawn Ford, one of Canada's preeminent actresses and voice over artists, for his upcoming 3D adventure "The Young and Prodigious Spivet." Based on Reif Larsen's novel "The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet", the film follows the story of a 12-year old mapmaker who secretly leaves his family in Montana to board a freight train and head for Washington, D.C., where he is to receive an award at...

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 13, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Renowned British actor Terence Stamp and Oscar-winning singer/songwriter Paul Williams will join groundbreaking sound designer/editor Walter Murch with Bruce Davison ("X-Men," ABC's "Last Resort"), as the top award recipients at the 17th Satellite Awards(TM) to be held on Sunday, Dec. 16, in Century City, Calif. All four honorees will attend the International Press Academy's annual gala. "We're celebrating every aspect...

NASA's Aqua satellite provided two different infrared views of the two tropical storms swirling in the Atlantic Ocean. Oscar is battling wind shear that appears destined to tear it apart, while Nadine is merging with a cold front. NASA's Aqua satellite passed over both Tropical Storm Nadine and Tropical Depression 15 (TD15) on Oct. 3 at 1553 UTC (11:53 a.m. EDT), before TD15 became Tropical Storm Oscar. While overhead, the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument aboard Aqua captured...

Academy Award® Winner Hanks to be the On-Camera Narrator, Providing Historical Context and Perspective to this Fresh Telling of Iconic Moment in American History Film to Premiere Globally on National Geographic Channel in Early 2013 WASHINGTON, Sept.13, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- National Geographic Channel President Howard T. Owens announced today that actor, producer, writer and director Tom Hanks is joining the two-hour television event Killing Lincoln from executive...

NEW YORK, June 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Consumer brands that leverage consumer purchase behavior matched with television tuning to plan and purchase television media are likely to generate significantly higher return on investment, according to a presentation given today by Oscar Mayer and TRA Inc., a leading media marketing and analytics software company. The results of the joint study with Oscar Mayer were presented as part of the Advertising Research Foundation "Audience...

After tallying hundreds of thousands of patient reviews, Dr. Oscar Alea of Fort Myers, FL has been identified as one of our nation's Most Compassionate Doctors. FORT MYERS, Fla., May 29, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --Patients' Choice has announced that Dr. Oscar Alea has been named a Compassionate Doctor honoree for 2011. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120529/DC14923) In 2011, nearly 100 million patients across the United States used websites including Vitals.com,...

MADISON, Wis., May 2, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Oscar Mayer brand is rolling out one of the largest advertising campaigns in the brand's history to support the launch of Oscar Mayer Selects, the first nationally available complete line of meats that have no artificial preservatives. The humorous and contemporary campaign, "It's Yes Food," marks a new direction for the Oscar Mayer brand as it aims to reach new consumers. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120502/CG99253)...