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NEW YORK, Aug. 23, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Direct Entertainment Media Group, Inc. ("DEMG"), a subsidiary of The Reader's Digest Association ("RDA"), today announced that it has reached a settlement of all legal proceedings with the Federal Trade Commission ("FTC") on the FTC's allegations regarding the marketing campaign for the Ab Circle Pro (ACP) system, a fitness product. The FTC alleged that testing done for the ACP did not substantiate certain claims made in infomercials that...
MANHASSET, N.Y., March 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Tuesday's Children, the leading non-profit working with children and families affected by the events of September 11, 2001, is pleased to welcome Stephen Daldry to its Board of Directors. Mr.Daldry is a three-time Academy Award nominated and Tony Award winning director. His films include Billy Elliot (2000), The Hours (2002), The Reader (2008) and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2011). During the filming of the Oscar-nominated...
NEW YORK, Oct. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Vook, the leading digital publisher that lights up the world's content with its mixed-media reading experience, today announced a digital serial rights program that provides authors and publishers with new opportunities for their books, e-books, audio books, and iPad and iPhone applications to reach new audiences and create new revenue streams. Vook premieres this groundbreaking program with "Bernhard Schlink on The Weekend," a new title from Schlink, the...
British actress Kate Winslet is to play the title role in an HBO miniseries based on James M. Cain's classic novel, Mildred Pierce, Variety reported. The late Joan Crawford previously portrayed the character, a single mother struggling to provide for her children during the 1930s Great Depression, in a celebrated 1945 big-screen version of the book. Winslet, who starred in Sense and Sensibility, Titanic and Little Children, won an Oscar this year for her work in the 2008 drama, The Reader....
Sean Penn and Kate Winslet won the Oscars for lead actor and actress at the 81st annual Academy Awards ceremony in Los Angeles Sunday night.Penn picked up his second career Oscar for his portrayal of the late gay-rights activist Harvey Milk in the movie Milk, and Winslet won her first Academy Award for her performance as a former concentration camp guard in The Reader. Penn, who previously won an Oscar for his work in Mystic River, beat out favorite Mickey Rourke for the best lead actor gong...
U.S. actress Anne Hathaway says she is confident British actress Kate Winslet has the best actress Academy Award in the bag. Hathaway, who is nominated in the best actress category for Rachel Getting Married, said Winslet has the edge for her performance in The Reader, USA Today reported Saturday. My category is sewn up, Hathaway said, referring to Sunday's Academy Awards ceremony. It's going to be (Kate) Winslet all the way. The other best actress nominees are Angelina Jolie for Changeling,...
British actress Kate Winslet says playing an illiterate concentration camp guard in The Reader was a difficult task at times. The 33-year-old actress, who gained fame in Titanic and Sense and Sensibility, said capturing the guilt and shame felt by her character in relation to her Nazi ties and illiteracy was a difficult task, Deutsche Welle reported Saturday. I tried to make her a human being as well as showing her vulnerability and shame, Winslet said after a Berlin International Film...
Hollywood's Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said Tuesday it has granted producer credits to Anthony Minghella and Sydney Pollack for The Reader. Both men started work on the best picture Oscar nominee, but died before it was completed. They will share credit for producing the film, along with Donna Gigliotti and Redmond Morris, the pair that finished it. Because four producers were listed on the credits form submitted for Oscar consideration and Academy rules allow for only...
Thirty-four percent of the participants in an online poll said Hollywood icon Clint Eastwood was the worst-snubbed when Oscar nominations were announced. Eastwood directed Changeling, and helmed and starred in Gran Torino last year, but neither film earned the veteran filmmaker an acting or directing Oscar nomination Thursday. The movies were also left off the shortlist for best picture. Asked to name Oscar's biggest snub, 34 percent of the 2,994 people who took part in the...
British actress Kate Winslet says she is working on a BAFTA speech so she will appear calm and composed if she snags an award at the upcoming event. After her surprise double win at the recent Golden Globes ceremony left her clearly emotional, Winslet said she wants to be prepared if she wins an Orange British Academy Film Award or BAFTA, which is known as the British Oscar, next month. As with the Globes, Winslet has been nominated for her work in both Revolutionary Road and The Reader....
