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Disney faces latest investor proposal to nominate directors Thursday, Mar 13, 2014 05:15 PM PDT | Top |
Love story, chronicle of Hurricane Katrina win U.S. book prizes Thursday, Mar 13, 2014 05:09 PM PDT A love story that examines modern attitudes about race, a chronicle of the days after Hurricane Katrina and a biography of Anglo-Irish satirist Jonathan Swift won National Book Critics Circle awards on Thursday. The prize for fiction went to "Americanah," the third novel by Nigerian-born author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie about childhood sweethearts who move to different countries. American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Sheri Fink's "Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital", was awarded the prize for nonfiction, and Leo Damrosch's "Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World" won for biography. Italian scholar Franco Moretti's "Distant Reading" claimed the criticism award and Frank Bidart's "Metaphysical Dog" took the poetry prize. Full Story | Top |
Hal Douglas, voice of Hollywood movie trailers, dies at 89 Thursday, Mar 13, 2014 04:28 PM PDT Hal Douglas, a veteran voice-over artist who worked on trailers for films such as "Philadelphia," "Forrest Gump" and "Lethal Weapon," died at the age of 89 last week, his daughter said on Thursday. He passed away on March 7 at his home in Lovettsville, Virginia, surrounded by family after suffering from pancreatic cancer, which was diagnosed in 2010. "Hal was known not only for his incomparable voice, which could be heard on thousands of movie trailers, television and radio promos, commercials, documentaries, and as the spokesman for numerous broadcast networks, but also for his warmth, humility, humor, and generosity of spirit," Sarah Douglas said on a memorial website for her father. With his throaty voice, Douglas was one of the top talents in voice-overs for decades. Full Story | Top |
Comcast deal may offer media companies leverage on fees Thursday, Mar 13, 2014 03:54 PM PDT | Top |
House of Cards, credibility gap blunt China annual TV expose Thursday, Mar 13, 2014 03:22 PM PDT By Adam Jourdan SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Waning popularity and a wounded reputation are likely to dull the edge of China's consumer day TV expose when it airs on Saturday, offering some relief for companies that have in the past taken pains to avoid any fallout from the once-a-year show. The "3.15" show, similar to CBS network's "60 Minutes" in the United States, has often triggered a damage control campaign by the local and global firms it targets and that have included Apple Inc and carmaker Volkswagen AG.[ID:nL3N0C61VD] Consumer rights are sensitive issues in China which has been beset by a series of product safety scandals over the past few years. These scandals are often fanned by the media, and have the potential to go viral and stick around: KFC-parent Yum Brands Inc has struggled to quell anger over Chinese media reports in late 2012 about excessive antibiotic use by a few KFC suppliers in China. But the show, like other programs by state-run China Central Television, is struggling to click with younger viewers hooked to online programming and imports such as British detective show "Sherlock" and U.S. political drama "House of Cards". Full Story | Top |
Showtime's 'Billions' pits hedge fund titans against U.S. attorney Thursday, Mar 13, 2014 03:21 PM PDT Will "Billions" be to Wall Street what "House of Cards" is to Washington? Premium cable network Showtime said on Thursday it ordered a pilot of a fictional drama that "focuses on the collision and, at times, collusion between an aggressive U.S. attorney in New York and some of the richest hedge fund billionaires in the country." The script is by New York Times columnist and CNBC anchor Andrew Ross Sorkin, and Brian Koppelman and David Levien, writing partners on films such as "Ocean's Thirteen" and "Rounders." Sorkin wrote the 2009 book "Too Big to Fail: How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Finance System - and Themselves." Showtime said "Billions" was its first pilot pickup of the year, but did not give details of its plans for what it called "a new complex, contemporary drama." The CBS Corp-owned channel has made waves in television drama with hits such as "Homeland" and "Dexter," but faces competition from Time Warner Inc's HBO and more recently, Netflix Inc, the online streaming company behind the acclaimed political thriller "House of Cards." Netflix does not release viewership figures for "House of Cards," but many in Washington's political circles have been mesmerized by the skullduggery of the fictitious Vice President Frank Underwood, played by Kevin Spacey. Full Story | Top |
'12 Years a Slave' Oscar winner spotlights rock legend Jimi Hendrix Thursday, Mar 13, 2014 01:43 PM PDT | Top |
Facebook rolls out video ads, aims to capture part of TV-marketing budgets Thursday, Mar 13, 2014 12:48 PM PDT | Top |
Boom in on-demand video added into UK inflation benchmark Thursday, Mar 13, 2014 04:36 AM PDT By Andy Bruce LONDON (Reuters) - With millions of people watching the latest movie blockbusters and television box sets online, Britain's statistics office has added video streaming services to the list of things it monitors for inflation. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said on Thursday it will add services like Netflix and Amazon Instant Video to the consumer price index (CPI), as part of a new category combining DVD rental and on-demand subscriptions. Updates to the CPI basket every year are one gauge of changing tastes among British consumers. Reflecting changing viewing habits, the ONS said the new category would replace DVD rental internet subscriptions. Full Story | Top |
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