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Jodie Foster is carving out a nice, new career as a TV director. Though she hit a bump with her last feature directorial, the Mel Gibson drama, The Beaver , she rebounded today with an Emmy nomination for her comedy series helming work on the third episode of Jenji Kohan's Orange Is the New Black entitled "Lesbian Request Denied".

All right, everyone. Pack it up. Time to go home. The Oscar race is over. Or at least that's the way the new trailer for Angelina Jolie's second directorial effort , "Unbroken," makes it seem.

The first official trailer for the Oscar winner's upcoming drama "Wild" was released Thursday.

If you asked mystery fans to name the most important novel of the past decade, most would say, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo - and they'd be right.

The film, which is based on Laura Hillenbrand's best-selling book Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption , chronicles the life of Louis Zamperini, an Olympic runner who enlisted in the US Army Air Forces during WWII.

Coverage of the death of Louis Zamperini at age 97 on July 2 dramatically boosted sales of Unbroken, Laura Hillenbrand's non-fiction book about the Olympian and World War II hero.

Potterheads or fans of Harry Potter and other characters written by J.K. Rowling can heave a sigh of relief because the Web site is up and running again after briefly crashing due to the author's new Harry Potter update about Dumbledore's Army on Tuesday, July 8, 2014.

Zombies have never been more popular in our culture, and Alexandre Philippe is here to find out why, chatting with the likes of George A. Romero, Simon Pegg, World War Z author Max Brooks and Walking Dead makeup artist Greg Nicotero about the mass appeal of the living dead.

No book on economics in recent times has received such a glowing initial reception as Thomas Piketty's "Capital in the Twenty-First Century."

Costco faced protests after deciding to take the book " America : Imagine a World Without Her" by Dinesh D'Souza out of its stores.

Unbroken , Laura Hillenbrand's testament to the spirit of Louis Zamperini, jumped to the #2 slot after Zamperini's recent death, returning to Apple's iBooks Bestseller list for the week ending July 7. John Green's The Fault in Our Stars continues for another week at #1.

Daniel Radcliffe is not expecting to reprise his role as Harry Potter, despite the publication of JK Rowling's follow-up story about the wizard's later life.

Amazon.com Inc has proposed that Hachette authors keep 100 percent of revenue from digital book sales while both sides work to resolve a contractual dispute that has kept some Hachette books off its website for months, the Wall Street Journal cited people familiar with the matter as saying.

Researchers from the Hasselt University in Belgium have discovered that the smell of chocolate entices bookstore patrons to linger in the store for a little longer and buy certain kinds of books.

The latest Gone Girl trailer reminded us how obsessed we are with author Gillian Flynn, so we're also psyched on this week's news that one of her other books, Sharp Objects , is being developed into a TV series .

On July 8, J.K. Rowling released a short, short story about grown-up Harry Potter and the Sequel She Swore She'd Never Write , and over in the magical land of central Florida, the Harry Potter theme park's Diagon Alley expansion is entertaining six-hour lines on opening day.

Is Ben Affleck's Nick Dunne a murderer? That's the question on everyone's mind in the newest trailer for David Fincher's highly anticipated "Gone Girl."

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Almost 4 million has been donated to campaigners on both sides of the referendum debate, with those fighting for Scotland to stay in the UK receiving over 1.2 million more than their pro-independence rivals, election watchdogs have revealed.

J.K. Rowling has given fans a glimpse of the grown-up boy wizard in a new story posted Tuesday on her Pottermore website.