Kate Winslet Oscar Bait Doubles Overnight as Weinsteins Bump Up ‘The Reader’

By STV on August 29, 2008 at 4:10 AM

The last news we’d heard about Kate Winslet’s post-WWII drama The Reader was less than reassuring: While the film ultimately got its first choice of leading lady after a pregnant Nicole Kidman backed out, the successive passings of co-producers Anthony Minghella and Sydney Pollack left Scott Rudin on his own with the broke-arse Weinsteins to manoeuvre the Oscar push everyone had in mind. Then, as recently as last month, Defamer operatives whispered that The Reader wouldn’t make it to 2008 at all, instead landing somewhere of TWC’s choosing in 2009 — if it could afford to release it at all.

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    August 29, 2008 at 4:40 AM

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    August 30, 2008 at 3:07 PM

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