Gandolfini selling `Sopranos' wardrobe for charity and Sinclair's Mark Hyman and Sean Lucas Win 2008 Telly Award

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City of Industry, CA --(www.USEquityNews.com)-- 05/28/2008 - Media entertainment industry alert provided by U.S. Equity News. James Gandolfini, who starred on the hit HBO (NYSE: TWX) series, is selling off 24 outfits, including the button-down blue shirt he wore in the opening credits and the bathrobe he donned to fetch the morning newspaper. Proceeds from the June 25 pop culture auction at Christie's will go to the Wounded Warrior Project, a nonprofit group that assists severely wounded soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. Estimates for the costumes start at $500. Gandolfini's wardrobe, which includes many outfits with the original production tags attached, is expected to bring up to $36,500.


Cameron Mathison has a new partner: Sherri Shepherd. The soap star and former "Dancing With the Stars" contestant will host the 35th annual Daytime Emmy Awards with "The View" gabber and actress-comedian live from the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles on June 20. Neither Mathison nor Shepherd has ever hosted the Daytime Emmys, nor has either won one. Mathison plays playboy Ryan Lavery on ABC's (NYSE: DIS) "All My Children" and hosts SOAPnet's competitive reality series "I Wanna Be a Soap Star." He was nominated for outstanding supporting actor in 2002 and 2004.

Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: SBGI) announced that News Commentator Mark Hyman and Senior News Editor Sean Lucas, won a Silver Telly Award for a video in the Social Issues category for 2008. The pair won the highest award for "Wheels for Warriors Tribute." The video was a tribute to Private First Class Donald Axtell, III, U.S. Army and Corporal John Lake, III, U.S. Marine Corps, a pair of wheelchair-bound veterans severely wounded in Iraq. PFC Axtell lost both his legs when a rocket-propelled grenade exploded near him in August 2007.

EPIC Corporation (OTC: EPIO) (the "Company"), a multi-media communications and broadcasting company, announced that two shareholders have returned 15 Million shares of EPIC's common stock to the Company and the shares have been cancelled and returned to authorized but unissued shares. The issued and outstanding shares of the Company is now 11,262,023 shares. The Company, in exchange for the cancellation of the shares, agreed to issue the shareholders shares in the newly formed EPIC Communications Corp., a majority owned subsidiary of the Company, which is to become the multi-media communications and broadcasting operating company.

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