He is also to make his Hollywood debut in a new film adaptation of The Great Gatsby, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, due to be released late this year.

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If you thought slavery was over, a new film about the human trafficking of Latino and Mexican immigrants will make you think twice.

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An interview published last year in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists detailed how at age 88, he was working on a new approach to photovoltaic thin-film production that he said would allow factories to make enough solar panels in a year to produce at least one gigawatt of electricity annually roughly the scale of a nuclear power plant at the price of coal.

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Back in 1975 Elstree Film Studios was struggling and got to make the original Star Wars movie because Lucas was a new boy, on a tight budget.

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The film festival is now being run by new artistic director, Chris Fujiwara, who will make a shortlist for the awards but will not pick the winners.

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