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Johnny Carson Estate In Feature Deal For Biopic On Iconic Late-Night Host

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday November 13, 2012 @ 12:55pm PSTTags: Big Deals Film, Big Deals TV, Black Swan, Hitchcock, Johnny Carson
Mike Fleming

Johnny Carson Biopic MovieEXCLUSIVE: Heeeeeeere’s a feature film project that has potential. John McLaughlin and producer Tom Thayer have teamed up with the estate of Johnny Carson on a feature film about the life of the venerable Tonight Show host. The film will be scripted by McLaughlin, who wrote the Darren Aronofsky-directed Natalie Portman-starrer Black Swan and most recently adapted the Sacha Gervasi-directed Hitchcock from Steve Rebello’s book. Thayer produced that movie, which stars Anthony Hopkins and Helen Mirren, and he will produce the Carson project. They’ll shop McLaughlin’s script to buyers right after the holidays. READ MORE »

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Fox: ‘Black Swan’ Interns Didn’t Work For Us

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Monday October 3, 2011 @ 10:25pm PDTTags: Black Swan, Darren Aronofsky, Fox Filmed Entertainment

‘Black Swan’ Unpaid Interns File Lawsuit

Fox Filmed Entertainment today finally gave its side of that lawsuit filed by two interns against Fox Searchlight over their work on the hit indie Black Swan. The … Read More »

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‘Black Swan’ Unpaid Interns File Lawsuit

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday September 28, 2011 @ 6:52pm PDTTags: Black Swan, Fox Searchlight, Lawsuit

Two former interns who worked on Black Swan are suing Fox Searchlight and are looking to end what they say is the studio’s improper use of unpaid interns, according to The New York Times. The plaintiffs, Alex Footman and Eric … Read More »

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SAG Member Cops Plea On Screener Leak

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday September 14, 2011 @ 8:57pm PDTTags: Black Swan, copyright infringement, FBI, SAG, Screen Actors Guild

Actor Wes DeSoto has agreed to plead guilty to copyright infringement for leaking an awards screener of Black Swan and other films to file-sharer BitTorrent. DeSoto’s L.A. apartment was raided by FBI agents in April after a MPAA piracy officer tipped the … Read More »

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UPDATE: News Corp Execs Defend Fox Business, Question Hulu Sale Plans

By DAVID LIEBERMAN, Executive Editor | Wednesday August 10, 2011 @ 1:19pm PDTTags: Black Swan, Chase Carey, Fox Business Network, FX, Hulu, News Corp, News Corp Earnings, Rio, Rupert Murdoch, The Chronicles of Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader

UPDATE, 3:40 PM: Although the drama in today’s analyst call involved the News Of The World hacking scandal, News Corp execs made a few interesting points about the company’s less sensational business activities. COO Chase Carey says that the Hulu auction is “progressing largely according to plan.” But he left open the possibility that it won’t result in a sale, rhetorically asking “does it make sense to pursue that path or for us to stay in an ownership position?” He and Rupert Murdoch also said that they support the Fox Business Network, claiming it was just an oversight that they didn’t mention it when listing cable channels that are poised to grow. “The ratings are in fact improving,” Murdoch said, adding that “we need more distribution, it’s true.” Still he says Fox Business is breaking even on a cash flow basis. Carey also says that FX has the potential to become a bigger revenue generator. All told, Murdoch says that News Corp operations were “exceptional” in the last quarter providing the company with the “most robust balance sheet in our history.”

PREVIOUS, 1:19 PM: The media giant says that it did well in its fiscal fourth quarter — as long as you don’t count the $245M earnings hit from the MySpace sale. The company had net profits of $683M, down 22% from the period last year, on revenues of $8.96B, up 10.5%. Net earnings came in at 26 cents a share — but if you factor out MySpace they hit 35 cents. Analysts expected 30 cents. Read More »

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Paramount Near Deal To Provide Safe Harbor To Darren Aronofsky’s ‘Noah’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday June 27, 2011 @ 4:22pm PDTTags: Black Swan, Darren Aronofsky, John Logan, New Regency, Noah, Noah's Ark, Paramount Pictures
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Paramount is moving closer to signing on for Noah, the big-ticket re-telling of the Noah’s Ark story that will be the next film from Black Swan director Darren Aronofsky. Deadline told you early this month that CAA was … Read More »

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Darren Aronofsky Shops Noah’s Ark Epic

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday June 7, 2011 @ 9:46pm PDTTags: Black Swan, Darren Aronofsky, John Logan, Noah, Noah's Ark
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: I’m told that town is tantalized by a package circulating with Darren Aronofsky directing  Noah, an edgy re-telling of the Noah’s Ark story. Aronofsky wrote a script that is getting a rewrite by John Logan. I’ve heard he wants … Read More »

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$12M-Budgeted ‘Black Swan’ Passes $300M

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Sunday May 15, 2011 @ 6:22pm PDTTags: Black Swan, Blue Sky Studios, Fox Searchlight, Rio, Worldwide Box Office

Fox just told me that Black Swan just debuted in Japan and earned $6.1M including previews for the biggest Fox Searchlight film opening ever there. The $12M-budgeted film is now on the verge of crossing $200M internationally, but its worldwide cume has now … Read More »

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OSCARS: Nervous Anticipation To The End

By PETE HAMMOND | Sunday February 27, 2011 @ 4:11pm PSTTags: 83rd Academy Awards, Academy Awards, Black Swan, Brad Grey Paramount, Colin Firth, Darren Aronofsky, David Seidler, Gwyneth Paltrow, Hans Zimmer, Helen Mirren, Joel and Ethan Coen, Movies, Natalie Portman, Oscars, Pete Hammond Oscar Coverage, The King's Speech, The Weinstein Co
Pete Hammond

There’s no question this was Hollywood’s biggest week of the year. But now it’s all coming to a close tonight — and not a moment too soon for a lot of nominees at the end of a looooong campaign trail. “Thank God,”  said … Read More »

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‘Black Swan’ Wins Film Indie’s Spirit Award: Also Darren Aronofsky, James Franco, Natalie Portman, John Hawkes, Dale Dickey

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Saturday February 26, 2011 @ 2:38pm PSTTags: 2011 Film Independent Spirit Awards, 2011 Independent Spirit Awards Winners, 2011 Spirit Awards Santa Monica, Black Swan, Joel McHale, Please Give

SANTA MONICA UPDATED: The always loose Film Independent Spirit Award winners were presented this afternoon by the non-profit arts organization that produces the Los Angeles Film Festival. Comedian Joel McHale served as host of the 26th annual event and was … Read More »

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OSCAR MOGULS: Tom Rothman Q&A

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Sunday February 13, 2011 @ 9:46pm PSTTags: 127 Hours, 83rd Academy Awards, Avatar, Black Swan, Unstoppable

The Deadline Team of Nikki Finke, Pete Hammond, and Mike Fleming have spent recent days interviewing the studio moguls to gauge their perspective on this very close Oscar race:

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12 Nominations: 5 Black Swan, 6 127 Hours, 1 Unstoppable

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OSCAR: Hammond Polls Academy Voters

By PETE HAMMOND | Wednesday February 9, 2011 @ 8:36pm PSTTags: 83rd Academy Awards, Academy Awards, Academy Awards Voters, Annette Bening, Black Swan, David Fincher, Inception, Javier Bardem, Movies, Natalie Portman, Oscars, Pete Hammond Oscar Coverage, The Fighter, The King's Speech, The Social Network
Pete Hammond

With ballots out and not due back until 5 PM on February 22nd, I decided to talk to a sampling of Academy Of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences voters directly to see how they’re picking their winners. By doing this very unscientific survey … Read More »

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15th Annual Arts Directors Guild Awards: ‘King’s Speech’, ‘Inception’, ‘Black Swan’

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Saturday February 5, 2011 @ 10:43pm PSTTags: 15th Annual ADG Excellence Awards, ADG 15th Annual Awards, Art Directors Guild, Art Directors Guild Award, Black Swan, Inception, Mad Men, Modern Family, Movies, Patricia Norris, The King's Speech, TV



BEVERLY HILLS, February 5 —The Art Directors Guild (ADG) tonight announced winners of its 15th Annual Excellence in 2010 Production Design Awards in nine categories of film, television, commercials and music videos during black-tie ceremonies at the International Ballroom

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OSCAR: Now Every Campaign Enters Crucial Final Stretch

By PETE HAMMOND | Wednesday February 2, 2011 @ 6:50pm PSTTags: 83rd Academy Awards, Academy Awards, Academy Awards Ballots, Black Swan, Inception, Oscar Campaigning, Oscar Voting, Oscars, Pete Hammond Oscar Coverage, The Fighter, The Social Network, Toy Story 3, True Grit
Pete Hammond

The Oscar ballots went into the mail today and should be in every one of the 5,755 voting members’ hands by tomorrow, or at least by the weekend depending on how long it takes some of them to travel … Read More »

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‘The Rite’ #1, ‘The Mechanic’ #4; Best Picture Nominees Begin Oscar Bumps

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Saturday January 29, 2011 @ 10:44pm PSTTags: 127 Hours, 83rd Academy Awards, Black Swan, Blue Valentine, Box Office, Movies, No Strings Attached, Rabbit Hole, The Green Hornet 3D, The King's Speech, The Mechanic, The Rite, The Social Network, True Grit, Winter's Bone

SATURDAY PM/SUNDAY AM: The big news this weekend wasn’t just seeing whether domestic grosses were depressed on the post-blizzard East Coast (they weren’t), but also which movies received Oscar bumps given that the Academy Award nominations were announced this past Tuesday (all … Read More »

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OSCAR: Category Nominations Per Picture

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday January 25, 2011 @ 6:52am PSTTags: 127 Hours, 83rd Academy Awards, 83rd Academy Awards Nominations, Academy Awards, Black Swan, Inception, Movies, Oscars, The Fighter, The King's Speech, The Social Network, True Grit, Winter's Bone

83rd Annual Academy Award Nominations

NOMINATIONS BY PICTURE
(In alphabetical order; does not include

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OSCAR: Today’s Nominations By Picture

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Tuesday January 25, 2011 @ 6:10am PSTTags: 127 Hours, 83rd Academy Awards, 83rd Academy Awards Nominations, Academy Awards, Alice in Wonderland, Biutiful, Black Swan, Harry Potter Deathly Hallows Part 1, How to Train Your Dragon, Inception, Movies, Oscars, The Fighter, The Kids Are All Right, The King's Speech, The Social Network, Toy Story 3, True Grit, Winter's Bone

83RD AWARDS
Feature Films With 2 Or More Nominations
(No Short Films or Documentary Short Subjects.)

The King’s Speech – The Weinstein Company 12
True Grit – Paramount 10
Inception - Warner Bros 8
The Social Network - Sony Pictures Releasing 8
The Fighter – Paramount 7
127 Hours

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83rd Annual Academy Award Nominations: ‘King’s Speech’ Leads With 12; ‘True Grit’ 10, ‘Social Network’ And ‘Inception’ 8 (But Nolan Blanked Again For Best Director)

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Tuesday January 25, 2011 @ 5:35am PSTTags: 127 Hours, 83rd Academy Awards, 83rd Academy Awards Nominations, Academy Awards, Black Swan, Inception, Mo'Nique, Oscars, The Fighter, The Kids Are All Right, The King's Speech, The Social Network, Tom Sherak, Toy Story 3, True Grit, Winter's Bone

BEVERLY HILLS: Beverly Hills, CA (January 25, 2011) – Nominations for the 83rd Academy Awards were announced today (Tuesday, January 25) by Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences President Tom Sherak and 2009 Oscar® winner Mo’Nique. Sherak and Mo’Nique, who won an Academy Award® for her supporting performance in “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire,” announced the nominees in 10 of the 24 Award categories at a 5:38 a.m. PT live news conference attended by more than 400 international media representatives.

Academy members from each of the branches vote to determine the nominees in their respective categories – actors nominate actors, film editors nominate film editors, etc. In the Animated Feature Film and Foreign Language Film categories, nominations are selected by vote of multi-branch screening committees. All voting members are eligible to select the Best Picture nominees. Nominations ballots were mailed to the 5,755 voting members in late December and were returned directly to PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), the international accounting firm, for tabulation. Official screenings of all motion pictures with one or more nominations will begin for members this weekend at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater. Screenings also will be held at the Academy’s Linwood Dunn Theater in Hollywood and in London, New York and the San Francisco Bay Area. All active and life members of the Academy are eligible to select the winners in all categories, although in five of them – Animated Short Film, Live Action Short Film, Documentary Feature, Documentary Short Subject and Foreign Language Film – members can vote only if they have seen all of the nominated films in those categories.

Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements of 2010 will be presented on Sunday, February 27, 2011, at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center®, and televised live by the ABC Television Network beginning at 5 p.m. PT/8 p.m. ET. The Oscar presentation also will be televised live in more than 200 countries worldwide.

Here are today’s nominations:

BEST PICTURE
127 HOURS (Fox Searchlight)
An Hours Production Christian Colson, Danny Boyle and John Smithson, Producers
BLACK SWAN (Fox Searchlight)
A Protozoa and Phoenix Pictures Production Mike Medavoy, Brian Oliver and Scott Franklin, Producers
INCEPTION (Warner Bros)
A Warner Bros. UK Services Production Emma Thomas and Christopher Nolan, Producers
THE FIGHTER (Paramount)
A Relativity Media Production David Hoberman, Todd Lieberman and Mark Wahlberg, Producers
THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT (Focus Features)
An Antidote Films, Mandalay Vision and Gilbert Films Production Gary Gilbert, Jeffrey Levy-Hinte and Celine Rattray, Producers
THE KING’S SPEECH (The Weinstein Co)
A See-Saw Films and Bedlam Production Iain Canning, Emile Sherman and Gareth Unwin, Producers
THE SOCIAL NETWORK (Sony Pictures)
A Columbia Pictures Production Scott Rudin, Dana Brunetti, Michael De Luca and Ceán Chaffin, Producers
TOY STORY 3 (Walt Disney)
A Pixar Production Darla K. Anderson, Producer
TRUE GRIT (Paramount)
A Paramount Pictures Production Scott Rudin, Ethan Coen and Joel Coen, Producers
WINTER’S BONE (Roadside Attractions)
A Winter’s Bone Production Anne Rosellini and Alix Madigan-Yorkin, Producers

BEST ACTOR
JEFF BRIDGES – TRUE GRIT (Paramount)
JAVIER BARDEM – BIUTIFUL (Roadside Attractions)
JESSE EISENBERG – THE SOCIAL NETWORK (Sony Pictures)
COLIN FIRTH – THE KING’S SPEECH (The Weinstein Company)
JAMES FRANCO – 127 HOURS (Fox Searchlight)

BEST ACTRESS
ANNETTE BENING – THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT (Focus Features)
NICOLE KIDMAN – RABBIT HOLE (Lionsgate)
JENNIFER LAWRENCE – WINTER’S BONE (Roadside Attractions)
NATALIE PORTMAN – BLACK SWAN (Fox Searchlight)
MICHELLE WILLIAMS – BLUE VALENTINE (The Weinstein Co)

BEST ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
CHRISTIAN BALE – THE FIGHTER (Paramount)
JOHN HAWKES – WINTER’S BONE (Roadside Attractions)
JEREMY RENNER – THE TOWN (Warner Bros)
MARK RUFFALO – THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT (Focus Features)
GEOFFREY RUSH – THE KING’S SPEECH (The Weinstein Company)

BEST ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
AMY ADAMS – THE FIGHTER (Paramount)
HELENA BONHAM CARTER – THE KING’S SPEECH (The Weinstein Company)
MELISSA LEO – THE FIGHTER (Paramount)
HAILEE STEINFELD – TRUE GRIT (Paramount)
JACKI WEAVER – ANIMAL KINGDOM (Sony Pictures Classics)

BEST ANIMATED PICTURE
HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON (DreamWorks Animation)
TOY STORY 3 (Walt Disney)
THE ILLUSIONIST (Sony Pictures Classics)

BEST DIRECTOR
DARREN ARONOFSKY – BLACK SWAN (Fox Searchlight)
DAVID FINCHER – THE SOCIAL NETWORK (Sony Pictures)
TOM HOOPER – THE KING’S SPEECH (The Weinstein Co.)
JOEL AND ETHAN COEN – TRUE GRIT (Paramount)
DAVID O. RUSSELL – THE FIGHTER (Paramount)

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
ANOTHER YEAR, Mike Leigh (Sony Pictures Classics)
THE FIGHTER, Scott Silver and Paul Tamasy & Eric Johnson, Story by Keith Dorrington & Paul Tamasy & Eric Johnson (Paramount)
INCEPTION, Christopher Nolan (Warner Bros)
THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT, Lisa Cholodenko & Stuart Blumberg (Focus Features)
THE KING’S SPEECH, David Seidler (The Weinstein Co)

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
127 HOURS, Danny Boyle & Simon Beaufoy (Fox Searchlight)
TOY STORY 3, Michael Arndt, Story by John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton, and Lee Unkrich (Walt Disney)
THE SOCIAL NETWORK, Aaron Sorkin (Sony Pictures)
WINTER’S BONE, Debra Granik & Anne Rosellini (Roadside Attractions)
TRUE GRIT, Joel Coen & Ethan Coen (Paramount)

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Algeria, Hors la Loi (Outside the Law) (Cohen Media Group) – A Tassili Films Production
Canada, Incendies (Sony Pictures Classics) – A Micro-Scope Production
Denmark, In a Better World (Sony Pictures Classics) – A Zentropa Production
Greece, Dogtooth (Kino International) – A Boo Production
Mexico, Biutiful (Roadside Attractions) - A Menage Atroz, Mod Producciones and Ikiru Films Production

BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN CINEMATOGRAPHY
Black Swan (Fox Searchlight) – Matthew Libatique
Inception (Warner Bros.) – Wally Pfister
The King’s Speech (The Weinstein Company) – Danny Cohen
The Social Network (Sony Pictures Releasing) – Jeff Cronenweth
True Grit (Paramount) – Roger Deakins

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Exit Through The Gift Shop (Producers Distribution Agency) A Paranoid Pictures Production Banksy and Jaimie D’Cruz
Gasland – A Gasland Production Josh Fox and Trish Adlesic
Inside Job (Sony Pictures Classics) – A Representational Pictures Production Charles Ferguson and Audrey Marrs
Restrepo (National Geographic Entertainment) – An Outpost Films Production Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger
Waste Land (Arthouse Films) – An Almega Projects Production Lucy Walker and Angus Aynsley

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‘No Strings Attached’ Reverses Recent Row Of Rom-Com Flop Openers: Possible $20.3M

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Sunday January 23, 2011 @ 8:05am PSTTags: Ashton Kutcher, Black Swan, Box Office, Ivan Reitman, Little Fockers, Movies, Natalie Portman, No Strings Attached, Paramount, The Dilemma, The Fighter, The Green Hornet 3D, The King's Speech, True Grit

SATURDAY PM/SUNDAY AM: Rentrak is having system issues so box office will be a bit late today. But Paramount was so worried about its No Strings Attached being a stinker that the studio didn’t even bother to give me a pre-release briefing. I don’t necessarily blame them: any movie starring Ashton Kutcher is probably a bomb since his last one — PG-13 Killers with Katherine Heigl — opened to only $15.8M for Lionsgate. And rom-coms, especially sexy R-rated ones (Ed Zwick’s Love And Other Drugs which opened to only $9.7M for Fox with Anne Hathaway and Jake Gyllenhaal) have been stillborn at the North American box office with this caliber of star. But No Strings Attached surprised at the box office, not only coming in No. 1 but with a decent $20.3M. Exit polls showed 70% of the audience was female, meaning it should be the least affected by football on Sunday. As for CinemaScore,  40% of those aged under 25 gave the film an “A-” while 60% over 25 scored it a “B”. 

This $25 million-cost movie started out as a Black List script titled Fuckbuddies and written by Elizabeth Merriwether. Natalie Portman came on board as a producer and star for Ivan Reitman and Tom Pollock’s The Montecito Picture Company, which co-financed in partnership with Coldspring and Paramount’s usual partner Spyglass Entertainment.

Natalie is hot after her Oscar-worthy transformative performance in Black Swan and now finds herself with 2 movies in this weekend’s Top 6. And perhaps risking overexposure because of her new pics opening in January, February, April, and May. Anyway, the pic took advantage of being the only wide opening this weekend and may hang on for $20M. (Remember, it took Ron Howard’s Dilemma starring Vince Vaughn and Kevin James 4 days to even make that over the MLK long holiday.) The film had been tracking strong with 20-year-old females whom Paramount pursued aggresively not with traditional newspaper ads but instead with a big Facebook push of a sexy Red Band trailer. Meanwhile, Sony’s The Green Hornet 3D and Universal’s aforementioned Dilemma look to drop more than -35% each this weekend. Here’s the Top 10:

1. No Strings Attached (Paramount) NEW [3,018 Theaters]
Friday $7.3M, Saturday $8.2M, Weekend $20.3M

2. The Green Hornet 3D (Sony) Week 2 [3,584 Theaters]
Friday $5.1M, Saturday $8.7M, Weekend $18.1M (-31%), Cume $63.4M

3. The Dilemma (Universal) Week 2 [2,943 Theaters]
Friday $3M, Saturday $4.5M, Weekend $9.9M (-33%), Cume $33.5M

4. The King’s Speech (Weinstein Co) Week 9 [1,680 Theaters]
Friday $2.1M, Saturday $3.9M, Weekend $9.1M, Cume $58.6M
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