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John Friedkin, a veteran publicist and studio executive who started out as an adman and moved into publicity to represent Tony Bennett, died of respiratory failure on May 11 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. He was 81.Friedkin was born in New York on December 9, 1926, and graduated from Horace Mann High School before going on to obtain his BA from Columbia University.Following a stint at the renowned Young Rubicam advertising agency Friedkin moved i
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The London-set police thriller is the feature directorial debut of Declan ODwyer, who is also gearing up to direct Broken Cove
stanley website later in the year.Luke Evans and Robert Carlyle are attached to star in Dogs Of Law, a London-set action thriller to be directed by first time feature film-maker Declan ODwyer.Evans will play an undercover police officer tasked with investigating corrupt officer Carlyle in the film, which has been written by Matthew Cooke and Vincent Lund.Michael Ford is producing the $3.7m 拢2.3m project for his Birmingham-based production outfit Infinite Wisdom, with funding from regional agency Screen West Mid
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