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The article reports that the next film of Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal will be fully financed by Annapurna Pictures, the Los Angeles, California-based firm headed by Megan Ellison, daughter of Oracle Corp. software billionaire Larry Ellison. The firm has given a go-signal for the project to start production, with Bigelow as director and Boal as writer. The project is based on the true story of a U.S. military black operation mission.

The article reports on the increase confidence of the independent films sales sector as the global film business descends for the American Film Market (AFM) in Santa Monica, California in 2010. It highlights the two new large-scale projects which creates a sound in the industry which include "Walking With Dinosaurs 3D," from BBC Worldwide Ltd. and Reliance Big Entertainment Pvt. Ltd. and "Hunger Games" from Lionsgate. It notes the pre-selling of Protagonist Pictures of "Streetdance 3D 2" at AFM.