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The Film Society of Lincoln Center just announced that their closing film will be the world premiere of “Flight” starring Denzel Washington. Bob Zemeckis directed an all star cast in this Paramount Pictures film that twists the Sully Sullenberger story into fiction. Denzel plays a pilot who safely lands a plane full of passengers during a crash. But then it turns out there are secrets and lies about the whole thing. John Goodman, Don Cheadle, Melissa Leo, Bruce Greenwood and Kelly Reilly co-star. “Flight,” written by John Gatins, will play the NYFF on October 14th. The film opens officially on November 2nd.

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Roger Friedman began his Showbiz411 column in April 2009 after 10 years with Fox News. Friedman previously wrote the Intelligencer column at New York Magazine, He writes for Parade magazine and has written for Details, Vogue, the New York Times, Post, and Daily News and many other publications. He is the writer and co-producer of a film about R&B Music called “Only the Strong Survive,” which was released by Miramax in 2003 and was a selection of the Cannes, Sundance, and Telluride Film festivals.