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Film News: Action movie master to receive Golden Lion — The Venice Film Festival will honor John Woo with its Golden Lion for lifetime achievement, recognizing the helmer as “an innovator of the contemporary language of cinema.”

Film News: Director Bigelow among pic’s prizes — “The Hurt Locker” added three more prizes to its war chest Saturday when the Houston Film Critics Society saluted helmer Kathryn Bigelow’s intense drama.

Film News: Oz funder hands out coin to 22 pics — A 3D shark pic from “Highlander” helmer Russell Mulcahy tops the list of 22 projects in Screen Australia’s final funding round of the year.

Film News: Stuntmen find a place in new digital landscape — With the release of James Cameron’s “Avatar” Friday, the helmer introduces new motion-capture technology that would seem to make the job of stuntmen obsolete, but in fact, the opposite has resulted.