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Sony Pictures co-chairman Amy Pascal is gung-ho on "Zero Dark Thirty." At the film's Hollywood premiere Monday night, the studio chief, who acquired the film from financeer-producer Megan Ellison's Annapurna Pictures, was proud of the film's tough CIA agent heroine, played by SAG nominee Jessica Chastain, who could score big during awards season. The studio is giving the movie a big awards push in advance of its limited holiday and wide January release. Pascal is pursuing another movie with a strong heroine about the most powerful woman in history: Cleopatra, to star Angelina Jolie. Read Stacey Schiff's biography: the Egyptian queen takes on the Roman Empire, commandeers ships and armies and loves and inspires both Julius Caesar and Marc Antony. Pascal's waiting for the script to come back from Oscar-winner Eric Roth ("Forest Gump"). While James Cameron had to stick to "Avatar" sequels, Pascal says at least three A-listers are in. »
- Anne Thompson
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