Academy picks film museum site
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Film executives are moving forward with a long-planned movie museum they hope will lure more visitors into the heart of America’s film industry.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which is building the museum, has selected a site for the $200-million film archive about a half mile south of the intersection of Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street, said Bruce Davis, the academy’s director.
Groundbreaking is set for 2008, although the academy’s museum committee hasn’t considered an architect yet.
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Opening night: “The Da Vinci Code” will be the opening-night movie at the Cannes Film Festival on May 17.
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