For those who follow the film business casually, the parade of major festivals this time of year — with its banging drums of big premieres and loud echo of pundit reactions — can seem endless. The march does, in fact, come to a conclusion. And that end will, well, begin, when the weeklong AFI Fest opens Thursday night in Hollywood. A product of Los Angeles' American Film Institute, AFI Fest is the last of a group of gatherings that starts at Southern France's Cannes Film Festival in May and intensifies with confabs in Venice, Telluride, Toronto and New York after the summer has passed. Together, they set the stage for which movies will be a hit or an Oscar power in the film...
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