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| | Sony Pictures Classics: directors bets |
 | | While Sony Pictures Classics had several moderate successes throughout the year, it saved its potentially best for last. |
 | | During the first half of the year, SPC cultivated the German-language "Good bye, Lenin!" the South Korean "Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... |
 | | "Bad Education," starring Gael Garcia Bernal, bowed in November to $147,370 on three screens, beating Almodovar's previous opening, 2002's "Talk to Her." SPC is pursuing a slow rollout of "Daggers," the latest entry from martial arts master Zhang ("Hero"). |
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