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Filmmaker Richard Ledes and co-producer Lila Yomtoob are part of the team behind Rot & Decay Films and a new short, Haiti and Horror Movies. Woody Allen’s new film, “You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger,” has been acquired by Sony Pictures Classics for North American distribution. They also apparently built a submarine last year. Just in time for the arrival of Tim Burton’s new, somewhat sequel-ized mo-capped 3D version of Alice in Wonderland comes video of the first ever film adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s book from 1903, courtesy of the British Film Institute Archive. Movie NewsFor an entire generation of Americans, the concept of extraterrestrial life is embodied not by little green men or giant blue avatars but by something far more sinister and terrifying: a relentless, unending slow shuffle of bleeping and blooping pixels. Strange and odd and kind of hilarious in its own right. The 1981 fantasy classic that launched Harry Hamlin’s career and starred Laurence Olivier as Zeus now gets the Blu-ray treatment, complete with photo booklet and special preview for the 2010 version.