MEXICO CITY -- The Venezuelan government believes it has found an answer to what President Hugo Chavez calls the "dictatorship of Hollywood.'' Though U.S. movies dominate the market, state-run film studio Cinema City is ramping up production in a bid to offer an alternative to Yankee fare. Known in Spanish as La Villa del Cine, Cinema City produced feature-length films at a frenzied pace last year and is showing no signs of slowing down as it develops this year's slate of productions. The upstart studio complex, launched in 2006, produced and financed 14 full-length pictures last year, as well...
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