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Tom Hanks' Sully film to open Telluride festival

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Image caption Hanks, left, dyed his hair blond in order to play Chesley 'Sully' Sullenberger

Clint Eastwood's new film about the US pilot who famously crash-landed a plane in New York's Hudson River is to open this year's Telluride Film Festival.

Sully, in which Tom Hanks plays Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger, will premiere later on Friday at the Colorado event.
All 155 people on board the US Airways flight survived the emergency landing after the plane after hit a flock of geese on 15 January 2009.
The Telluride Film Festival runs from 2 to 5 September.