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Jon Stewart's "Daily Show" has become an incubator for the talent like John Oliver (who now has his own HBO show) and of course, Stephen Colbert. But Stewart isn't limiting his own ambitions to fake news. Stewart's film "Rosewater," based on the true story of a reporter who was kidnapped and detained in Iran, was picked up by Open Road Films for domestic distribution.
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