I FT. Folded Machine Roll Tickets Coupon Books TICKETS Weldon, Williams P.O. BOX 168 & Lick SMITH. ARK. 72902 (501) 7834113 Response No 1 79 BOX OFFICE MANAGERS! FILM BUYERS! CONCESSION MANAGERS! By Tongenr Use Your IBM PC/CLONE ro Record and Analyze Dora for Monogemenr Informorion and Complere Reporring TANGENT ASSOCIATES, INC. P.O. Box 49-2054 100 <strong>Boxoffice</strong> ForT Louderdole, FL 00349-2054 (305) 792-0429 Response No. 181 Toronto Following the lead of archrival Famous Players Canada, Cineplex Odeon increased its Toronto theatre admission prices from $6 to $6.50 in mid-December, Famous Players set Canada's barrier-breaking admission price the month before, a move that reportedly caught Cineplex by surprise. Cineplex Odeon also launched a slew of Toronto-area screens in December. The Sherway Cinemas multiplex features nine wide screens with Lucasfilm THX sound in three auditoriums and Dolby stereo in all. The Oakville Mews, to the west of the city, opened with five screens, all with Dolby stereo. The opening that got the most publicity, though, was that of Cineplex's Pantages, an event that set rival exhibitors Famous Players and Cineplex at each other's throats. A restored 1920s vaudeville house, the Pantages shares the old Imperial Building with six Famous Players screens. Cineplex's half of the Imperial includes the front door, which Cineplex closed, effectively shutting down the Famous Players screens. Famous Players retaliated by reporting Cineplex's fire-code violations to Toronto's fire marshall. As a result, the Pantages's scheduled Dec. 11 opening had to be postponed until the following day Cineplex has announced plans to test-market in-theatre boutiques featuring movie memorabilia and souvenirs. Each boutique will occupy about 400 square feet. Famous Players Canada announced that it plans to expand by 25 percent in the next three years It is still Canada's largest exhibition chain, with about 5,000 more seats than Cineplex overall, but with fewer locations. INTERNATIONAL NEWS PARIS, FRANCE - The 200-screen Parisbased Pathe Cinema circuit instituted its new discount admissions card policy Dec. 16, a move that allows movie patrons to buy bargain admissions in bulk with magneticallycoded discount cards. The card, which can be "charged" with ten admissions at the cost of 280 francs, offers a substantial discount over individually bought tickets, ten of which would normally run a French filmgoer .350 francs. Pathe has earmarked over S500,000 to promote the benefits of the new card policy. HAVANA, CUBA - Cheech Mann's debut directorial effort, "Born in East LA," won three awards at the Ninth Festival of New Latin America Cinema in Havana Dec 17, The lilm was honored for Marin's screenplay and art direction by Linda Burbank and Ray Fox, "Born" also took the prestigious Glauber Rocha award, named for the distinguished Brazillian filmmaker. ON THE MOVE The Cannon Croup, owner of the Commonwealth Theatres chain, has reached an agreement with a European company whereby Cannon will sell its American and European theatre properties and lease the operations back The Commonwealth chain will continue as an operating entity, but not without a restructuring of management. Former United Theatre Owners of Oklahoma treasurer lohn Ruth, who moved from Oklahoma City to Denver in 1985, will move now to Kansas City as vice president in charge of theatre operations. Gary Quick has moved from Oklahoma City to his hometown of Wichita, and will be district manager over Oklahoma, some Kansas towns, one town in Nebraska, and one in Texas. )im Buckelew moves up to the position of city manager for Oklahoma City, and will also act as manager of the North Park Four Theatre. W Robert Rich, founder and executive vice president of the Screenvision Cinema Network - which sells big-screen commercials in movie theatres to blue chip sponsors like Coca-Cola, Kodak, Ford, Pepsi and General Electric - resigned Nov. 13, vowing to announce plans for his future in January. Rich launched Screenvision in 1976. lohn F. Allen has been elected chairman of the New England section of the Audio Engineering Society for the 1987-88 fiscal year. Allen is the president of High Performance Stereo in Newton, Mass. and is active in the motion picture sound industry as the developer and distributor of HPS-4000 sound systems. He also serves as the principal writer on the subject of sound for <strong>Boxoffice</strong>. Patricia Brugman joins Theatron Data Systems as a designer of computerized theatre ticketing and management systems. As director of marketing, she will be responsible for implementing product strategy, customer inquiries, and trade show logistics Al Boos, former vice president of AMC's Midwest operations, has moved on from his heartland responsibilities to become vice president of Concession and Food Services within AMC's home office. Stepping up to fill Boos's former position is Dick Walsh, previously AMC's Midwest assistant DOM. Bernie Finkelstein, head of True North Records, is the new acting head of the Ontario Film Development Corp. He's filling in for Wayne Clarkson, who's on a ten-month leave of absence. Finkelstein has been an OFDC board member since the agency was founded two years ago. Todd Heller fills Loews Theatres' newlycreated position of .Associate Director of Real Estate Heller, a graduate of Boston University, comes to Loews from the real estate division of the Westminster Bank USA, where he evaluated real estate loan transactions The new chairman ot the Toronto Festival of Festivals is Allan Gregg Gregg heads the Decima research and polling firm He replaces lohn Slan, president of Paragon Motion Pictures, who is now in Los ,Angeles. The director of the festival is Helga Stevenson
— divorced, liberated, intellectual, urbane chain-smoking careerist, her lifestyle is as breezy and unfocu.scd as Ruth's is rigorous The most striking character in the film, though, is Diana's super-trendy adole.st.eni daughter A privileged product of successful parents in the big city. Plimpton's (irace is thi bright, (olorful walking Swatt.h commercial who cheerful!-, decides to turn Ruth's oppressive primeval wilderness imvironment on its ear A blond, leggy wisp of budding womanhood, she singlehandedly introduces her unsophisticated fun-starved cousins to all the major vices of decadent Man hatlan — from cocaine and casual sex to Elvis (;ostello — and the resulting e.scapades an; never less than inspir»:d Konchalovsky maintains an exceedingly sharp eye for detail but is careful to kei:p our attention fot.u.sed on ih' main themes Ultimately. Ruth and Diana both emerge from their adventures tog
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