Boxoffice-June.1989

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such as the accessibility of film documents to
researchers, scholars, and the public; ethical
and legal questions, such as colorization;
methods of moving image preservation; and
the financing of preservation and maintenance
efforts.
MIDWEST NEWS
Dubuque, lA
"Field of Dreams" premiered April 20 in
Dubuque, where much of the film starring
Kevin Costner, Amy Madigan. lames Earl
Jones and Burt Lancaster was produced. Dubuque
was the site of more than eight weeks
of location filming, which employed 2,500
local citizens as extras "Field of Dreams"
contributed more than $5 million to the
Dubuque economy
Northfield, MN
In the town where lesse lames went to his
eternal reward, Oscar-winning "Rain Man"
co-screenwnter Barry Morrow may finally get
his college diploma. Morrow attended St.
Olaf College here in the late 1%0s He transferred
to the University of Hawaii for his junior
year, then returned to Northfield Not all
of his credits transferred, and Morrow
wound up one unit shy of graduation Now,
St. Olaf has changed its tune and offered
Morrow a chance at his old sheepskin. All
Morrow has to do for his last credit is submit
the "Rain Man" script to the school's speechtheatre
department. If it receives a passing
grade, maybe then he can finally get a decent
job..
Farmington Hills, Ml
United Artists Theartre Circuit will construct
a nine-screen movie theatre in the new
West River Centre shopping development in
Farmington Hills. Each auditorium will feature
Dolby Stereo sound. Completion of the
theatre is expected around Christmastime,
and will bring the number of screens operated
near Detroit by UATC to 35. West River
Centre is located on the site of what was
formerly the Grand River Drive-ln Theatre
Akron
NATO of Ohio will host its annual membership
meeting and outing August 2-4 at the
Quaker Square Hilton Inn. The hotel was
developed from the original Quaker Oats
factory. Guest rooms occupy 36 giant silos in
an L-shaped cluster
124 feet high.
Toledo
National Amusements expects work to
start about April 1 on the conversion of its
Franklin Park Drive-ln Theatre on Monroe St
into a 245,000-square-foot retail center The
site covers about 22 acres The project is a
|oint venture with Bronson & Hutensky of
Hartford, CT and McMahon Venture Partnerships
in Toledo National began construction
last fall on the site of the former Miracle Mile
Drive-ln, on the first of three such retail developments
they plan in the area.
Cincinnati
Buoyed by Cincinnati's selection as a location
for four features in the last 18 months, a
Greater Cincinnati Film Commission began
operation in March, seeking to lure more
movie production to the city "Cincinnati's
got a little bit of everything," said "Ram Man"
producer Mark lohnson "Hills, river, modern
skyline, old European charm." Other recent
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productions were "Eight Men Out, "Fresh
Horses," and the forthcoming 'Hard Ram."
Initial funding for the organization has come
from a number of local businesses, as well as
the Greater Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce
and the Greater Cincinnati Convention
and Visitors Bureau Commission Director Lori
Holladay said that the four films have given
the city new visibility, not to mention an estimated
$10 million in production-generated
revenues.
Columbus
The third annual "It Came from the Drexel
North" science-fiction film marathon recently
hosted 24 hours of classics and clunkers.
Advance admission was $12 for adults and
$7.50 for 14-and-unders, $15 and $10 at the
door Patrons brought food, pillows and blankets,
coming and going as they liked for the
program, which included "Battle in Outer
Space,"
"The Terminator," the two versions
of "The Blob," "Flight to Mars," "Kronos,"
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"The Time Machine, "Killer Klowns from
Outer Space," "Them'" "Thunderbirds Are
Co," '"The Brain from Planet Arous," "Infra-
Man" and "2001: A Space Odyssey"....
Ted Turner's spruced-up "Gone With the
Wind" comes to Columbus as the three-day
opening attraction in the Ohio Theatre's summer
movie series, lune 23-25 Executive director
Doug Kridler of the Columbus Association
for the Performing Arts, which owns the
theatre, said that a new screen and improved
sound system, including three amplifiers, will
be installed ...
The long-dark Southern Theatre, one of
the oldest
surviving Victorian auditoriums in
the nation, may be restored in time for
Columbus' 1992 celebration of its namesake's
discovery of America 500 years ago. The
1,200-seat venue, completed in 1896, was a
film house at the time of its closure in 1979.
The Columbus .Association for the Performing
Arts has recommended the $4.5 million restoration
project be included in the 1992 Commission's
fundraising plans
Cleveland
The 13th Cleveland International Film Festival
screened 40 films from more than 15
countries at the Cedar Lee Theatre .April 6-16.
Twenty additional films unspooled on the
campus of Case Western Reserve University.
Attractions included a Family Film Festival, and
50th anniversary tributes to the National Film
Board of Canada and the 1939 classics "Gone
With the Wind," "The Wizard of Oz," and
"Wuthering Heights." The premiere of Paramount's
"Major League" opened the test,
with the real-life
Cleveland Indians participating
in
the celebration
Indianapolis
The Indiana Supreme Court has upheld the
death-penalty conviction of lames R. Games,
who killed Indianapolis theatre owner Thomas
Heaston Ferree on July 14, 1983. Ferree
owned Heaston Production Services, which
operated the Emerson, Esquire, Greenbriar,
South Keystone and Woodland Theatres.
Games' case was remanded to the trial court
for an execution date..
Harry Burkart III, who operates the 600-
seat Irving Theatre on the East Side, has
announced a series of 12 film classics from
1939, highlighted by the a newly restored
print of ""Gone With the Wind" penciled in
from March 29 to April 11. The remainder of
the series,
booked through MGM UA Classics,
includes "Goodbye, Mr Chips,
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"Idiot's
Delight," the Humphrey Bogart double bill of
"Invisible Stripes" and "You Can't Get Away
With Murder," "Juarez," "The Private Lives
of Elizabeth and Essex," "Each Dawn I Die,"
"Dodge City," "The Women," "Dark Victory,"
""The Oklahoma Kid," and "The Wizard
of Oz"
SOUTHERN NEWS
Braselton, GA
Actress Kim Basinger has bought this town
for $20 million from a family that has owned
most of it for more than half a century For
her money Basinger got about 1,800 acres,
the town's water and sewer system, an industrial
park bordering Interstate 85, a bank, a
shopping center with 70,000 square feet of
retail and storage space, several small businesses,
and about 50 homes and other buildings
Arlington, VA
AMC consecrated their theatre complex at
the new Courthouse Plaza with a series of
grand opening festivities. On March 10 a benefit
was held for Arlingtonians Ministering to
Emergency Needs (AMEN), featuring screenings
of the courtroom classics "Inherit the
Wind," "Twelve Angry Men," and "To Kill a
Mockingbird." Later in the week there were
charity screenings of
"Witness for the Prosecution,"
"Anatomy of a Murder," "...And Justice
for All,"
"Legal Eagles,
""The
Verdict" and "Nuts" Finally, on March 16,
members of the Bush-Quayle administration
attended a reception preceding the premiere
of Universal's "Fletch Lives
Taking its name from the historic Arlington
County Courthouse nearby, the tri-level,
1,800-seat Courthouse Plaza 8 will feature
THX and Ultra-Stereo sound systems, special