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Theatre Income Gain<br />

Predicted for 1965<br />

NEW YORK—An amusement industry<br />

•securities survey released tliis week by<br />

Standard & Poor's predicts a continuing<br />

gain in boxoffice receipts wlricli should result<br />

in income of about $1,375 billion in<br />

1965, compared with $1,325 billion in 1964.<br />

survey pointed out that the trend<br />

|stai'ted in 1964 and resulted in a 4 per cent<br />

increase in boxoffice receipts for that year.<br />

lit credited higher admission prices as a<br />

major factor in last year's gain and added<br />

that "attendance was apparently boosted<br />

;by an improvement in the quality of feature<br />

films.<br />

"A continuation of these trends," S&P<br />

jasserted, "along with the addition of new<br />

theatres and the renovation of old ones, is<br />

expected to result in a further advance in<br />

.boxoffice receipts in 1965."<br />

The report also said that the dwindling<br />

Isupply of feature films for television was<br />

|increasing the value of motion picture<br />

'backlogs of major companies, adding that<br />

I'with the CBS-TV network showing feaiture<br />

films for the first time in the 1965-66<br />

season, the supply of films not yet released<br />

ito TV will continue to dwindle.<br />

"As a result of the scarcity<br />

I<br />

of these fea-<br />

'tui'es, producers' backlogs of such films are<br />

becoming increasingly valuable. Metro-<br />

,3oldwyn-Mayer and Paramount Pictures<br />

;are best situated to take advantage of this<br />

[situation."<br />

lAlbert BoUengier Named<br />

Treasurer of Seven Arts<br />

YORK—Albert E. Bollengier has<br />

iiesigned as financial vice-president and<br />

treasurer of United<br />

Artists Theatre Circuit<br />

and Magna Pictures<br />

Corp. to become<br />

treasurer of Seven<br />

Arts Associated, the<br />

U.S. distribution subsidiary<br />

of Seven Arts<br />

Productions, according<br />

to Eliot Hyman,<br />

president.<br />

Samuel H. Haims,<br />

who has been Seven<br />

'Albert E. Bollengier Arts treasurer, will<br />

move up to become<br />

^'inancial vice-president of Seven Arts<br />

['Associated. Bollengier had been with UA<br />

ifheatres and Magna since 1956, after serving<br />

as treasurer of United Artists Corp.<br />

he distribution company, from 1951 to<br />

11956. Earlier, he had been with Universal<br />

Pictures, Eagle Lion Films and the Price<br />

Waterhouse accounting fii-m.<br />

iLoth Named Columbia<br />

lEastem Story Editor<br />

— Jean Loth, who has<br />

|)een functioning as an assistant to Wil-<br />

,iam Bloom, Columbia Pictures' executive<br />

;tory editor at the studio, has been named<br />

!<br />

eastern story editor.<br />

Loth began his new duties at the Coumbia<br />

home office in New York Monday<br />

Haines, a member of the studio<br />

S'tory department, has been named to replace<br />

Loth.<br />

Landau, Unger, Goldman<br />

Consolidate Their Firms<br />

NEW YORK — Ely Landau, Oliver A.<br />

Unger and Harold Goldman will consolidate<br />

their individual operations into a<br />

snigle corporate entity, thus re-establishing<br />

a ten-year relationship between the<br />

three during which time they founded and<br />

built National Telefilm Associates. The<br />

new company will function primarily as a<br />

worldwide creative motion picture and<br />

broadcast production and marketing organization<br />

with headquarters in the Time<br />

and Life Building and in Los Angeles and<br />

London.<br />

The new company will have 23 pictures<br />

in distribution for the 1965-66 season. Existing<br />

distribution arrangements of the<br />

Landau Co. and Unger Productions will remain<br />

unchanged, with Landau's deal with<br />

Allied Artists continuing. Pour pictures are<br />

in active AA distribution, "The Pawnbroker,"<br />

"The Fool Killer," "The Servant"<br />

and "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg," and<br />

five more, "The Secret Agents," "The Girl<br />

Getters," "The Teenager," "King and<br />

Country" and "Life Upside Down," will be<br />

put into release before the end of 1965.<br />

The six pictures produced by Unger,<br />

"The Face of Dr. Fu Manchu," "Ten Little<br />

Indians," "24 Hours to Kill," "Mozambique,"<br />

"Coast of Skeletons" and "Sandy,"<br />

will all be distributed in the U.S., as scheduled,<br />

by Seven Arts Associated.<br />

Fourteen color action pictures owned by<br />

Harold Goldman Associates, never before<br />

released to television, will be distributed by<br />

the new company's television department,<br />

headed by Goldman.<br />

PRODUCTION MOVING AHEAD<br />

Future productions originally scheduled<br />

by Landau and Unger individually will go<br />

forward without delay, but will be controlled<br />

by the new merged operation, including<br />

Landau's version of Carson Mc-<br />

Culler's "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter"<br />

and Pat Frank's "Forbidden Area," as well<br />

as Unger's "Battle Royal" and "Cervantes,"<br />

all four scheduled to start production before<br />

the end of 1965.<br />

Paul N. Lazarus, who joined the Landau<br />

Co. last year as a partner and executive officer<br />

will continue in the same capacities in<br />

the consolidated operation and will continue<br />

to have responsibility for supervising<br />

the distribution and merchandising activities<br />

of the new company and Bernard G.<br />

Kranze, vice-president in charge of distribution,<br />

will continue to head this<br />

activity. Erwin Lesser, vice-president and<br />

domestic sales manager of Landau Releasing,<br />

will likewise continue in that capacity.<br />

Heni-y T. Weinstein. the MGM producer,<br />

who was named production executive<br />

and head of a creative department, is<br />

also part of the new company.<br />

Landau. Unger and Goldman originally<br />

joined forces in the pioneer days of television<br />

and their NTA operation became a<br />

major distributing organization for TV<br />

films and developed and produced "The<br />

Play of the Week." After the sale of NTA<br />

to National General Corp.. Landau entered<br />

the film industry and produced "Long<br />

Day's Journey Into Night." which was distributed<br />

by Embassy Pictures, followed by<br />

"The Pawnbroker" and "The Fool Killer."<br />

He also purchased and operates the Little<br />

Carnegie and Cinema Rendezvous theatres<br />

on 57th Street, New York.<br />

Unger, who left NTA in 1963, worked on<br />

the development of a pay TV system, which<br />

was eventually sold to Subscription TV. before<br />

turning to producing the six feature<br />

films. Goldman, after leaving NTA in<br />

1960, formed Television Entertainment<br />

Corp. and joined with Heni-y Saperstein in<br />

forming Screen Entertainment Co., a major<br />

distributor of films for television.<br />

The new company will include television<br />

production as well as continuing to release<br />

theatrical features.<br />

Six Cinerama Theatres<br />

To Be Built in Mexico<br />

LOS ANGELES—Following months of<br />

international negotiations, a multimillion<br />

dollar contract has been concluded granting<br />

exclusive rights for the presentation of<br />

Cinerama in the Republic of Mexico, which<br />

now becomes the 28th country and the 8th<br />

Latin American nation in Cinerama's<br />

global spectrum, according to William R.<br />

Porman, president of Cinerama, Inc., who<br />

disclosed that the Mexican principals to<br />

whom the rights were granted are Carlos<br />

Amador, Jose Jamui and Jose Zavala<br />

Olmos, active in films, TV and diversified<br />

interests below the Rio Grande.<br />

Forman said the first theatre of 1,500<br />

seats, new from the ground up, with all the<br />

latest technical facilities, goes into immediate<br />

construction in Mexico City, located<br />

next to the Plaza de Toros. The second<br />

theatre in Mexico City will go into<br />

construction almost simultaneously on one<br />

of several sites under consideration, according<br />

to Forman.<br />

Thereafter, he said. Cinerama theatres<br />

will go up in Guadalajara, Monterrey. Leon,<br />

and Vera Cruz, making a total of six Mexican<br />

houses, in which the investment, said<br />

the Mexican principals, will be approximately<br />

$5,500,000.<br />

It is anticipated, Forman further announced,<br />

that the first Mexico City theatre<br />

will be in operation by next Easter for a<br />

gala international premiere. When all<br />

Mexican houses are operating. Cinerama<br />

will have 79 theatres using its process<br />

around the world.<br />

Film Director Fined $650<br />

In Bomb-Hoax Charges<br />

DENVER — Conrad Russell Rooks, 29-<br />

year-old movie director, was fined $650<br />

in U.S. District Comt here Fi-iday i6i<br />

and placed on a .year's probation after<br />

pleading no contest to bomb-hoax charges.<br />

He first pleaded not guilty, then changed<br />

the plea on June 11.<br />

He. John Barrymore jr. and a woman<br />

companion were taken off a Western Airlines<br />

flight here November 27. after Rooks<br />

told a stewardess that a wooden box he<br />

was carrying contained a bomb. An FBI<br />

investigation showed the box held Indian<br />

artifacts.<br />

30XOFFICE :: August 16. 1965

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