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Producer-director<br />
. . Larry<br />
. . Burt<br />
starting in August; "Kyle," "Man and His<br />
World" and "Journey of the Oceanauts," by<br />
Louis Wolfe. The fifth project, untitled, is<br />
planned as a melodrama with Frank Capra<br />
jr. as part of the production company .<br />
Wizan Productions checked into CBS<br />
Studio Center offices to activate -Prime<br />
Cut," starring Lee Marvin and being produced<br />
by Joe Wizan for Cinema Center<br />
Films. This first screenplay by Robert Dillon<br />
is the contemporary melodrama of Kansas<br />
City racketeers and gangland activity in<br />
the Midwest. Production is to start in July.<br />
Wizan follows this with "Stand in the<br />
Rain." Dennis Murphy screenplay from<br />
Jean Dillon's novel . . . Jackie Cooper<br />
checked into his offices at Columbia to<br />
begin preparations on the M. J. Frankovich<br />
production "Stand Up and Be Counted."<br />
which he will direct.<br />
Winkler and Chartoff Plan<br />
Fall Start for 'Sandbox'<br />
Producers Irwin Winkler and Robert<br />
Chartoff announced a late fall starting date<br />
for the film version of Ann Richardson<br />
Roiphe's "Up the Sandbox," which they are<br />
preparing for Barbra Streisand. Also on<br />
their agenda for the year are "Love<br />
Sounds," an original by Gail Sheehy. and<br />
Kurt Vonnegut jr.'s "Mother Night," plus<br />
Joseph Wambaugh's "The New Centurions,"<br />
now in pre-production work at Columbia<br />
Budd Dell, producer-director of Ramco<br />
Productions' "The Agony on the Face of a<br />
Carousel Horse," plans a June production<br />
start. The original, by Federico Villain, is a<br />
witchcraft yarn about a girl involved in a<br />
pact with the devil who wants her as his<br />
Robert Blees will write the<br />
screempla) for American International's<br />
"Camillc," based on the Alexandre Dumas<br />
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Christine Belford Assigned<br />
'Pocket'<br />
Femme Lead in<br />
Christine Belford was signed for the leading<br />
feminine role in "Pocket Money." Paul<br />
Newman-Lee Marvin starrer which kicks oft<br />
the production schedule of First Artists Production<br />
Co.. it was announced by producer<br />
John C. Foreman. Miss Belford. a contract<br />
actress at Universal, will have her largest<br />
feature assignment in the National General<br />
release. Filming is on location in Arizona,<br />
with Stuart Rosenberg directing Producer<br />
Josef Shaftel has begun<br />
. . .<br />
negotiations<br />
for David Niven to star with Peter Sellers in<br />
"Which Way Did They Go?" comedy western<br />
to be filmed in Spain .<br />
Lynda Fumia<br />
. .<br />
will appear in a featured role in producer<br />
Mike Callie's Rainmakers production of<br />
"Where Have All the Little Girls Gone?" to<br />
be directed by Fernando Lamas in Palm<br />
Springs starting in September "Stick<br />
. . .<br />
'Em Up Up Up." western comedy produced<br />
by Jacob Jacovi, stars Roxanne<br />
Brewer and Trent Dolan . . . Elke Sommer<br />
and Joseph Cotten are being starred by producer<br />
Al Leone in "Baron Blood," based on<br />
an original screenplay by Vincent Fotre and<br />
set to shoot in Munich and Rome late next<br />
month .<br />
Mahan, world champion<br />
rodeo cowboy, makes his dramatic acting<br />
debut for producers Arthur Gardner and<br />
rules V. Lew in L-G-V's "The Honkers."<br />
playing himself in the feature which is set<br />
against the background of a small-town<br />
rodeo in the Southwest. The UA release<br />
stars lames Coburn and will be directed by<br />
Steve Ihnat ... New York stage star<br />
Pamela Saunders was contracted by the<br />
Filmakers Group and Sourdough, Ltd., to<br />
re-create her Broadway role in the film<br />
of<br />
jr.'s "Happy<br />
Kurt Vonnegut version<br />
Birthday Wanda June," for Columbia. She<br />
meeting murder and revenge Awardwinning<br />
actors Paul Sand and Ron Leibman<br />
. . .<br />
will co-star with Robert Redford, George<br />
Segal and Zero Mostel in the Hal Landers-<br />
Bobby Roberts production. "Hot Rock,"<br />
which 2Gth-Fox started this month in New<br />
York, with Peter Yates directing . . .<br />
Elizabeth<br />
Allen, who starred for two seasons on<br />
television, is resuming her motion picture<br />
career with a co-starring role in Howard W.<br />
Koch's screen version of the Neil Simon<br />
Broadwav comedy, "Star Spangled Girl at<br />
Paramount. The film, now shooting under<br />
Jerry Paris' direction, casts Miss Allen as a<br />
love-hungry apartment house manager<br />
whose shenanigans with male tenants provide<br />
high comedy. Sandy Duncan, Tony<br />
Roberts' and Todd Susman co-star ... Pat<br />
Gill and Jennifer Castle, two Las Vegas<br />
show girls currently featured in the Dunes<br />
Hotel revue, were signed by producers Albert<br />
R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman for<br />
roles in the new James Bond film, "Diamonds<br />
Are Forever." being filmed in the<br />
desert mecca. and starring Sean Connery,<br />
Jill St. John, Lana Wood and Bruce Cabot,<br />
with Guy Hamilton directing.<br />
Gary Grimes to Cowboy Role<br />
In "We Pointed 'Em North'<br />
Gary Grimes was signed to a starring role<br />
in 20th-Fox's "We Pointed 'Em North, n<br />
was announced by Klmo Williams, vice-<br />
president charge of worldwide productions.<br />
Grimes will appear as a 16-year-ok<br />
on a cattle drive oxer the Chisholm Trail<br />
who grows to manhood during the trek<br />
June u<br />
Production is set to start late in<br />
Mexico with Paul Helmick producing an.<br />
Dick Richards directing from Eric Berco<br />
vici's screenplay of Richards' original story<br />
BOXOFFICE :: May 24, 197
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