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Charles Sellier Is Named<br />
Sun Classic Senior V-P<br />
HOLLYWOOD—Charles E. Sellier jr..<br />
31-year-old vice-president in<br />
charge of production<br />
for Sun Classic<br />
Pictures, has been<br />
named senior vicepresident<br />
of the company.<br />
Since joining Sun,<br />
Sellier has produced<br />
"The Life and Times<br />
of Grizzly Adams,"<br />
the company's most<br />
successful boxoffice<br />
picture to date, and<br />
Charles E. Sellier<br />
instituted the computer<br />
marketing programs under which the<br />
company now produces, distributes and<br />
markets its films.<br />
Sellier recently developed the marketing<br />
campaign on Alan Landsburg's "The Outer<br />
Space Connection" for Sun and currently<br />
is editing "The Adventures of Frontier<br />
Freemont," which he produced, and "Bigfoot:<br />
The Mysterious Monster." which he<br />
produced in association with David L.<br />
Wolper Productions.<br />
Sellier is perhaps the most experienced<br />
four-wall film producer in the motion picture<br />
business today, with a 15-year film<br />
career already behind him. One of the fourwall<br />
pioneers, Sellier also was the first<br />
filmmaker to apply computer technology<br />
successfully to film production, distribution<br />
and marketing. Since Sun has instigated<br />
Sellier's rigid testing programs, the<br />
firm has experienced consistent boxoffice<br />
success on all its films.<br />
Sellier will continue to oversee the production<br />
of Sun's new product as well as<br />
marketing campaigns for all its films.<br />
the<br />
Richard Zephro Starting<br />
Own Distribution Firm<br />
BEVERLY HILLS—Richard Zephro has<br />
announced that he is starting his own distribution<br />
company here. Richard Zephro<br />
Films, to handle independent product. For<br />
the past two years, he was Western division<br />
manager for Bryanston Pictures and, for<br />
five years prior to that, he was connected<br />
with Paramount Pictures, first as a booker<br />
and then as branch manager for Kansas City<br />
and St. Louis.<br />
In a telephone interview with <strong>Boxoffice</strong>,<br />
Zephro said that he was encouraged to make<br />
the move because of Bryanston's track record,<br />
starting with nothing and graduating to<br />
a multi-million dollar operation. "This is the<br />
day of the independent," stated Zephro.<br />
"and. since the majors are cutting back on<br />
production, there's a wide open field for the<br />
independents."<br />
Zephro will be located at 8399 Wilshire<br />
Blvd.. Beverly Hills. Calif. 90210.<br />
Filmways Earnings Are Up<br />
For Qtr. and 6 Months<br />
NEW YORK—Richard L. Bloch, chairman<br />
of the board and president of Filmways,<br />
Inc., reports that the company is<br />
achieving the increase in earnings which was<br />
anticipated earlier in the year.<br />
Earnings for the second quarter and the<br />
six months ended Aug. 31, 1975, were<br />
$870,000, compared to $773,000 for the<br />
same period last year. Income per share<br />
was 43 cents for the current second quarter,<br />
while second-quarter per-share earnings<br />
in 1974 were 38 cents.<br />
Net income for the three months ended<br />
Aug. 31, 1975, was $650,000 or 33 cents<br />
per share, against net income of $493,000,<br />
or 20 cents per share for the comparable<br />
period of the preceding year, an earningsper-share<br />
increase of 65 per cent.<br />
Revenues for the three months ended<br />
August 31 were $26,024,000, as compared<br />
to $18,992,000 for the same period in 1974.<br />
Bloch said, "Barring a major dislocation<br />
in the national economy, I continue to believe<br />
that Filmways' third-quarter earnings<br />
will surpass those of the second quarter just<br />
ended and that earnings per share for fiscal<br />
1976, which ends Feb. 29, 1976, will be<br />
in excess of $1 per share, compared with<br />
86 cents for the previous 12-month period."<br />
American International's "Return to Macon<br />
County" and "The Wild McCullochs"<br />
opened in New York Sept. 3.<br />
INDIVIDUAL<br />
SCREENS World's Most Unique Ozone Facility<br />
RADIO<br />
SOUND<br />
{PICTURE CANNOT BE SEEN FROM SURROUNDING AREAS|<br />
The 120 cor individual screen drive-in theatre that was constructed in 66 working days.<br />
A MINI DRIVE-IN DESIGN<br />
provides the entertainment industry with a futuristic drive-in theatre so unique that<br />
the entire system has been patented with additional patents pending. The theatre is<br />
surprisingly inexpensive to build and equip. Its unique design attracts a staggering<br />
amount of favorable public attention. And the single-reel T.R.A.D. automatic projection<br />
equipment makes for easy low-cost operation. If adult operation is desired the entire<br />
theatre can be enclosed by a 3 or 5 ft. fence, eliminating outside objections to adult<br />
movies.<br />
For Information,<br />
Person to person<br />
R. R. Younger<br />
Ph. (417) 865-3283<br />
No Collect Calls<br />
"THERE'S NO DOUBT ABOUT IT" . . . Visible "X" is out . . . Circle<br />
theatres may be designed to fit in only a corner of your present DR-IN<br />
. . . We have over Seven basic layouts. Sometimes existing theatres<br />
can be converted . . . Patented Layouts, single circles, FLIP-FLOP . . .<br />
Half circles. Double circles. You name it—we have it or we're working<br />
on it.<br />
SEVEN theatres now in operation—FOUR in building—EIGHT in zoning<br />
—FIVE Patents issued—THREE pending and more on the DRAWING<br />
BOARD.<br />
u. m: 3T IT<br />
NOW IS THE TIME TO OWN THE PATENT RIGHTS IN YOUR STATE.<br />
UNITED<br />
STATES TRAD<br />
Theatre Research And Development<br />
CE3 S3 »..<br />
BOXOFFICE :: October 20, 1975
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