Boxoffice-September.04.1978

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MIAMI
iictors arc auditioning before Dom De
Luise for a part in "Hot Stuff," a film
!o be produced locally. Shooting is scheduled
to begin Wednesday (13). Producer is
Mori Engelberg. There are some SO speaking
parts to go to local actors. Production
office is in Ventura.
Filming of another movie is supposed lo
heg'n in Miami in December, with premiere
a year later. Micha;! C. Quinn. a newcomer
to the realm of producing, is the producer.
The film. "Dorian." is to be feature-length.
Some of the scenes are planned for Vizcaya,
Miami's .Art Museum. Quinn expects also
lo have "Dorian" dubbed into Spanish, and
has a 90-day schedule planned.
festivals: the Kranj Film Festival, the International
Festival of Tourist Films and the
Brussels Festival.
A free screening of ballet, opera and
musical films was presented for grade-school
to college age students recently. The program
consisted of such color films as "Ballet
with Edward Villella." "Symphony Sound
with Henry Lewis and the Royal Philharmonic"
and an abridged version of "The
Dauchtjr of the Reciment."
ATLANTA
J)ick Itcaiiiish, publicity director lor a picture
tilled "Cold Water." was in Atlanta
spreading the word for the film which
will go into production this month in the
wilderness area of New York State. Beamish
wonders if the world is ready for another
"Deliverance" because the story line of the
new film tells of two youngsters who become
lost in the Adriondacks after their
father is killed on a camping trip with them.
The closeness of winter poses an additional
threat to the youngsters.
against whom there is an assassination plot.
"Everyone is aware of similaniics to De-
Ernest Borgnine is a bad guy and George
liverance' and we hope the river scene will
be just as exciting as the one in that film,"
Beamish said. ' Cold River's" action is set
in 1921. The film is based on a 1974 novel
by Edwin Carley. Fred G. Sullivan, producer
and director of the film, also wrote the
screenplay. The picture is Sullivan's first
feature, although he has done documentaries
and other films. The company is headquartered
in the old Will Rogers Hospital
in Saranac Lake, New York, a facility
which was, for years, a sanitarium and resear.h
center founded by the entertainment
industry. It ceased to function in 1975,
Beamish reported. Cast members for "Cold
River' have not been selected, but they
will be well known. Beamish promised.
Bob Crowell of Dallas has been added
to Bob Sedlak's National Screen Service
Southern regional staff as a sales repre-
The Council on International Nontheatrical
Events (CINE) has selected "Carnival in Kohorn's department is Bill Neal, who
sentative. Another new face in Willard
Hong Kong." produced by Grant Gravitt's hails from St. Louis. He is a management
Miami-based Tel-Air Interests for the Japanese
Board of Tourism, as the official U.S. as their vacation site this year. His wife
trainee. The Kohorns are skipping Europe
entry in three prominent international film has many kinsmen in Buck's County. Pa..
.1 delightful vacation spot, and they arc
headed that way soon.
recently went through a marriage on stage
(despite the fact they had been mairied
elsewhere the same day). A national crew
from CBS-TV is scheduled to do a feature
on an Atlanta family which frequently
goe^ in costume together to see "Reeky
Horror.-
The word from Joe Camp's Tcv is office
is that release of "The Double McGuffin"
has been postponed until June, 1979, to
allow the proper promotion. The youth-oriented
thriller was filmed mostly in Georgia.
Camp's office said 50 per cent of the film
was done in Savannah. .1 per ceni each in
nearby Decatur, Rome and Clayton, and
the remaining ?i5 per cent in Charleston,
S.C. EIke Sommer plays a prime minister
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Kennedy is a good cop. The movie is dominated
by a fine cast of talented juvenile
actois. Among them arc Lisa Whelchel, of
the new Mickey Mouse TV crowd: Dion
Pride, son of country singer Charlie Pride;
Jeff Nicholson, Michael Gerard, Greg
Hodges and Vinnie Stewart.
Burt Reynolds has discovered the secret
of holding an audience: he is going to become
a teacher! Reynolds, in Tampa to
provide color commentary for the broadcast
of a Miami Dolph ns-Tampa Bay Buccaneers
game, said he hopes to complete work
toward a bachelor's degree in fine arts at
Florida State University in Tallahassee.
Reynolds, who left Florida State in 1957
after a knee injury shattered h's career as
a football halfback, said he does not plan
to give up his lu.rative Hollywood career,
but wants to extend his talents to include
the teaching of fine arts. Reynolds said;
"I'm doing fewer pictures and I have a lot
more t'mc. What I'd like to do when I'm
not working is teach . . . It's a captive audience.
They can't leave until the bell rings!
JACKSONVILLE
The Cinema (Jallery observed Friday
(8)-Sund.iv (10) as the first anniversary gob Fulford, comptroller for Kent Theatres,
of "The' Ro.ky Horror Picture Show."
recently returned from a whirl-
"Rocky Horror" is the midnight movie wird vacation tour which took him through
each Friday, Saturday and Sunday at the 13 states. High points included louring Luray
Caverns and .-Kppomattox in Virginia,
theatre. The macabre comedy has inspired
seeing Niagara Falls, hiking the Freedom
off-screen festivities. An Atlanta couple
Trail in Boston and departing with a little
money from the Resorts International Casino
in .'Atlantic City.
Scoop of the week is that Jack King is
leaving Clark Films to go to work for Floyd
Enterprises. Jack will be in Flo\d's Lakeland
office for several months and then
come here to be in the local booking department.
United Artists is mo\ing its offices from
the second floor lo the I2lh floor of the
Barnctt Regency Tower around ihe middle
of September. The move is due lo an increase
in ihe office staff, according to Joe
Kennedy, United .Arl'sis branch manager.
Sidney Pink has purchased John Lawson's
Cinema Theatre in Defuniak Springs.
Fla.. to became effe;t ve Friday (15). Looks
like the Florida West Company of Sidney
P'nk is once again expanding.
J. CkMclund Kent, president ol Kent
llie.itrcs, and his wile Rila jusi iclurned
lioin a scven-djN Caribbean cruise on Ihe
( ii;i.ud Princess. Points of interest included
N.iss.ui in the H.ihamas, San Juan, Puerto
Rico. SI. Ihomas in the Virgin Islands,
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