Boxoffice-October.02.1978

will be screened at the Milan Film Festival
(MIFED) Monday (16) through Saturday
(28).
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Lone Star Pictures International reports
that "Secrets," starring Jacqueline Bisset,
grossed $101,560 in nine theatres on its
opening weekend in Detroit.
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Crown International Pictures plans a
Thanksgiving release on its newly acquired
"Sextette." the Mae West musical comedy
produced by Daniel Briggs and Robert Sullivan.
•
Hayes, whose incredible experiences
Billy
in Turkey are the basis for Columbia
Pictures" "Midnight Express." is on a sevenweek
national tour which began with a twoweek
stay in New York City to pave the
way for the Friday (6) opening of the film
there. On his schedule are visits to Washington,
Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago, San
Francisco, Los Angeles, Dallas, Miami, Atlanta
and Boston. The film will open nationally
Friday (27).
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George Segal, Jacqueline Bisset and Robert
Morley. stars of Warner Bros.' "Who
Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?", will
head a long list of film stars and celebrities
when the movie has its gala benefit premiere
for the ACLU Foundation Thursday (5) at
the National Theatre in Westwood. A sumptuous
dinner, featuring the culinary arts of
Europe, will be held following the screening
at Robinsons-Beverly Hills.
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"Up in Smoke." Paramount Pictures
presentation of Lou Adler"s production featuring
comedians Cheech and Chong, opened
on the West Coast September 29 in a
mini-multiple engagement that includes
Mann's Westwood Theatre and the Pacific
Theatre in Hollywood.
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The Paramount Charities Committee of
the Entertainment Industries gave away
1,800 tickets to the annual KMPC "Show
of the World" held September 23 at the
Forum in Inglewood. The PCC receives all
of the profit from the annual charity show,
staged by the radio station. The tickets were
distributed among at least a dozen charities,
going to persons who otherwise would
be unable to see the show.
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Entertainment investment specialist Lewis
P. Horwitz spoke at a dinner meeting
of the Los Angeles chapter of the Information
Film Producers. September 26 at La
Villa Taxco on Sunset Boulevard. He discussed
ways of making money from feature
films, industrial pictures, television films
and other ventures.
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Lois D'Andre Shafir has been named executive
director of field marketing for Paramount's
motion picture division reporting to
Eddie Kalish, vice-president of publicity'
promotion. She joined Paramount in January.
1977, as assistant director of fieldmarketing
for the division and became director
of the unit in September, 1977.
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Choreographer Dee Dee Wood has been
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signed to stage the lavish musical number
planned for "Benji's Very Own Christmas
Story" that will feature Mulberry Square's
movie star in ABC-TV's holiday special.
Ron Moody will be featured in the number,
singing and dancing among 100 four-footlall
elves.
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Producer-director Max Bacr has gone into
his final month of post-production on
"Home Town USA," shot on location in
California. The Baer-Camras production, in
association with Cinema Ventures, stars
Gary Springer, David Wilson, Brian Kcrwin
and Julie Parsons.
•
Movie memorabilia of Edward G. Robinson,
including the honorary Oscar awarded
him posthumously, has been given to the
University of Southern California by his
widow Jane. The collection documents Robinson's
stage, radio and screen career from
the 1910s to the 1970s and includes his
leather-bound screenplays, including "Little
Caesar." "Five Star Final," "All My Sons"
and "Double Indemnity."
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June Rose Marlow, Hollywood/ Los Angeles
WOMPI, has been elected the club's
international president, and Betty Rose has
been chosen international correspondence
secretary at the Dallas convention earlier
this month. The Hollywood/Los Angeles
WOMPIs also won three awards: the industry,
membership and attendance awards.
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Tony Adams, executive producer of
Blake Edwards' "10," is in Mexico scouting
locations for the film comedy that will star
Julie Andrews and George Segal, on which
production is set to begin in Hollywood
Monday (2) with Edwards producing and
directing from his own screenplay.
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Peter C. Kells has been named controller.
West Coast operations, for Columbia Pictures
Industries, involving theatrical, television
and commercial divisions at the Burbank
Studios headquarters. Kells was vicepresident
of finance for six years with Hudson
Pharmaceutical Corp. in New York.
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David Grober and his Motion Picture
Marine Productions are shooting a halfhoLir
documentary, "The Eagle." the company's
first documentary. Filming will take
place aboard the Eagle, said to be the last
of the 220-foot square riggers. The ship
sails from Long Beach to Panama and back
and is on its last journey.
•
Group I has acquired world theatrical
and television rights to "Disco Fever,"
which is in the final stages of post-production
and is set for a November release. The
film stars Fabian, Casey Kasem, Phoebe
Dorin and Susette Carroll in a story about
a rock star of the '50s and '60s who succeeds
in making a comeback in the '70s.
•
Members of the Cartoonists Union, Local
839 lATSE, had a general meeting
September 26 at union headquarters to
nominate candidates for all offices of the
organization.
10 Short Films Are Added
To San Francisco Fest
SAN FRANCISCO—Ten short films
have been selected for the evening program
of the 22nd annual San Francisco International
Film Festival, Wednesday (4)-Sunday
(15) at the Palace of Fine Arts Theatre
and the Castro Theatre.
Three American films selected for presentation
are "Ruth Asawa—On Form and
Growth," by Robert Snyder, Marina del
Rey. California; "The Best I Can," by Robert
Rosen, Amram Nowak Associates, New
York City, and "Modeling Universe/ With
Buckminster Fuller." by Jaime Snyder, San
Anselmo, California.
The two shorts from Europe are "The
Killing of an Egg," by Paul Driessen of the
Netherlands, and "Turkiye," produced by
Claude Lelouch, France.
Five animated films produced by the National
Film Board of Canada complete the
shorts programming: "The Metamorphosis
of Mr. Samsa." by Caroline Leaf; "The
Bead Game," Ishu Patel; "Revenge of the
Objects," Pierre Veilleux; "Demon and
Marvels," Bertrand Langlois, and "The Lion
and the Mouse," Evelyn Lambart.
The short films are shown with the evening
feature premieres.
Jerome Hellman will produce and direct
Promises in the Dark."
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