Boxoffice-May.21.1979

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Deter C. Kells has been appointed vice president
of administration for Columbia
Pictures, responsible for financial planning
and analysis.
Sharon P. Gottefeld has been named associate
production counsel for 20th Century-
Fox.
Tom Mihok has been named branch manager
for American International in Philadelphia.
Mihok has been in
the film business
since 1975 when he joined United Artists.
He was most recently the UA branch manager
in Cleveland.
Allan Nathan was named manager of field
activities for Columbia Pictures.
Seymour Kaplan has been designated National
Screen Service's general sales manager,
following the resignation of Harvey M.
Baren.
William C. Goldberg has been named vice
president of financial affairs for Joseph E.
Levine Presents Inc.
Warren Lieberfarb has been named senior
vice president of the Lorimar parent company.
I.orimar Productions.
Goldberg
Lieberfarb
E. A. Bowen has been promoted from
vice president to senior vice president of finance
and administration at 20th Century-
Fox Film Corp. He has been with 20th-Fox
since 1972.
Dennis A. Brown has been promoted lo
senior production executive at EMI Films.
Ralph Silver has been named vice president
of U. S. operations for Dennis Davidson
Associates. I.ondon-based public relations
firm.
Sandra Shaw has been promoted Ui vice
president of advertising and publicity for
American Cinema Releasing and advertising
and publicity director for the parent
company, American Communications Industries.
Joel H. Resnick and Ron D. Leslie of
American Multi Cinema have been promoted
to executive vice presidents. Resnick is
head of film buying and development and
Leslie has responsibility for financial oper-
Leslie
Jeffrey Snetiker has been
named director
of production finance for Paramount Pictures
Corp., replacing Frank Bodo.
Dennis A. Brown has been appointed
senior production executive for EMI Films.
Marilyn Harbord was named business
manager for the advertising and publicity
departments of Columbia Pictures. Rick
Tiancgo has been appointed foreign accounting
manager for Avco Embassy Piclures.
James R. Velde has been named senior
vice president in charge of distribution for
Rastar Films Inc.
Bonnie Rothbard has been named manager
of the motion picture research library
at
MGM.
John Foley will replace Morris Bimbaum,
Columbia branch manager in Des Moines.
Birnbaum has been named to supervise Ihe
Denver and Salt Lake City branches.
Fred Kunkel has been named Western
division manager of Film Ventures International.
Titles & Takes
"The Adventures of the Wilderness Family"
(Pacific International) grossed $.325,000
in its first week in 41 houses in New Zealand.
Fourteen of the theatres broke house
records. The outdoor adventure has grossed
nearly $60,000,000 to d.ite. worldwide.
"Invasion of the Body Snatcbers" has
earned $52,000 on 109 prints throughout
the United Kingdom since March 22.
"The Innocent" (Analysis)
has passed the
$1.5 million mark after 18 weeks in 32 theatres
across the country.
"Halloween," Compass International Pictures'
all-time independent boxoffice champion,
has grossed $30 million worldwide,
and $14 million in domestic boxoffice receipts,
as of April 27.
Trans-Lux Theatres reports the largest
two-day, midnight show gross in history for
"The Rocky Horror Picture Show." The
record was set Friday and Saturday, March
30 and March 31, at the Trans-Lux Ridgeway
Theatre in Stamford, Conn., with a reported
gross of $6,765,
Billy Wildcr's "Fedora" continues its record-breaking
run at the 300-seat Cinema
Studio I with a first-week gross of $22,749.
Woody Allen's "Manhattan" raked in $3,-
512,892 in 13 days in 283 theatres. Select
gro£ses include $685,157 in seven New
York theatres, $474,934 in 12 Los Angeles
theatres, and $55,198 at the Paris Theatre
in
Boston for six days.
"The Tin Drum" (UA) opened in Germany
with a three-day total of $265,000 in
45 sites, including the Gloria Theatre in
Berlin where the gross was $26,478 and the
Streithaus Theatre in Hamburg where earnings
topped $17,500.
Evotion Enterprises' "Sweet Savage," X-
rater starring Aldo Ray, picked up $11,290
in its first week at the Cinema West in
Houston.
"Heaven Can Walt" (Para) earned another
$9,300,000 in its 650-theatre post-
Oscar run. Previous release earned the picture
$72,600,000.
Jack Winningham, branch manager and
regional sales manager of National .Screen
Service for 3 1 years, has accepted the assignment
of Midwest division manager of
Cinema Concepts Inc., a Nashville-based
special trailer production company.
Michael Williams-Jones has been named
vice president of United Artists' Europe and
Middle East division.
Arthur L. Ventrone has been elected vice
president of corporate accounting for 20th
Century-Fox.
Bea Holloway has been named Plitt film
buyer for the West Coast division.
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