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BOXOFFICE/AUGUST 13, 1979<br />
HOLLYWOOD REPORT<br />
(continued from pace 7)<br />
acquisitions<br />
Bud >. orkm Productions has acquired THE<br />
FRANK ABAGNA1.E STORY, Abagnales<br />
book he wrote with Stan Redding. Stuart<br />
Rosenberg will write the comedy screenplay<br />
about real life escapades<br />
I nited Artists HAPP^ BIRTHDAY.<br />
GEMINI, now shooting in Toronto lor pro<br />
ducers Robert Hn/ig and Alan King, with<br />
Kuj Moreno. Madeleine Kahn and Robert<br />
Viharo starring and Richard Banner directing<br />
from his own screenplay.<br />
Robert Guenette Productions has optioned<br />
all media rights in IN I'Ol ( H, a book wril<br />
ten b> John Steinbeck about his experiences in<br />
\ leinam.<br />
Producer Mark L)a\ id Bisgeier, formei ex<br />
ecutive with Lorimar Productions, has ac<br />
quired film rights to YOUNG AR-<br />
CHIMEDES, Aldous Huxley's novel about<br />
the relationship between an Lnghshman and a<br />
young Italian peasant boy in the period bet<br />
ween the two world wars.<br />
Ping Pong Productions has acquired the<br />
rights to KIND \M\ Aldl SI. an original<br />
comedy screenplay written by Michael Carrazza.<br />
Producers lor Ping Pong Productions are T<br />
Castronova and Don Ciminelli. Shooting is<br />
J<br />
scheduled to start in late September Israel's<br />
winner of Best Cinematographer Award of<br />
1 978. Hanama Baer. has been set for Director<br />
of Photography<br />
Lorimar films has obtained screen rights to<br />
GOD PROTECT ME FROM \\\<br />
FRIENDS, to be produced by Terence F.<br />
Deane with a screenpaly by Philip Hersch,<br />
based on the novel by Gavin Maxwell. Filming<br />
is tentatively set for next spring on the<br />
story about a Sicilian peasant youth whose<br />
romantic ideas of injustice cause him to lead a<br />
Robin Hood type of life which ends tragically<br />
through treachery and betrayal<br />
Exclusive rights to the inside story of the<br />
SIO million robbery of Lufthansa Airlines<br />
have been obtained from sources at the New<br />
York Police Dept by Paul Burke and Stanley<br />
Kay's Media Productions. Under the title<br />
THE LUFTHANSA HEIST, the<br />
property<br />
has been sold by Martin Baum of Creative Artists<br />
Agency to Simon & Schuster and its auxiliary<br />
publisher. Dawd Obst Books, with the<br />
publishers paying Media an advance of<br />
SI 00.000.<br />
distribution<br />
Vvcol mbass) DEATH SHIP. S8.000.000<br />
Anglo Canadian suspense terror drama about<br />
a killer ship with no living persons aboard<br />
which appears on (he high seas, sinks a major<br />
cruise liner and then terrorizes the survivors<br />
Siarnng are George Kennedy. Richard Cren<br />
na, Nick Mancuso and Sally Ann Howes<br />
titles & takes<br />
Paraniount's MEATBM.I.S grossed<br />
SI 7.853. 1 82 in the first 1 7 days of its national<br />
release, based on reports from 853 theatres ol<br />
the 1.000 playing the film.<br />
SUMMER CAMP, released by Seymour<br />
Borde and Associates, grossed more lhan<br />
SI 25.000 in its first week in Minneapolis.<br />
THE TREE OF WOODEN CLOGS<br />
iGaumont/Sacis/New Yorkerl has grossed<br />
morethan S 1 1 0.000 in its first six weeks ol<br />
release at the 29u seat Cinema Studio I in New<br />
York.<br />
ROC'k. II, (he Roberl Charloff Irwin<br />
Winkler sequel (o "Rocky.'' has rung up a<br />
gross of S27.084.000 for more than 800<br />
iheaires 1 8 days, it was announced by Al<br />
in<br />
Fitter. United Artists senior vice president lor<br />
domestic sales.<br />
Warner Bros.' two current releases. THE<br />
MAIN EVENT and THE INLAWS have<br />
grossed a combined S5 1. 543.083. "Main<br />
Event" has taken in S30.970.860 in 886<br />
theatres and "In Laws" has grossed<br />
S20.572.223 in 583 theatres since opening<br />
June 1 5.<br />
Orangewood Films: NATIONAL LAM-<br />
POONS FRAI HOUSE, a Fraternal Pro<br />
ductions comedy slated for release in late<br />
August.<br />
Jad Films International. HARPER<br />
VALLEY PTA, for worldwide sales of the<br />
April Fools Productions feature. Jad previous<br />
ly had handled European sales of the film siar<br />
ring Barbara Eden<br />
IHL WANDERERS, an Orion Pictures<br />
release through Warner Bros., opened to very<br />
strong business in lirst wa\c engagements in<br />
five cities, where (he film posted a combined<br />
five-day boxoffice gross of S35I.767.<br />
Some of (he outstanding individual (heatre<br />
five-da) grosses for "The Wanderers' were.<br />
New York— Aslor Pla/.a, S48.I74; RKO<br />
86th Street. SI 9.037; Meadowbrook I. East<br />
Meadow. SI 5.487, and Cinema 46. Totowa.<br />
SI 3.373.<br />
Paramount s ESCAPE FROM<br />
ALCATRAZ grossed S27. 1 30.745 in the first<br />
38 days of its national release; 650 of the 750<br />
theatres playing the picture were reporting<br />
United Artists' MOONRAKER has grossed<br />
S3.3I3.IOO in its initial overseas releases in<br />
England. Holland and Soulh Africa. The film<br />
set a one-week record at London's Leicester<br />
Square Theatre with SI9I.I06 and hil<br />
S2.600.000 in four weeks at 1 1 houses in<br />
England. In South Africa the film grossed<br />
S733.600 in 43 theatres, a national record. In<br />
Holland. "Moonraker" grossed S979.500 in 40<br />
theatres in its opening week.<br />
ALIEN, from 20th Century -Fox. in its first<br />
— 4M4i<br />
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