Boxoffice-March.06.1948

: March
UA Will Release Six The Television Front:
Filmed in England
NEW YORK—The United Artists
board of
directors has approved a deal to release six
pictures to be produced in England by Artists
Alliance, Mary Pickford-Lester Cowan
producing unit. These films are "entirely
apart" from another plan for production in
Britain recently approved by the board, according
to Arthur W. Kelly, executive vicepresident
of UA.
This plan was brought back from England
by Kelly early this year. It calls for production
of five pictures yearly in England for
seven years at a cost of $1,000,000 each with
British backing. Kelly said there have been
no further developments on this producing
arrangement. No pictures have been set to
date.
The Pickford-Cowan films will have all-
American casts. The first will feature the
Marx Brothers,
Four other deals were approved by the directors:
UA will put up $150,000 for a 25 per
cent interest in "Innocent Affair," starring
Madeleine Carroll and Fred MacMui-ray: UA
will release "A Man Scans His Past," to be
produced for Elie Rothschild by Leopold
Schlossberg in Canada : UA will release "Little
Shepherd of Kingdom Come," Technicolor
production from Dink Templeton; UA will
release "Confessions of a Communist," to be
produced by A. Edward Sutherland.
Product
Lineup
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than 22 this season. Eleven were
through February. At least eleven more will
be released in the second half of the season.
In the group are: "Man of Evil," "Lafftime,"
"Arch of Triumph," "Atlantis," "They
Passed This Way," "So This Is New York,"
"Texas, Brooklyn and Heaven," "The Pitfall,"
"Mad Wednesday," "Outpost in Morocco,"
plus several Hopalong Cassidy westerns.
Universal-International for the entire release
season running through August, about
32 films will be delivered. For the first half
14 were released. Eighteen more are set
from March through August. In the group
are: "Black Bart." "The Naked City,"
"Double Life," "Casbah," "Jassy," "All My
Sons," "Ai-e You With It," "Another Part
of the Forest," "Letter from an Unknown
Woman," "River Lady," "White Unicorn,"
"Brain of Frankenstein," "Up in Central
Park," "Man Eaters of Kumaon." "Race,"
"Ma and Pa."
Warners probably will deliver 30 during the
current release season: Sixteen were released
during the first six months. Fourteen more
are scheduled for the second half. Included
are "I Became a Criminal," "Robin Hood,"
"April Showers," "To the Victor," "Winter
Meeting," "Valley of the Giants," "The
Fighting 69th," "Woman in White," "Silver
River," "Wallflower," "Romance on the High
Seas," "God's Counti-y and the Woman,"
"Key Largo," "Life With Father."
SG Adds Two Reissues
HOLLYWOOD—Screen Guild has added
two reissues, "Forbidden Music" and "Flirting
With Pate," to its 1948 release program.
"Music" stars Jimmy Durante and "Fate"
is a Joe E. Brown comedy.
BOXOFHCE :
Theatre and Radio Spar
OnWho Pays for What?'
NEW YORK—The television and film industries
are sparring like a couple of lightweights
trying to find out the weak points.
Blows are light and fast with plenty of footwork,
but nothing that looks like a good solid
sock as yet.
That sock may come in the next few weeks.
NBC and CBS have been warning all and
sundry on then- television screens that no
admission can be charged for seeing the programs.
There is nothing new about this;
they b^an warning several years ago when
the Scophony apparatus was demonstrated in
the New Yorker Theatre. Then it was merely
an academic legal move. Lawyers sent
letters to Scophony and the theatre management
warning that the television broadcasters
had property rights in their programs
and they would protect them in court.
They may have them, but the courts have
not decided the problem.
WATCHFUL ATTITUDE TAKEN
Developments have reached the point where
something may happen soon, but who will
take the first crack on the chin and pay the
bill?
Exhibitors on both coasts w