Boxoffice-August.11.1975

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Hollywood
Happenings
pREDDlE FIELDS has activated his Fields
Co. and moved to the Paramount
Studios. He had planned to leave ICM
September 30 to go into independent film
production under his deal with Paramount
but. since ail changeovers at the agency
had been completed, he decided to exit
of Motion Picture & Television Producers.
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Floyd Mutrux, director of "Aloha, Bobby
and Rose," back on the road promoting the
Columbia Pictures release, was in San
Francisco. Denver, Miami and in New
Orleans to ballyhoo the film.
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Marlene Schmidt has been named execu-
Britain for the 1975 Tehran International
Film Festival.
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Ted Rossman has retired as executive
kx;ation manager for Universal, completing
a 45-year career in the motion picture industry.
He started in 1930 at MGM as a
production manager and later was an assistant
to the executive vice-president before
leaving there in 1959.
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Paramount Pictures' "Phase IV," an ecological
suspense .story about a biological
imbalance that occurs in the Arizona desert,
has been awarded the Grand Prix at the
International Festival of Science-Fiction
Films in Trieste. Italy.
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Max Youngstein. president of Youngstein
Enterprises, has been named to the
board of trustees of the National Asthma
Center in Denver.
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Noreen S. Jenney. executive vice-president
of Shaw Enterprises, has bought controlling
interest in the public relations and
earlier and begin work on the first of his
1 1 projects, "Locking for Mr. Goodbar." advertising firm. She succeeds Edward S.
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Shaw as president. Shaw will remain on the
Post-production work has begun at MGM
on "High Velocity," starring Ben Gazzara.
Paul Winfield and Britt Ekland and produced
by First Asian Films of California,
with Remi Kramer directing for executive
producer Joseph Wolf.
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John J. McMahon, vice-president of West
orchestra.
Coast TV programing for the National
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Broadcasting Co., has been named chairman
of the 1976
Dale C. Olson has been
fund-raising drive of the Permanent
Charities Committee
named .senior
vice-president of the Rogers
of
& Cowan public
relations
the Entertainment
agency.
Industries. He He will supervise the
succeeds Billy H.
Hunt,
campaigns of the
executive
motion
vice-president
picture and
of the Ass'n
TV
production companies represented by the
agency as well as working with other clients
board, serving as a consultant.
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Composer-musician Quincy Jones, who
composed music scores for more than 25
motion pictures over the past ten years,
opens a one-week engagement Monday (11)
at the Greek Theatre with his 28-member
of the firm.
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Viacom has acquired worldwide TV
rights to "Running Wild," feature film produced
and directed by Robert McCahon
and starring Lloyd Bridges, Dina Merrill
and Gilbert Roland.
tive producer on "Race With Death" for
Hickmar Productions. Barbra Streisand's "A Star Is Born" has
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'been set for a January 2 starting date by
Motion picture star Lola Falana has First Artists and Warner Bros. Frank R.
signed a $1 million product promotion Pierson has been named writer-director for
campaign with Faberge to serve as spokeswoman
the film.
for Faberge's long established fra-
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grance. "Tigress."
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Crown International Pictures has acquired
worldwide distribution rights to "The
The Rogers & Cowan public relations Death Machine" and president Mark Tenser
lirm has been named to direct the public says the film, now in postnproduction, is
planned for an early 1976 release.
relations campaign in the U.S. and Great
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"Killers of the Wild" will be the final
title for the Cine Artists International film
previously titled "Myths of Nature."
George Pal was presented with the Ink
Pot Award for his achievement in cinematic
arts at the National Comic Magazine convention
Tuesday (5) in San Diego.
Berkowitz Joins Litto As
V-P of Administration
HOLLYWOOD ^- Howard Betkowitz.
loriiicr head of Paramount Pictures' communication
division, has been named vicepresident
of administration for George Litto
Productions. His first assignment will be in
connection with the release of "Obsession,"
formerly titled "Double Ransom." starring
Cliff Robertson and Genevieve Bujold.
Before joining Paramount. Berkowitz had
been a producer and executive production
manager of the UCIF division of Universal
Studios.
.MARKETING
HUDDLE — Jack
Scanlan. at microphone, publicitj-promotion
coordinator of "A Boy and His
Dog" and a member of the Jack
Wodell Associates staff, is shown talking
about his first-hand evperience on
the fihn during its test engagements
during the sales-marketing and advertising-publicity-promotion
seminar held
recently in the JWA screening room in
San Francisco. looking on are Jack
Wodell and Jim Prichard, right of
Stariine Pictures of Dallas. LQ/Jaf Production
Co. hosted the seminar for
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LOS ANGELES
Jris Ro.ss of 20th-century Fox has been
named finance chairman of the Ho/L.A
WOMPI Club. She succeeds Helen Wood,
resigned . Hoffman has been
elected as a delegate to the WOMPI International
convention to be held in Chicago.
United Artists Corp. has moved to new
offices in Suite 605 at 116 North Robertson
Blvd.. Los .Angeles, The telephone number
is (213) 657-7000.
Charles A. Moses, publicist-writer-producer,
was discharged from Los Angeles
New Hospital after two weeks of tests. He
again will be working out of his Beverly Hills
rather than from Manhattan. He will
office,
announce an expansion of his company's
worldwide activities within the next few
weeks.
Leon P. Blender, .American International
Pictures' executive vice-president in charge
of sales and distribution, returned from
Seattle, where he set meetings with Northwest
exhibitors.
Cinema in SC Expansion
PALO ALTO. CALIF.—A movie theatre
is included in plans for an upgrading and
expansion of the existing Stanford Shoppinu
Center. Presently 1,050,000 square feet, the
complex will be adding 200,000 square feet,
with tenant lease negotiations to be completed
late this year. Upgrading and new
construction is scheduled to heain in March
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Students Pay 99c at Cheshire
CHlSHIRi;, CONN. -The .Sam Hadel
man Cheshire Cinema is now charging students
W cents admission at all limes.
BOXOFTICE August 11, 1975