The box office check-up of 1935 (1936)

NACIO HERB BROWN ARTHUR FREED UNDER CONTRACT TO METRO GOLDWYN MAYER SONGS AND LYRICS FOR BROADWAY MELODY OF 1936 "You Are My Lucky Star" "I've Got a Feel i n ' You're Foolin' "On a Sunday Afternoon" "Sing Before Breakfast" "Broadway Rhythm" MANAGEMENT JOHN ZANFT, INC. AGENCY are acquiring American talent. It is a fact that the financing available in this country makes it possible for quite a number of companies to outbid even a major American company if any specified celebrity is felt to be necessary. Yet many of these concerns are at present, so far as a world release is concerned, up in the air. One obvious result may be the ultimate establishment of an independent distributing organization in America, handling only British films. Another may be that the product of these companies will find its way into major American outputs. Undoubtedly, by one channel or another, these new companies will, in the next year, seek to place 30 or more films in America. It is impossible to give a list of new British production enterprises and studio plans which would not quickly be obsolete, but the imminent enormous increase in the output of worth-while films can be sensed from a mere statement of names of some companies already functioning. British National Films, backed by two millionaires, is interested in the "Pinewood" studio at Iver, which is to have four big floors and facilities for color production on a big scale. It is one of eight British production companies which will release in U. K. through the C. M. Woolf company, General Film Distributors. The others are: Herbert Wilcox Productions, announcing ten big features a year. Garrett Klement Pictures, which has Anna Sten, Cary Grant, Harry Wilcoxon and other big stars signed and a formidable list of directors and technicians. Capitol Productions, sponsored by Max Schach, associated with Karl Grune in "Abdul the Damned." Denham Productions, which made "Moscow Nights," with Harry Baur. Radius Films, first film is "No Monkey Business." Cecil Films, controlled by Herman Fellner, lately production executive of Gaumont-Brifish. Hammer Productions, which has just shown "The Mystery of the Mary Celeste." City Film Corporation, which is exploiting, among other stars, Yvonne Arnaud and Robertson Hare, of the once famous Aldwych Theatre company. Various special flotations promise the early appearance in big British productions of such stars as Leslie Howard, Elisabeth Bergner, and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., and these plans multiply so rapidly that a Hollywood directory is really the best short guide to future British production. Some people, including John Maxwell, believe that current production policies are too optimistic and that a great deal of investors' money will be lost. The final confirmation or contradiction of these doubts may be provided by the American box office. PETER MILNE Wrote the Screen Plays of the Following M. P. Herald Box Office Champions for Warner Bros. First National: KENNEL MURDER CASE COLD DIGGERS OF 1935 WOMAN IN RED Get your money down on these for future Box Office Champs. COLLEEN The Walking Dead * With Old Man Collaboration 146 THE BOX OFFICE CHECK-UP OF 1935