Canadian Film Digest (Feb 1973)

~ ~ Page 14 FEBRUARY 1973 International Scenes People, Places, Events from Around the World. The coup of the distribution world is the acquisition by Roger Corman’s distrib. arm of Ingmar Bergman’s Cries and Whispers. Film was turned down by every major and minor U.S. distrib, and Corman picked it up only to break into distribution of foreign films. Now Cries is box office .... Bergman has forbid Cries to be screened in L.A. to qualify for the Oscars. So for the first time a really hot contender is ineligible. Seems he hates the vulgarity of the competition. Technical news: Continental Camera Systems has developed a new arial mount designed to provide complete motion and vibration isolation between helicopters and motion picture cameras. New angles are also possible, including straight forward. Mount can be used on boats, trucks and other vehicles .... Universal has developed a new mobile dressing room vehicle. Each unit consists of a power unit hauling a trailer. Six dressing rooms are available, each with its own toilet, running water, lighting and air conditioning Valiant Productions has developed a new matte process whereby layers of film can be put together so accurately that actors are no longer needed for second units. Furthermore, a 1972 film can use 1932 footage and have the actor walk in and out of buildings. And the buildings may no longer exist! Valiant plans to use the process in a production of Scarface Al Capone. Paramount will be honored as Studio of the Year at the Show-A-Rama 16 Convention in Kansas City March 12-15. Attending will be 2,000 exhibs .... NATO and the NAC are combining for the third time in a decade for their Northwest Regional Convention in Seattle March 4-6. Site will be the Washington Plaza Hotel .... The National Association of Concessionaires will publish a comprehensive concession handbook in hardcover. The 360 page volume will be made up of all the articles that have appeared in the Associations series of ten handbooks. Each will be revised and re-edited. The first handbook appeared in 1962. Text will cover book-keeping, setting up, personnel, etc. Publication is expected in a year. Obituaries: Max Adraian, 63; J. Carrol Naish, 73; Jack MacGowran, 54, all actors. William Dieterle, 79, a director .... The final section of the old Fox Studio at Western Avenue and Sunset Blvd. site will include a drug store, market, restaurant and others .... Also died: Lester B. Isaac. He was the international rep of IATSE, but his involvement in the film industry was history. An IATSE member since 1916, he was projectionist for Presidents Wilson and Harding. As chief engineer for Loew’s he was responsible for installation of equipment in their theatres throughout the world. And as chief engineer for Cinerama, he supervised installation of their special equipment everywhere. Festivals: The Melbourne Film Festival runs May 25 to June 9. Thirty features and one hundred shorts are expected in this 22nd annual event. ... The 5th International Film Festival for Organization and Automation of Production and Control runs May 14-19 in Sofia. Scientific, technical and Educational films are spotlighted .... The 9th International Animated Film Festival will be held in Annecy, France, from June 13-17 .... And Foothill College in Los Altos Hills California is holding its 12th Annual Independent Film-makers Festival in May. 16 mm films by independents will be shown.... The American Film Festival in May has established the John Grierson Award for the Best Documentary, to honor the founder of the NEB sa Fuji Film is making a strong bid for the Kodak market. Fuji has appointed Sol Halprin its technical sales rep to advise cinematographers about the merits of Fuji film. Halprin is an award-winning cinematographer and _ co-inventor of Cinemascope .... Alan Ladd, Jr. has been appointed Vice President of Creative Affairs at Fox .... Columbia is combining many of the operations of its feature activity and TV Screen Gems in the U.S. ....»+ Warner Communications announced a new cable service in four U.S. communities. First run movies are offered just after theatrical release. Eight films for six dollars are offered each month. A special converter is attached to the set. Most major companies have supplied features .... Upcoming events: a sequel is planned for Rosemary’s Baby Ingmar Bergman wants Streisand to star in The Merry Widow ....A biog of Marlon Brando, unofficial, will be published in the spring by Joe Morella and Ed Epstein, who recently wrote a book on Lana Turner .... Glenda Jackson is turning down all Hollywood film offers because of her fear of flying, plus the fact that other means of transport would take too long .... Richard Lester will re-make The Three Musketeers .... Philip D’ Antoni is directing The Seven Ups in New York. Producer of the French Connection and Bullitt, word is that D’Antoni contributed more to those films than the others involved have acknowledged .... Young Winston was voted best British Film of 1972 by the London Film Critics Guild. Robert Shaw was named Best Actor and Carl Foreman received the award for best Screenplay. Franco Zefferelli will direct Camille in the Spring .... Karen Black will play Myrtle in The Great Gatsby... . Robert Shaw has joined Robert Redford and Paul Newman in the Sting. He plays a mobster . . . . Andre Previn is doing the post-production scoring for Jesus Christ Superstar .... Mel Brooks will direct his comedy Western, Black Bart, for Warners.... Jan Troell will direct Taylor’s Bride, a late 1800’s Big Sur love story. Pic will star Gene Hackman and Liv Ullman.... Mickey Mouse cartoons came up for rerelease in Swedish theatres. They were given X ratings because of excessive violence. BOX OFFICE KINGS FOR 1972 In its annual poll of exhibitors across the United States, Motion Picture Herald has announced its box office kings for 1972. The poll is for the actors who sell the most tickets. Winner was Clint Eastwood, who appeared in Play Misty for Me, Dirty Harry, and Joe Kidd. It was Eastwood’s first win, and he deposed John Wayne from the number one spot. Wayne holds the record for number of years on the list: twenty-three. Second to tenth: George C. Scott, Gene Hack man, John Wayne, Barbra Streisand, Marlon Brando, Paul Newman, Steve McQueen, Dustin Hoffman, Goldie Hawn. Hackman and Hawn were the only newcomers to the list. It was Brando’s first appearance since 1958. Stars who placed in the next fifteen: Robert Redford, Ryan O’Neal, Woody Allen, Lee Marvin, Ali McGraw, Sean Connery, Liza Minnelli, Walter Matthau, Raquel Welch, Jane Fonda, Jack Lemmon, Sidney Poitier, Burt Reynolds, Charlton Heston, Elvis Presley. DISTRIBUTOR -Astral Belleville Cinepix Columbia MGM National General Paramount 20th Century Fox United Artists Universal Warner Bros. FILM Carry on Around The Bend Love Swedish Style Snowball Express Wedding in White Relations and Sappho Darling Loving and Laughing La Vraie Nature de Bernadette Young Winston Valachi Papers Oliver Chloe in the Afternoon Great Waltz Travels With My Aunt Judge Roy Bean The Getaway Lady Sings The Blues Godfather (French) Poseidon Adventure Sounder Pete 'N Tillie Jeramiah Johnson Deliverance Emigrants CITY Toronto Vancouver Edmonton Calgary Hamilton Ottawa Toronto Montreal Winnipeg Halifax Winnipeg Calgary Victoria Toronto Toronto Ottawa Winnipeg Vancouver Halifax Winnipeg Toronto Toronto Winnipeg Ottawa Hamilton Toronto Montreal Vancouver Toronto Toronto Vancouver Edmonton Calgary Winnipeg Montreal Halifax Moncton Toronto Vancouver Montreal Toronto Montreal Vancouver Toronto The Canadian Film Digest CANADIAN BOX OFFICE STATISTICS THEATRE (seats) York no. 1 (758) Coronet (748) Multiple Multiple Multiple Cinema (589) Place de Ville (1228) Multiple Multiple Multiple Scotia Square (724) Gaity (582) Grand (1405) Haida (579) Cinemalumiere (299) Fairlawn St. Laurent no. 1 Kings Hyland Casino Multiple Cinecity Glendale (704) Grant Park (742) Nelson (799) Century (705) Uptown no. 3 (408) Yorkdale Cinema (464) Westmount (700). Multiple (2) Uptown no. 1 (949) Yonge (1639) Capitol (1394) Paramount (1429) Palace (1787 Capitol (1413) Capitol (2378) Capitol (1980) Paramount (1166) Multiple Multiple Champlain (1407) Carlton (2186) Palace (2043) Red Room Dorval (872) Orpheum (2872) LENGTH TOTAL OF RUN 1% wk 25 wk 4 wk 7 wk 7 wk 7 wk 64% wk 3 wk 2 wk 2 wk 1 wk 2 wk 1 wk 1 wk 2 wk 17 wk 6 wk 6 wk 15 wk 4 wk 6 wk 6 wk 1212 wk 5'2 wk 5!o wk 5l2 wk Slo wk 52 wk Sly wk Sho wk 5's wk 52 wk 5le wk Sle wk 5la wk 542 wk Ste wk 5lo wk 5l2 wk 5'2 wk 512 wk 412 wk 5to wk 5l2 wk lls wk 512 wk Lougheed Mall no. 1 (736) 542 wk Hollywood N (696) INFORMATION UNAVAILABLE Toronto Windsor Edmonton ~ Vancouver Winnipeg Toronto Hamilton “Toronto Hamilton Vancouver Winnipeg Toronto Hyland no. 1 (800) Vanity (940) Odeon (1124) Vogue (1234) Garrick no. 2 (810) Uptown no. 2 (605) Avon Hollywood S. (917) Jackson Square no. 1 Downtown (696) Polo Park (406) International (597) 1642 wk 542 wk 5te wk 5te wk 512 wk 5to wk 6 wk 4 days 17 wk 6 wk 6 wk 6 wk 6 wk GROSS 10,400 19,900 102,000 81,000 77,000 42,000 46,000 155,000 51,000 42,000 6,000 7,800 8,000 6,500 7,000 140,000 35,000 21,000 63,000 34,000 37,000 23,000 130,000 45,000 52,000 36,000 60,000, 60,000 _ 32,000 51,000 71,992 135,916 131,680 101,844 64,544 51,612 136,217 49,707 30,100 163,000 62,500 173,778 314,297 168,447 23,320 179,667 101,140 190,728 108,543 42,466 49,475 50,229 44,048 70,000 5,950 230,000 45,000 88,000 36,000 40,000 Paul Newman is catching up on the First Artists story in the Digest. Make sure YOU don’t miss any important stories and news. Subscribe Now. SUBSCRIBE NOW 1 Year *7.50 (Including the Yearbook!) 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