Canadian Film Digest (Mar 1974)

satis a eee a March 1974 Porno and related areas: In Paris, those involved in Last Tango in Paris were sued by an irate father for $10,000 in damages. He claims his young son appears in the picture, and therefore is tainted by scandal. Unfortunately, the lad’s sister had given approval, so the father was awarded ten cents damages ... Catherine Deneuve is suing photographer David Bailey over the publication of some pictures of her in the nude. Seems she okayed the pics, but only for one magazine some time ago... Bernard Brook-Partridge, the British censor, has quit his post. He claims he was” being corrupted . .. Las Vegas has ruled Last Tango obscene .... Gate Studios in London have been closed. Part of the Rank organization, they were used in pre-war days for religious pics .. . Playboy is out of the movie-making business . . . William Friedkin is soliciting the advice of Jeanne Moreau for the French version of the Exorcist. Women: Jeanne Moreau has written a screenplay. Called The Actresses, the star wants to direct if herself .. . Long time critic and screenwriter Penelope Gilliat has written a screenplay that she will direct herself ... Joanne Woodward has been a vegetarian for years. Now Paul has joined her... Festivals: Berlin Festival June 21 to July 2nd _.. SMPTE will hold a conference at the Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles from April 21 to 26. Special guest will be Frank Capra... Milan will host the International Review of Cinema and TV Films on Flying from April 19 to 21. . . The Krakow Festival for shorts will be held June 4-9. . . Another shorts festival will be held at Oberhausen from April 22 to 27. . . The Zagreb Animation Festival is set for June 10 to 15. . . Features and Shorts will be shown at the Philadelphia International Festival from May 3 to 8. Success: Universal’s American Graffiti has garnered forty million dollars in domestic grosses to date. Same company’s The Sting has achieved twenty-one million ... Joseph Mankiewicz has been named great American director for 1974 at the U.S.A. Film Festival on March 25th. A seven film retrospective will be presented ... After three best sellers and a teleseries, police author Joseph Wambaugh is going to retire from the force. . . Last year in Italy Jean Paul Belmondo had four and Alain Delon had two of the top grossing pics . . . Phil D’Antoni has been signed for three more pics for Fox. His Seven Ups looks like a fifty million dollar grosser ... Companies: Paramount Presents is a ninety minute tribute to the company to be seen on the American ABC network ... Warners is suing an Indian film company over the theft of Dirty Harry. The Indians pirated the sound track and story. They call it Khoon, Khoon, which means Blood, Blood ... Patrolman Roy Vaughn is suing National General for ten. million dollars for alleged slurs in Executive Action . . . Rank gave to two parties in the recent British elections, Five hundred pounds went to the Liberals and thirty-five hundred to the Tories, so they didn’t exactly pick a winner. Oldies: MGM is screening films from its library in the Grand Hotel in Las Vegas ... Time-Life is planning to re-release the Harold Lloyd comedies they purchased from his estate. Modern themes, scores and sound effects will be added ... Walt Disney is rereleasing early Mickey Mouse cartoons for theatrical showing. They date from 1932 to 1934 Carol Burnett has joined the cast of Billy Wilder’s remake of The Front Page for Universal ... Paramount had a magazine length promotion folder in a recent New York Times Sunday edition. It featured new releases aleng with pictures and stories about the old days ... And regarding Paramount’s excursion into old times with The Great Gatsby, booking in New York has netted over a million dollars from New York area exhibs . . . Three houses will be used. Two will have general admission at four dollars per, and the other will have reserved seats ai six dollars each. Latter is for those who don’t want to stand in line. International Scenes People, Places and Events from Around the World The Canadian Film Digest Columbia is re-organizing everywhere. They paid off their debt of ten million dollars in November, they’ve sold their New | York location, Transworld Communications, and Learning Corporation of America. They have set a limit of three and a half million dollars on their involvement in any picture, and are going into co-financing deals. Polomar has concluded a joint deal with them. Polomar made Sleuth and The Heartbreak Kid and has Coca Cola and Brystol Myers money behind it ... Universal opened a new building in their Universal City complex by having an actress wear a filmkini. That’s a bikini made of film cut from current Universal releases. People: Charles Aznavour is taking a one year sabbatical from singing. He’s writing a script and willstar in a detective pic . . . Pierre Cardin is doing the costumes for a Russian ballet film of Anna Karenina ... William Friedkin is currently on a university tour in the U.S. . . . Lee Strasberg, founder of the Actors’ Studio, has taken his first acting role since the ‘late thirties. He’s appearing as a mobster in the Godfather, Part 2 ... Jean Gabin, 70, will retire this year ... Alexander Solzhenitsyn sold Carlo Ponti a script for Richard Burton some time ago when Ponti was at the Moscow Film Fest ... Ray Milland will not retire this year. Projects: Sergio Leone wants to make Once Upon a Time in America, a gangster pic ... Ray Stark wants Jack Benny and Red Skelton for The Sunshine Boys ... Martin Ritt and Woody Allen will combine forces for The Front for Columbia. . . Monty Python’s second movie will be Monty Python and the Holy Grail ... Luis Bunuel’s son Juan is making a film in Madrid with Catherine Deneuve and Fernando Rey . . . Jon Finch will appear in The Spirit of England, the true story of Robin Hood... Tony Curtis and Milton Berle are appearing in Lepke ... Aubrey Belasco formed a production company after the success of the Super Cops. His first pic will be with Ron ‘Liebman. . , Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore will be produced by David Susskind for War ‘ners. Martin Scorsese directs and Ellen Bur styn and Kris Kristofferson star .. . William Friedkin.will move his base of operations to Universal .. . Latter plans sequel to Airport. Pic will be called Airport 1975 .: . Hitchcock will make a film based on The Rainbird Pattern for Universal ... Rooster Cogburn returns to the screen for Universal, and the Duke will againstar . . . Other Universal projects include Jaws, to be directed by Steven Spielberg, and The Eiger Sanction to star Clint Eastwood . . . Madeline Kahn has joined the cast of Young Frankenstein, Mel Brooks’ Fox comedy ... James Coburn joins Gene Hackman and Candace Bergen in Bite the Bullet for Columbia . James Caan will play Billy Rose to Streisand’s Fanny Brice ... Man with the Golden Gun is now in pre-production. Filming starts mid-April .. . Valerie Perrine and Gary Morton have joined the cast of Lenny for U.A. Cinematographer Geoffery Unsworth was refused permission to shoot the pic by local ‘American unions . . . Disney is making Island. at the Top of the World and Diamonds on Wheels .. : Paramount’s Jackie Sussann opus Once is not Enough features Kirk Douglas, Melina Mercouri, David Jansen, Alexis Smith, and George Hamilton... Richard Lester is now director of Juggernaut . for U:A. ... Norman Jewison has a futuristic lethal game pic called Rollerball planned for U.A. ... Robert Redford will appear in Mayberry’s Kill for Universal .. . Paramount will make The Dollmaker with Jane Fonda. Story is of a Kentucky family moved to wartime Detroit and their hardships ... 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