Hollywood Studio Magazine (August 1968)

JULIAN BINSTOCK GETSPREXYJOB Julian G. Binstock has been appointed Executive Assistant to Milton Goldstein, Vice President of Worldwide Distribution of CBS Films. Mr. Binstock will assist Mr. Goldstein in all matters concerning foreign distribution. He will be head¬ quartered in the New York offices. Mr. Binstock began his motion picture career in 1945 with Paramount Interna¬ tional Films, Inc. His first foreign post was in Brussels. He became the General Manager for Belgium and subsequently in 1964 was promoted to General Manager for Paramount in Japan. In 1967 he returned to Europe to become the Assist¬ ant to the President of Paramount Inter¬ national Films, Inc. headquartered in Paris. There, he also assisted the Euro¬ pean Continental Manager for the com¬ pany. Mr. Binstock was born in New York City and is a graduate of Harvard Univer¬ sity with a Bachelor of Arts degree and also studied at the Sorbonne in Paris. He is married and has four children. DUSTIN HOFFMAN IN "LITTLE BIG MAN" Dustin Hoffman will star in the title role of “Little Big Man,” which Stuart Millar will produce and Arthur Penn dir¬ ect for Cinema Center Films, it was an¬ nounced by Gordon Stulberg. Calder Willingham has written the screenplay f rom Thomas Berge’s novel, with filming scheduled to begin next Spring on location in the West. Penn, who was nominated for this year’s Academy Award for his direction of “Bonnie and Clyde,” was similarly re¬ cognized by the Academy in 1962 for his direction of “The Miracle Worker.” He will co-produce and direct “Alice’s Res¬ taurant” for United Artists prior to start¬ ing “Little Big Man.” Willingham received an Oscar nomina¬ tion this year for co-authoring the screen¬ play of “The Graduate.” Millar’s previous producing credits in¬ clude “Birdman of Alcatraz,” “The Best Man,” and the soon-to-be-released “Paper Lion,” all for United Artists. HASKELL WEXLER TO PRODUCE"CONCRETE WILDERNESS" Haskell Wexler has been signed to pro¬ duce and direct the film version of Jack Couffer’s novel, “Concrete Wilderness”, it is announced by Robert Evans, vice presi¬ dent in charge of production. The internationally known award¬ winning cinematographer’s credits include such films as “In The Heat Of The Night”, ‘‘Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf’-which won him an Academy Award Oscar-“America America”, and “The Loved One”, which he co-produced. He makes his debut as a producer-director with “Concrete Wilderness” from his own screenplay. MARK RYDELL TO DIRECT FOR CBS FILMS Mark Rydell has been signed to direct Cinema Center Films’ “The Reivers,” starring Steve McQueen, an Arthur Kramer-Irving Ravetch production, in as¬ sociation with McQueen’s Solar Produc¬ tions. Ravetch and his wife, Harriet Frank, Jr., adapted William Faulkner’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 1963 novel to the screen. Rydell, who received critical acclaim for his first feature directorial assignment, “The Fox,” has since become one of Hollywood’s most sought after directors. Current plans call for “The Reivers” to go before the cameras this Fall on location in the south. Rydell is also set to direct Solar Productions’ “The Man On A Nylon String.” In “The Reivers,” McQueen plays the role of a raffish hired hand who takes his boss’ young grandson on a week-end of misadventures along the Mississippi. Cinema Center Films is the production organization for CBS Films. "CHARLIE BROWN" GOING AT CINEMA CENTER “A Boy Named Charlie Brown,” fea¬ ture-length cartoon in which Charles M. Schulz’ “Peanuts” comic strip characters will make their big-screen debut for Cinema Center Films, has gone into pro¬ duction at the animation studios of dir¬ ector and co-producer Bill Melendez on Hollywood’s Larchmont Avenue. Scheduled to employ 52 animators, inkers, background and color artists, the project will require more than 300,000 separate drawings and add up to about 75,000 man-hours of work over a nine- month period in that department alone, producer Lee Mendelson said. MICHEL HUGO TO LENS FOR CINEMA CENTER French New Wave alumnus Michel Hugo has been signed by producer Gor¬ don Carroll as cinematographer on Jalem -Cinema Center Films’ “The April Fools,” Jack Lemmon-Catherine Deneuve starrer rolling on location in New York on July 22 . An emigre to American pictures via television, Hugo was an Emmy nominee this year for a “Mission: Impossible” segment. He is currently winding Colum¬ bia’s big-screener, “The Model Shop.” RICHARD CONNELL GIVEN NEW POST AT CBS FILMS LONDON-Bernard Wilens, Vice- President in Charge of European Produc¬ tion for CBS Films, announced that Richard Cornnell has been named Execu¬ tive for Creative Affairs—Europe. His appointment is effective immediately. Connell, who most recently served in a similar capacity in the company’s New York office, will be headquartered in London, where he will co-ordinate the company’s activities with agents, pro¬ ducers, directors and writers. Prior to joining CBS Films, Connell was New York Story Editor for MCA. Previously, he was associated with MCA in Beverly Hills and also worked for Ashley-Famous Artists in Los Angeles. In making the announcement Wilens said, “We are extremely pleased that Richard Connell will be joining the European operation of CBS Films. He is highly respected and well-qualified execu¬ tive and we all look forward to a most happy association with him.” Page 32