Motion Picture Daily (Oct-Dec 1959)

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k)L. 86, NO. 76 MOTION PICTURE DAILY NEW YORK, U.S.A., MONDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1959 TEN CENTS Marcus Plan Compo Meet to Discuss Area (Promotion To Be Taken Up By Sales Heads* Ad Men Also National adoption of an area promotion plan successfully conducted among Wisconsin theatres by Ben Marcus will come up for discussion next Thursday at the annual meeting of the Compo membership, board of directors and executive committee at the Astor Hotel. Marcus, it was explained over the (weekend by Compo spokesman, is exipected to appear Wednesday before a joint meeting of the Motion Picture Ass'n. general sales manager and publicity and advertising director committees and solicit their support for an expansion of the promotion plan to all exchange areas. At a meeting of the Compo area promotion committee last month, and previously at a meeting of the Compo executive committee in May, Marcus ( Continued on page 3 ) Columbia Reports Net 01 $151000 tor 1959 Net profit of $151,000 for the fiscal year ended last June 6 was reported by Columbia Pictures on Friday. The figure includes $2,597,000, representing profit on the sale of the company's West Coast laboratory facilities. The result compares with a loss of $4,987,000 for the preceding fiscal year, which included a special writeoff of $3,837,000, representing studio costs not allocated to production. 'Sheba' to Open in L. A. At Wilshire Dec. 25 By SAMUEL D. BERNS HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 18.-Spencer Leve, vice-president and general manager of National Theatres, voiced his confidence in the box office potential of United Artists' "Solomon and Sheba" with a statement on Friday that $150,000 will be spent to refur( Continued on page 7 ) The Industry Welcomes JAMES CARRERAS (Managing Director of Hammer Film Productions) and GENERAL SIR ROBERT MANSERGH (ADC to her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II) on their arrival in New York in connection with the launching of YESTERDAY'S ENEMY Hammer Productions' Exploitation Winner from COLUMBIA (Advt.) On Nov. 11 Corkery to Head New MPEA Western Office In line with the growing importance of the foreign market to the United States motion picture industry economy, Eric Johnston, president, MPEAA, announced on Friday the transfer of the Western Hemisphere office to Mexico City, effective Oct. 25. Robert J. Corkery, MPEAA vicepresident in charge of Western Hemisphere operations, including all of Latin America and Canada, will (Continued on page 3) AIP Progressing Well In Film Sales Abroad Great strides are being made by American International Pictures in selling its product abroad, William G. Reich, general sales manager for American International ( Pictures ) Export Corp., told the trade press at a conference here on Friday. Foreign billings are expected to be 35 per cent of the domestic billings for fiscal 1959, he said, and the goal is to make the figure 50 per cent (of domestic billings) by 1961. Reich has just returned here from (Continued on page 7) British Producers Worried Over Australian Plan to Withdraw Preference Given U.K. Films From THE DAILY Bureau LONDON, Oct. 15 (By Air Mail).— British producers have made urgent representations to the Board of Trade over the declared intention of the Queensland Government in Australia to withdraw the preference granted to British films under the Picture Theatres and Films Act. Under this Act exhibitors have the right to reject 25 per cent of films bought on "forward" contracts. At the moment, however, British films are excluded from this regulation so that exhibitors do not have the right to reject British films. If the Queensland Government goes ahead with the proposed amendment British films will be put on the same basis as foreign films. TOA Meet to Hear Bicks, Trust Chief To Speak, Answer Queries When Sales Heads Appear Special to THE DAILY SPRINGFIELD, 111., Oct. 18. Robert A. Bicks, acting assistant attorney general, anti-trust division, of the Department of Justice, has accepted the invitation of Theatre Owners of America to be a guest speaker at the all-industry luncheon on Wednesday, Nov. 11, a highlight of TOA's 12th annual convention at the Hotel Sherman in Chicago, Nov. 8-12, it was announced by George G. Kerasotes, TOA president. Bicks also has agreed to have a question and answer period from the floor, following his address, Kerasotes said. "We are very fortunate," Kerasotes declared, "that Mr. Bicks believes that it is in the public interest for the anti-trust division of the Department (Continued on page 2) Rand Appointed Para. Publicity Manager Harold Rand, publicity manager of Walt Disney's Buena Vista Film Distribution Company, has been named publicity manager of Paramount Pictures, effective Nov. 2, it was anil o u nc e d at the weekend by Jerome Pickman, vicepresident i n charge of advertising, publicity and exploitation. The appointment of Rand, following the announcement earlier in the week of Gerald Rowe as ad( Continued on page 7) TELEVISION TODAY— page 6 m Harold Band