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Show BETTER AND FEWER ' MOVIES PREDICTED "vTegoers can look toward to bigger and better Picture but fewer of them, it is predicted. To combat declining box-office lines and the rising prestige of Brftsh films, the multi-billion dollar dol-lar motion picture industry has decided de-cided to reel in Its film and concentrate con-centrate on sure-profit, grade-A pictures. A backlog of 189 movies made in 1946 is yet to be released. After that MGM cameras will produce only' 18 films this year as compared com-pared to 30 in 1946. Paramount plans to cut last year's 20 features fea-tures to 18. Twentieth Century-Fox Century-Fox will slice from 25 to 20, Republic Re-public from 62 to 52, RKO from 37 to 28 and Universal-International is eliminating all "B" films, lowering its tota from 55 to 25. |