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Show rrrtv fiK i The Sdlt Lake Tribune. Sund.iv, January rrrT'ft'ii . tt t-- rt ,TtiT-yrT,- , ' Damaged pagers Excellence is radical nolion today, according lo actor Peter Coyote 19, I'fKh 9 ' 'i.w 3"X . I As a result, the studio sptnl largt sums of money p moting the film $750 000 on television ads. accoiding and opened it in some 70 to Coyote theaters in the Los Angeles and San Francisco areas By compaiison "Amadeus." the film which won the Academy Award for best picture Iasi year, was playing in approximately 20 theaters nationwide When the studio was not seeing a return on its substantial investment in the film, it moved to cut its losses The studio moved it over into a little cineplex in L A. and let it run without ads." said Coyote. "There it began to develop an audience." The filmmakers had a contractual obligation with the studio for a New York opening While Vincent Canby of the Sew York Tunes was less than kind in his review, the film won accolades from Pauline Kael of the Sew Yorker, as well as from critics for Sew York magazine and the Vil-l- ii ye Voice. Box office receipts started to climb. By the 10th week of release it was making double the money it had made opening week -proof that it had what is known as "tegs" in the industry. Word of mouth was carrying the film Again, the studio dropped the ball, according to Coyote. It stopped buying ads and released "Heartbreakers" on videotape, putting the theater in competition with the video rental By Terry ( me Tribune Staff Writer - LX !'- - of the PARK CITY topics that will be much on The minds of the filmmakers attend tg the United States Film Festival lu re this week is how to get their filrss into the theaters, how to sucei a ,sfiill market their labors of love . been Actor Ieter Coyntejhas through the process cl starring in an indepedently produce cl film, having it picked up by a sLpdio. ad then watching as it made its way to the from Coyote's Only marketplace point of view, it was 4ill done wrong It was a dream turned intoa nightmare. ( i film directed "Heartbreakers," and by lobby Roth and starring Coyote and . Nick Mancuso. was one of the most popular films in last year's mdependt nt film competition here. The parm reception a seemed to bode well jfor the film contemporary look at the up and down friendship be iveen two men After being picked lup for distribution, however, thing.1! went sour What went wrong will be the subject of one of the fe rival's seminars Thursday at 10 a.m. in the Egyptian Theatre. A panel con tisting of Coyote. Roth, attorney Lee Mfahl and filmmaker David Burtoi t Morris will ex" amine how the rel ease of hurt the I Urn's chances of finding a wide audio nee During a telephc me conversation from his home in St m Francisco last week, Coyote left not question that he " believes the studio l leasing made some very bad deci1 Peter Coyote plays opposite Glenn Close in Jagged Edge. Coyote will appear on panel at U.S. Film Festival Thursday discussing distribution of Ileartbreakers. Lionel Richie, secure in music, plans to move into film acting Jack Mathews Los Angeles Times Writer HOLLYWOOD - It was inevitable that singer Lionel Richie's name would show up in a film column The successful ones all end up over here eventually. Crosby. Sinatra. Presley, Prince. Records are nice, but the Big Screen is Bogart The bait is immortality Richie calls it ' that next step to Frontierland " Richie Declares Already holding one Oscar nomination for a song (Endless Love) and likely to have another soon (for "Say You. Say Me" from White Nights"). Richie is declaring He will make his first movie late this year, or early next, with others, he hopes, to follow "I want this to be my novelty." Richie said, during a break at Ocean Way Recording Studios here "1 will always have the music business as my main thing, but I want the film business as the playground I can go By to " Richie has not settled on a film pi yet. He says he is considering four of them, but will probably put ofl a decision until October when he reworld tour turns from a that will leap-frofrom Europe to the States to Japan to Australia four-mont- h g Learn Craft "I am not coming in (to movies) asking for the lead role in 'Gone With the Wind, Richie said. "Acting is a studied craft, like anything else. You start at the bottom and learn it " This is good because Clark Gable Richie is not. But there are engaging quotients of humor and affability to the singer that are apparent both on meeting him and in watching his rock videos, and Richie said he would choose a debut role that was dose to his personality. 1 don't expect anyone to say after one film that I am a great actor." he said "The most I'm hoping - for is that they'll say. 'He has the tential of being great edge." Here is a role that would be perfect for Richie s film debut Perfect Role A black kid. growing up during the late '50s and early '60s in a house across from the Tuskcgee University in Alabama, becomes so mesmerized by the passion of such guest lecturers as Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. that he decides to go to college and become a lawyer. But there is the tug of music, an adopted blend of rock, country, gospel and soul. So when, as a college student, he is asked by a group of five other campus musicians to join them in a rock group that would be a black version of the Beatles, he agrees After years of struggle, of sleeping in a van with his head pressed so firmly against sound equipment that you can read the brand name "Compact Amp on his forehead the next morning, he and the group hit it big Solo Career Then later he breaks away to start a solo career. In the film's closing scene, we see him on a stage at the Los Angeles Coliseum, telling a television audience of 2 6 billion people around the world how proud America is to have hosted the Olympic Games Then he launches into a dazzling "INSIDE CHINA DANIELLE 364-364- Open Daily 1 'CAPRI 7 vli.M Kri. & Sat. MAKE YOUR WgoternVilloqe A, 1 Nl f.'. 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Bus service Lake Ogden) Roy and ClearfieldlTour Price of 0QP) ndudes great gift package and a cash refund MorningdepartureandM friday and Saturday evening Junfaroundi') Groupsare welcome" inytim CftMi The Eye Institute of Utafln c. AND t guide These ratings apply to films released after March I, T979 Gj u . I t ih Advance reservations require CalOf-800;645;34- 23 i A Here is titles-1- X 'A ROOM . ,14 DELUXE NEW ( .AuiW PACKED ACTION huUR - what's wonderful about art, namely its irregularity and its particularity." Coyote, who is a regular participant in the Sundance Institute's June Lab for filmmakers, has plans of directing and producing his own films You must have another leg to stand on as an actor if you want to control the quality of the product," he said At the same time, Coyote has been able to enjoy appearing in some quality, and financially successful, films made by the studios He had a small role, as the government scientist, in "E.T." He played opposite Mary 'teenburgen in "Cross Creek." Replayed distnct attorney cently Thomu asny in "Jagged Edge." Coy 'e relished playing the dark, overly ambitious Krasny. In the film. Krasny operates by his own book of rules, fingering criminals and going to any lengths to secure a conviction "I loved my character." said Coyote "From one point of view 1 think he's the hero of the movie. From another point of view he stands as an emblem of the kind of man that society has to be protected against. That doesn't make him bad. It means that when a man has the power of the state behind him, he should have to follow very vigorous rules so that he doesn't hurt people. "Krasny's only fault is that he bends the rules. But you show me a successful man in any realm who hasn't. I wanted to show that he was charming at times. I didn't want to play him as just a bad guy. I wanted to make him human, understandable." Coyote believes that the success of "Jagged Edge is due to the fact that it doesn't talk down to the audience, that it is a complex drama that doesn't explain every plot detail. The characters are complex as well. The. are hard to pigeonhole into "good and "bad." "The only thing I can say is that the i lost radical thing anybody can do these days is to be excellent. That's what I'd like to be in the movies make. That's why 'The Jagged Edge' worked. People are just tired of being reated like they are stupid. People will get the joke if you will just trust them." Person jndu 17 no klSTPlCTED admitted unless accompanied bv par ent or adu't guardian Other Utah .neav call Toll Free 18001 2S8 S82' HDeiwcrmill It Roth and Coyote took the film to a town known to be supportive of films from outside the Seattle Famine Relief Last year, Richie and Michael a song called "We Jackson Are the World, and with music er-composer Quincy Jones, they managed to enlist 45 of the world's PARK CITY IHinday highlights top rock, pop, jazz and country stars of the United States Film Festival for one session that would here include the w Prld premieie of from record and videocassette sales Lumet's Power" at 7 p.m. in - earn more than $40 million for Sidney the Theatije. "Power" stars Egyptian famine relief in Africa Richard Gere, Ji'te Christie and That night is memorable to Richie Gene Hackman. The film is about a for other reasons. A few hours before mcidia consultant the session began, he hosted the working on the campaigns of three American Music Awards and also different politicians!. won six awards It's about the mechanization of "Under normal circumstances, the whole process,"' Lumet has said that evening would have been the about the film. "R': about the influhighlight of a lifetime," Richie said ence of the polls, th t emphasis on ap"But a few hours later, I'm in a room pearance and the lets of humanity in with all these legends and people like politics." Bob Dylan and Ray Charles and An informal discussion with Lumet 'LioBruce Springsteen are saying. will take place Sum lay at 4 p.m. in the nel, how do you want me to sing this Elks Building. Clipsi from such Lumet line'' " films as Twelve ingry Men," Fail Shares Record The Pawnbroker," Safe, Serpico." There is more. When Richie's "Say "Dog Day Afternoon," "Network," You, Say Me" single reached the top Prince of the City," "The Merdiet" of the music charts recently, that and "Daniel" will ,be shown and dis' made nine years in a row that he has cussed. a record he shares, A number of film;; from the Amerihad a No. 1 hit for the moment, with Irving Berlin. can independent diaamatic and docu"You don't write songs to win mentary competitions will be shown awards or set records, Richie said. Sunday, as will independent Australian films. Tickets will be on sale in "If you tried, those would be the ones the Memorial Bkilding, 427 Main that you could count on not working Is there pressure trying to break a Street, or at the theaters one hour prior to a showing. All films will be record No, theres pressure just tryscreened in the Egyptian Theatre and with to another that come up song ing the Holiday Cinemas. For informa works " RESERVATIONS NOW' 487-LUC- SUUI ' sions. j "The distributors, ; m their generosity and appreciation for the movie, completely misreadlits audience." he said They were locking for another ' " Big Chill multi-nation- PG 13 IN SALT LAKE CALL: Ml version of one of his greatest hits while 80,000 people dance in the stands around him Richie says that when that moment actually occurred 16 months ago. he wanted to freeze time and step out ot the picture and just look at it "I wanted it to last forever." he said LEE PEPPERMILL TOURS ttcsnrt Hotel "Heart-breakers- 363-174- 0 1 Late Show 1:45 A.M. g As mure and more of the film studios get taken over by corporations, they begin to operate solely by di mographics." continued Coyote on the subje.t of the distribution of movies which come from outside mainstream Hollywood "When vou try to market a film like a can of soft drink, you have to first of all give it a standard shape So you lose MAI LIN RATED VERONICA HART 1 "The studio was into prophecies." said Coyote "They had said that the film was a loser and they were out to make it a loser " lure DOOR' BLONDE NEXT "AMANDA BY NIGHT" WEST CINEMA1 stores It ha-- , play ed lor 28 weeks. It was tin' number one grossing movie tor 13 weeks lied with 'Back to the Fu CHINA LEE DESIREE LANE KAREN SUMMER RATED X AMBER LYNN SHAUNA GRANT KAREN SUMMER SHARON KANE RATED X CO FEATURE I "Heart-breakers- FIRST RUN' FIRST RUN EXCLUSIVE! BROOKE RATED X 15 West Brunilwiiv po- Previous Offers Richie said he has been offered acting jobs in the past, but did not feel secure enough as a solo singer (he broke away from the Commodores three years ago) to take on another medium. "Now that I feel comfortable as a solo artist. I'm ready to take on the challenge," he said. "I think, to be successful, you have to keep going to the edge, doing things people don't expect from you. I've done that with mv music. Lionel Richie going to movies is certainly Lionel Richie going to the "iHAUNA, EVERY MAN'S FANTASY" T n't t 7 rrmrrvtT! r r t rnrtTnnf'TYT'T'n S' |
