| Show - cP - r pw - --- ---- - - v"- - v—Po' P— —- P—W --- - - ' i I t i - i i Outtakes: A look inside Hollywood ) i i — 1992T 34 MARCH e I 1 Alt NEWSTHE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE TUES PMWED -- 1 i 1 1 4 Co DESERET i I : t Los i 1 i : — The people who run the nation's theaters like to think they can spot a big movie the best of Hollywood's mo- "Brain Stoker's Dracula" froin director Francis Ford Coppola and "Lethal Weapon 3" with Mel Gibson and Danny Glover rooked like winners to an audience of theater exhibitors recently at their annual trade show convention at Bally's Casino Resort in Las Vegas Nev Most of Hollywood's major stu- dios unveiled product reels of upcoming movies at convention where scenes from Columbia Pictures late '92 release of "Dracula" drew lots of strong comments and a surge of applause for the period-piectale There were also hoots and hollers of approval for a preview of "Lethal Weapon 3" the sequel that is on Warner Bros' schedule for a Memorial Day weekend opening "They saw money on the screen with 'Weapon" one onlooker said Theater manager Terry Sholan of Edwards Cinemas' Mira Mesa 7 in San Diego predicted that the release of "Dracula" would be "huge When I saw that I could tell we'd be busy next Thanksgiving" she said Among others Sholan responded very strongly to scenes from "Stephen King's Sleepwalkers" a suspense thriller in April Another film sequence that drew resounding applause was a clip from Walt Disney Studios' next animated movie musical "Aladdin" scheduled for release late in the year The unfinished clip was a mixture of sketches and finished color animation showing a genie — with the wacky voice of Robin Williams — emerging from a magic lamp The consensus among viewers seemed to be that any time you can get a combination of animation and quality songs there's another "The Little Mermaid" or "Beauty and I r HOLLYWOOD ariWith 1 1 1 : 1- NATO-ShoWe- 1 rich-lookin- i I 4 - ' e'- ' - ' ' - ar '3 At st ' I' j '1 - ae 1- a ' - i ' ts' : a : 'a - : -:'"- a ' a e'0'' - a : i Holly-Woo- a- 1 - e - non-issue- ' f a e '': -- "--e - "- 1 f ' - --- - -- - - - :l ae- - 1 1 1 I five-minu- 1 1 names on the opening credits of a film In recent years though the practice disappeared as studio presidents and chairmen opted for anonymity giving the credit to the actual producer of the movie Not so for Frank Price The former Columbia Pictures chairman has added his name as producer alongside Steve Roth's on Columbia's "Gladiators" which arrives in theaters March 6 The film billed as a Price Entertainment-Steve Roth production is a drama set in the world of underground amateur boxing directed by Rowdy Harrington and starring James Marshall Cuba Gooding Jr and Robert Loggia Sources say that Price's move has irked current Columbia Chair- - I dition to Roth himself "This is a man who wfilaisnrunnwa:ning the studio while the production never visited the set and didn't produce the movie" one source said "So why should he get a producing credit? Most everybody thinks it's embarrassing d Frank stuck his ana laughable thaite on the Price who resigned as chairman of Columbia in October 1991 says that he has been developing the project since it was brought to him by Roth in 1982 and defends putting his name on the credits as producer "I've been very involved with the development of this project for many years and I think I've been instrumental in getting it made" Price says But another industry source says "Producing a movie is different than developing a movie As — - a- - EMM '" 40t-- partSoomfethseedeeathl : :- 1 a ' 12A' aneeean o - - '' 1 ': i $ r- - - - - 1- - i -- 4 tt ' - t- ?TR' i - tlt ' r - ' lt 1 f''' 4 -- A i 4 ''s a' 'a - maim 0)vrep— L 4°r? 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I don't think so" In 1983 Price left Columbia and became chairman of the Motion Picture Group at Universal and took the "Gladiators" project with him He left Universal in 1986 and started his own company Price Entertainment which had its headquarters at TriStar Once again Price took the project with him and continued developing it He rejoined Columbia as chairman in tific 1111Send your questions to Whatever Happened to Detroit Free Press 321 W Lafayette Blvd Detroit M148226 Volume of mail prohibits personal replies waiter-turned-mov- ie on convention meetings also focused on such summer star vehicles as "Patriot Games" with Harrison Ford Anne Archer and Patrick Bergin and "Far and Away" with Tom Cruise and Nicole Kichnan Director Spike Lee introduced a clip from his upcoming "Malcolm X" to what one viewer described as "mild to dispassionate reaction" 1 —oaeoe Mel Gibson and Danny Glover are back in "Lethal Weapon 3" and theater exhibitors think the movie will be a hit te thentizzBeasta'roonunthde - - - 01 lint 1982 one-tim- e - : mid-194- MGM-Path- e - on-movie 1 " cerned it's a Another industry source says he hopes Price's action doesn't start a Irene! "Every producer in d gets a little nervous about like he ethiaden" sseeing something — "It's a scary ANDY MARX HOLLYWOOD — It seems Commuthat former nications Co boss Giancarlo Parretti has a literary interest in a book that a employee is writing about him — which could be the most telling of several on him in the works — and the target may be her checkbook Arlene Cattani who worked for 16 months as head of MGM's public relations department during Parretti's regime says that she has been besieged with bills from the - 4 t ' 'a '"- - 1 ere I io "'"-- - acti- I ' - ' 1 r e g '- ' cri — Newspapers Whatever happened to Eleanor Powell MGM's tap dancing queen of the 1930s and '40s? — EQ Pontiac Mich Stals: Born Nov 12 1912 in Springfield Mass Attended public schools studied ballet tap dancing with Jack Donahue Mried actor Glenn Ford 1943 divorced 1959: One son Early years: Powell's mother started her in ballet to help her gain poise She started dancing professionally at 13 studied tap to make it to Broadway at age 17 in "Follow Through" She danced in several more Broadway musicals and appeared in nightclubs until she was signed to an MGM movie contract in 1935 She made her movie debut in "George White's Scandals" Famous for She made tap dancing a national craze in the 1930s The Dancing Masters of America called her "The World's Greatest Female Tap Dance" in 1938 In recent years: Powell tapped her way through more musicals and stage personal appearances until the when her career faded along with movie musicals Her last movie was a cameo in 1950's "The Duchess of Idaho" She retired shortly after her marriage to actor Ford Aftertheir divorce she had a brief and very successful comeback with a nightclub act After 1962 she devoted herself to religious and charity work She died in Executives at Columbia decline'd to comment on the matter Publicly Roth says "As far as I'm con- - - r Knight-Ridde- credit" " ao'e- Peterson Dy Dettelcra name on as producer after the studio started conducting test screenings and the research results were favorable "Believe me" says the source "if the test results had been bad he wouldn't have taken a Tiea tarra'oeles 6( Where's Eleanor Powell? - sst w |
