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Show Sellier Leaves Sunn f or Comworld Movie maker Burt Reynolds . and Utah filmmaker Charles Sellier, Jr. announced Monday Mon-day the formation of Comworld Com-world Pictures to be headquartered head-quartered in Midway, Utah. - Reynolds will serve as Chairman of the Board with Sellier acting as President and Chief Executive Officer. The new company plans to produce and distribute theatrical theat-rical films for domestic and foreign markets as well as for selected television arid cable programming. Comworld Pictures will make its corporate home in Midway, Utah, with distribu-v distribu-v tion branches in both domestic domes-tic and foreign locations. The company is owned by Reynolds, Rey-nolds, Sellier and the Comworld Com-world Group. Reynolds plans to keep his own company and separate status as an actor-producer-director. He is under a non-exclusive arrangement with Comworld according to a company press release. He is expected, however, to provide the new company with active behind-the-scenes services creatively ranging from acquisition through production and distribution dis-tribution phases. According to the press release Reynolds is "excited by the creative challenges which Comworld Pictures affords to produce and distribute quality films on sane budgets. And I'm equally excited by the opportunity to fully explore the market research and distribution techniques which Chuck Sellier pioneered pioneer-ed for films." Sellier was unavailable for comment but according to the press release he is pleased with the idea of putting Reynolds' "creative talents behind-the-scenes with our expertise in the areas of audience-preference testing and distribution." Despite his leaving Sunn Classic, Sellier says he had no intentions of leaving Utah where he says the film locations are "unmatched." Sunn Classic Pictures has already had a change in management but there was no immediate word on the company's plans with respect re-spect to Sellier's departure. |
