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fEU(oJ BOB HARRIS, PRODUCER ot SANTO GOLD PROUDLY PRESENTS HIS MUL Tl MILLION DOLLAR CLASS AAAAA FEA TORE FILM THE MIRACLE AT DLOOD CIRCUS THE INCREDIBLE SCI-FI 2 HRS WRESTLING MOTION PICTURE A peek at coming attractions? Muggers. For other instance, there's Post-Viet Remorse Action-Revenge. There's themes that are so good they decided to use them as the title too, like for instance Bad Girls Dormitory or Heated Violence. There's themes that are so truly thematic they defy the very ads that promote them, like most particularly The Miracle At Blood Circus. Bob Harris knows a good theme when it bites down hard on his ankle, and that's WRESTLING.

Bob Harris is the kind of promoter who could bring the BLOOD back to wrestling where it belongs. As for Blood Circus, if it's no St. Elmo's Fire well: NOTHING TO COMPARE IT TO IN THE INDUSTRY, SO ORIGINAL WRESTLERS ACTUALLY HAD TO GET STITCHES AND LOST TEETH, THE BLOOD WAS REAL, THE LIGHTING P. DIRECTING, SOUND ETC WAS SUPERB. Nothing less than you'd expect from Bob.

Bob is, according, to his ad: CREATOR, WRITER, FOUNDER OF SANTO GOLD, AND PRESIDENT OF THE WORLD'S LARGEST TV MAIL ORDER BUSINESS. THE PRESS CALLS HIM BARNUM, OTHERS HOUDINI FOR DOING THE IMPOSSIBLE. WATCH FOR HIS NAME HE USUALLY BECOMES THE BIGGEST AT WHAT HE DOES. I don't suppose I need to tell you by now that Bob Harris is a man to match Hollywood's mountains. The Golan Globus boys are going to be history once Bob's momentum builds up; Tobe Hooper, and Sho Kosugi and Kosugi's kids and all the kids from St.

Elmo's Fire will all be tossing their credentials over his garden OTHER THAN THE MILLIONS BEING SPENT ON TV NEWSWEEK AND USA, TODAY; ETC HAVE RECENTLY MENTIONED BLOOD CIRCUS The Miracle At Blood Circus could be the one that will singlehandedly roll back the tides, the crushing groin-kick that boots wrestling right off its newfound' path of mainsteam righteousness and back to the bathtubs of blood where it belongs. God bless Bob Harris for that alone. In the meantime, Bob may not have Flashdance's Jennifer Beals and Sting from the Police starring in Blood Circus but who needs them? THE MAKING OF BLOOD CIRCUS (12 HOUR VIDEO SHORT) WILL BE READY MAY 8TH. A HIT RECORD "BLOOD CIRCUS" NOW CUT TO BE RELEASED "PRIOR TO MOVIE. full-page Variety ads are all expecting roughly about the same from their product, give or take a few zillion lira, francs, or zeroes You don't pitch blockbusting titles like American Ninja or Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 or The Naked Cage or The Return of Godzilla out into the salty air of Cannes without expecting them to float back with money plastered all over them You don't mobilize most of Italy to make a sci-fi spaghetti western like Tex And The Lord Of The Deep, you don't toss down a gauntlet like Mussolini and or remake a bonanza-raking remake like Quo Vadis if you're not pretty positive you've cornered the" market on whatever it is you call it that you're selling.

Which is also not to say that Bob Harris is the lone one-hand-loose wildcatter left in the field. Most of these screen entertainments are never going to be seen on screen one cross yourself, quick, for luck but some monumentally earth-shaking, money-making, internationally-advertised smile-faking handshakes will be made right over top of them all the same. And some valiant grandstand plays will be made just beneath the financiers' box seats like for instance the two-page ad that declares: "They must be crazy," and then fills us in that they are two guys from Holland. Their first picture was The Girl With The Red Hair, their second was Little their third was The Scorpion ah, but now, Now, they're "preparing the International production of MADAME BOVARY." And if only to show they've got a sense of humor no cash money, but a bank account full of Dutch chutzpah their own two-page ad adds a cynically underlined "We'll See. So okay, so maybe Bob Harris might not have any sense of humor whatsoever, but he knows a good movie when he sees one, and that's The Miracle At Blood Circus.

No matter what you might say about it, it's no National Lampoon's European Vacation. And don't think Bob himself doesn't believe in it: WE ARE CURRENTLY PURCHASING OVER 12 MILLION DOLLARS PER MONTH IN THE U.S. ON NATIONAL TV PROMOTING BLOOD CIRCUS, WE ARE SATURATING THE EUROPEAN TV MARKET OUR 58 MILLION VIEWERS, ALL 10 DAYS OF CANNES. Bob's a believer in TV. One thing you learn quick from browsing these ads is that some movie stars and directors and such are EXPECTING $200 MILLION GROSS KMM3WIBTaiCTUHICNaMNeCWWTWUNOI.

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Take Joe Bob's beloved Sho Kosugi, for instance. Sho's "an original Ninja" in Pray For Death, a less original one in Way of the Ninja, an unoriginal one in Devil's Odds, and since they're always standing around his sets with nothing to do, he's got his boys Shane and Kane Kosugi starring in He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother "Innocent victims in a man made hell" is the way the movie's poster puts it. And hey, how 'bout that Tobe Hooper? Rebounding from having Spielberg swipe the director's chair right out from under him on Poltergeist, the Hoop's keeping his hands from getting idle by knocking out Chainsaw Massacre 2, Invaders From Mars, Lifeforce, and Spiderman: The Movie for Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus over at Cannon Films. He's got a couple of side projects and things going on for a few other people but for the moment he's trying to concentrate on the major stuff. Aside from consideration of mere mortal actors and directors and producers and all, what you really notice whilst flip-reading the Variety film annual ads is Big Themes.

For instance there's Man's Inhumanity to BOEST AT WHAT HC OCXS OTHER THAN TMB MLUDMS MEMO SPOT OH TV ETC HAwC ACOENTLY MVMTOMSD LOOO CPCUB. sure I could do nothing but phone in a list of just the names of the movies advertised in Variety's annual Cannes Film Festival issue. starting with I he Last House On The Left. Part II, moving on to The Gods Must Be Crazy II and Death Wish 3, closing out with Young Lady Chatterly II starring Sybil Danning's talents, and wadding up all the gaps between Mob War, In TV' Out, Bloodsuckers From Outer Space, Play Dead, Death Curse of Tartu, Igor And The Lunatics, and Sometimes Aunt Martha Does Dreadful Things sure, I could do it, but then what room would there be to tell you about Bob Harris and his Multimillion Dollar Class AAAA feature film. The Miracle At Blood Circus? Huh? There's a lot to be said for The Miracle At Blood Circus most of it said by Bob Harris himself but no matter what anybody says about it, it's no A View To A Kill.

One of the things Bob says about Blood Circus is that he'll send you a FREE 10-minute videocassette preview of the picture but he's also inviting THE MAJOR STUDIOS TO BATTLE IT OUT IN THE RING FOR THE RIGHTS to what may be the greatest wrestling movie ever made including New World Picture's soon-to-be-released Grunt. If I were you, I'd get on the stick and order your copy quick. RIGHT NOW Let me tell you something about Blood Circus first better yet, let Bob. Among Bob's favorite features among all his feature's features are "10 ELECTRONIC AND REMOTE 35MM MOTION PICTURE CAMERAS AND A CAST OF THOUSANDS, WITH ANGELS AND ANGEL MUSIC, ALIENS, REAL BLOOD, HEADS LANDING IN POPCORN, FLEAS, SANTO GOLD WEARING 30 LBS OF GOLD SINGING HIS HIT SONG SANTO GOLD!" And that's just part of what Bob really goes for take my word for it. There's also: BLOOD, COMEDY, TEARS, THE MOST BRUTALEST, HARD PACKING, THUNDERING LANDING, EDGESIT-TING, TEAR JERKING, COMEDY, SCI-FI ACTION HORROR EVERYTHING MOVIE EVER FILMED.

Modestly, Bob's "EXPECTING $200 MILLION GROSS." Modestly, Bob's competitors in the film-producing derby-of-death marked by a couple of hundred WEDNESDAY, JUNE 4. 1985 i I ill Here are some of the films you will likely be seeing this summer, as opposed to the ones detailed in Bart Bull's story. Grace Jones, far left, is the villainous May Day in A View To A fc7Chevy Chase, from left, is the befuddled vacationer in National Lampoon's European Vacation, a veritable bevy of young stars burn bright in St. Elmo's Fire, the Western rides again in the adventure saga Silverado, and Jack Nicholson plays a hit man in Prizzi's Honor. up I I 4 ri 11 By Bart Bull PAGE 21 CITY LIFE WEDNESDAY, JUNE 4, 1985.