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11 Zotf 3ngflf Cimr SaL. Oct 22, 1977 Pt FILM CLIPS MIND-BLOWING AND FANTASTIC Mi 'The Body Snatchers' Moves Up BY GREGG KILDAY Time Staff WrHer THE NUMBER ONE RECORD IS THE NUMBER ONE SURPRISE FILM OF THE YEAR! runoHozzetto's p-'fo Hi ill When news of United Artists' planned remake of the 1956 horror film. "Invasion of the Body Snatchers." began to leak two months ago, the movie sounded decidedly economy fare. When I first called producer Robert Solo in search of E3 qAW 6 i a turn troppo A CHOBB BETWEEN FANTASIA AND YELLOW SUBMARINE WITH A TOUCH Of FELLHN Laemmle MONICA II. Santa Monica-43Tl686 msm U.A.

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Hollywood-766-4317 U.A. MOVIES Long Beach-596-2751 5th SMASH WEEK! Edwards. CINEMA CENTER Costa Mesa-(714) 979-4141 THEEE MOVIES OF TARZANA 996-1300 details, he was hesitant about discussing the project until UA's executives had approved his budget. The remake already had been dropped by Warner the company that sponsored its development The budget that was awaiting UA's approval had consequently been pared to the bone or so Solo intimated. As if in evidence of his stringent intentions.

Solo announced that the movie would be cast with young unknowns. Well, apparently the body snatchers those giant pea Edwards WESTBROOK. Garden Grove-(714) 530-4401 COVE NO. 1. Hermosa Beach 379-2465 PAN PACIFIC.

Hollywood 938-7070 LONG BEACH Moi2, S96-Z7S1 MISSION VIEJO Cinami Viiia 714830-6990 REDONDO BEACH Southbay 3 370-6396 ROSEMEAD Rmamaad 2. 5739480 TEMPLE CITY Tntiple 286-3179 VAN NUYS Fo 785-0449 WESTMINSTER UA Twia I 714893-1305 BEVERLY HILlSWilshin 6530863 WESTWOOD Wntwood 473-7664 ARCADIA Santa Anita 4, 449-1200 ORE A Iraa 7145294339 CERRITOS UA Cerritoi Mall 4. 924-7721 CITY OF INOUSTRY Putntt Hills 3 9666869 COSTA MESA SoutticoM Plan 2 714646-2711 COVINA Fan 332-0050 They do not have the level of education that exists in America. They are not concerned with social themes. The vital issues for them are motion and picture." Deeley conceded that there are dangers lurking in producing straightforward action pictures for the international market "We could end up turning out a whole lot of truck movies.

In fact two of our first three movies are vehicle movies," he said, albeit expressing his hope that they will be vehicle movies with a difference. Currently either completing filming or in postproduc-tion, the EMI slate includes: "Convoy," director Sam Peck-inpah's first PG-rated movie, starring Kris Kristofferson and Ali MacGraw in a tale spun off the pop song of the same name by C. W. McCall; "The Driver," director Walter Hill's allegorical study of a getaway driver played by Ryan O'Neal, and "The Deerhunter," director Michael Cimino's drama of a steel worker who does battle in Vietnam starring Robert De Niro. "We're willing to go with more dangerous directors," Deeley said of his company's present taste.

"Hill and Cimi-no are both directing their second features. And, of course, Peckinpah's work is always unpredictable. All three are great stylists and I think that's certainly worth something." Meanwhile, while EMI Films, Ltd. is producing "Death on the Nile," another all-star Agatha Christie who-dun-it and "Atlantis," an Edgar Rice Burroughs piece of period science fiction, Deeley's EMI Films Inc. is developing a number of new projects among them "The Last Gun," a straight-faced western which Hill is writing and will direct, and "The Chinese Bandit" a screenplay by David Shaber about an American marine sergeant who crosses China in 1947.

DOWNEY Stiawcaw 862-1121 EAGLE ROCK E.fk RockPla2 2549101 GARDEN A Rgadian Drwt-la 5343033 ORANGE Ciixdamc 21, 714634-2553 ORANGE Stadium Drrw-I2 714639(770 SANTA MONICA Cuuma tha Mall 3946703 Donald Sutherland LOS ANGELES Garaoa (34-2944 TARZANA Thata Maviai 996-1300 "A love story with class, and very high class at that." mm NEW YORK POST Judith Crist pods that transform all around them into creepy zombies-would have none of it. If they were going to make their screen comeback, it would only be opposite bona fide stars. With the announcement this week that Donald Suther land will star in the film, it is clear that UA's '-'Invasion of the Body Snatchers" has been moved up to first-class status. Having recently completed two films in Canada-Stuart Cooper's "The Disappearance" and Claude Chabrol's "Blood Relatives" Sutherland will be returning to Hollywood to play the man who discovers the pods' secret just as Kevin McCarthy did in the '56 version. Explaining the production's current intentions, Solo said that he and director Philip Kaufman had expected to hire unknowns but, "Phil saw Donald at a screening.

He looked terrific. When he expressed interest in the project, we changed the part for him." aCv 41 mM mmm.irr.M 3 lUii! mi i i ujiuj i 14- I Celebrity alert Henry Winkler, star of the upcoming Universal feature, "Heroes," will make a personal appearance tonight at the 8 p.m. preview of the film at the Bruin Theater in Westwood. Universal, which has invited a number of out-of-town visitors, is hoping that a properly enthusiastic mob will be in attendance. PG NV nA HI EXCLUSIVE ENGAGEMENT NOW PLAYING DAILY 1 OO, 3:15 5 35.800.

10:20 PM Friday and Saturday Late Show 12: 30 AM In love, war, or robbing banks, nobody's perfect. nth Joining Sutherland it will be announced next week is none other than Leonard Nimoy. Nimoy had, of course, been paged to reprise his role as Mr. Spock in Paramount TV's new Star Trek series. In fact, Nimoy became acquainted with Kaufman last year when Kaufman was preparing to direct the Star Trek feature film that has since been canceled.

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CiHM Wtsl 112-441 ARLINGTON Arlington 714689-0400 PANORAMA CITt Amercana Cinema 893-6441 COSTA MESA Harbor Cinema 714646 0573 WEST COVINA Eastland 3397333 DOWNEY Avenue 923-6781 CEMII0S.MnIU4SM1 3 ii.mw.msjH'iyi very complicated. They went on for a year and a half it got to the point where I just didn't want to continue with them." Nimoy was agreeable to Kaufman's suggestion that he accept a role in "Invasion of the Body Snatchers." Giving some indication of the direction that W. D. Rich-ter's screenplay will take, Nimoy said that he will be claying a contemporary psychologist, "a kind of Werner Er-hard Arthur Janov character who explains that all the zombielike behavior is due to contemporary social stresses." The official news, released last week, was that the EMI Film Group, one of Britain's major film production companies, was inaugurating changes in its management structure. Nat Cohen, who is retiring from his executive role as chairman.

EMI Films on Dec. 31. will remain with the company as consultant and member of the board. Michael Deeley and Barry Spikings. whose British Lion Films was acquired by EMI last year, will be responsible for the Group's world-wide film production and distribution: Spikings will serve as chief executive of EMI Films Ltd.

in London and Deeley has moved to Los Angeles to head EMI Films, Inc. Over a lunch of cold lobster and white wine served on the rooftop patio of EMI's Beverly Hills offices "Here we can always have someone by for lunch in place of a formal meeting" Deeley explained the company's intention in establishing an American division. "America represents 60 of the film market," Deeley noted. "It is easier to communicate with the world market from here. "At the same time, we must recognize that 80 of the market outside the United States speaks foreign languages.

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