Star-Phoenix from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada • 12

A12 Entertainment Monday, March 21, 1988 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan Star-Phoenix Bethune producers adamant over project control to in executives, are revise Allans script. In their statement. Filmline producers Pieter Kroonenburg and Nicolas Clermont said they have made every possible effort to accommodate the actors and directors wishes, even to the point of allowing Mr. Sutherland time off to do another film as he currently meeting with all sides in the dispute. A decision on Bethunes future is expected soon.

Bethune is a co-production involving Canada, China and France. Its the first time that China and Canada have co-operated in a feature film project. Filming was resume Montreal on March 28, after which the cast and crew was to move to Spain. But now, everything has been put on hold until the current problems are ironed out. Officials of Telefilm, which itself is undergoing a massive financial and managerial crisis following the departure of its two top However, it has become increasingly clearer as time goes on that neither the star nor the director are actually prepared to make the film they have signed contracts with us to make.

We will continue to fight to maintain control of this project. We are prepared to take whatever legal steps are Principal photography on the film was completed in China last year but all work recently came to a halt. Sutherland has asked for major changes in the script by Allan, who in turn has described the actor as egomaniacal," accusing him of wanting to trivialize the story of the Montreal doctor who was a hero of the Chinese Revolution. Allan, who was Norman Bethunes friend and biographer, has said that Filmline fully backs him in the struggle with Sutherland. The lead actor, however, has the support of director Phillip Borsos, who has since gone off with another screenwriter to MONTREAL (CP) Filmline International, the producer of Bethune: The Making of A Hero, says that it is as determined as ever to maintain creative and financial control over the problem-plagued film project.

The $16-million film and TV mini-series, one of the most ambitious ever undertaken by Canada, is floundering as a result of money pioblems and bickering between screenwriter Ted Allan and lead actor Donald Sutherland. Filmline has asked Telefilm Canada, the federal film-funding agency which has already invested $3.5 million in Bethune, for an additional $2 million to resume the project. Oscars producer sees silver lining niiiiiiMiniiiiiiin Oscar races interesting to people who dont know what the films are all about. Hell be leaning a lot on film clips of both current and vintage features. Hell also be featuring a parade of romantic cinema teams including: Moonstrucks Nicholas Cage and Cher; Arthur co-stars Liza Minnelli and Dudley Moore; Gregory Peck and Audrey Hepburn (remember their 1953 Roman and Michael Douglas and Glenn Close whose dark Fatal Attraction affair was perhaps the years greatest deterrent to marital infidelity.

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