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Abandon all hope ye who enter here
Tags: Alex Stapleton , Ally McMurray , Boxoffice Vault , Cosmin Andriescu , Issuu , King of the B’s: The Independent Life of Roger Corman , Sparktech Software , Webby
KENNETH JAMES BACON Creative Director, BOXOFFICE Media with the white gloves— that our search tools were not of a caliber that you wore white gloves didn’t met their standards or ours. Luckily, we had the you?—who completed fine Ms. McMurray available to scour through the task. ...
Shoveling Coal
Tags: Boxoffice.com , Timecode
SHOVELING COAL The World Wide Web is a wonderful thing unless you’re charged with the task of feeding it KENNETH T he story I’m about to tell would be so In 1995 I was employed as a visual commuch better if I used real names, but for munications manager by Big Giant Company. JAMES BACON r...
Shoveling Coal
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A full year earlier, former Boxoffice editor Ray Greene lead the effort to devise an online version of this magazine. In late 1994, the first online edition of Boxoffice appeared, but instead of typing www. BoxOffice.com, you typed this: www.usc.edu/dept/etc/stand.html, then clicked on a Boxoffice...
The boy from Montana
Tags: Anatomy of a Murder , China , Indiana Jones , Lon Chaney , Michael Bay , Moran of the Marines , Raiders Of The Lost Ark , Richard Dix , Roy Chapman Andrews , South Pacific , Steve McQueen , Tell It to the Marines , The Forbidden City , The Last Emperor , The Sand Pebbles
THE BOY FROM MONTANA He led a life right out of the movies, but I just called him Uncle Paul aviatrix Ruth Elder arrived Belle Loh. on base to shoot Moran of Anna Loh had friends in KENNETH JAMES BACON Creative Director, BOXOFFICE Media B esides blowing stuff up, Mi...
The boy from Montana
Tags: Anatomy of a Murder , China , Indiana Jones , Lon Chaney , Michael Bay , Moran of the Marines , Raiders Of The Lost Ark , Richard Dix , Roy Chapman Andrews , South Pacific , Steve McQueen , Tell It to the Marines , The Forbidden City , The Last Emperor , The Sand Pebbles
search of bones—dinosaur bones. The leader of this group, later to become the director of the American Museum of Natural History, was an adventurer (and some say publicity hound) named Roy Chapman Andrews. It’s now a common belief that Andrews was the inspiration for Harrison Ford’s Indiana Jones...
Rocket Man and the Method Man
Tags: Albert Salmi , Big Bad Mama , Have Gun–Will Travel , Richard Basehart , Roger Corman , Star Trek V: The Undiscovered Country , The Brothers Karamazov , The Devil’s Rain , The Intruder , Twilight Zone , William Shatner , Yul Brynner , murder , suicide
CLASSIC COVER BOXOFFICE / July 18, 1977 for the quiet of Spokane, Washington. What had once been a promising career on screen after a stunning debut ended on Earth Day, April 22, 1990, with the firing of two shots. Roberta Salmi was found dead from single round fired from a .25 calibre revolver....
Rocket Man and the Method Man
Tags: Albert Salmi , Big Bad Mama , Have Gun–Will Travel , Richard Basehart , Roger Corman , Star Trek V: The Undiscovered Country , The Brothers Karamazov , The Devil’s Rain , The Intruder , Twilight Zone , William Shatner , Yul Brynner , murder , suicide
TIMECODE KENNETH JAMES BACON > creative director, BOXOFFICE Media Rocket Man and the Method Man One you can’t get away from and one you can’t quite recall O ne of the world’s greatest bartenders—a hall-of-famer, really— is Billy, who plies the tender’s trade at Kafé Neo near our luxur...
The New DCP 300
Can’t put your finger on the most elegant solution for digital cinema audio? You could string together a D-Cinema processor from one source, a booth monitor from somewhere else and crossovers from another supplier. And you still wouldn’t have the power, performance and functionality of the DCP ...
TSS Theater Service and Supply
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Look! Up on the screen…
Tags: Dave Fleischer , Fleischer Studios , Jerry Siegel , Joe Shuster , Max Fleischer , Paramount , Superman
TIMECODE KENNETH JAMES BACON > creative director, BOXOFFICE Media FLEISCHER STUDIOS THE 17 Superman (The Mad Scientist) The Mechanical Monsters Billion Dollar Limited The Arctic Giant The Bulleteers The Magnetic Telescope Electric Earthquake Volcano Terror on the ...
Look! Up on the screen…
Tags: Dave Fleischer , Fleischer Studios , Jerry Siegel , Joe Shuster , Max Fleischer , Paramount , Superman
TIMECODE (continued from page 32) approach and they found their men and women for the job in the Miami studios of Max and Dave Fleischer, home to Mickey’s biggest rival in the movies: Popeye the Sailor Man. While Walt was inventing and refi ning the full-length animated feature with Snow Whit...
MGM Cashing in on Clash Long Before Film Is Screened
by Richard Kahn
Tags: Clash of the Titans , Licensing
TIMECODE > WE’RE IN THE HOSPITALITY BUSINESS Licensing Effort MGM Cashing in on Clash Long Before Film Is Screened By Richard Kahn / June 1981 W hen we decided to make Clash of the Titans in November of 1978, MGM saw it as an excellent opportunity and vehicle to do a total marketing campa...
We’re in the hospitality business
Tags: Desmond Davis , Jason and the Argonauts , Perseus and the Gorgon’s Head , Ray Harryhausen
TIMECODE KENNETH JAMES BACON > creative director, BOXOFFICE Media CLASH OF THE TITANS Directed by Desmond Davis / Written by Beverley Cross MGM 's long-planned blockbuster comes to the screen as We’re in the more of a bust, a sprawling, lifeless film likely to spell doom for any future e...
We’re in the hospitality business
Tags: Desmond Davis , Jason and the Argonauts , Perseus and the Gorgon’s Head , Ray Harryhausen
continued from page 18 of the fastest elevator. Though the flames rose no higher than the 5th The Deli was one of six restaurants floor, the super-heated black smoke on the casino level of the hotel and encountered no opposition—not none, save the Barrymore Room, even Zeus—as it rose 20 more f...
Werewolf? There wolf.
Tags: An American Werewolf in London , Bad Moon , Bela Lugosi , Benicio del Toro , Claude Rains , David Naughton , Joe Johnston , Lon Chaney , New Moon , Rick Baker , The Company of Wolves , The Curse of the Werewolf , The Howling , The Werewolf , The Werewolf of London , The Wolf Man , Twilight , Underworld , Universal , Wolf
February 2010
Werewolf? There wolf.
Tags: An American Werewolf in London , Bad Moon , Bela Lugosi , Benicio del Toro , Claude Rains , David Naughton , Joe Johnston , Lon Chaney , New Moon , Rick Baker , The Company of Wolves , The Curse of the Werewolf , The Howling , The Werewolf , The Werewolf of London , The Wolf Man , Twilight , Underworld , Universal , Wolf
Even a man who is pure in heart and says his prayers by night may become a wolf when the wolfbane blooms and the autumn moon is bright. Or so Universal would have you believe. Hollywood—Radio Pictures has signed Creighton Chaney as a stock player. Chaney is the son of the la...
Werewolf? There wolf.
Tags: An American Werewolf in London , Bad Moon , Bela Lugosi , Benicio del Toro , Claude Rains , David Naughton , Joe Johnston , Lon Chaney , New Moon , Rick Baker , The Company of Wolves , The Curse of the Werewolf , The Howling , The Werewolf , The Werewolf of London , The Wolf Man , Twilight , Underworld , Universal , Wolf
TIMECODE > WEREWOLF. THERE WOLF. Boxoffice · The Business of Movies February 2010
