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This week, as Hollywood's trade talk has long prophesied, 20th Century-Fox's Production Boss Darryl F. Zanuck, one of moviedom's best-preserved (53) boy wonders, stepped out for what was billed as a four-month lunch. Announced Fox's President Spyros P. Skouras: "It is contemplated that the details of an agreement for an independent production unit to be headed by Mr. Zanuck will be worked out between him and the company...
...film is first shot on a 55-mm. negative, then reduced to the standard 35-mm. size used by conventional projectors. The scale-down reduces the grainy effect of the pictures, puts the background almost as clearly in focus as the foreground. Fox's Production Chief Darryl F. Zanuck claims that "we have eliminated the bothersome fall-off in focus on the sides of the screen, and totally eliminated distortion...
...Twentieth Century-Fox Boss Darryl nuck announced that he will reissue Wilson (1944), in which the hero is flattened into a onedimensional, internationalist Woodrow Wilson and the villains are cardboard Republicans, especially Henry Cabot Lodge, the elder. Said Zanuck, who always liked the picture: "It was an artistic and sociological success ... but it came out at the wrong time...
...cares chiefly about acting as an art, there will hardly be enough opportunity in commercial Hollywood to keep him there much longer. Désirée, for instance, which will be released next month, is another big slick costume historical with no artistic nonsense about it. Producer Darryl Zanuck claims that Brando turns in one of his greatest performances as Napoleon, but Marlon modestly doubts it. "Most of the time," he says. "I just let the make-up play the part." Marlon's next role, Sky Masterson in the film version of Guys and Dolls, will give...
Twentieth-Century Fox not only got there first with CinemaScope, but has virtually captured the field. Its wide screens are already installed in just over 6,000 theaters, justifying the faith Fox President Spyros P. Skouras and Production Chief Darryl F. Zanuck had in the new process. The first CinemaScope film, The Robe, has already grossed around $21 million at home and abroad and is crowding the alltime record of $35 million for Gone With the Wind. Another testimonial came last week in Fox's earnings report for the first half of the year. Net climbed...