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Motion Picture Daily, New York, September 26, 1940.

& U.A. Releases Will

      Dominate Broadway

(...) Motion Picture Daily, Sept. 27, 1940

„Chaplin offered $4,000,000 for Film as Investment“

Editorial content. „,Dictator‘ Terms 70-30%;

      Expect 10 Million Gross

      Higher Admissions to Be Asked of Theatres;

      Chaplin offered $4,000,000 for Film as Investment; Picture

      Cost $2,200,000

      United Artists‘ sales policy on Charlie Chaplin‘s The Great

Dictator, officials assert, will be comparable to that

which M-G-M used in distributing Gone With the Wind. As the

company prepares to launch the film on the most

ambitious sales plan which U. A., under Maurice Silverstone,

has so far devised, it is learned that the selling terms

will be 70-30 per cent to the exhibitor. These terms are said

to have been closed with Loew‘s for the Astor and

Capitol runs on Broadway, including a guarantee of a 10 per

cent profit.“ (...)

      „The U. A. sales and exhibition policy was decided upon

after Coast conferences between Charlie Chaplin,

star and producer of the film, with U. A. executives, including

Maurice Silverstone, company chieftain, Harry L.

Gold and L. L. Schlaifer, Eastern and Western sales

managers, respectively, and Arthur W. Kelly,

foreign sales head.“ (...)

      Photo. „Charlie Chaplin.“

     The Great Dictator world premiere is in New York Oct. 15, 1940

      at the Capitol and Astor Theatres.

      Capitol Theatre, 1645 Broadway (at 51st Street), New York. 

      Astor Theatre, 1531 Broadway (at 45th Street), New York.

  

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