COMPLIMENT TO PRODUCER

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22250, 26 October 1935, Page 12 (Supplement)

COMPLIMENT TO PRODUCER

KORDA FOR UNITED ARTISTS Alexander Kordn, of London Film 'Productions, was recently paid one of the greatest compliments ever won by & British producer. A cable received recently in England announced that he had been elected to the Board of' the United Artists' Corporation of America as a. profit-sharing and pioducing member. He thus becomes, with Clarlio Chaplin, Samuel Goldwyn, Mary Pickl'ord nnd Douglas Fairbanks, a member of the most famous band of co-operating independent producers in the word. Mr. Korda's films have been distributed by United Artists for the last two years, but hitherto the association hau been merely a contractual one as between producer and distributor. His films, including H. G. Wells' " Things to Come," now nearing completion, will continue to be distributed bv United 'Artists, whose ramifications cover every country where there is a cinema. This iderelopment concludes a period of reOrganisation. The United Artists' Corporation will now handle 35 pictures, compared with ,thia previous schedule of 28. The total cost of the 35 is to be about £3,000,000. iMoro than one-third of the United 'Artists' output, including that of Mr. Kordn, British and Dominions Film 3 ftnd the new Lasky-Pickford company, . Srill be made in England.