MM BRITISH FILM COMPANY TO COPE WITH RANK CRISIS
LONDON, Nov. 9 (Recd. 11.20 pm) —World Screen Plays, Ltd., is the new British company which made a £1.000,000 film deal with United Artists Corporation of America, says the “Manchester Guardian.” Raymond Stress, who, with producer Anatole de Grunwald, is associated with World Screen Plays, says this company is a small British version of United Artists. Stress said it was hoped that, tn addition to making seven major pictures in the next three years, five more could be made yearly in England. United Artists were offering Grunwald all the facilities it afforded its independent producers in America, including the widest distribution Other independent film producers in Britain would be invited to take aprt and would be given a guarantee of world distribution. Grunwald left the Rank group in 1947 to forpi his own producing company. Among the films he produced are “The Demi-Paradise” and “The Way to the Stars."
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Wanganui Chronicle, 10 November 1949, Page 5
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