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Rip It Up, Issue 19, 1 February 1979, Page 16

The director of David Bowie’s latest movie Just a Gigolo David Hemmings walked out on the movie after disagreements on the way the film was being edited. But after the film was released it received bad press and the film has now been withdrawn and will be re-released in a version approved by Hemmings . . . meanwhile it’s rumoured that Bowie may appear with Liza Minelli in a film entitled Backstage . . . 1979 is shaping up as the year of remakes and sequels. Already in production are Superman 2, Star Wars 2 and Airport 79. The remakes include new versions of Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Dracula and Hitchcock’s The Lady Vanishes . . . Cinema International in NZ will not be releasing the revised version of American Graffiti which has been released overseas and includes extra footage as well as Dolbyized

sound. The local boys deem that “existing prints are sufficient” . . . Woody Allen’s next film, Manhattan, will be a comedy. Allen’s last movie Interiors was heavily influenced by Bergman and very definitely not a comedy . . . interesting to note that David Blyth’s movie Angel Mine, shows signs of being more enthusiastically received overseas than it was here. American magazine Variety called the film "sensitively perceived and realised . . . highly amusing and entertaining" . . . Meatloaf is set to in Brian de Palma’s next film. In the tradition of de Palma’s other movies Carrie and Phantom of the Paradise - it’s a supernatural thriller . . . Marlon Brando for the thirteen days shooting his part in Superman took $3.7 million and a percentage of the gross takings . . . Allegro Non Troppo that animated extravaganza is set to open at Wellington’s Lido during March . . . Movies in production include: Sydney Pollack directing Jane Fonda, Robert Redford and Willie Nelson in The Electric Horseman: Starting Over with Jill Clayburgh, Burt Reynolds and Candice Bergen under the directio of Alan J. Pakula; the latest James Bond pic Moonraker with Roger Moore as Bond . . . Blake Edwards directing wife Julie Andrews in a movie entitled 10 . . .

Michelangelo Antonioni is shooting Suffei or Die from a screenplay by Buck Henry . . . The Muppet Movie is in editing . . . Sydney Lumet is to direct a film based on the life of Montgomery Clift . . . Joseph Losey is to make a movie of Mozart’s opera Don Giovanni . . . and finally Robert Stigwood is beginning casting for the rock-opera Evita. It’s said that George C. Scott is under consideration for the role of Peron with Bette Midler as Evita and (wait for this) Neil Diamond as Che Guevara . . .