Warner Bros. to Donate $100,000 to the Film Foundation in Honor of Stanley Kubrick at Premiere of ``Eyes Wide Shut''.LOS ANGELES--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)--July 12, 1999-- Warner Bros BROS Brothers BROS Benefits and Retirement Operations Section (King County, Washington) BROS Barnes and Richmond Operatic Society (London, UK) . Chairmen and Co-Chief Executive Officers Robert A. Daly Over the course of his career, Robert A. Daly has led such renowned organizations as Warner Bros., Warner Music Group, The Los Angeles Dodgers and CBS Entertainment. Today he remains involved in the entertainment industry, while also devoting considerable time to charitable work. and Terry Semel Terry Semel (born on February 24, 1943 in Brooklyn, New York, U.S.A.) is a notable American corporate executive who was the chairman and CEO of Yahoo! Incorporated. Previously, Semel spent 24 years at Warner Brothers, where he served as chairman and co-chief executive officer. will honor the memory of the late filmmaker Stanley Kubrick Noun 1. Stanley Kubrick - United States filmmaker (born in 1928) Kubrick with a $100,000 donation to The Film Foundation, to be presented Tuesday, July 13 at the world premiere of Kubrick's final and highly anticipated film, "Eyes Wide Shut." The film, starring Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, opens nationwide on July 16. Receiving the donation on behalf of the Foundation will be three of its founding members: Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese and Sydney Pollack (who also stars in "Eyes Wide Shut"). Stated Daly and Semel jointly, "We are proud of the close creative partnership that Warner Bros. enjoyed for several decades with Stanley Kubrick, and we are pleased to celebrate his legacy with a contribution to The Film Foundation, an organization he helped found that preserves and celebrates filmmakers and their art." The Film Foundation was created in 1990 by eight eminent filmmakers, including Stanley Kubrick, Martin Scorsese, Woody Allen, Francis Ford Coppola Noun 1. Francis Ford Coppola - United States filmmaker (born in 1939) Coppola , George Lucas, Sydney Pollack, Robert Redford and Steven Spielberg, to foster greater awareness of the urgent need to preserve motion picture history. Robert Altman and Clint Eastwood have joined the Foundation in recent years. Through such national efforts as the annual Film Preservation Festival on American Movie Classics, the Foundation raises funds and distributes them directly to its member archives: Academy Film Archive, George Eastman House, Library of Congress, MoMA, and the UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX Film and Television Archive, as well as to its affiliated organizations, the American Film Institute American Film Institute (AFI), nonprofit organization established in Washington, D.C., in 1967 by the National Endowment for the Arts to preserve and catalog American films and television, to provide work grants for new and established filmmakers, and to increase and the National Film Preservation Foundation. "Eyes Wide Shut" will premiere on July 13 at Mann's Village Theatre in Westwood, Calif. The presentation to The Film Foundation will take place in the theater shortly before the beginning of the screening at 7:30 p.m. Warner Bros. Presents Warner Bros. Presents is the umbrella title for three television series which were aired as part of the 1955-56 season on ABC: Cheyenne, a concept that originated on Presents, and two others based on classic Warner Bros. Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman in a film by Stanley Kubrick: "Eyes Wide Shut," starring Sydney Pollack and Marie Richardson. The screenplay is by Stanley Kubrick and Frederic Raphael, inspired by "Traumnovelle" by Arthur Schnitzler. The executive producer is Jan Harlan; the lighting cameraman is Larry Smith; the production designers are Les Tomkins and Roy Walker; and the editor is Nigel Galt. "Eyes Wide Shut" is produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick. It is distributed worldwide by Warner Bros., A Time Warner Entertainment Company. |
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