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...DIED. DANIEL TOSCAN DU PLANTIER, 61, French film producer and president of the film promotion group Unifrance, of a heart attack while attending the Berlin Film Festival; in Berlin. Known as a tireless ambassador for the French film industry, Toscan du Plantier once said: "France is the paradise of cinema; its only fault is that it's too small...
...America is great, France is great. But they make a bad couple." Daniel Toscan du Plantier, president of Unifrance, on Vivendi's U.S. acquisitions...
...With the earthquake that hit Hollywood ... ((God)) has shown where his sympathies lie." -- FRENCH FILM MOGUL DANIEL TOSCAN DU PLANTIER, REFERRING OBLIQUELY TO THE TRADE BATTLES BETWEEN THE U.S. AND FRANCE OVER AMERICAN MOVIES
That is something that the Paris moguls would like to change, and they believe that they have found the way to do it "With cable TV, there's a whole new and very large American market out there for French films," says Toscan du Plantier. "The cable audience wants movies that are made for legitimate theater release and that are made with a quality that can't be found in the usual made-for-TV product. The cable networks need 1,000 movies a year. U.S. studios don't have the talent to satisfy such a vast...
...stimulate a mass taste for the Gallic product, Toscan du Plantier's company is planning a February release of one of its biggest hits, La Boum, which can be compared to the Gidget movies that appealed to American teen-agers in the '60s. Similar films will follow, all dubbed into English, and by the end of 1983, there will be, inevitably, something called La Boum II. By 1984, presumably, Toscan du Plantier will know whether he has a La Boum III or Le Bust...