Blessed Event

Partly because of renewed turmoil in El Salvador, including the murders of six Jesuit priests, Four Seasons Entertainment reopened “Romero” at the UA North Hollywood and three UA theaters in Orange County this weekend.

“We’re trying to selectively re-release it,” said a spokesman for Paulist Prod., the Catholic organization that produced the film about El Salvador’s late Archbishop Oscar Romero (played by Raul Julia), slain in 1980 because of his political work on behalf of the country’s poor.

The North Hollywood booking, sans advertising, is probably the last gasp for the film locally, the spokesman said. A Four Seasons exec added that the picture is getting the extra playdates in part thanks to “someone at United Artists who’s also a Paulist.”

The film, still in limited release around the country, has grossed about $1.3 million.