‘Sammy’ Loses Lumet
Scot director Michael Caton-Jones (“Memphis Belle,” “Scandal”) has replaced Sidney Lumet on “What Makes Sammy Run?”
Budd Schulberg’s novel of Hollywood ambition, published 50 years ago and hibernating as a movie project since, has been in development at Warner Bros. for over a year under producer Gene Kirkwood.
For the record:
12:00 a.m. Feb. 3, 1991 Los Angeles Times Sunday February 3, 1991 Home Edition Calendar Page 90 Calendar Desk 1 inches; 20 words Type of Material: Correction
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. . . Correction: Tri-Star, not Warner Bros., distributed director Sidney Lumet’s last two films, “Q&A;” and “Family Business.”
Kirkwood does not ascribe Lumet’s departure from “Sammy” to the poor box-office performance of his last two Warners pictures, “Q&A;” and “Family Business.”
“Things change,” Kirkwood said. “First Sidney let another film project take precedence, and he’s a New Yorker. He never came out here and fought for the picture.”
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