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Allan Freeman Dies: Marketing Exec Who Worked On Campaigns For ‘Star Wars’, ‘The Shining’ & Three Best Picture Oscar Winners Was 88
Allan Freeman, a movie marketing exec who worked on campaigns for 'Star Wars,' 'The Shining', and 3 Best Picture Oscar winners in 4 years, died June 7 at 88.
Allan Freeman, a groundbreaking movie marketing executive who worked on campaigns for Star Wars, The Shining, The Omen and Best Picture Oscar winners Rain Man, Dances with Wolves and The Silence of the Lambs among many other films, has died. While there, he also worked on campaigns for such hit pics as Clint Eastwood starrer Every Which Way But Loose(1978), Hal Needham’s Burt Reynolds-led Hooper (1978), Monty Python’s Life of Brian(1979), Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining(1980) and Capricorn One(1977), which began a long collaboration with director Peter Hyams. In 1987, his old pal Fogelson brought Freeman into United Artists as a senior marketing executive, where he contributed to major releases including 007 pic The Living Daylights(1987), Baby Boom(1987), Overboard(1987), Child’s Play(1988), I’m Gonna Git You Sucka(1988), Rain Man(1988) and Road House(1989).
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