News, reviews and interviews from the cinema world. Marlon Brando received one million dollars a scene for his role in
The Formula (1980), a thriller in which he plays an oil tycoon with a war-time secret to hide. In a remake of
The Jazz Singer (1980), immortalised in the 20s by Al Jolson, recording star Neil Diamond takes on the musical role with Laurence Olivier as his sceptical Jewish father. Chicago is the setting for
My Bodyguard (1980), a dramatic comedy about a high-school dominated by Matt Dillon as its extortionist gang-leader, until the new boy, Chris Makepeace, finds a way to challenge him.
—Radio Times