MPAA chief Jack Valenti has confirmed that the motion picture industry intends to release a flood of films this fall and next winter, the result of rush production schedules that preceded the threatened actors and writers strikes. Valenti told New York Post columnist Neal Travis: “You’ll see a real outpouring of major releases this fall, with more to come at the start of the new year, when they usually don’t put out much new product.” Travis speculated in his column that the studios decided to dump all of the films on the marketplace at once because many of them had been forced to employ “lesser directors, writers and actors because everyone was so in demand.” The result, Travis suggested, was a glut of inferior product.
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