Cort Madden Co

Interscope Executives Sign Paramount Deal: Robert W. Cort, president of producer Interscope, and David Madden, a partner there, are forming Cort-Madden Co. to develop and produce films for Paramount Pictures. The two will set up shop at the studio lot in January.

Interscope Executives Sign Paramount Deal: Robert W. Cort, president of producer Interscope, and David Madden, a partner there, are forming Cort-Madden Co. to develop and produce films for Paramount Pictures. The two will set up shop at the studio lot in January.

Universal Pictures said it hired former TriStar executive Kevin Misher as executive vice president of production. Misher's appointment had been expected. He will develop and supervise feature film projects at the studio. At TriStar, Misher had been senior vice president of production since 1993, supervising production on such films as "It Could Happen to You" and "Rudy." * Joseph Hartwick has been named senior vice president of production for Turner Pictures Group. * Robert T.

"The Out-of-Towners" teams Steve Martin and Goldie Hawn as an attractive baby-boomer couple from Ohio who fly off to Manhattan for the husband's interview at a top ad agency only to be plunged into a nightmare of foul-ups. If the film's title and premise sound familiar that's because back in 1970 Neil Simon, director Arthur Hiller, Jack Lemmon and the late Sandy Dennis made a movie of the same name, at once funny and rueful, about just how many things can go wrong for newcomers in the Big Apple.