Peter Bart to receive RAAM Award

Variety editor-in-chief honored

By JUSTIN KROLL

Bart

Director Matthew Vaughn will present Variety vice president and editor-in-chief Peter Bart with the 2008 RAAM International Award at the opening ceremony of the 2008 RAAM Conference in London on April 29.

Following the award presentation, Bart will take part in a Q&A sharing highlights of his career as both a studio boss and a journalist in front of an invited audience.

Following the Q&A, Paramount Pictures Intl. will present its slate of upcoming films and an advance screening of “Iron Man.”

The two-day RAAM conference dedicated to the British and Irish film exhibition and distribution industry takes place April 29-May 1 at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts’ London headquarters in Piccadilly.