On the heels of another triumph for 90-year-old Marvel Comics wizard Stan Lee (Iron Man 3), it’s now time for 87-year-old B-movie king Roger Corman to claim his piece of the shifting media landscape pie. He explains to LA AP business...Show More Summary
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Roger Corman’s campy B movies, children’s shows like “Sesame Street” and “Inspector Gadget,” and inspirational monologues by celebrities – these are among the offerings on 30 channels that will soon require a paid monthly subscription on YouTube. Show More Summary
Syfy will get Summer 2013 off to a blistering start this Memorial Day weekend featuring a festival of the Roger Corman
Back in the 1950s, the film industry went through some major changes. The studio system (in which the major studios had directors, actors, and writers under contract and matched them up for films) was dying, and the studios had lostShow More Summary
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Brand new programming and returning favorites will shine this summer on the Syfy network. Since Memorial Day is the official start of summer, the network kicks off the season with the Roger Corman Syfy Original favorites, Piranhaconda and Sharktopus. Show More Summary
No Dessert Dad, Til You Mow The Lawn is one of the worst movies I have ever seen. It’s difficult to determine which is worse, this movie or Titanic: The Animated Movie. It’s definitely producer Roger Corman’s lowest point of his car...
Any Hollywood company that can claim a 25-30% annual profit jump for the past five years and gross annual revenue growth of five to 10% deserves a media shout-out. This morning, Shout! Factory gets just that from TheWrap senior writer...Show More Summary
Roger Corman returns to direct the last in his series of Edgar Allen Poe adaptations, a Gothic ghost story entitled THE TOMB OF LIGEIA from 1964. Vincent Price stars as the reclusive Verden Fell, a man haunted by the memory of his recently deceased wife. Show More Summary
Shout! Factory’s “Scream Factory” arm continues to release some of the most awesomely obscure and beloved horror titles ever and this coming Tuesday February 19 is no exception. Terence Winkless’ cult cockroach classic The Nest finally...Show More Summary
I assume he's half-kidding, because of all the blockbusters he mentions, none needed an ending rewrite as badly as Ang Lee's Hulk, the Roger Corman Fantastic Four, the David Hasselhoff Nick Fury (...
Reviewed by David Johnson Quote: "All vestiges of the Roger Corman cult classic have been properly sandblasted out of the DNA of the current Death Race treatment. That means: no humor, no subtext, no subversion, no fun."
It has been the common self-effacing jab around the Junkfood Cinema lab that the canon of movies we feature and love are indicative of our total lack of taste. Of late however, the idea of a person stricken with a total absence of taste has seemed more and more a self-contradicting paradox. Show More Summary
Video game spoof VIRTUALLY HEROES is the first Roger Corman-produced movie to ever play Sundance. The legend himself sits down with Devin and talks about violence in media.
Debuting directly on Blu-ray, DVD and On Demand next week, Death Race 3: Inferno is set in the universe of Paul W.S. Anderson's Death Race, itself inspired by Roger Corman's cult classic Death Race 2000. Starring Luke Goss, Danny Trejo,...Show More Summary
Who would've thought that Roger Corman's 1975 cult classic indie pic 'Death Race 2000' starring a still fairly unknown Sylvester Stallone would one day spawn not only a remake, but a franchise?! Well, low and behold, we're now up to Part 3 in the series as 'Death Race: Inferno' hits Blu-Ray and DVD on January 22nd. Show More Summary
Say this for Roger Corman: His “Women In Cages” films may be lurid exploitation trash of the first order, trading on the cheap labor and faux-revolutionary atmosphere of the Philippines, but they never pretended to be something that they weren’t. Show More Summary
The legendary producer/director revisits past adaptations, hoping for future success.
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I can't find hard evidence of this, but I'm fairly certain there's an old Hollywood adage that goes, roughly, "If you want...Show More Summary
Roger Corman is not only one of my personal heroes, but also one of the most prolific and incredibly inspiring filmmakers to ever grace our beloved genre. The documentary Corman's World is most certainly one of my favorite films this...Show More Summary
Genre legend Roger Corman was a mentor figure to filmmakers like as James Cameron, Ron Howard, Martin Scorsese, and Curtis Hanson as they were coming up in the industry, but the talented producer/actor/director made a name for himself before that directing B-movie classics back in the 50s and 60s. Show More Summary
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