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1 day ago · In 1960, Corman began working on a series of films based on the works of Edgar Allan Poe. The horror series started with The Fall of the House of Usher (1960). He had a rather large budget and shooting scheduled compared to his typical films. Working with a $200,000 budget, a 15-day-schedule.
4 days ago · roger corman was not only one of my idols, he was perhaps my chief cinematic corrupter. on the independent new York city tv channels, his gorgeous-looking 1960s edgar Allen Poe movies with vincent Price filled more than one saturday afternoon of my youth. in movie theaters, his new World Pictures studio filled my childhood and adolescence ...
5 days ago · It was also about this time that he formed New World Pictures. Particularly during the 1970s, much of New World’s product was sleazy exploitative (yet entertaining) schlock. But Corman also aspired towards more classy offerings and imported many an arty foreign film, marketing them to the masses.
3 days ago · The smash success of the first film, though, would catch the eye of Roger Corman, who at the time was running New World Pictures, which he co-founded in 1970. New World would license the film, cut it down from its original 129-minute length to roughly 91 minutes, & dub it into English, resulting in the simpler titled Galaxy Express premiering ...
2 days ago · Around this time Roger Corman stopped making films for AIP, focusing on his company, New World Pictures. According to Filmink "Corman leaving AIP coincided with Nicholson and Arkoff splitting up – they were like two parents who decide to get divorced when their eldest child finally moves out of home."
5 days ago · When the news of Roger Corman’s passing was announced, the online film community immediately responded with a flood of tributes to a legend.Many began with the multitude of careers he helped launch, the profound influence he had on independent cinema, and even the cameos he made in the films of Corman school “graduates.”
5 days ago · At his companies, New World Pictures and New Concorde he was famous for giving opportunities to young and aspiring filmmakers, many of whom then went on to long and successful Hollywood careers.
