The story so far: Following the release of Jaws, legendary exploitation-movie producer Roger Corman hired fledgling director Joe Dante to direct a rip-off movie about small, killer fish. The result was 1978′s gore-drenched, but tongue-in-cheek Piranha, which cost less than $1m to make and grossed around $14m in the U.S. alone.
The huge success of the original Piranha came as a surprise to Roger Corman. “Piranha achieved astonishing results,” says the producer. “These low-budget exploitation films can very often get a big gross the first week, but then fall away. Piranha did not fall away. It held, two and three weeks,...
The huge success of the original Piranha came as a surprise to Roger Corman. “Piranha achieved astonishing results,” says the producer. “These low-budget exploitation films can very often get a big gross the first week, but then fall away. Piranha did not fall away. It held, two and three weeks,...
- 8/18/2010
- by Clark Collis
- EW.com - PopWatch
Do you enjoy complex plotting? Subtle subtexts? Movies in which scantily clad people don’t get bitten to pieces by fish? Then you should think twice—actually, make it thrice—before seeing Piranha 3D, which opens this Friday.
Directed by French horror auteur Alexandre Aja (Mirrors, 2006′s The Hills Have Eyes remake) the film’s cast features both an Academy Award winner in Richard Dreyfuss, who cameos as his Matt Hooper character from Jaws in all but name, and an Oscar nominee in Elisabeth Shue, who plays the movie’s sheriff-heroine. But this Arizona-shot tale of prehistoric piranhas feasting upon...
Directed by French horror auteur Alexandre Aja (Mirrors, 2006′s The Hills Have Eyes remake) the film’s cast features both an Academy Award winner in Richard Dreyfuss, who cameos as his Matt Hooper character from Jaws in all but name, and an Oscar nominee in Elisabeth Shue, who plays the movie’s sheriff-heroine. But this Arizona-shot tale of prehistoric piranhas feasting upon...
- 8/16/2010
- by Clark Collis
- EW.com - PopWatch
Roger Galloway who is currently in Lake Havasu City, Az (where Piranha 3D is filming) was nice enough to send us a picture of the sheriff's vehicle being used in the film. He also had the chance to interview one of the original Piranha co-producers, Jeff Schechtman who brought up some very interesting concerns up about rights regarding the recent remake amongst other things. You can listen to the entire interview here and see the "Lake Victoria" patrol car below. "Starting today, there are some new sheriff's department vehicles patrolling Lake Havasu City, Arizona under the guise of "Lake Victoria." There are three vehicles in all and they are the chief "camera cars" for the movie, "Piranha 3D." Driven by the movie's stars, Elisabeth Shue and Ving Rhames (as sheriff and deputy,) they'll help control frantic spring breakers on land and be used to watch out for jumping flesh-eating piranha in Lake Victoria.
- 5/10/2009
- by wil
- HorrorYearbook
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