We have him to thank for The Little Shop of Horrors (1960), The Trip, Bloody Mama and a half-dozen Poe adaptations. His producer credits include Piranha, Boxcar Bertha, TNT Jackson, Rock 'n' Roll High School and Sharktopus. (Perhaps best to disregard that last one.) He's notorious for shooting movies on little money in less than a week using sets from other films he'd just completed. Actors/filmmakers who worked on their earliest movies with him include Jack Nicholson, Dick Miller (pictured above in A Bucket of Blood), Robert Towne, John Sayles, Francis Ford Coppola, Joe Dante and Martin Scorsese. Roger Corman has 56 director credits and 409 producer credits on IMDb, and he's still producing.
And Austin Film Society programmer Lars Nilsen had to narrow it down to four features -- plus a bonus documentary on Dick Miller -- for the latest Afs Arthouse series: "Films of Roger Corman." The series, screening Fridays and Sundays at the Marchesa,...
And Austin Film Society programmer Lars Nilsen had to narrow it down to four features -- plus a bonus documentary on Dick Miller -- for the latest Afs Arthouse series: "Films of Roger Corman." The series, screening Fridays and Sundays at the Marchesa,...
- 8/4/2014
- by Jette Kernion
- Slackerwood
You better watch Titanic, Top Gun and Braveheart while you can, because come 2014, Netflix will remove 80 films and a handful of TV shows from their streaming site.
According to Reddit, on New Year's Day, nearly 40 million streaming Netflix subscribers will no longer be able to watch some of the classic films and TV shows that have been so readily available in the past. Instead, they will have to join the seven million DVD subscribers and order their films to come in the mail.
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The heads-up came from an anonymous post on Reddit, in which the user listed every film that is to be removed from instant streaming as of Wednesday, January 1. A Netflix spokesperson told CNN that the company often changes what films will be available for streaming based on licensing contracts made with the studios and filmmakers.
The silver lining in all of this is that a few new films...
According to Reddit, on New Year's Day, nearly 40 million streaming Netflix subscribers will no longer be able to watch some of the classic films and TV shows that have been so readily available in the past. Instead, they will have to join the seven million DVD subscribers and order their films to come in the mail.
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The heads-up came from an anonymous post on Reddit, in which the user listed every film that is to be removed from instant streaming as of Wednesday, January 1. A Netflix spokesperson told CNN that the company often changes what films will be available for streaming based on licensing contracts made with the studios and filmmakers.
The silver lining in all of this is that a few new films...
- 12/31/2013
- Entertainment Tonight
Life is ephemeral. Nothing lasts forever, least of all your favorite streaming movies and TV shows on Netflix. It used to be you could go to third-party websites to find out when movies would be expiring from Netflix’s streaming service, but no more. Now the only place to find that information is on individual listings within Netflix’s own website or apps. How are we to know which films we never got around to watching that we’ll be missing in a few days?
Well, where there’s a will there’s a way. In this case, that way is through the seedy back alley of the Internet known as Reddit, where one user was kind enough to list all the various films and TV shows that will no longer be on Netflix after the first of the year. Here is that very list:
TV shows expiring January 1st:...
Well, where there’s a will there’s a way. In this case, that way is through the seedy back alley of the Internet known as Reddit, where one user was kind enough to list all the various films and TV shows that will no longer be on Netflix after the first of the year. Here is that very list:
TV shows expiring January 1st:...
- 12/30/2013
- by Jeremy Clymer
- We Got This Covered
A major downside of VOD services compared with having a vast Blu-ray or DVD library is timing. Services like Netflix, Hulu, etc. have contracts with content providers - contracts that expire usually around the end of a calendar year unless otherwise renewed.
Thus from January 1st, certain films will no longer be available on that service to watch when you want. Today, a Reddit post has listed the films that are about to drop off Netflix due to contract with various rights providers running out. When (or even if) they will return is anyone's guess. The list is as follows:
1492 Conquest Of Paradise
As Good As It Gets
Brick
Being John Malkovich
Back To School
Battle Of Britain
Best Of Times
Born On the Fourth Of July
Braveheart
Body Of Evidence
Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo
Biloxi Blues
Can't Hardly Wait
Capote
Dressed To Kill
Do The Right Thing
Desperado
Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind...
Thus from January 1st, certain films will no longer be available on that service to watch when you want. Today, a Reddit post has listed the films that are about to drop off Netflix due to contract with various rights providers running out. When (or even if) they will return is anyone's guess. The list is as follows:
1492 Conquest Of Paradise
As Good As It Gets
Brick
Being John Malkovich
Back To School
Battle Of Britain
Best Of Times
Born On the Fourth Of July
Braveheart
Body Of Evidence
Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo
Biloxi Blues
Can't Hardly Wait
Capote
Dressed To Kill
Do The Right Thing
Desperado
Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind...
- 12/27/2013
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
A major downside of VOD services compared with having a vast Blu-ray or DVD library is timing. Services like Netflix, Hulu, etc. have contracts with content providers - contracts that expire usually around the end of a calendar year unless otherwise renewed.
Thus from January 1st, certain films will no longer be available on that service to watch when you want. Today, a Reddit post has listed the films that are about to drop off Netflix due to contract with various rights providers running out. When (or even if) they will return is anyone's guess. The list is as follows:
1492 Conquest Of Paradise
As Good As It Gets
Brick
Being John Malkovich
Back To School
Battle Of Britain
Best Of Times
Born On the Fourth Of July
Braveheart
Body Of Evidence
Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo
Biloxi Blues
Can't Hardly Wait
Capote
Dressed To Kill
Do The Right Thing
Desperado
Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind...
Thus from January 1st, certain films will no longer be available on that service to watch when you want. Today, a Reddit post has listed the films that are about to drop off Netflix due to contract with various rights providers running out. When (or even if) they will return is anyone's guess. The list is as follows:
1492 Conquest Of Paradise
As Good As It Gets
Brick
Being John Malkovich
Back To School
Battle Of Britain
Best Of Times
Born On the Fourth Of July
Braveheart
Body Of Evidence
Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo
Biloxi Blues
Can't Hardly Wait
Capote
Dressed To Kill
Do The Right Thing
Desperado
Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind...
- 12/27/2013
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
New World Pictures Action Week! concludes at Trailers from Hell with filmmaker David DeCoteau introducing "TNT Jackson," which features the tagline: "You'll know you've been kissed by her ebony fist when the blood from your face stains her diamond necklace!"The above kind of doggerel was common in selling '70s black action movies (that line is from the radio spot). Jeannie Bell, Richard Burton's foxy then-girlfriend, stars in this Filipino epic for which the entirely fictitious Ebony Fist award was invented and bestowed on Ms. Bell by those rascals in the New World publicity department.
- 6/14/2013
- by Trailers From Hell
- Thompson on Hollywood
“A feast such as this has not been performed in 5,000 years. “
Blood Feast (1963) is the stomach churning movie by “The Godfather of Gore ” Herschell Gordon Lewis that opened the floodgates to the countless blood and slasher movie that followed since its release fifty years ago. Blood Feast was a midnight movie drive-In mainstay for years. No Punches are pulled and no organs left inside from our view in Blood Feast. This film is a true classick in every sense of the word. Remember this was the mid 60′s folks. Sure the effects were cheap & fake, but the bad intentions were there from the get go. Gotta love that Mr. Lewis. 2,000 Maniacs, The Gore-gore Girls, and Color Me Blood Red – he cranked ‘em out with no shame. That crazy Egyptian Fuad Ramese and his fowl deeds have kept gorehounds, drives-ins, fans, & curiosity seekers amazingly shocked for five decades and now you...
Blood Feast (1963) is the stomach churning movie by “The Godfather of Gore ” Herschell Gordon Lewis that opened the floodgates to the countless blood and slasher movie that followed since its release fifty years ago. Blood Feast was a midnight movie drive-In mainstay for years. No Punches are pulled and no organs left inside from our view in Blood Feast. This film is a true classick in every sense of the word. Remember this was the mid 60′s folks. Sure the effects were cheap & fake, but the bad intentions were there from the get go. Gotta love that Mr. Lewis. 2,000 Maniacs, The Gore-gore Girls, and Color Me Blood Red – he cranked ‘em out with no shame. That crazy Egyptian Fuad Ramese and his fowl deeds have kept gorehounds, drives-ins, fans, & curiosity seekers amazingly shocked for five decades and now you...
- 5/20/2013
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Walk in the footsteps of giants; help Roger with his new movie!
Roger sent over the preliminary art for his upcoming Attack Of The 50 Foot Cheerleader and is asking Trailers from Hell fans to come up with a suggested ad copy line, preferably one with sexual innuendo – funny, if possible. The film will be aired on Epix later this month. (See the poster below.)
I started out doing this kind of thing for Roger and it was always a lot of fun. Here are some classics from the New World Pictures era:
“A Howling Hellcat Humping a Hot Steel Hog on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge!”– Bury Me an Angel
“They Wanted Love. He Gave Them Terror and Death!” — Woman Hunt
“Wet Dreams and Open Jeans” — Street Girls
“They Don’t Need Clothes to Strike a Pose” — Cover Girl Models
“Only the Monster She Made Could Satisfy Her Strange Desires!
Roger sent over the preliminary art for his upcoming Attack Of The 50 Foot Cheerleader and is asking Trailers from Hell fans to come up with a suggested ad copy line, preferably one with sexual innuendo – funny, if possible. The film will be aired on Epix later this month. (See the poster below.)
I started out doing this kind of thing for Roger and it was always a lot of fun. Here are some classics from the New World Pictures era:
“A Howling Hellcat Humping a Hot Steel Hog on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge!”– Bury Me an Angel
“They Wanted Love. He Gave Them Terror and Death!” — Woman Hunt
“Wet Dreams and Open Jeans” — Street Girls
“They Don’t Need Clothes to Strike a Pose” — Cover Girl Models
“Only the Monster She Made Could Satisfy Her Strange Desires!
- 8/8/2012
- by Joe
- Trailers from Hell
Director: Steve Carver; Cirio H. Santiago
Screenplay: John William Corrington and Joyce Hooper Corrington; Miller Drake; Howard R. Cohen
Starring: Pam Greir, Margaret Markov, Pat Anderson, Lenore Kasdorf, Lyllah Torena, Ken Metcalfe, Vic Diaz, Lindsay Bloom and Tara Strohmeier; with appearances by Dick Miller and Mary Woronov
To misquote Jack Nicholson, Roger Corman released so many movies, it's no surprise some real stinkers got into theaters. And the recent Shout! Factory Roger Corman Cult Classics release, Lethal Ladies 2 Collection, is intent on proving that statement. The two-dvd set includes a single-disc presentation of The Arena, and a second disc with the double feature of Fly Me and Cover Girl Models.
The best film in the collection, 1974's The Arena (aka Naked Warriors), is little more than a retelling of Spartacus with women as gladiators. Corman decided it was the perfect vehicle for Pam Grier and Margaret Markov, following their successful...
Screenplay: John William Corrington and Joyce Hooper Corrington; Miller Drake; Howard R. Cohen
Starring: Pam Greir, Margaret Markov, Pat Anderson, Lenore Kasdorf, Lyllah Torena, Ken Metcalfe, Vic Diaz, Lindsay Bloom and Tara Strohmeier; with appearances by Dick Miller and Mary Woronov
To misquote Jack Nicholson, Roger Corman released so many movies, it's no surprise some real stinkers got into theaters. And the recent Shout! Factory Roger Corman Cult Classics release, Lethal Ladies 2 Collection, is intent on proving that statement. The two-dvd set includes a single-disc presentation of The Arena, and a second disc with the double feature of Fly Me and Cover Girl Models.
The best film in the collection, 1974's The Arena (aka Naked Warriors), is little more than a retelling of Spartacus with women as gladiators. Corman decided it was the perfect vehicle for Pam Grier and Margaret Markov, following their successful...
- 5/21/2012
- by Chris McMillan
- Planet Fury
Release Date: Oct. 25, 2011
Price: DVD $24.97
Studio: Shout! Factory
Jillian Kesner makes it hurt in Firecracker.
The Lethal Ladies Collection honors the strongest and sexiest celluloid heroines who kicked ass in the 1970s. If you saw any of these movies back then, it was probably in a drive-in or at a broken down theater on the outskirts of town…
The DVD set is a triple feature of action-crime-thriller grindhouse film favorites from Shout! Factory’s “Roger Corman Cult Classics” imprint.
The titles included in the set, all three R-rated and offering sizable portions of violence and nudity, are:
Firecracker (1981): The story of female karate champion Susanne Carter (Jillian Kesner), who’s in the Phillipines searching for her missing sister. She stumbles on a drug cartel and a tournament of no-holds-barred fights to the death . Directed by genre specialist Cirio H. Santiago (She Devils in Chains), the film co-stars Vic Diaz...
Price: DVD $24.97
Studio: Shout! Factory
Jillian Kesner makes it hurt in Firecracker.
The Lethal Ladies Collection honors the strongest and sexiest celluloid heroines who kicked ass in the 1970s. If you saw any of these movies back then, it was probably in a drive-in or at a broken down theater on the outskirts of town…
The DVD set is a triple feature of action-crime-thriller grindhouse film favorites from Shout! Factory’s “Roger Corman Cult Classics” imprint.
The titles included in the set, all three R-rated and offering sizable portions of violence and nudity, are:
Firecracker (1981): The story of female karate champion Susanne Carter (Jillian Kesner), who’s in the Phillipines searching for her missing sister. She stumbles on a drug cartel and a tournament of no-holds-barred fights to the death . Directed by genre specialist Cirio H. Santiago (She Devils in Chains), the film co-stars Vic Diaz...
- 8/24/2011
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
As the most telling quote of Machete Maidens Unleashed! exclaims, “The stories are 10 times better than the actual films”. The anecdotes and memories of those involved in the Filipino exploitation genre of cinema are an amazing account of a period never to be repeated. Screening at the New York Asian Film Festival, Mark Hartley’s documentary opens our eyes to what went on in order to make some of the infamous cult schlock from the 1970s. Starting with Hemisphere Pictures and continuing into Roger Corman’s shingle, New World Pictures, the Philippines are shown as the jungle haven chock full of cheap production and expendable stunt men it was. We become privy to tales of directors, producers, and actors involved as well as a bevy of clips from their films to understand how the three B’s—blood, breasts, and beasts—created a sensation at American drive-ins across the nation.
- 7/7/2011
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
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