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In August 1956, AIP financed a Corman heist movie shot in Hawaii, Naked Paradise (1957), co-written by Griffith. Corman shot it back-to-back with a movie made with his own money, She Gods of Shark Reef (1958). Corman wound up selling the movie to AIP.
His movies justify the insane amount of money spent to produce them. True Lies, Titanic, Avatar - they definitely look like the most expensive movies ever made for their time, still do. Nowadays Marvel movies look so cheap despite the astronomical amount of money poured into making them.
Dec 15, 2011 · For nearly 60 years, Roger Corman has been making indie films with budgets that wouldn’t even cover the catering costs of multiplex fare like Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol.
May 13, 2024 · An old Hollywood joke goes that Corman could make a deal for a film on a pay phone, pay for it with the money he finds in the change slot, then shoot the film in the phone booth.
May 15, 2024 · The only movie Corman ever did that got close to being called big-budget was the 1980 “Star Wars” cash-in “Battle Beyond the Stars,” which boasted miniature spaceship and blue-screen FX of such quality that Corman reused them in more Corman productions, including “Space Raiders,” “Starquest II,” “Vampirella,” “The ...
Jun 6, 2024 · The filming of The Little Shop of Horrors (1960) demonstrated Corman’s money-saving methods: he completed it in just two days, so that he could use the sets from his previous film, A Bucket of Blood (1959) before they were torn down. In addition, Corman had an eye for talent.
Aug 1, 2014 · Film legend Roger Corman helped launch a new era in filmmaking in the 1950’s and early 1960s, cranking out hundreds of low-budget Drive-In movie classics like Wild Angels, Attack of the Crab Monsters and Little Shop of Horrors.
