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In hindsight, New World's legacy has far outstripped that of competitors like Dimension and Crown International.”— Joe Dante (Director, Piranha, Gremlins, The ’burbs)“We were all in our twenties and crazy for movies. It was the ’70s, and we were devoted to New World Pictures and Roger Corman, the Medici of indie filmmakers.
A podcast dedicated to the films released by New World Pictures. We discuss the films and interview the people who made them. A comedy/film history hybrid.
R | 95 min | Action, Drama, Thriller. Beautiful female prisoners are abused in a Philippine prison until five of them plot an escape by taking the evil female warden hostage with reluctant help from two male fruit vendors. Director: Jack Hill | Stars: Roberta Collins, Pam Grier, Judith Brown, Brooke Mills.
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History New World Pictures. Corman founded New World Productions (NWP) in 1970, and had been making low budget genre films until 1982. When larger studios began producing the same genres with larger budgets that his company could not meet, and after being approached by a consortium of attorneys wishing to buy the company, he opted in 1982 to sell his interests.
Background: New World Pictures was founded by B-movie legend Roger Corman in 1970. However, they didn't use an on-screen logo until 1976. In recent years, Roger Corman has been reissuing parts of the pre-1984 New World library on VHS and DVD on his own New Concorde Home Video label (Corman left New World in
May 27, 2024 · New World Pictures was an American independent film and television production and distribution company founded in 1970 as New World Pictures, Ltd. by filmmaker Roger Corman and his brother Gene Corman. Following in the footsteps of genre film exploitation left by American International Pictures, with whom the Cormans previously had a working relationship with, the company produced and ...
