Anyone interested in the exploits of an exploitation producer will be pleased to know that the Sundance hit CORMAN’S WORLD: EXPLOITS OF A HOLLYWOOD REBEL has been picked up for North American distribution by Anchor Bay. (Read our review HERE.) The documentary follows producer Roger Corman’s fascinating career as a low-budget producer-director, as well as the primary force in the careers of many of Hollywood’s top talents.
A theatrical run is scheduled for late summer on the film. Fortissimo Films picked up international sales rights to Alex Stapleton’s documentary, and is shopping it at Cannes, where it will have its international premiere next week.
Blue jeans, sock-hops and drive-in movies: the Fifties were America’s age of innocence. But stalking the depths of its post-nuclear bliss, mass paranoia became fuel for Joseph McCarthy’s brand of Red Scare terror propaganda. Bomb shelters were a deluxe feature in every American home, government-sponsored educational reels promised an imminent nuclear threat from across the Atlantic, and Hollywood, Babylon of the western world, hung on the brink of collapse. It was here, in the last-ditch machinations of a dying juggernaut, that a mild-mannered, civil engineer’s son would become the most influential force in modern moviemaking. Corman’s World tracks the triumphant rise of Hollywood’s most prolific writer-director-producer, the true godfather of independent filmmaking.
CORMAN’S WORLD features interviews with a ton of the people the prolific producer influenced and/or helped get started, including Martin Scorsese, Jack Nicholson, Ron Howard, Jonathan Demme, Robert De Niro, Peter Fonda, Bruce Dern, David Carradine, Pam Grier, Catherine Hardwicke, Eli Roth and Paul W.S. Anderson… We’ll let you know when it gets a solid release date.
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