Hollywood Boulevard is a 1976 film directed by Joe Dante and Allan Arkush. This film stars Candice Rialson as an aspiring actress who has just arrived in Los Angeles. Other established actors that made up this cast include Paul Bartel, Mary Woronov, Tara Strohmeier and Jeffrey Kramer.

The movie is best known for its re-use of footage from other movies. Roger Corman offered to let Dante make a movie if he could keep the budget very low. Dante achieved this by writing a script about a B-movie studio where he could shoot plot scenes cheaply with the actors and intercut them with action sequences from other movies that Corman owned, such as Death Race 2000. Although this wasn't an unusual technique for low-budget movies of the era, Hollywood Boulevard took it to extremes.

Several key people in the crew went on to bigger careers, from director Joe Dante, Gremlins, to art director Jonathan Demme, Silence Of The Lambs. Hollywood Boulevard would end up grossing upwards of a million dollars, not a bad return on a $25,000 budget. Hobgoblins director Rick Sloane credits this movie as the inspiration for his film making style.

External links[link]

• Hollywood Boulevard at the Internet Movie Database
• Hollywood Boulevard @ THE DEUCE: GCDB
• Hollywood Boulevard at AllRovi

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Joe Dante
Joe Dante as member of the jury for the 2009 Venice Film Festival
Born	Joseph Dante, Jr. (1946-11-28) November 28, 1946 (age 65) Morristown, New Jersey, U.S.
Occupation	Director, producer, actor
Years active	1968–present
Influenced by	Chuck Jones Frank Tashlin Roger Corman H. C. Potter James Whale Jean Cocteau

Joseph "Joe" Dante, Jr. (born November 28, 1946) is an American film director, producer and actor of films generally with comedy and science fiction content.

His films include Piranha (1978) and The Howling (1981), both from scripts by John Sayles; Segment 3 of Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983); Gremlins (1984), his first major hit, and its sequel Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990); Explorers (1985), Innerspace (1987), Amazon Women on the Moon (1987); The 'Burbs (1989), Matinee (1993), Runaway Daughters (1994), The Second Civil War (1997), The Warlord: Battle for the Galaxy (1998), Small Soldiers (1998), Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003), and Homecoming (2005). In 1995–1996, Dante worked on The Phantom, and when he was removed from the film, he chose screen credit (as executive producer) rather than pay. He was creative consultant on Eerie, Indiana (1991–1992) and directed five episodes. He played himself in the series finale.

Early life[link]

Dante was born in Morristown, New Jersey. His father was a professional golf player.^[1] Dante began his movie career working for Roger Corman, similar to Francis Ford Coppola and James Cameron. He worked as an editor on films such as Grand Theft Auto before codirecting Hollywood Boulevard with Allan Arkush. His first full feature film, Piranha, was released in 1978. After the release of The Howling, he was noticed by Steven Spielberg for whom he directed the third segment of Twilight Zone: The Movie, wherein a woman is 'adopted' by an omnipotent child. His first really big hit, Gremlins, which was also produced by Steven Spielberg, was released in 1984. He would work with Spielberg again on Innerspace and Gremlins 2. His films are well known for their movie in-jokes and their special visual effects.^[2]

Dante's long time friend and business associate, Sylvia, portrays one of the nuns at the concert in Arkush's Rock 'n' Roll High School, which Joe co-wrote and directed five scenes when Arkush was ill. Joe's garage is frequently mentioned in audio commentaries as holding many of the props from his various films, such as the Peltzer Peeler Juicer from Gremlins, and where the mock-pornographic scene in The Howling was shot.

Career[link]

Dante developed a stock company of actors who worked with him over a long period of time, in the Woody Allen mode. Dick Miller, for example, has been in all of Dante's feature films and most of his television work, while Belinda Balaski, Archie Hahn, and Robert Picardo come in at close second, third, and fourth, with one less production each, respectively. Other actors Dante has worked with more than once include John Astin, Paul Bartel, Phoebe Cates, Roger Corman, Cory Danziger, Rick Ducommun, Kevin Dunn, Corey Feldman, Carrie Fisher, Joe Flaherty, Courtney Gains, Zach Galligan, Henry Gibson, Charles S. Haas, Heather Haase, Phil Hartman, Bob Holt, Rance Howard, Chuck Jones, Jackie Joseph, Omri Katz, Denis Leary, Sarah Lilly, Kevin McCarthy, Mark McCracken, Michael McKean, Don McCloud, Cathy Moriarty, Shawn C. Nelson, Ron Perlman, Jason Presson, Kathleen Quinlan, Neil Ross, Diane Sainte-Marie, John Sayles, Wendy Schaal, William Schallert, Michael Scheehaan, Dan Stanton, Don Stanton, Christopher Stone, Meshach Taylor, Kenneth Tobey, Dee Wallace and Alexandra Wilson.^[3] His respect for the screenwriter extends to the point where, in order to make sure he can confer with the writer on-set and provide some minor, additional remuneration, he always casts the writer in a small part of the production itself. The studio is normally unwilling to pay to have the writer on-set in any other way.^[4]

He has cited among his major influences Roger Corman, Chuck Jones, Frank Tashlin, James Whale, and Jean Cocteau, as well as an admiration for the film, Hellzapoppin', from which he frequently borrows jokes because of how difficult the film is to see in the United States.^[5]

In 2007, Dante launched the web series Trailers From Hell,^{[citation needed]} which provides commentary by directors, producers and screenwriters on trailers for classic and cult movies. He is also a contributor to the website.^{[citation needed]}

Dante's 2009 film "The Hole 3D"^[6] was awarded the first Premio Persol at the 2009 Venice Film Festival's for the "3-D feature deemed the most creative among those produced globally between September 2008 and August 2009."^[7]

Dante produced also alongside Roger Corman the web series Splatter for Netflix, the series stars Corey Feldman.^[8]

Filmography[link]

Director[link]

• The Movie Orgy (1968)
• Hollywood Boulevard (with Allan Arkush) (1976)
• Piranha (1978)
• Rock 'n' Roll High School (with Allan Arkush) (1979) (uncredited)
• The Howling (1981)
• Police Squad! (1982) (TV)
• Twilight Zone: The Movie (with Steven Spielberg, George Miller and John Landis) (1983)
• Gremlins (1984)
• Explorers (1985)
• The Twilight Zone (1985) (TV)
• Amazing Stories (1986) (TV)
• Innerspace (1987)
• Amazon Women on the Moon (with John Landis, Carl Gottlieb, Peter Horton & Robert K. Weiss) (1987)
• The 'Burbs (1989)
• Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990)
• Eerie, Indiana (1991–1992) (TV)
• Matinee (1993)
• Rebel Highway: Runaway Daughters (1994) (TV)
• Picture Windows (1994) (TV)
• The Second Civil War (1997) (TV)
• The Warlord: Battle for the Galaxy (1998) (TV)
• Small Soldiers (1998)
• Night Visions (2001) (TV)
• Haunted Lighthouse (2003)
• Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003)
• Trapped Ashes (2004)
• Masters of Horror (2005–2006)
• The Greatest Show Ever (2007) (TV)
• CSI: NY (2007) (TV)
• The Hole 3D (2010)
• Hawaii Five-0 (2011) (TV)

Producer[link]

• (1994) Flesh and Blood: The Hammer Heritage of Horror
• (1996) The Phantom
• (1998) The Warlord: Battle for the Galaxy
• (2002) Jeremiah

Writer[link]

• (1979) Rock 'n' Roll High School (story)

Actor[link]

• (1975) Japan Sinks - (American version "Tidal Wave" only)
• (1976) Hollywood Boulevard - Party Waiter
• (1976) Cannonball - Kid
• (1978) Piranha - Scuba Diver #2
• (1978) Corvette Summer - Mr. Lucky
• (1984) Gremlins - voices of Gremlins
• (1987) Innerspace - Vectorscope Employee
• (1990) Gremlins 2: The New Batch - Grandpa Fred Director/voices of Beanie Gremlin and Wicked Witch Gremlin
• (1991) Eerie, Indiana - Himself

• Episode 19: "Reality Takes a Holiday"

• (1991) Oscar - Face on the Cutting Room Floor
• (1992) Sleepwalkers - Lab Assistant
• (1994) Beverly Hills Cop III - Jailer
• (1994) Silenzio dei prosciutti, Il - Dying Man

References[link]

External links[link]

• Interview with Joe Dante, Part 1, MUBI
• Interview with Joe Dante, Part 2, MUBI
• Joe Dante at the Internet Movie Database
• Joe Dante at AllRovi

Roger Corman
Roger Corman in 2006.
Born	Roger William Corman (1926-04-05) April 5, 1926 (age 86) Detroit, Michigan, United States
Occupation	Film director, producer, screenwriter and actor
Years active	1954–present
Spouse	Julie Corman (1970–present; 4 children)

Roger William Corman (born April 5, 1926)^[1] is an Academy Award winning American film producer, director and actor.^[2] He has mostly worked on low-budget B movies. Some of Corman's work has an established critical reputation, such as his cycle of films adapted from the tales of Edgar Allan Poe,^[3] and in 2009 he won an Honorary Academy Award for his body of work. Corman has occasionally taken minor acting roles in such films as The Silence of the Lambs, The Godfather Part II, Apollo 13 and Philadelphia. A documentary about Roger Corman's life and career entitled Corman's World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel premiered at Sundance and Cannes Film Festivals in 2011, directed by Alex Stapleton. The film's TV rights were picked up by A&E IndieFilms after a well-received screening at Sundance.^[4]

Corman has been a mentor to young film directors including Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Ron Howard, Peter Bogdanovich, Jonathan Demme, James Cameron, Curtis Hanson, John Sayles, and many others. He has also helped launch the careers of actors including Jack Nicholson, William Shatner, Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Talia Shire and Robert De Niro.

Early life[link]

Corman was born in Detroit, Michigan, the son of Anne (née High) and William Corman, an engineer.^[5][6] His brother, Eugene Harold Corman, has also produced numerous films, sometimes in collaboration with Roger.^[6] Corman went to Beverly Hills High School and then to Stanford University to study industrial engineering. While at Stanford, Corman enlisted in the V-12 Navy College Training Program. After the end of World War II, Corman returned to Stanford and received a degree in industrial engineering. In 1948, he worked briefly at U.S. Electrical Motors on Slauson Avenue in Los Angeles, but his career in engineering lasted only four days; he began work on Monday and quit on Thursday, telling his boss "I've made a terrible mistake."^[7]

More interested in film, Corman found work at 20th Century Fox initially in the mail room. He worked his way up to a story reader. The one property that he liked the most and provided ideas for was filmed as The Gunfighter with Gregory Peck. When Corman received no credit at all he left Fox and decided he would work in film by himself. Under the GI Bill, Corman studied English Literature at Oxford University. He then returned to Los Angeles, beginning his film career in 1953 as a producer and screenwriter, then started directing films in 1955.

Career[link]

Corman began to direct films in the mid-1950s, including Swamp Women (1955). In his early period, he produced up to nine movies a year. His fastest film was perhaps The Little Shop of Horrors (1960), which was reputedly shot in two days and one night.^[8] Supposedly, he had made a bet that he could shoot an entire feature film in less than three days. Another version of the story claims that he had a set rented for a month, and finished using it with three days to spare, thus pushing him to use the set to make a new film. (This is a variation of the story behind 1963's The Terror, much of which was filmed in two leftover days with Boris Karloff and Jack Nicholson, after The Raven, which featured them both, wrapped with two days to spare.)

In addition to producing and directing films for American International Pictures (AIP), Corman also partially funded other low budget films released by other film companies. In 1959 Corman founded Filmgroup with his brother Gene, a company producing or releasing low budget black and white films as double features for driven-ins and action houses. Finding that black and white double features were not as successful as colour films, Corman returned to AIP^[9], and Filmgroup ceased operation in 1962.

[edit] The Edgar Allan Poe adaptations

Corman's greatest acclaim as a director came with his Edgar Allan Poe Series of the 1960s. Based on the works of Poe, initially made through American International Pictures, and mostly in collaboration with writer/scenarist Richard Matheson, the series of eight films comprises House of Usher (1960), The Pit and the Pendulum (1961), The Premature Burial (1962), Tales of Terror (1962), The Raven (1963), The Haunted Palace (1963), The Masque of the Red Death (1964), and The Tomb of Ligeia (1964). All but The Premature Burial starred Vincent Price.

Corman also worked with set designer Daniel Haller and cinematographer Floyd Crosby on each film. Others who joined him include cameraman and later director Nicholas Roeg, writers Robert Towne and Charles Beaumont, and actors Ray Milland, Basil Rathbone, Hazel Court, Jack Nicholson, and Barbara Steele, Debra Paget, and Peter Lorre. After The Raven was completed, Corman reportedly realized that he still had some shooting days left before the sets were torn down and so made another film, The Terror (1963), on the spot with the remaining cast, crew and sets.

Other work[link]

He also directed one of William Shatner's earliest appearances in a lead role with The Intruder (1962). Based on a novel by Charles Beaumont, the film, made for approximately USD$80,000,^[10] has become famous for its treatment of segregation and civil rights.^[11]

The late 1960s saw Corman and his films give a voice to the counter-culture of the time. In 1966, Corman made the first biker movie with The Wild Angels. It starred Peter Fonda and Nancy Sinatra and opened the 1966 Venice Film Festival. In 1967, The Trip, written by and starring Jack Nicholson, began the psychedelic film craze of the late 1960s and was the American entry at Cannes that year. Joan Didion said she went to see The Wild Angels because "there on the screen was some news I was not getting from the New York Times. I began to think I was seeing ideograms of the future."^[12]

In 1970, Corman founded New World Pictures which became a small independently owned production/distribution studio,^[13] making many cult films such as Women in Cages (1971), Death Race 2000 (1975), Rock 'n' Roll High School (1979), Galaxy of Terror (1981), Children of the Corn (1983), and the Joe Dante film Piranha (1978).^[14] Corman's distribution side of New World brought many foreign films to mass audiences in the United States for the first time, including the works of Ingmar Bergman, François Truffaut, Federico Fellini, and Akira Kurosawa. In a ten-year period, New World Pictures won more Academy Awards for Best Foreign Film than all other studios combined. Corman eventually sold New World to an investment group in 1983 and later formed Concorde Pictures and New Horizons.^[15]

Corman's penultimate film as director was 1971's Von Richthofen and Brown (he had always wanted to make an aviation movie, being a pilot himself).

Aircraft from Lynn Garrison’s collection during 1970 filming of Corman’s Von Richthofen and Brown.

He then returned to directing once more with 1990's Frankenstein Unbound. In total, Roger Corman has produced over 300 movies and directed more than 50.

In 2009, Corman produced and directed alongside director Joe Dante the web series "Splatter" for Netflix.^[16] The protagonist of the film is portrayed by Corey Feldman,^[17] and the story talks of the haunting tale of rock-and-roll legend Johnny Splatter.^[18] He also started contributing trailer commentaries to Dante's web series Trailers From Hell.^[19]

Corman most recently produced the 2010 films Dinoshark and Dinocroc vs. Supergator for the Syfy cable television channel.^[20] Dinoshark premiered on March 13, 2010.^[21] Sharktopus, his latest Syfy production, premiered in September 2010.^[22]

Personal life[link]

Corman lives and works in Southern California and has four children.

Remembrances and awards[link]

His autobiography, titled How I Made a Hundred Movies in Hollywood and Never Lost a Dime (ISBN 0-306-80874-9), documents his experiences in the film industry.

In 1964, Corman was the youngest producer/director to be given a retrospective at the Cinémathèque Française, as well as retrospectives at the British Film Institute and the Museum of Modern Art.

In 1998, he won the first Producer’s Award ever given by the Cannes Film Festival.

In 2006, Corman received the David O. Selznick Award from the Producers Guild of America. Also in 2006, his film Fall of the House of Usher was among the twenty-five movies selected for the National Film Registry, a compilation of significant films being preserved by the Library of Congress.

In 2010, The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences awarded Corman with an Academy Honorary Award at the inaugural Governors Awards,^[23] on November 14, 2009.^[24]

In 2010, writer and actor Mark Gatiss interviewed Corman for his BBC documentary series A History of Horror, of which the second half of the second episode focuses on Corman.^[25]

In 2010, Corman was inducted into the Beverly Hills High School Hall of Fame.

"The Corman Film School"[link]

A number of noted film directors worked with Corman, usually early in their careers, including Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Ron Howard, Peter Bogdanovich, Armondo Linus Acosta, Jonathan Demme, Donald G. Jackson, Gale Anne Hurd, Carl Colpaert, Joe Dante, James Cameron, John Sayles, Monte Hellman, Paul Bartel, George Armitage, Jonathan Kaplan, George Hickenlooper, Curtis Hanson, Jack Hill, Robert Towne, Michael Venzor and Timur Bekmambetov. Many have said that Corman's influence taught them some of the ins-and-outs of filmmaking.^[26] In the extras for the DVD of The Terminator, director James Cameron asserts, "I trained at the Roger Corman Film School." The British director Nicolas Roeg served as the cinematographer on The Masque of the Red Death.^[27] Cameron, Coppola, Demme, Hanson, Howard and Scorsese have all gone on to win Academy Awards. Howard was reportedly told by Corman, "If you do a good job on this film, you'll never have to work for me again."

Actors who obtained their career breaks working for Corman include Jack Nicholson, Peter Fonda, Bruce Dern, Michael McDonald, Dennis Hopper, Talia Shire, Sandra Bullock, and Robert De Niro. David Carradine, who received one of his first starring film roles in the Corman-produced Boxcar Bertha (1972) and went on to star in Death Race 2000, later noted: "It’s almost as though you can’t have a career in this business without having passed through Roger’s hands for at least a moment."

Many of Corman's protegés have rewarded him with cameos in their films, including The Godfather Part II,^[28] The Silence of the Lambs,^[29] Apollo 13,^[26] and as recently as Demme's 2008 film Rachel Getting Married.^[30]

Partial filmography[link]

Director

• Five Guns West (1955)
• Swamp Women (1955)
• It Conquered the World (1956)
• Not of This Earth (1957)
• Attack of the Crab Monsters (1957)
• The Undead (1957)
• The Wasp Woman (1959)
• A Bucket of Blood (1959)
• House of Usher (1960)
• The Little Shop of Horrors (1960)
• Last Woman on Earth (1960)
• Creature from the Haunted Sea (1961)
• The Pit and the Pendulum (1961)
• The Premature Burial (1962)
• The Intruder (1962)
• Tales of Terror (1962)
• X (1963)
• The Haunted Palace (1963)
• The Raven (1963)
• The Terror (1963)
• The Masque of the Red Death (1964)
• The Tomb of Ligeia (1964)
• The Secret Invasion (1964)
• The Wild Angels (1966)
• The St. Valentine's Day Massacre (1967)
• The Trip (1967)
• Bloody Mama (1970)
• Gas-s-s-s (1971)
• Von Richthofen and Brown (1971)
• Frankenstein Unbound (1990)

Roger Corman's Cult Classics[link]

In 2010 Roger Corman teamed up with Shout! Factory to release new DVD and Blu-ray editions of Corman productions under the name Roger Corman's Cult Classics. The releases have concentrated on 1970s-1980s films he produced through New World rather than directed. These titles include Rock N Roll High School, Death Race 2000, Galaxy of Terror, Forbidden World, and Piranha, with additional titles continuing to be released.^[31]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official website biography at New Horizons Pictures
• Roger Corman interview at DBCult Film Institute
• Roger Corman bibliography (via UC Berkeley)
• Roger Corman at the Internet Movie Database
• Roger Corman biography on (re)Search my Trash
• Roger Corman at Senses of Cinema
• Roger Corman 1974 Interview
• 2011 radio interview at The Bat Segundo Show
• New Horizons company website

Jon Davison (born July 21, 1949) is a film producer.

Biography[link]

His producing credits include Airplane! (1980), RoboCop (1987), RoboCop 2 (1990), Starship Troopers (1997), The 6th Day (2000) and Phasma ex Machina (2011).^[1]

He has also acted, uncredited, in the RoboCop trilogy (as the voice of ED-209) and Starship Troopers.^{[citation needed]}

Davison and animator Sally Cruikshank^[2] were married March 17, 1984,^[3] and have a daughter, Dinah.^[4]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Jon Davison at the Internet Movie Database

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Jonathan Kaplan (born November 25, 1947) is an American film producer and director. His film The Accused (1988), earned actress Jodie Foster her first Oscar for Best Actress and was nominated for the Golden Bear at the 39th Berlin International Film Festival.^[1][2] Kaplan received 5 Emmy nominations for his roles directing and producing ER.

Career[link]

Kaplan was born in Paris, France. He is the son of film composer Sol Kaplan and actress Frances Heflin; the nephew of actor Van Heflin. He is the brother of actresses Nora Heflin and Mady Kaplan.

Kaplan started his career as a child actor in the Broadway production of The Dark at the Top of the Stairs directed by Elia Kazan. He earned a BA at the University of Chicago before studying film at New York University, where he made an award-winning short film, Stanley (1965).^[3]

Kaplan was working at the Filmore East in New York, doing some editing on the side, when he received an offer from Roger Corman to direct Night Call Nurses (1972). Corman also allowed him to rewrite and edit the movie. Kaplan make the movie and returned to New York. It was hit and Corman offered him another film, The Student Teachers (1973), which he also co-wrote and co-edited.^[4]

He made The Slams (1973) for Corman's brother Gene, then Truck Turner (1974), which was another big hit, and saw Kaplan get an offer to direct White Line Fever (1975) for Columbia, a major Hollywood studio.That movie was an even larger success but then Kaplan made what he describes as "the biggest failure of my career", Mr. Billion (1977), an attempt to launch Terence Hill to American audiences.^[5] He then went on to make the critically acclaimed Over the Edge (1979), which failed to reach large audiences by has since come to be seen as one of Kaplan's best movies as well as launching the career of Matt Dillon.

During the early 80s Kaplan directed movies for television and many music videos, including several John Cougar Mellencamp and Rod Stewart's "Infatuation" in 1984.^[6] His feature film career revived in the late 1980s, with The Accused (1988). In the 1990s he moved into television, becoming one of the most highly regarded directors of that medium.

Selected Filmography[link]

• Night Call Nurses (1972)
• The Student Teachers (1973)
• The Slams (1973)
• Truck Turner (1974)
• White Line Fever (1975)
• Mr. Billion (1977)
• Over the Edge (1979)
• 11th Victim (1979) - TV movie
• The Gentleman Bandit (1981) - TV movie
• Girls of the White Orchid (1983) - TV movie
• Heart Like a Wheel (1983)
• Project X (1987)
• The Accused (1988)
• Immediate Family (1989)
• Unlawful Entry (1992)
• Love Field (1992)
• Fallen Angels (1993) (TV)
• Rebel Highway: Reform School Girl (1994) (TV)
• Bad Girls (1994)
• Picture Windows (1995) (TV)
• ER (1997) (TV)
• Brokedown Palace (1999)
• Crossing Jordan (2005) (TV)
• Law and Order: Special Victims Unit (2005-present) (TV)
• Without a Trace (2006 - 2009) (TV)
• Brothers and Sisters (2010) (TV)

See also[link]

• Aestheticization of violence, an article which includes a discussion of Kaplan's use of a violent rape scene in The Accused.

References[link]

External links[link]

• Jonathan Kaplan at the Internet Movie Database

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