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We pay tribute to legendary filmmaker Roger Corman and celebrate the many hours of entertainment he brought to the world 98 years walking on this earth and over 70 of those working in the industry that he and we all love. How do you talk about a man who had …

By the time the Seventies came around, Corman had begun to tire of directing and after shooting “Von Richthofen and Brown” in 1970, he founded New World Studios, an independent production and distribution outfit. At first, the output was the same kind of exploitation fare that he had succeeded with …

Hollywood is mourning the loss of one of the giants of American independent and cult cinema. Roger Corman reigned as the biggest name in little movies for much of the second half of the twentieth century. Through his various production companies, he directed and produced some of the most popular and …

Roger Corman has passed away. He died on May 9th at the age of 98 at his home in Santa Monica, Calif., surrounded by family members, the family Corman was the willful spirit of independent filmmaking and he left behind a legacy that has shaped the film industry. Known affectionately …

Roger Corman, the Oscar-winning “King of the Bs” who helped turn out such low-budget classics as Little Shop of Horrors and Attack of the Crab Monsters and gave many of Hollywood’s most famous actors and directors early breaks, has died. He was 98. Corman died Thursday at his home in …

Julian Finney/Getty Images Serena Williams was reminded of another tennis icon — Roger Federer and his wife, Mirka — while watching Zendaya’s new film Challengers. In a review of the movie for Vogue, which was published on Friday, April 26, Williams, 42, opened up about seeing the real world of …

On an ordinary day in 1986, executives from the Walt Disney Studio piled into a screening room to see what $100,000 had bought them. That’s what they had paid for a proof-of-concept screen test for an upcoming film. If they liked what they saw, the project could move forward. If they didn’t, the movie would likely …

Roger Ver, aka “Bitcoin Jesus” filed a lawsuit in the Seychelles last August against a branch of Matrixport, a company associated with billionaire Jihan Wu. The decision was prompted by Ver’s inability to access $8 million from Matrixport’s derivatives-focused subsidiary, bit.com, during the crypto market’s drawdown in 2022. The legal …

This festival season brought with it a pair of ambitious adaptations of scholarly texts. In Venice, Ava DuVernay premiered Origin, a narrative take on Isabel Wilkerson’s tome, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents. The Selma director anchored her adaptation in a tender love story, using Wilkerson’s personal life to understand …

“Cloud Atlas“  One of the things I admired most about Roger was that, while he often had his biases around genre (and medium, as his takes on video games can attest), the right film could hit him in a magical, undeniable way. And so it went with Roger’s review of …

It’s two months into 2023, and Roger Ross Williams has simply landed in his dwelling state of New York from the Berlin Movie Competition, the place he debuted his newest documentary, about music famous person Donna Summer season. Earlier than that, he had alighted in Los Angeles on the Academy …

Roger Winter, a long-time advocate for South Sudan, who died on January 25, spent most his lifetime of engaged on refugee emergencies world wide. He served in a number of U.S. authorities positions and headed the U.S. Committee for Refugees for twenty years. This tribute was written by three long-time …