Arkoff threatened to withdraw his financial backing unless Krantz rehired Bakshi, who returned a week later.

Arkoff threatened to withdraw his financial backing unless Krantz rehired Bakshi, which Krantz did a week later.

AIP heads Arkoff and Nicholson had originally contributed their portion of the budget as a tax write-off, but when they were screened the completed film they were astonished by its quality.

Towards the end of the year, Krantz began coproducing Heavy Traffic with Samuel Z. Arkoff, but Krantz had not compensated Bakshi for his work on Fritz the Cat, and halfway through the production of Heavy Traffic, Bakshi asked when he would be paid.

Bakshi pitched Heavy Traffic to Samuel Z. Arkoff, who expressed interest in his take on the " tortured underground cartoonist " and agreed to back the film.

In 1993, Lou Arkoff, the son of Samuel Z. Arkoff, approached Bakshi to write and direct a low-budget live-action feature for Showtime's Rebel Highway series.

Bakshi pitched Heavy Traffic to Samuel Z. Arkoff, who took an interest in Bakshi's take on the " tortured underground cartoonist ", and agreed to fund the film.

In 1993, Lou Arkoff, the son of Samuel Z. Arkoff, approached Bakshi to write and direct a low-budget feature for Showtime's Rebel Highway series.

In the 1950s, Nicholson founded the American Releasing Corporation, which later became known as American International Pictures, and made Arkoff the vice-president.

* 1918 – Samuel Z. Arkoff, American film producer ( d. 2001 )

His former father-in-law was movie producer Samuel Z. Arkoff.

Vicki Arkoff positively evaluates the text and the illustrations, but sees a problem especially for American readers: " Right off the bat it's clear that this simple picture book is a translated work because of its ' this would never happen in this country ' premise.

Hull, Edward Kelleher ( aka, Edouard Dauphin ), Rick Johnson, Bruce Malamut, Lotta D. Blooz, John Mendelssohn, Jon Young, Lisa Robinson, Vicki Arkoff, Deborah Frost, Cynthia Rose, Mike Gormley, Sylvie Simmons, Gregg Turner, Chuck Eddy, Mark J. Norton, Dave DiMartino, Alan Niester, Robert Duncan, Alan Madlane ( as Alan Madeleine ), Bill Holdship and John Kordosh ; the latter two edited the last versions of Creem in the late ' 80s.

In 2001, Winston, together with Colleen Camp and Samuel Z. Arkoff's son, Lou Arkoff, produced a series of made-for-cable films for Cinemax and HBO.

Samuel Zachary Arkoff ( June 12, 1918 – September 16, 2001 ) was an American producer of B movies.

Born in Fort Dodge, Iowa to a Russian Jewish family, Arkoff first studied to be a lawyer.

Arkoff is also credited with starting a few genres, such as the Beach Party and outlaw biker movies, and his company played a substantial part in bringing the horror film genre to a novel level with successes such as Blacula, I Was a Teenage Werewolf and The Thing with Two Heads.

Not long after American International Pictures went out of business, Arkoff founded Arkoff International Pictures.

However, without cavalry support, and threatened with envelopment, the Prussian and Danish infantry were in turn forced to pull back across the Nebel.

In response, General Motors threatened to pull advertising on any TV show that interviewed Michael Moore.

Gilley had previously threatened to pull his project if bingo was ruled illegal, but ground-breaking began on March 2, 2009.

McQueen wanted to drive a Porsche 917 with Jackie Stewart in that race, but his film backers threatened to pull their support if he did.

" The satirical skit was so sarcastic that sponsors threatened to pull their ads from any radio station that dared play it.

CBS had intended to cancel the show after its first season, but Procter & Gamble threatened to pull its advertising from " the network's extremely lucrative daytime lineup " and the show was renewed, keeping its Wednesday night time slot.

The Post was forced to sell when the Times threatened to pull out and start a competing paper.

In 2003 House of Freedoms was routed in local elections by the Olive Tree alliance, and the League threatened to pull out of the House of Freedoms.

An impasse resulted ; Pierce threatened to pull his songs from the album if his demands were not met.

The proposition was rejected when Daimler-Benz threatened to pull out of its 1957 marketing and distribution agreement, which would have cost Studebaker-Packard more in revenue than they could have made from the badge-engineered Packard.

In 1748, High Master Charles was removed as he had allegedly threatened to " pull the Surmaster by the nose and kick him about the school.

In July, Mosaddegh broke off negotiations with AIOC after it threatened " to pull out its employees ", and told owners of oil tanker ships that " receipts from the Iranian government would not be accepted on the world market.

In 2004, STV and Grampian threatened to pull a party political broadcast by the SSP which accused Tony Blair over the pretext for the war.

He threatened to pull the Chili Peppers if Mr. Bungle was on the bill.

However, he was one of several players who threatened to pull out of the Hall of Fame if disgraced ex-NHLPA executive director Alan Eagleson had been allowed to stay in after being convicted of fraud and embezzlement.

In 2004, in a series marred by controversy ( Ponce almost threatened to pull out of game six during the fourth quarter ), the Leones won their twelfth championship, defeating the Coamo Marathon Runners in seven games, with a game seven score of 92-77.

The deterioration is happening so fast, that UNESCO has threatened to pull Xochimilco World Heritage Site status.

The TTC was uninterested until the government threatened to pull their financing, which accounted for 75 % of the capital budget.

Some sources later claimed that during this time Olympic officials threatened to pull the games from Berlin if Jews were excluded and that the protests from the IOC forced the Nazi leadership to reinstate Lewald – although only to the minor post of " adviser " to the games.

After rehearsals had been going on for six months, the school threatened to pull the children out of the production if changes were not made to the libretto.

Mossadeq broke off negotiations with AIOC in July 1951 when the AIOC threatened to pull its employees out of Iran and warned tanker owners that " the receipts from the Iranian government would not be accepted on the world market.

Controversially, General Manager Bill Lamb threatened to pull certain UK games during the holiday season of 2011 that radio personality Matt Jones would be an on-air commentator for.

Trescothick was an automatic choice for England between 2000 and 2006, before a stress-related illness threatened his career and forced him to pull out of the national squad.

Major General Terry de la Mesa Allen, Sr .— commanding the U. S. 1st Infantry Division — was threatened when two tanks came near his headquarters, but he shrugged off suggestions of moving, " I will like hell pull out, and I'll shoot the first bastard who does.