Neither film owes much to the Shakespeare play, but the 1962 Corman version has similarities to Macbeth, complete with paradoxical prophesies, and visions of bloodied ghosts.

On occasion, he has acted on screen, as in 1960's Roger Corman sci-fi film Last Woman on Earth, which Towne also wrote.

Corman has occasionally taken minor acting roles in such films as The Silence of the Lambs, The Godfather Part II, Apollo 13, The Manchurian Candidate ( 2004 ) and Philadelphia.

Randy Corman, Executive Director of the Sayreville Economic and Redevelopment Agency ( SERA ), has been heading up the development of the parcel of land commonly referred to as the National Lead Site / Amboy Cinemas lot since about 2000.

Corman has been associated with the Beats, Black Mountain poets and Objectivists, mainly through his championing as an editor, publisher and critic.

This footage has never turned up, but in the DVD audio commentary for X in the 2001 " Midnite Movies " series from MGM, Corman claimed shooting the scene on a whim — the " I can still see!

Other names that Dante has worked with more than once include John Astin, Paul Bartel, Phoebe Cates, producer 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, late animator 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.

Dante 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.

Richard " Dick " Miller ( born December 25, 1928 ) is an American character actor who has appeared in over 100 films, particularly those produced by Roger Corman, and later in films of directors who started their careers with Corman, including James Cameron and Joe Dante, with the distinction of appearing in every film made by Dante.

Corman has become well known for discovering young talent, having mentored famed filmmakers such as Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, Ron Howard, and Peter Bogdanovich.

Mr. Price still hams it up, front and center, but these low-budget shockers generally evoke a compelling sense of heady atmosphere and coiled doom in their excellent Gothic settings, arresting color schemes and camera mobility ... Mr. Corman has made stunning, ambient use of his authentic setting, an ancient abbey in Norfolk, England, and the lovely countryside.

In the eight months after Railpower's acquisition, the company has delivered just two locomotives, although according to Corman, proposals have been issued for up to 50 locomotives during the next few years, and the company is confident that orders will resume.

" The idea of low-quality, low-cost films were taken to an extreme by directors such as Roger Corman, Coleman Francis, and Ed Wood, and the latter's Plan 9 from Outer Space has been hailed as one of the worst films of all time.

But like many other films directed by Roger Corman, the film has since earned a cult following.

The Little Shop of Horrors was developed when director Roger Corman was given temporary access to sets that had been left standing from A Bucket of Blood.

It had been rumored that the film's shooting schedule was based on a bet that Corman could not complete a film within that time.

Billy's brother-in-law, Isaac Corman, had been briefly captured by the Americans, but was released after he convinced them ( truthfully ) that he was the cousin of American General William Henry Harrison.

At some point, Monte Hellman, who had been directing films for Roger Corman read Wurlitzer's novel Nog and approached him about writing the screenplay for Two-Lane Blacktop.

Roger Corman hired James Cameron as a model maker in his studio, and after the original art director for the film had been fired, Cameron became responsible for the special effects in Battle Beyond the Stars, or, as Cameron later put it, " production design and art direction.

One instance occurred in Clarence, Pennsylvania in May 2012 after the STB granted R. J. Corman Railroad Company permission to reclaim 20 miles of track abandoned by Conrail in 1990, 10 miles which had been converted into the Snow Shoe Rails to Trails.

The creature design was an idea of Roger Corman who thought that since the creature came from a big planet, it would have been designed to deal with heavy gravity and be built low to the ground.

Corman later admitted this was a mistake, saying the creature would have been more frightening if it was bigger or taller.

Corman was one of many directors who had been impressed with Franklin ’ s thesis film Punk.

Corman plans to market genset locomotives exclusively, although company executives have not ruled out hybrid locomotives, saying that though they haven't been abandoned, they are not a priority.

Before production of the film began, Coppola went to his mentor Roger Corman for advice about shooting in the Philippines, since Corman had filmed several pictures there.

Corman oriented his films towards young male viewers, using a mix of action and female nudity.

Therefore, in an attempt to capture that audience which found a connection to the “ art films ” of Europe, the Studios hired a host of young filmmakers ( many of whom were mentored by Roger Corman ) and allowed them to make their films with relatively little studio control.

* Atlas ( film ), a 1961 movie by Roger Corman

* The 1980s band LaHost's track on the 1985 EMI compilation album ' Fire in Harmony ' was ' Blood and Roses ' - the lyrics of which are loosely based on the Roger Corman film version of Carmilla.

His first job for Corman was to dub and re-edit a Russian science fiction film Nebo zovyot, which he turned into a sex-and-violence monster movie entitled Battle Beyond the Sun, released in 1962.

Demme broke into feature film working for exploitation film producer Roger Corman from 1971 to 1976, co-writing and producing Angels Hard as They Come and The Hot Box.

Apart from his first actual feature, Who's That Knocking at My Door and Boxcar Bertha, a directing project given him by early independent maverick Roger Corman, this was Scorsese's first feature film of his own design.

" Scorsese sent the script to Corman, who agreed to back the film if all the characters were black.

Taplin liked the script and was willing to raise the $ 300, 000 budget that Scorsese wanted if Corman promised, in writing, to distribute the film.

Little Shop of Horrors was based on an off-Broadway musical adaptation of a 1960 Roger Corman film, a precursor of later film-to-stage-to-film adaptations, including The Producers.

The film was later remade by Roger Corman in 1962, starring Vincent Price as Richard ( Price had played Clarence in the earlier version ).

* The 1961 film The Pit and the Pendulum directed by Roger Corman starring Vincent Price and Barbara Steele, like the other installments in the Corman / Price " Poe Cycle ", bears minimal resemblance to the Poe story: the torture apparatus of the title makes its appearance only in the final 10 minutes of the film.

* 1995: Roger Corman produced the film Dillinger and Capone, featuring Martin Sheen as Dillinger and F. Murray Abraham as Al Capone.

At one screening, Bogdanovich was viewing a film and director Roger Corman was sitting behind him.

Stripped to Kill ( 1987 ) was an exploitation film from Roger Corman about a lady cop who poses as a stripper to catch a murderer ; which was followed by a sequel of the same name.

* The Terror ( 1963 film ), a horror film by Roger Corman

This came after cutting a deal with Roger Corman, wherein Corman would let Howard direct a film in exchange for Howard starring in Eat My Dust !, with Christopher Norris.