Joe Dante

A couple of weeks ago, ShockTilYouDrop spied this poster for a proposed remake of Joe Dante's THE HOWLING at the American Film Market. Sometimes, a poster is just a poster (I still have a 1990 Cannes issue of Variety with a two-page ad for...

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...one-man film industry who mentored the likes of Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Jack Nicholson, James Cameron, John Sayles, Joe Dante and many, many more was receiving the ultimate career achievement award in Hollywood last Saturday...

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...(1963's "Dementia 13"), Scorsese (1972's "Boxcar Bertha"), Howard (1977's "Grand Theft Auto"), Jonathan Demme (1974's "Caged Heat") and Joe Dante (1978's "Piranha"). Though he has had films at Cannes and Venice, Corman jokes about the...

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...weekly rate on Happy Days. That said, I think I got $150 a week for directing Grand Theft Auto. Joe Dante edited it, by the way. " Joe Dante (started in the film business cutting trailers for Corman films. Went on to direct such films as...

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...circulating at comic-book conventions turned this picture into a legendary piece of cult worship. 4. Piranha - Directed by Joe Dante ("Gremlins"), this "Jaws" "homage" (read: rip-off) was classic Corman: derivative, self-aware,...

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...it wasn't for Roger you wouldn't have Jack Nicholson or Francis Coppola or Marty or Jonathan Demme. "Roger was fiercely independent," adds Joe Dante ("Gremlins"), who began cutting trailers for Corman in the 1970s before making the 1978 hit...

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..."Dementia 13"), Scorsese (1972's "Boxcar Bertha"), Howard (1977's "Grand Theft Auto"), Jonathan Demme (1974's "Caged Heat") and Joe Dante (1978's "Piranha"). Cameron did effects work on early 1980s Corman productions such as "Battle...

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