Jason Lefkowitz

2024-05-12 02:03:55

"Over almost half a century, he took over the B-movie market, which had largely disappeared in the wake of television, and kept it alive almost single-handedly. Well into his nineties, he was producing Bs for $5 million and under and rolling them out for video and television release."

https://variety.com/2024/film/news/roger-corman-dead-producer-independent-b-movie-1235999591/

Roger Corman Dead: Pioneering Producer and King of B Movies was 98

Roger Corman, who directed and produced hundreds of B movies and discovered Jack Nicholson, Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro, has died. He was 98.

^{Richard Natale (Variety)}