New Line Cinema
Ever since the beach party genre exploded in the 60s, where girls in bikinis accounted for about half of the movies’ budgets, boobs have been used as a way to sell otherwise awful films to audiences who can’t get enough of that fleshy stuff. So sexploitation flicks flourished in the 70s, which were replaced with more light-hearted teen sex romps in the 80s.
Even some very high profile, critically acclaimed films have used the tactic to capture that rare demographic who couldn’t care less about Academy Awards but who loves some boobies (14 to 22-year-old males, mostly).
Titanic brought a legion of begrudging males to the theatre once their significant others promised they would see Kate Winslet’s bare breasts. Thousands of them sat through a 3-hour period drama with the cheesiest love story the 90s could handle for a 5-second shot of her chest.
And...
Ever since the beach party genre exploded in the 60s, where girls in bikinis accounted for about half of the movies’ budgets, boobs have been used as a way to sell otherwise awful films to audiences who can’t get enough of that fleshy stuff. So sexploitation flicks flourished in the 70s, which were replaced with more light-hearted teen sex romps in the 80s.
Even some very high profile, critically acclaimed films have used the tactic to capture that rare demographic who couldn’t care less about Academy Awards but who loves some boobies (14 to 22-year-old males, mostly).
Titanic brought a legion of begrudging males to the theatre once their significant others promised they would see Kate Winslet’s bare breasts. Thousands of them sat through a 3-hour period drama with the cheesiest love story the 90s could handle for a 5-second shot of her chest.
And...
- 9/24/2014
- by Jacob Trowbridge
- Obsessed with Film
And the parade of Roger Corman Cult Classics keeps marching on in with the official releases of three more lovable obscurities courtesy of Shout! Factory!
From the Press Release
This November 2, 2010, get ready for a trio of science-fiction terror palooza when Shout! Factory, in association with New Horizons Picture Corporation will unleash Not of This Earth (1988) Special Edition DVD and The Terror Within/ Dead Space Double-Feature DVD from the popular Roger Corman’s Cult Classics home entertainment series.
Cult filmmaker Jim Wynorski (Big Bad Mama II, Chopping Mall) offers his rendition of Roger Corman’s 1957 cult classic Not of This Earth in the 1988 version, boasting campy performance of fan favorite Traci Lords (Blade, Cry-Baby). The double-feature DVD release of The Terror Within and Dead Space offers fearful futuristic thrills on Earth and in outer space. A must-have for horror fans and collectors, aggregate your Roger Corman movie collection with these...
From the Press Release
This November 2, 2010, get ready for a trio of science-fiction terror palooza when Shout! Factory, in association with New Horizons Picture Corporation will unleash Not of This Earth (1988) Special Edition DVD and The Terror Within/ Dead Space Double-Feature DVD from the popular Roger Corman’s Cult Classics home entertainment series.
Cult filmmaker Jim Wynorski (Big Bad Mama II, Chopping Mall) offers his rendition of Roger Corman’s 1957 cult classic Not of This Earth in the 1988 version, boasting campy performance of fan favorite Traci Lords (Blade, Cry-Baby). The double-feature DVD release of The Terror Within and Dead Space offers fearful futuristic thrills on Earth and in outer space. A must-have for horror fans and collectors, aggregate your Roger Corman movie collection with these...
- 8/30/2010
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
Mark Valley left his bike in Vancouver. It's there with his radio, some clothes, and hiking gear. He left the items for good luck, and, he admits, so he can playfully brag later if his show Human Target gets picked up for more episodes beyond its current 12. ("I'll say 'Oh, of course it got picked up,"' he says in a faux haughty tone, "'I left my stuff there."') They haven't heard anything yet, but he's hopeful. "I think there's more story to be told." The same can be said of Valley's personal rise to fame. Sitting down with EW.
- 3/24/2010
- by Sandra Gonzalez
- EW.com - PopWatch
Chicago – This 14-image slideshow contains our exclusive portraits from the Oct. 2009 Hollywood Collectors Show in Chicago.
You can click “Next” and “Previous” to scan through this slideshow or jump directly to individual photos with the captioned links below. All photos are credited to Joe Arce of Starstruck Foto and HollywoodChicago.com. All rights reserved.
We also have the following celebrity portraits on file from their appearances at the Oct. 2009 Hollywood Collectors Show in Chicago: Ernest Borgnine, Charles Martin Smith, Paul Le Mat, Cindy Williams, Tippi Hedren, Sally Kellerman, Candy Clark, Eddie Mekka, Barbara Luna, Bo Hopkins, Joan Severance, Elliott Gould and Sally Kellerman.
hollywoodcollectors1: Tia Carrere of “True Lies”
hollywoodcollectors2: Tia Carrere
hollywoodcollectors3: Tia Carrere (left) and HollywoodChicago.com’s Patrick McDonald
hollywoodcollectors4: Julie McCullough of “Breast Men”
hollywoodcollectors5: Julie McCullough
hollywoodcollectors6: Genie Francis of TV’s “General Hospital”
hollywoodcollectors7: Gregory Harrison of “Razorback”
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You can click “Next” and “Previous” to scan through this slideshow or jump directly to individual photos with the captioned links below. All photos are credited to Joe Arce of Starstruck Foto and HollywoodChicago.com. All rights reserved.
We also have the following celebrity portraits on file from their appearances at the Oct. 2009 Hollywood Collectors Show in Chicago: Ernest Borgnine, Charles Martin Smith, Paul Le Mat, Cindy Williams, Tippi Hedren, Sally Kellerman, Candy Clark, Eddie Mekka, Barbara Luna, Bo Hopkins, Joan Severance, Elliott Gould and Sally Kellerman.
hollywoodcollectors1: Tia Carrere of “True Lies”
hollywoodcollectors2: Tia Carrere
hollywoodcollectors3: Tia Carrere (left) and HollywoodChicago.com’s Patrick McDonald
hollywoodcollectors4: Julie McCullough of “Breast Men”
hollywoodcollectors5: Julie McCullough
hollywoodcollectors6: Genie Francis of TV’s “General Hospital”
hollywoodcollectors7: Gregory Harrison of “Razorback”
hollywoodcollectors8: HollywoodChicago.
- 10/29/2009
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
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