All I Need To Know About Filmmaking I Learned From The Toxic Avenger

Author : Lloyd Kaufman
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1429976136
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Make Your Own Damn Movie! written by Lloyd Kaufman and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lloyd Kaufman, the writer/producer/director of such cult-classic films as The Toxic Avenger, Class of Nuke 'Em High, and Tromeo and Juliet, offers a guide to movie-making unlike any other available anywhere. In 25 years, Kaufman, along with partner Michael Herz, has built Troma Studios up from a company struggling to find its voice in a field crowded with competitors to its current--and legendary--status as a lone survivor, a bastion of true cinematic independence, and the world's greatest collection of camp on film. As entertaining and funny as it is informative and insightful, Make Your Own Damn Movie! places Kaufman's radically low-budget, independent-studio style of filmaking directly in the reader's hands. Thus we learn how to: develop and write a knock-out screenplay; raise funding; find locations and cast actors; hire a crew; obtain equipment, permits, and music rights (all for little or no money); make incredible special effects for $0.79 each; charm, schmooze, and network while on the film-festival circuit; and, finally, make a bad actor act so bad it's actually good. From scriptwriting and directing to financing and marketing, this book is brimming with utterly off-the-wall, decidedly maverick, yet consistently proven advice on how to fully develop one's idea for an independent film.

Author : Lloyd Kaufman
Publisher : Berkley Trade
ISBN 13 : 9780425163573
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book All I Need to Know about Filmmaking I Learned from the Toxic Avenger written by Lloyd Kaufman and published by Berkley Trade. This book was released on 1998 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Troma films have shocked, appalled, and inspired a generation of filmmakers, from Quentin Tarantino to Kevin Smith. Now legendary Troma co-founder Lloyd Kaufman tells the story of the demented genius behind this outrageous independent film studio.

Author : Lloyd Kaufman
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781456399368
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book All I Really Need to Know about Filmmaking I Learned from the Toxic Avenger written by Lloyd Kaufman and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2010-12-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Troma films have shocked, appalled, and inspired a generation of filmmakers, from Quentin Tarantino to Kevin Smith. Now legendary Troma co-founder Lloyd Kaufman tells the story of the demented genius behind this outrageous independent film studio.

Author : Lloyd Kaufman
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 024081052X
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Direct Your Own Damn Movie! written by Lloyd Kaufman and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2008-12-31 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introducing a new book series on guerrilla filmmaking by legendary independent filmmaker Lloyd Kaufman!

Author : Jeffrey Sass
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781544219240
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Everything I Know About Business and Marketing, I Learned from the Toxic Avenger written by Jeffrey Sass and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-05 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An established and successful chief marketing officer and entrepreneur, once upon a time Jeff Sass spent seven years making low-budget action/horror films for legendary independent movie studio Troma, home of THE TOXIC AVENGER. It turns out there are a lot of similarities between filmmaking and starting companies, and the lessons Jeff learned making B-movies have served him well in the C-Suite. "Everything I Know about Business and Marketing, I Learned from The Toxic Avenger (One Man's Journey to Hell's Kitchen and Back)" is full of practical business and marketing insight and inspiration drawn from the often comical trials and tribulations of creating cult-classic independent films. Sass shares lessons learned from his experiences ranging from RABID GRANNIES to READING RAINBOW (yes, at one time Troma actually represented licensing rights to the Emmy Award-Winning PBS TV series!), and he cleverly turns his tales of moviemaking mayhem into useful nuggets of business and marketing wisdom applicable to any industry, including yours.

Author : Lloyd Kaufman
Publisher : Running PressBook Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781560258704
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Toxic Avenger written by Lloyd Kaufman and published by Running PressBook Pub. This book was released on 2006 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novelization of the movie "The Toxic Avenger," in which a nerdy janiter falls into a vat of toxic waste and becomes a monster and superhero.

Author : Constantine Nasr
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1617031674
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Roger Corman written by Constantine Nasr and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2011-09-13 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roger Corman (b. 1926) is known by many names-craftsman, artist, maverick, schlock-meister, mini-mogul, mentor, cheapskate, and King of the B’s. Yet his commitment to filmmaking remains inspired. He learned his craft at the end of the studio system, only to rebel against Hollywood and define himself as the true independent. And the list of directors and producers who learned under his tutelage—Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, James Cameron, Jonathan Demme, and many more—is astonishing. Collected here are many of the most honest and revealing interviews of his epic career, several of which have never been seen in print. Roger Corman: Interviews brings into focus a life committed to the entertaining art of motion pictures. Corman’s rare talent combined artistic drive with business savvy, ensuring a successful career that was constantly in motion. At a remarkable pace more akin to silent movies than modern Hollywood, he directed over fifty films in less than fifteen years, some entertaining (Not of This Earth), trendsetting (The Wild Angels), daring (The Intruder), workmanlike (Apache Woman), stylized (The Masque of the Red Death) and even profound (X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes). In a single year, Corman famously shot a cult classic in two and a half days (The Little Shop of Horrors), reinvigorated the American horror film with a dash of Poe and Price (House of Usher)—and still turned out a few more films shot across the globe. Recently awarded an honorary Oscar for his lifetime contribution to cinema, the self-made Corman has created a legacy as a defining filmmaker.

Author : James Gunn
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 160819552X
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Toy Collector written by James Gunn and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-07-06 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tragicomic novel about nostalgia, addiction, and 1970s action figures. The Toy Collector is a wickedly funny portrait of a young man who sells stolen pharmaceuticals to finance his growing addiction to memorabilia. An orderly at a Times Square hospital, he buys his toys at exorbitant prices, searching the familiar tacky plastic in a perverse effort to avoid adulthood. As the story switches from the make-believe world he creates with his childhood friends-populated by Scrunch-Em, Grow-Em Dinosaurs and toy robots-to the grown-up pleasures of sex, drugs and alcohol, James falls in and out of love, and stumbles through New York City in search of dubious redemption.

Author : Tim Seeley
Publisher : Devil's Due Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781932796902
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lloyd Kaufman Presents written by Tim Seeley and published by Devil's Due Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Troma Entertainment, the independent film studio that brought the world classic films like The Toxic Avenger and Cannibal! The Musical and jump started the careers of creators such as Eli Roth and James Gunn, dives into the comic page with a host of stories inspired by their film catalog! Chock full of the spirit that has kept Troma strong for over 30 years, this original graphic novel features zany and brillaint tales from Sean McKeever, Tony Moore, B. Clay Moore, Jeremy Haun, Steve Kurth, Tim Seeley and more! You've never seen Troma quite like this!

Author : Xavier Mendik
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231850026
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Underground U.S.A. written by Xavier Mendik and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2003-03-26 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether defined by the carnivalesque excesses of Troma studios (The Toxic Avenger), the arthouse erotica of Radley Metzger and Doris Wishman, or the narrative experimentations of Abel Ferrara, Melvin Van Peebles, Jack Smith, or Harmony Korine, underground cinema has achieved an important position within American film culture. Often defined as "cult" and "exploitation" or "alternative" and "independent," the American underground retains separate strategies of production and exhibition from the cinematic mainstream, while its sexual and cinematic representations differ from the traditionally conservative structures of the Hollywood system. Underground U.S.A. offers a fascinating overview of this area of maverick moviemaking by considering the links between the experimental and exploitative traditions of the American underground.