Tag: Cockfighter
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‘Two-Lane Blacktop’ Director Monte Hellman Dies at Age 91
Monte Hellman, the filmmaker behind movies like Two-Lane Blacktop, The Shooting, and Cockfighter, has died. He suffered a fall in his home on April 19, and died the next day. He was 93 years old. Variety brought word of Hellman’s death, and the outlet described the filmmaker as a “maverick” and a “cult” director. He…
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Samuel Gelfman, Roger Corman Film Producer, Dies at 88
Samuel Gelfman, a New York producer known for his work on Roger Corman’s “Caged Heat,” “Cockfighter” and “Cannonball!,” died Thursday morning at UCLA Hospital in Westwood following complications from heart and respiratory disease, his son Peter Gelfman confirmed. He was 88.Gelfman was born in Brooklyn, New York and was raised in Caldwell New Jersey where…
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Samuel Gelfman, Producer of Roger Corman Films in the 1970s, Dies at 88
Samuel Gelfman, who produced the low-budget films Caged Heat, Cockfighter and Cannonball! for Roger Corman’s New World Pictures in the 1970s, has died. He was 88.Gelfman died Thursday at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles of complications from heart and respiratory disease, his son Peter Gelfman, a New York-based property master, told The…
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Film Factory, Ugc Strike Deal for French Distribution on Luis Ortega’s ‘El Angel’
In a deal negotiated at this year’s Berlin European Film Market, Spain’s Film Factory and France’s Ugc Distribution have come to terms on a French all rights distribution deal for Argentine writer-director Luis Ortega’s “El Angel.”Film Factory handles international sales rights on the film which reunites Film Factory with Argentina’s K & S and broadcaster…