Famed B-movie king Roger Corman, whose hundreds of low-budget films launched the careers of the likes of Jack Nicholson, Robert De Niro, Francis Ford Coppola and Martin Scorsese, has died. He was 98. Corman passed away on Thursday at his home in Santa Monica, surrounded by family. He was famed for his fast-paced, low-budget genre […]

Did you know, it was Roger Corman who told a young writer that if he could write a Mad Max rip off, he would let him direct it. The writer, Peter Radar, wanted to be a director and came back with a script he wrote called Waterworld. Corman liked the script but said, “Are you out of your mind? This would cost us three million dollars to make this movie!”