Editing Roger Corman (section)

=== Millennium Films ===
Corman sold New World Pictures in January 1983 to a consortium of three lawyers for $16.9 million.<ref>{{cite news|id={{ProQuest|153338673}}|author=Yoshihara, N.|date=January 17, 1983|title=New world pictures sold to 3 lawyers|newspaper=Los Angeles Times}}</ref>

Under the terms of the contract, he agreed to stay on as a consultant for two years and to provide New World with at least five films they could release. New World agreed to distribute all of Corman's films until March 1984. He set up a new production company, Millennium – the title of which was taken from the name of a 1981 retrospective of Corman's work at the [[National Film Theatre]] in London. He announced plans to make films budgeted between $2–5 million using cash from his sale of New World to finance personally. He announced an intention to make fewer commercial films, movies more like ''[[I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (film)|I Never Promised You a Rose Garden]]'' and ''Cries and Whispers''.<ref name="clips"/>

Millennium's films included ''[[Space Raiders (film)|Space Raiders]]'' (1983), a science fiction epic using footage and music from ''Battle Beyond the Stars''; ''[[Love Letters (1984 film)|Love Letters]]'' (1983), a serious drama from [[Amy Holden Jones]]; ''[[Screwballs]]'' (1984), a sex comedy in the vein of ''[[Porky's]]''; ''[[Suburbia (1984 film)|Suburbia]]'' (1984), directed by [[Penelope Spheeris]], which he acquired, ''[[Deathstalker (1983 film)|Deathstalker]]''; and ''Kain of Dark Planet'' (which became ''[[The Warrior and the Sorceress]]''). ''Deathstalker'' was made through Corman's old company, Palo Alto Productions; it was the first in a series of sword and scorcery films he did in Argentina.<ref name="clips">{{cite news|title=Film Clips: Corman Names His New Baby|last=Caulfield|first=Deborah|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|date=June 13, 1983|page=g1}}</ref> (Corman would ultimately made nine co productions in Argentina with the local company Aries.<ref>Falicov, Tamara L. "U.S.-Argentine Co-productions, 1982-1990: Roger Corman, Aries Productions, "Schlockbuster" Movies, and the International Market." Film & History: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Film and Television Studies, vol. 34 no. 1, 2004, p. 31-38. Project MUSE, https://doi.org/10.1353/flm.2004.0015.</ref>