Editing Roger Corman (section)

== New Horizons ==
Corman says people struggled with the name "Millennium" – "nobody could spell it, nobody knew what it meant" – so he changed it to New Horizons by early 1984.<ref>{{cite news|id={{ProQuest|122375077}}|author= Chase, C.|date=January 27, 1984|title=Corman sees 'love letters' setting trend|work=The New York Times}}</ref>

Corman and the new owners of New World ended up suing each other in March 1985. Corman claimed that New World failed to honor their guarantee to distribute his movies at a fee of 15%. He sought $400 million in damages and the return of the company. He said they refused to distribute ''[[School Spirit]]'' (1985) and ''[[Wheels of Fire (film)|Wheels of Fire]]''. He also claimed that New World cheated him distributing ''Space Raiders'', ''Screwballs'' and ''[[Slumber Party Massacre]]''. New World sued Corman in return, claiming he was seeking to return to distribution, and was discrediting New World to potential investors. They said Corman bypassed New World for some of his films, such as Columbia's ''[[Hardbodies]]'' (1984). Corman argued, "My whole point in selling was to free myself of the burden of running the company and to get guaranteed distribution. If I can't get my guaranteed distribution, I'm forced to go back to running the company."<ref>{{cite news|title=Film Clips: Corman, New World Sue in a Battle for Control|last=London|first= Michael |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=March 6, 1985|page= i1}}</ref>

=== Concorde Pictures ===
The case with New World settled out of court. In March 1985 Corman announced he would establish a new distribution "cooperative", Concorde Pictures, where producers could get relatively cheap distribution from Concorde in exchange for contributing to the company's overhead. Their first releases were Corman productions ''School Spirit'', ''Wheels of Fire'' and ''[[Barbarian Queen]]''.<ref>{{cite news|id={{ProQuest|154149583}}|author= London, M. |date=March 22, 1985|title=FILM CLIPS|work=Los Angeles Times}}</ref> Concorde later merged with a low-budget production company, Cinema Group, and announced plans to make 15–20 films a year.<ref>{{cite news|id={{ProQuest|154255916}}|title=CINEMA GROUP, CONCORDE UNITE FOR DISTRIBUTION|date=July 18, 1985|work=Los Angeles Times}}</ref> The first release between Cinema Release and Concorde was ''[[Streetwalkin']]'', a more serious drama from Joan Freeman.<ref name="corman">{{cite news|title=Corman Hustles New Distribution Territory|newspaper=The San Francisco Examiner|date=23 February 1986|page=22|first=John|last=Stanley}}</ref>

Early Concorde releases also include ''[[Loose Screws]]'' (1985), a sequel to ''Screwballs''; ''[[Cocaine Wars]]'' (1986), the first in a series of movies Corman would finance in South America; ''[[Hour of the Assassin]]'' (1987), shot in Peru and the first film directed by [[Luis Llosa]]; and ''[[Munchies (film)|Munchies]]'' (1987), a spoof of ''Gremlins'' directed by [[Tina Hirsch]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://bloody-disgusting.com/editorials/3703869/munchies-proudly-ripped-off-gremlins-back-in-1987-hidden-gems/|title=Munchies' Proudly Ripped Off 'Gremlins' Back in 1987|date=February 16, 2022 |publisher=Bloody Disgusting|access-date=May 12, 2024|archive-date=July 11, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220711225104/https://bloody-disgusting.com/editorials/3703869/munchies-proudly-ripped-off-gremlins-back-in-1987-hidden-gems/|url-status=live}}</ref>

Corman also remade ''[[Not of this Earth (1988 film)|Not of this Earth]]'' (1988) and released ''[[Big Bad Mama II]]'' (1987), and ''[[Transylvania Twist]]'' (1989); all three were directed by [[Jim Wynorski]]. He produced another version of ''[[Masque of the Red Death (1989 film)|Masque of the Red Death]]'' (1989), directed by Larry Brand. He produced ''[[Sweet Revenge (1987 film)|Sweet Revenge]]'' (1987), ''[[Slumber Party Massacre II]]'' (1988), directed by Deborah Brock, ''[[Andy Colby's Incredible Adventure]]'' (1988), also directed by Brock, and ''[[The Terror Within]]'' (1989), directed by Thierry Notz. Corman financed the early directorial efforts of [[Carl Franklin]] (''[[Nowhere to Run (1989 film)|Nowhere to Run]]'' (1989)), [[Mario Vargas Llosa|Vargas Llosa]] and [[Katt Shea]] (''[[Stripped to Kill]]'' (1988), ''Stripped to Kill II'' (1989)). More experimental was ''[[Nightfall (1988 film)|Nightfall]]'' (1988). After ''Hour of the Assassin'', he made a series of films in Peru, including ''[[Crime Zone]]'' (1989), also directed by Luis Llosa, and ''[[Full Fathom Five (film)|Full Fathom Five]]'' (1990), directed by Carl Franklin. Concorde had a big hit with ''[[Bloodfist]]'' (1989), starring Don "the Dragon" Wilson which cost $1 million and earned over $6 million. Concorde signed Wilson to a long-term contract and he made a number of sequels for the company, including ''[[Bloodfist II]]'' and ''Fighting to Win''.<ref>{{cite news|id={{ProQuest|140166128}}|first= Steve|last= Pond|date=June 1, 1990|title=Summer's sizzling start|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]}}</ref>

=== Return to directing ===
Corman returned to directing once more with ''[[Frankenstein Unbound]]'' (1990). In 1990, Concorde sued MGM for $6 million.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Cieply |first1=M. |author2=Alan Citron |date=March 30, 1991 |title=Creditors file to put MGM-pathe into bankruptcy|work=Los Angeles Times |id={{ProQuest|1641869647}}}}</ref> Concorde's films included ''[[Overexposed (film)|Overexposed]]'' (1990), ''[[The Unborn (1991 film)|The Unborn]]'' (1991), and ''[[In the Heat of Passion]]'' (1992). They had a big hit with ''[[Carnosaur (film)|Carnosaur]]'' (1993), which led to several sequels. He financed ''[[Fire on the Amazon]]'' (1991, directed [[Luis Llosa]]) which had [[Sandra Bullock]] and [[Craig Sheffer]] in early roles.{{cn|date=May 2024}}

Corman had to deal with the decline of the drive-in market and studio competition through the 1990s, but Concorde-New Horizons still made 15–24 pictures a year.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://variety.com/1995/film/features/thrifty-corman-healthy-in-4th-decade-99130404/|magazine=Variety|title=Thrifty Corman healthy in 4th decade|date=July 10, 1995|access-date=December 13, 2017|archive-date=November 6, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181106140707/https://variety.com/1995/film/features/thrifty-corman-healthy-in-4th-decade-99130404/|url-status=live}}</ref> This included a never-released version of ''[[The Fantastic Four (unreleased film)|The Fantastic Four]]'', that Stan Lee claimed was made solely for the producer Bernd Eichinger and his production company [[Constantin Films]] to retain the film rights. [[Avi Arad]], one of Marvel's owners at the time, disputes this and contends that he bought out Corman & Eichinger in order to protect the image of the characters for future films. This version was supported by both Corman & Eichinger.<ref>Ito, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=SF8EAAAAMBAJ&dq=%22the+film+switches+from+live+action+to+cartoon%22&pg=PA218 218] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230411000304/https://books.google.com/books?id=SF8EAAAAMBAJ&dq=%22the+film+switches+from+live+action+to+cartoon%22&pg=PA218 |date=April 11, 2023 }}</ref>

=== ''Roger Corman Presents'' ===
In 1995, Corman was executive producer on ''[[Roger Corman Presents]]'', a special series of 13 movies for Showtime with budgets of around $1.5 million each. "I think the Corman name means action, humor and some titillation," says Mike Elliott, the producer of the series. "It's going to deliver the goods – and it will have a little moral statement in there as well."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/07/09/tv/cover-story-yikes-roger-corman-is-back-still.html|newspaper=The New York Times|date=July 9, 1995|title=Yikes! roger corman is back, stil|access-date=September 11, 2017|archive-date=April 27, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180427121926/https://www.nytimes.com/1995/07/09/tv/cover-story-yikes-roger-corman-is-back-still.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Corman ended up doing a second season of 11 movies. The films were ''[[Bram Stoker's Burial of the Rats]]'', ''[[Hellfire (1995 film)|Hellfire]]'', ''[[Virtual Seduction]]'', ''[[Suspect Device (film)|Suspect Device]]'', ''[[Unknown Origin]]'', ''[[Terminal Virus]]'', ''[[Where Evil Lies]]'', ''[[Vampirella (film)|Vampirella]]'', ''[[Shadow of a Scream]]'', ''[[Subliminal Seduction]]'', ''[[Spectre (1996 film)|House of the Damned]]'' (a.k.a. ''Spectre''), ''[[The Haunted Sea]]'', ''[[Alien Avengers]]'' (a.k.a. ''Aliens Among Us'') and its sequel, ''[[Inhumanoid]]'', ''[[Sawbones (film)|Sawbones]]'', ''[[Not Like Us (film)|Not Like Us]]'', and ''[[Last Exit to Earth]]''. He created his own comic book franchise, ''[[Black Scorpion (film)|Black Scorpion]]'', which led to a sequel and later a TV series. Corman also executive-produced remakes of ''[[The Wasp Woman (1995 film)|The Wasp Woman]]'', ''[[Humanoids from the Deep (1996 film)|Humanoids from the Deep]]'', ''[[A Bucket of Blood (1995 film)|A Bucket of Blood]]'' (a.k.a. ''The Death Artist''), ''[[Piranha (1995 film)|Piranha]]'' and ''[[Not of this Earth (1995 film)|Not of this Earth]]''.

Concorde set up operations in Ireland as [[Concorde Anois]], building studios in [[Connemara]], County Galway.<ref name="TG4">{{cite AV media |title=Roger Corman i gConamara |trans-title=Roger Corman in Connemara |publisher=[[TG4]] |url=http://www.tg4.ie/ga/player/baile/?pid=5419128485001 |language=Irish, en |date=May 3, 2017 |access-date=May 6, 2017 |first=Brian |last=Reddin |medium=TV documentary |location=Ireland |archive-date=December 6, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181206192559/http://www.tg4.ie/ga/player/baile/?pid=5419128485001 |url-status=live}}</ref> He received some support from the Irish government, a decision which became controversial when the content of some Corman productions such as ''[[Criminal Affairs]]'' was criticized in the press.<ref>{{cite news|id={{ProQuest|525942163}}|author= Michael Foley, M. C.|date=August 29, 1997|title= Equity says its dispute with Corman is purely industrial|newspaper=The Irish Times}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|id={{ProQuest|525971725}}|author=Linehan, H.|date=August 22, 1997|title=Corman Uncovered|newspaper=The Irish Times}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/movies/movies-a-documentary-recalls-the-mayhem-of-roger-cormans-time-in-connemara-30590513.html|title=Movies – A documentary recalls the mayhem of Roger Corman's time in Connemara|newspaper=The Independent|first=Paul|last=Whitington|date=September 21, 2014|access-date=May 4, 2017|archive-date=March 3, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303200817/http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/movies/movies-a-documentary-recalls-the-mayhem-of-roger-cormans-time-in-connemara-30590513.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/corman-uncovered-1.99106|newspaper=Irish Times|title=Corman Uncovered|date=August 22, 1997|access-date=May 4, 2017|archive-date=March 28, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190328192145/https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/corman-uncovered-1.99106|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="TG4"/>

Later Concorde-New Horizons films included ''Overdrive'' (1997). "The genres still hold", said Corman in 1997, "action adventure, the suspense thriller, science fiction and horror. The difference is that they are bigger and better now. "<ref>{{cite news|id={{ProQuest|109749108}}|author=P. M.|date=January 5, 1997|title= Funny, but they almost don't look like B movies|work=The New York Times}}</ref> Corman also produced the film ''[[Moving Target (2000 film)|Moving Target]]'' which was filmed in [[County Galway]]. It was his last film produced with Concorde-New Horizons.<ref>{{cite book|title=Historical Dictionary of Irish Cinema|page=108|isbn=9781538119587 |last1=Flynn |first1=Roddy |last2=Tracy |first2=Tony |date=August 9, 2019 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield }}</ref>