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=== ''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 β 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 β 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>
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