New World Pictures Podcast

Bonus Episode: Interview with Jeff Schechtman (PIRANHA, PIRANHA II: THE SPAWNING, BODY ROCK)

July 2, 2025 01:06:19

Producer and former New World Pictures Senior Vice President of Production Jeff Schechtman joins us to talk about his career at New World, starting with 1978’s PIRANHA and into the post-Roger Corman era where he also producer 1984’s BODY ROCK! From starting out as an Assistant to the Producers on projects like TRUCK TURNER, BLACK…

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Bonus Episode: Interview with Jeff Schechtman (PIRANHA, PIRANHA II: THE SPAWNING, BODY ROCK)
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Ep. 149: Firecracker featuring Chris Iannacone

June 26, 2025 01:28:28

We close out #JuneBOOM with 1981’s FIRECRACKER, advertised by New World to be “the first erotic martial arts thriller.” How true is this statement? And is the film erotic enough in the way that middle aged folks would like? We examine with the help of Get Me Another Podcast co-host Chris Iannacone, who also watched…

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Ep. 149: Firecracker featuring Chris Iannacone
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Corman Graduates: Jack Hill Part 3 with Elijah Drenner

June 19, 2025 01:33:09

In our continuing series on exploitation filmmaker Jack Hill, director Elijah Drenner (THAT GUY DICK MILLER, AMERICAN GRINDHOUSE) joins us to discuss Jack’s women-in-prison films he made for Roger Corman’s New World Pictures: THE BIG DOLL HOUSE and THE BIG BIRD CAGE. With 20 years of experience making featurettes and extras for Blu-rays and DVDs…

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Corman Graduates: Jack Hill Part 3 with Elijah Drenner
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Stand Alone

Ep.148: Stand Alone featuring Ryan Verrill

June 12, 2025 01:31:13

We’re kicking off #JuneBOOM with a cap gun as we bravely tackle 1985’s STAND ALONE, a movie that dares to ask: what if DEATH WISH had a smaller budget, barely any action, and Charles Durning hanging around a diner for 90 minutes?   STAND ALONE stars Charles Durning as Louis Thibadeau (a name you will…

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Ep.148: Stand Alone featuring Ryan Verrill
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Bonus Episode: Interview with Editor Daniel Gross (UNDER THE BOARDWALK, THE ANNIHILATORS)

June 5, 2025 01:12:24

One of the biggest inflection points for New World Pictures was when Roger Corman bought a former lumberyard and turned it into a studio to shoot BATTLE BEYOND THE STARS, which jumpstarted many careers from James Cameron to this week’s guest, editor Daniel Gross! Daniel may have started with New World on BATTLE, but he…

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Bonus Episode: Interview with Editor Daniel Gross (UNDER THE BOARDWALK, THE ANNIHILATORS)
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Audio Commentary: The Death of the Incredible Hulk

May 29, 2025 01:34:38

We close out Marc’s Miserable Marvelous May 3: Très Misérables with an audio commentary that lets us revisit 1990’s THE DEATH OF THE INCREDIBLE HULK, the third and final of the INCREDIBLE HULK TV movies produced by New World. Directed by and starring Bill Bixby, we once again see David Banner attempting to rid himself…

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Audio Commentary: The Death of the Incredible Hulk
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Corman Graduates: Jack Hill Part 2 with Elle Schneider

May 22, 2025 01:33:25

For our second episode in the “Corman Graduates: Jack Hill” series, we talk with director, writer and cinematography, Elle Schneider (THE FOOD THAT BUILT AMERICA, PLEDGE NIGHT: AN INTERVIEW WITH ROGER CORMAN, BLISS BLUE, THAT GUY DICK MILLER), about Jack Hill’s MONDO KEYHOLE and PIT STOP.  In addition to being friends with Dick Miller and…

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Corman Graduates: Jack Hill Part 2 with Elle Schneider
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Ep. 147: Spider-Man: The Venom Saga

May 15, 2025 01:02:35

We continue Marc’s Miserable Marvelous May 3: Très Misérables with your friendly, neighborhood wall crawler himself, Spider-Man, in SPIDER-MAN: THE VENOM SAGA! Culled from episodes of the Spider-Man Animated series from the 1990s made by Marvel, which was, at the time, owned by New World!   But how will they squeeze the whole story of…

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Ep. 147: Spider-Man: The Venom Saga
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Ep. 146: The Incredible Hulk Returns featuring Peter Fluet

May 7, 2025 01:39:29

Our annual tradition of talking Marvel movies and properties created by New World while it owned Marvel returns and two thirds of us are happy about it. We start Marc’s Miserable Marvelous May 3: Tres Miserable with THE INCREDIBLE HULK RETURNS which brought back Bill Bixby and Lou Ferrigno for what would be a trilogy…

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Ep. 146: The Incredible Hulk Returns featuring Peter Fluet
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Bonus Episode: Interview with writer/actor George “Beau” Bishop (TEEN VAMP)

April 30, 2025 00:46:43

As we close out #VAMPril 2: Double Suck, we have a special interview with a movie that truly delighted us during the first VAMPril, and that’s 1989’s TEEN VAMP. Released on VHS by New World Video, this curio stars Beau Bishop as Murphy Gilcrease, a nerdy teen in the 1950s who becomes a vampire, which…

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Bonus Episode: Interview with writer/actor George "Beau" Bishop (TEEN VAMP)
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