LATEST INTERVIES Bonus Episode: Interview with Editor Daniel Gross (UNDER THE BOARDWALK, THE ANNIHILATORS) June 5, 2025 New World Pictures Podcast Bonus Episode, Interview 01:12:24 0 Comments Play Interview The New World Pictures Podcast Bonus Episode: Interview with Editor Daniel Gross (UNDER THE BOARDWALK, THE ANNIHILATORS) Play Episode Pause Episode Mute/Unmute Episode Rewind 10 Seconds…
Read MoreOne 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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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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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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We’re unveiling a new series on the podcast: Corman Graduates, where we chronologically discuss the filmography of a director who went through “the Roger Corman school of filmmaking” and we’re starting with Jack Hill, director of films like TEH BIG DOLL HOUSE and COFFY. Joining us for this first episode is writer, film historian, and…
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We close out #PrisonMarch 2: Second Offense with an interview with someone who there at New World from the very beginning: editor Barbara Pokras! After graduating from USC (where she went to school with Dan O’Bannon with whom she would work on RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD), Barbara found her way to Roger Corman’s newly-formed…
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Everyone has a different path at New World Pictures, but Alan Toomayan may have had one of the strangest! From driving RVs on movie sets to working as a Production Assistant on New World’s GRAND THEFT AUTO and driving Ron Howard around to moving into the editing room for SATURDAY THE 14TH and working with…
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John Penney returns to the podcast! Following our TORMENT reunion episode alongside his cohorts Earl Ghaffari (WAYNE’S WORLD) and Scott Alexander (ED WOOD), John is back to discuss his time working as an assistant editor for New World movies BODY ROCK, GIRLS JUST WANT TO HAVE FUN, and THE STUFF (as well as RETURN OF…
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We were shocked to discover that 1987’s Adventures in Babysitting doesn’t have a DVD or Blu Ray audio commentary. After interviewing screenwriter David Simkins in 2022, we asked if he would be willing to record an audio commentary for Adventures in Babysitting and, to our delight, he agreed to do it. In typical NWPP…
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Our latest interview is with someone we have hoped to talk with for some time, director, writer, and actor Katt Shea! We go through her early career where Shea appeared as an actor in a few Corman-produced films before stalking Roger to get an opportunity to direct her debut feature, 1987’s STRIPPED TO KILL! Shea…
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