That’s right, #PrisonMarch is back for Prison Marc H 2: Second Offense! Once more, we plumb the depths of the women-in-prison movies released by New World Pictures, this time with an Italian knock-off created after New World’s THE BIG DOLL HOUSE became a huge success! Yes, plenty of studios were making knock-offs by 1973, but…
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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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We close #FFFebruary (Foreign Film February) with an Academy Award winner! Director Volker Schlöndorff’s 1979 adaptation of THE TIN DRUM! Based on the book of the same name by Günter Grass, the film shows the rise of authoritarianism in Europe prior to World War II through the life of self growth stunting, drum banging and…
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Do you know how much reggae is played in San Diego? Marc and Ryan do, and Erica sort of does, which makes the NWPP the perfect podcast to discuss Jamaica’s first film, 1972’s THE HARDER THEY COME, as we continue #FFFebruary (Foreign Film February)! A foreign film where the only language used is English? You…
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Welcome to Foreign film February! This month we will explore some of the foreign films of New World Pictures! FFF, as it’s affectionately known, starts off with A LOT of heart (maybe even a little too much heart) with the tragic STORY OF ADELE H directed by Francois Truffaut. Set in 1863 – oh la…
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It’s time for another New World interview, this time with editor/director James Melkonian, who started as an intern at New World Pictures before climbing the ladder all the way to VP of Post-Production! James spent five years at New World, toiling away on a wide range of projects – GODZILLA 1985 (Ep. 108), THE PUNISHER (Ep. 121), REFORM SCHOOL GIRLS (Ep….
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We wrap up #FANuary – where listeners chose what we watched across all our social media accounts – with Larry Cohen’s 1976 classic GOD TOLD ME TO! Cohen’s strange odyssey of a New York police detective whose investigation yields way more than he ever bargained for is truly a genius piece of cinema that only…
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Welcome to #FANuary, where we talk about the movies you, the listener, asked us to discuss. Our first entry in #FANuary is 1987’s TAX ATTACK 87, Learning Corporation of America production staring comedian Robert Klein (SNL). Learning Corporation of America was owned by New World Pictures and focused on educational videos like In the FOR…
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It’s that time again, the most wonderful time of the year: award season! And no award show is more prestigious than the Worldies, the only show that covers all the movies we covered last year! It’s a celebration! And joining us to hand out these very real and important awards are a few of our…
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We are wrapping up the merry month of #DIEcember II: Slay Bells Ring with a well-known cult classic: 1986’s CHOPPING MALL aka KILLBOTS. This Nearly New World film was written and directed by Jim Wynorski in his first film for Roger and Julie Corman following working at New World in the publicity department.Join us as…
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