We Have Lost a Giant

Roger Corman is dead at age 98.

Known as the "King of the B's,"  for his prodigious output, both as a director and an independent producer, of many, "B Movies," low budget productions, such as Little Shop of Horrors, the original Death Race 2000, a string of movies based on the works of Edgar Allen Poe starring Vincent Price, and, of course as executive producer on Sharktopus.

He actually had an enormous impact on American cinema, handling US distribution for foreign films from Kurasawa, Truffaut, Bergman, and Fellini, and giving starts to major directors who studied at the, "School of Corman," such as Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Peter Bogdanovich, and James Cameron.