Julie Corman
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Julie Corman is an American film producer. Corman is married to film producer and director Roger Corman
.
. Her first feature producing credits consisted of a series of "Night Nurses" films, including Night Call Nurses and Candy Stripe Nurses. She went on to produce Moving Violation, starring Kay Lenz and Eddie Albert; Crazy Mama, directed by Jonathan Demme
, starring Cloris Leachman
, The Lady in Red
, written by John Sayles
, starring Robert Conrad
and Pamela Sue Martin
; Saturday the 14th
, starring Richard Benjamin
, Paula Prentiss
and Jeffrey Tambor
; and D
, starring Barnard Hughes
, based on the Tony award-winning play.
Corman has produced family films under her Trinity Pictures label. The Academy of Family Film and Television named her “Producer of the Year” in 1996. A Cry in the Wild is based on Gary Paulsen
’s Newbery award winning novel, Hatchet
; and The Westing Game is based on Ellen Raskin’s Newbery award winning novel of the same name.
Corman has produced several other family films: The Dirt Bike Kid
, starring Peter Billingsley
; Max is Missing, shot at Machu Picchu in Peru and Legend of the Lost Tomb, based on Walter Dean Myers
’ book “Tales of a Dead King” and shot in Egypt. Following on the success of A Cry in the Wild she made a series of wilderness films: White Wolves: A Cry in the Wild II
, starring Mark Paul Gosselaar and White Wolves II: Legend of the Wild
, starring Elizabeth Berkley
, Corin Nemec
, Justin Whalin
and Jeremy London
.
In 2000 Corman became Chair of the Graduate Film Department at NYU in the Maurice Kanbar Institute of Film and Television.While there Corman executive produced a series of short films by NYU film students, Reflections from Ground Zero, based on the students’ 9/11 experiences. The films aired on Showtime.
Corman is a member of: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Women in Film and the International Women’s Forum. She has given various film seminars at NYU, Duke and Sundance. She has received a career achievement award from Fantastic Fest in Austin, Texas and was given the Indy Pioneer Award at the Kansas City Filmmakers Jubilee.
Corman was commencement speaker in 2010 for the UCLA English Department.
Roger Corman
Roger William Corman is an American film producer, director and actor. He has mostly worked on low-budget B movies. Some of Corman's work has an established critical reputation, such as his cycle of films adapted from the tales of Edgar Allan Poe, and in 2009 he won an Honorary Academy Award for...
.
Career
Julie Corman began her career in the film industry by she marrying legendary film director/ producer, Roger CormanRoger Corman
Roger William Corman is an American film producer, director and actor. He has mostly worked on low-budget B movies. Some of Corman's work has an established critical reputation, such as his cycle of films adapted from the tales of Edgar Allan Poe, and in 2009 he won an Honorary Academy Award for...
. Her first feature producing credits consisted of a series of "Night Nurses" films, including Night Call Nurses and Candy Stripe Nurses. She went on to produce Moving Violation, starring Kay Lenz and Eddie Albert; Crazy Mama, directed by Jonathan Demme
Jonathan Demme
Robert Jonathan Demme is an American filmmaker, producer and screenwriter. Best known for directing The Silence of the Lambs, which won him the Academy Award for Best Director, he has also directed the acclaimed movies Philadelphia, Rachel Getting Married, the Talking Heads concert movie Stop...
, starring Cloris Leachman
Cloris Leachman
Cloris Leachman is an American actress of stage, film and television. She has won eight Primetime Emmy Awards—more than any other performer—and one Daytime Emmy Award...
, The Lady in Red
The Lady in Red (1979 film)
The Lady in Red is a 1979 film directed by Lewis Teague, and starring Pamela Sue Martin and Robert Conrad. It is an early writing effort of John Sayles who became better known as a director in the 1980s and 90s...
, written by John Sayles
John Sayles
John Thomas Sayles is an American independent film director, screenwriter and author.-Early life:Sayles was born in Schenectady, New York, the son of Mary , a teacher, and Donald John Sayles, a school administrator. He was raised Catholic and took to labeling himself "a Catholic atheist"...
, starring Robert Conrad
Robert Conrad
Robert Conrad is an American actor. He is best known for his role in the 1965 CBS television series The Wild Wild West, in which he played the sophisticated Secret Service agent James T. West, and his portrayal of World War II ace Pappy Boyington in the television series Baa Baa Black Sheep...
and Pamela Sue Martin
Pamela Sue Martin
Pamela Sue Martin is an American actress best known for playing Nancy Drew on The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries TV series and Fallon Carrington Colby on the ABC nighttime soap opera Dynasty.-Biography:...
; Saturday the 14th
Saturday the 14th
Saturday the 14th is an American horror-comedy film released in 1981, directed by Howard R. Cohen and produced by Julie Corman. The film was followed by Saturday the 14th Strikes Back in 1988.-Plot:...
, starring Richard Benjamin
Richard Benjamin
Richard Benjamin is an American actor and film director. He has starred in a number of productions, including Goodbye, Columbus , based on the novella by Philip Roth, and Westworld .-Life and career:...
, Paula Prentiss
Paula Prentiss
Paula Ragusa , better known by her stage name Paula Prentiss, is an American actress well-known for her film roles in Where the Boys Are, Man's Favorite Sport?, The Stepford Wives, What's New Pussycat?, The Black Marble, and The Parallax View and her co-starring role in the television situation...
and Jeffrey Tambor
Jeffrey Tambor
Jeffrey Michael Tambor is an American actor, perhaps best known for his roles as George Bluth Sr. and Oscar Bluth on Arrested Development and Hank Kingsley on The Larry Sanders Show.-Early life:...
; and D
Da (film)
Da is a 1988 film directed by Matt Clark, produced by Julie Corman, and starring Martin Sheen, Barnard Hughes, reprising his Tony Award-winning Broadway performance, and William Hickey...
, starring Barnard Hughes
Barnard Hughes
Bernard Aloysius Kiernan “Barnard” Hughes was an American actor of theater and film. Hughes became famous for a variety of roles; his most notable roles came after middle age, and he was often cast as a dithering authority figure or grandfatherly elder.-Personal life:Hughes was born in Bedford...
, based on the Tony award-winning play.
Corman has produced family films under her Trinity Pictures label. The Academy of Family Film and Television named her “Producer of the Year” in 1996. A Cry in the Wild is based on Gary Paulsen
Gary Paulsen
Gary James Paulsen is an American writer who writes many young adult coming of age stories about the wilderness. He is the author of more than 200 books , 200 magazine articles and short stories, and several plays, all primarily for young adults and teens.-Biography:Gary Paulsen was born in...
’s Newbery award winning novel, Hatchet
Hatchet
A hatchet is a single-handed striking tool with a sharp blade used to cut and split wood...
; and The Westing Game is based on Ellen Raskin’s Newbery award winning novel of the same name.
Corman has produced several other family films: The Dirt Bike Kid
The Dirt Bike Kid
The Dirt Bike Kid is a 1985 film directed by Hoite Caston, produced by Julie Corman, starring Peter Billingsley and Stuart Pankin, about a boy who discovered a magic dirt bike that has a mind of its own.-Plot:...
, starring Peter Billingsley
Peter Billingsley
Peter Billingsley , also known as Peter Michaelsen and Peter Billingsley-Michaelsen, is an American actor, director, and producer best known for his role as Ralphie in the 1983 movie A Christmas Story. He began his career as an infant, in television commercials.-Early life, family and...
; Max is Missing, shot at Machu Picchu in Peru and Legend of the Lost Tomb, based on Walter Dean Myers
Walter Dean Myers
Walter Dean Myers is an African American author of young adult literature. Myers has written over fifty books, including novels and nonfiction works. He has won the Coretta Scott King Award for African American authors five times...
’ book “Tales of a Dead King” and shot in Egypt. Following on the success of A Cry in the Wild she made a series of wilderness films: White Wolves: A Cry in the Wild II
White Wolves: A Cry in the Wild II
White Wolves: A Cry in the Wild II is a 1993 sequel to the 1990 film A Cry in the Wild.-Plot:Five teenagers and a teacher go on a two-weekd trek through the Cascade Mountains. At first, they had a great time; making new friends and enjoying the wild...
, starring Mark Paul Gosselaar and White Wolves II: Legend of the Wild
White Wolves II: Legend of the Wild
White Wolves II: Legend of the Wild is a 1995 sequel to A Cry in the Wild.-Plot:The teens are aiding a wolf researcher as part of a plea bargain: they help, then their records are cleared. The intent of this film is to display the resourcefulness of young people when confronted with life...
, starring Elizabeth Berkley
Elizabeth Berkley
Elizabeth Berkley is an American television, film, and theatre actress. Berkley's most notable roles were in the television series Saved by the Bell, as brainy feminist Jessie Spano, and the 1995 Paul Verhoeven film Showgirls, as exotic dancer Nomi Malone.-Early life:Berkley was born and raised...
, Corin Nemec
Corin Nemec
Corin "Corky" Nemec is an American actor. Nemec is known for playing the title character on Parker Lewis Can't Lose, Jonas Quinn on Stargate SG-1, and Harold Lauder in the ABC miniseries The Stand.-Personal life:Nemec's mother was a graphic artist as well as a painter, writer and poet...
, Justin Whalin
Justin Whalin
Justin Garrett Whalin is an American actor best known for his role as Jimmy Olsen in the American television series Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman.-Early life:...
and Jeremy London
Jeremy London
Jeremy Michael London is an American actor. He is best known for his regular roles on Party of Five, 7th Heaven, and I'll Fly Away, as well as a notable supporting role in the Civil War epic Gods and Generals....
.
In 2000 Corman became Chair of the Graduate Film Department at NYU in the Maurice Kanbar Institute of Film and Television.While there Corman executive produced a series of short films by NYU film students, Reflections from Ground Zero, based on the students’ 9/11 experiences. The films aired on Showtime.
Corman is a member of: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Women in Film and the International Women’s Forum. She has given various film seminars at NYU, Duke and Sundance. She has received a career achievement award from Fantastic Fest in Austin, Texas and was given the Indy Pioneer Award at the Kansas City Filmmakers Jubilee.
Corman was commencement speaker in 2010 for the UCLA English Department.
Filmography
Producer- SharktopusSharktopusSharktopus is a 2010 American science fiction film directed by Declan O'Brien, starring Eric Roberts. It is a Syfy production.-Plot:The U.S. Navy commissions a group known as "Blue Water" to genetically engineer a half-shark, half-octopus for combat. During a demonstration off of Santa Monica, the...
(TV movie) 2010 (Co-Producer) - DinosharkDinosharkDinoshark is a 2010 low budget Syfy horror film. It was shown on Syfy on March 13, 2010-Background:The film premiered on Syfy on the evening of March 13, 2010 before 2 million viewers...
(TV movie) 2010 (Co-Producer) - Splatter (TV series short) 2009 (Co-Producer)
- CyclopsCyclopsA cyclops , in Greek mythology and later Roman mythology, was a member of a primordial race of giants, each with a single eye in the middle of his forehead...
(TV movie) 2008 (Co-Producer) - The Westing GameThe Westing GameThe Westing Game is a 1979 Newbery Medal winning novel by Ellen Raskin. It has been adapted into a movie, released under both the names The Westing Game and Get a Clue...
(TV movie) 1997 - Legend of the Lost Tomb (TV movie) 1997
- Max Is Missing (TV movie) 1995
- White Wolves II: Legend of the WildWhite Wolves II: Legend of the WildWhite Wolves II: Legend of the Wild is a 1995 sequel to A Cry in the Wild.-Plot:The teens are aiding a wolf researcher as part of a plea bargain: they help, then their records are cleared. The intent of this film is to display the resourcefulness of young people when confronted with life...
1995 - The Silence of the HamsThe Silence of the HamsThe Silence of the Hams aka Il Silenzio dei Prosciutti is a comedy movie directed and written by Ezio Greggio and features an image-by-image parody of Thriller...
1994 - White Wolves: A Cry in the Wild IIWhite Wolves: A Cry in the Wild IIWhite Wolves: A Cry in the Wild II is a 1993 sequel to the 1990 film A Cry in the Wild.-Plot:Five teenagers and a teacher go on a two-weekd trek through the Cascade Mountains. At first, they had a great time; making new friends and enjoying the wild...
1993 - A Cry in the WildA Cry in the WildA Cry in the Wild is a 1990 film based on the book Hatchet, written by Gary Paulsen. The film stars Jared Rushton as Brian. It spawned three sequels: White Wolves: A Cry in the Wild II; White Wolves II: Legend of the Wild; and White Wolves III: Cry of the White Wolf.-Plot:The movie opens up with...
1990 - Brain DeadBrain Dead (1990 film)Brain Dead is a 1990 horror/psychological thriller starring Bill Pullman, Bill Paxton and George Kennedy and written by Charles Beaumont.-Plot:...
1990 - Sorority House Massacre II 1990
- Nowhere to Run 1989
- Saturday the 14th Strikes BackSaturday the 14th Strikes BackSaturday the 14th Strikes Back is a 1988 comic-horror film, directed by Howard R. Cohen and produced by Julie Corman. It is a sequel to Saturday the 14th....
1988 - Nightfall 1988
- DaDa (film)Da is a 1988 film directed by Matt Clark, produced by Julie Corman, and starring Martin Sheen, Barnard Hughes, reprising his Tony Award-winning Broadway performance, and William Hickey...
1988 - Drop-Out Mother (TV movie) 1988
- The NestThe Nest (1988 film)The Nest is a creature feature horror film, based on the novel by Eli Cantor , from Roger Corman's Concorde Pictures and producer Julie Corman. The tagline is "Roaches have never tasted flesh... until now." Flesh-eating roaches terrorize a peaceful island community presented as a New England...
1988 - Nowhere to HideNowhere to Hide (1987 film)Nowhere to Hide is a 1987 thriller directed by Mario Azzopardi. It stars Amy Madigan, Daniel Hugh Kelly and Robin MacEachern, as a family on the run from corrupt Marine officers...
1987 - Chopping MallChopping MallChopping Mall is an American horror/science fiction film, produced by Julie Corman and originally released on March 21, 1986 under the title Killbots....
1986 - The Dirt Bike KidThe Dirt Bike KidThe Dirt Bike Kid is a 1985 film directed by Hoite Caston, produced by Julie Corman, starring Peter Billingsley and Stuart Pankin, about a boy who discovered a magic dirt bike that has a mind of its own.-Plot:...
1985 - Saturday the 14thSaturday the 14thSaturday the 14th is an American horror-comedy film released in 1981, directed by Howard R. Cohen and produced by Julie Corman. The film was followed by Saturday the 14th Strikes Back in 1988.-Plot:...
1981 - The Lady in RedThe Lady in Red (1979 film)The Lady in Red is a 1979 film directed by Lewis Teague, and starring Pamela Sue Martin and Robert Conrad. It is an early writing effort of John Sayles who became better known as a director in the 1980s and 90s...
1979 - Moving ViolationMoving ViolationMoving Violation is the ninth and final official studio album released on Motown Records by The Jackson 5.By the end of their six-year run in Motown, all five Jackson brothers had matured dramatically in both age and vocals: youngest member Michael was, at 16, the only non-adult in the group...
1976 - Crazy Mama 1975
- Summer School Teachers 1974
- Candy Stripe Nurses 1974
- The Student Teachers 1973
- The Young Nurses 1973
- Night Call Nurses 1972