Legendary Filmmaker Roger Corman to Receive Lifetime Achievement Award from Home Entertainment Industry

Legendary Filmmaker Roger Corman to Receive Lifetime Achievement Award from Home Entertainment Industry

ENCINO, Calif., July 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Film icon Roger Corman will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award at VSDA's Home Entertainment 2006, organizers of the show announced today. Corman will receive the recognition during the Awards Show on Tuesday, July 11 at the Venetian Resort Hotel Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada.

"Roger Corman has had a tremendous impact on the entertainment industry," said Bo Andersen, President of the Entertainment Merchants Association (EMA). "His contributions to popular culture are as profound as the works of other distinctive filmmakers such as Alfred Hitchcock, Takashi Miike, and Quentin Tarantino."

Having produced more than 300 films and directed more than 50, Roger Corman is one of the most prolific writer-director-producers in Hollywood. Dubbed the "King of the B's," Corman's unique vision elevated genre films to "A" status. Some of his most popular films include The Little Shop Of Horrors and adaptations of Edgar Allan Poe's House Of Usher, The Pit And The Pendulum, and The Raven in which he collaborated with Vincent Price. In addition to his staggering body of work, Roger Corman provided early work and inspiration for acclaimed filmmakers Peter Bogdanovich, James Cameron, Francis Ford Coppola, Jonathan Demme, and Martin Scorsese.

In September 2005 Buena Vista Home Entertainment acquired the distribution rights to the vast library owned by Roger Corman's Concorde-New Horizons film company. Coming to video stores everywhere are new re-issues of Roger Corman's distinctive movies for existing fans and new audiences alike. Also, a remake of the classic Corman film Death Race 2000, titled Death Race 3000, is slated to be in movie theaters in 2008.

VSDA's Home Entertainment 2006, presented by EMA, brings together retailers, distributors, and suppliers of DVDs and video and computer games to learn about upcoming releases and industry developments and to celebrate the $32 billion home entertainment industry.

For more information about VSDA's Home Entertainment 2006, please see http://www.homeentertainmentevents.com/

Source: Entertainment Merchants Association

CONTACT: Andrew Mun, EMA, 1-800-955-8732 x 244, amun@entmerch.org;
Martin Blythe, +1-818-906-2448

Web site: http://www.homeentertainmentevents.com/

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