EXCLUSIVE: Producers Lou Arkoff (George Of The Jungle) and Donna Arkoff Roth (Grosse Level Clean) are teaming up with The Marvel Firm (Sacramento) to develop trendy reimaginings of classic style movies from their family-owned catalog of American Worldwide Photos (AIP) films.
Based by Samuel Z. Arkoff and James H. Nicholson in 1954, AIP was a pioneer in impartial filmmaking, serving to foster the careers of legendary filmmakers corresponding to Roger Corman, Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, and John Milius. The AIP library hosts authentic IP that impressed trendy franchises corresponding to The Quick and The Livid, Mad Max and The Amityville Horror.
Arkoff, Roth and The Marvel Firm—led by producers Eric B. Fleischman and Chris Abernathy—plan to breathe new life right into a curated collection of the movies. The partnership will give attention to ten titles from AIP’s catalog, corresponding to Day the World Ended, The Undead, and Jailbreakers.
Additionally becoming a member of the enterprise is producer Julia Roth who, alongside The Marvel Firm, most lately wrote and produced Stone Chilly Fox starring Kiernan Shipka and Keifer Sutherland.
UTA Impartial Movie Group can be representing remake and distribution rights on behalf of AIP and Marvel and can be discussing the enterprise on the Cannes Movie Pageant and market this week.
“We’re going to reestablish the AIP components of bringing in younger, progressive filmmakers to put in writing and direct these 50’s classics with a twenty first century perspective,” stated Lou Arkoff, who has beforehand created and produced sequence based mostly on the AIP Library for HBO and Showtime.
“AIP had an uncanny capacity to attach with younger audiences by delivering movies that had been contemporary, edgy, and entertaining,” added Donna Arkoff Roth, whose movies embrace Benny and Joon, Grosse Pointe Clean, and 13 Happening 30. “We’re excited to reintroduce these movies to a brand new technology whereas preserving the rebellious spirit that made them so impactful.”
Fleischman and Abernathy commented: “There’s an enormous urge for food for sensible, fashionable style movies, and we’re thrilled to collaborate with Lou and Donna to deliver these tales again in an thrilling new manner.”
