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Roger Corman’s Fight to Reclaim a B-Movie Fortune – Hollywood Reporter

Roger Corman’s Fight to Reclaim a B-Movie Fortune

Roger Corman’s life is a tale in three acts. The first tells how the 89-year-old director and producer made more than 400 B-movies, reaping far more than $100 million in an extraordinary career that saw him help invent the independent film business; tutor such talents as Francis Ford Coppola, James Cameron and Ron Howard; and win an honorary Oscar along the way. In the second act, he lost most of the money; it’s a tragic twist that involves a bitter dispute with his children, an overseas bank …

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