Shout! Factory had just formed production arm Shout! Studios in November, and their newly acquired Corman library will allow them to not only redistribute these movies in new home video formats, but also potentially work on remaking and rebooting some of these properties, as studios are wont to do nowadays with classically popular stories.
What do you think — are we on the cusp of a possible new Roger Corman cinematic universe?
Shout! Factory’s acquisition of these movies is part of a co-producing deal with China-based Ace Film HK Company Limited (ACE).
Home video company Shout! Factory has just acquired the New Horizons Pictures library, which contains 270 classic Roger Corman films including Rock ‘N’ Roll High School, Battle Beyond the Stars, Piranha, Galaxy of Terror, Bloodfist, Black Scorpion, Eat My Dust!, Humanoids from the Deep, Slumber Party Massacre, and Forbidden World.