Joe Dante is a graduate of the Philadelphia College of Art. After a stint as a film reviewer, he began his filmmaking apprenticeship in 1974 as trailer editor for Roger Corman's New World Pictures. He made his directorial debut in 1976 with Hollywood Boulevard (co-directed with Allan Arkush), a thinly disguised spoof of New World exploitation pictures, shot in ten days for $60,000...See full bio »
1987Amazon Women on the Moon
(segments "Hairlooming", "Bullshit or Not", "Critic's Corner", "Roast Your Loved One, " "French Ventiloquist's Dummy" [TV cut only] and "Reckless Youth")
(2004) Wrote the foreword for "The Christopher Lee Filmography: All Theatrical Releases, 1948-2003" by Tom Johnson and Mark A. Miller (McFarland)
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[in "Halliwell's Filmgoers and Video Viewers Companion", about producing movie trailers for Roger Corman] We did all kinds of things in trailers to help sell films. We had a famous exploding helicopter shot from one of those Filipino productions that we'd cut in every time a trailer was too dull because that was always exciting.
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Trivia:
Was scheduled to direct a
Jaws parody (under the National Lampoon banner) in the early 1980s called "Jaws 3 People 0". Universal Pictures dropped this concept in favor of a "straight" film (which became the critical and financial flop
Jaws 3-D).
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Trademark:
Always includes a reference to the Warner Bros. cartoons somewhere in each of his works.
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