Tag Archives: Empire Pictures

While the samurai film has its trappings as far back as the silent era, the genre received a major critical and populist push around and after WWII, when filmmakers like Kenji Mizoguchi and Akira Kurosawa began re-envisioning and expanding the ...

The Band’s Empire Pictures are quite frankly one of the most important genre distributors in American film history. They are kind of to horror what Cannon was to action (although neither Empire nor Cannon confined themselves to a single genre). ...

While it still happens in some capacity, there used to be a time (a great time mind you) where producers could take some poster designs to the major film markets and presell titles they didn’t even have plans to otherwise ...

In 1987—one year before Child’s Play, two before Puppet Master, and 5 before Charles Band again resorted to killer toys with Demonic Toys—Stuart Gordon’s Dolls became the first film to capitalize on the idea of a horror film where the ...