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Dante ended up with an executive producer credit. In 1994, Dante directed the television film Runaway Daughters (a loose remake of the 1956 film), that aired as part of the anthology series Rebel Highway which paid homage to 1950s " drive-in classic" B movies by revamping them "with a '90s edge".
Oct 20, 2020 · Joe Dante's entry into the film business was so cartoonish it might easily be a scene from a Joe Dante movie. Arriving in California as an aspiring editor, he went to meet B-movie impresario...
We talk with the great Joe Dante to discuss changes in the film industry, aspects of his career and a selection of his favourite Arrow titles.
Aug 2, 2016 · Running through his career of hits and buried treasures (we particularly recommend 1993’s “Matinee”), it includes rare chances to see 1968’s “The Movie Orgy,” a five-hour battering ram mash-up of...
May 12, 2015 · Joe Dante: “Working with actors is the joy of making movies”. Joe Dante (1946), film buff and former film journalist (including for ‘Film Bulletin’, up until 1974) who became a film director in the late 1970s, was the guest of honor at the 33rd Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival to attend the premiere of his latest film ...
Apr 19, 2024 · The studio behind Gremlins (1984), Warner Brothers, came to Dante pleading to get a sequel off the ground—having tried and failed for years—offering $50 million and complete creative control over the film in exchange for a summer 1990 box office hit.
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.
