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1. www.vulture.com › 2018 › 10The Story Behind the Original Halloween - Vulture

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   Oct 15, 2018 · At least, that was the movie Irwin Yablans saw in his head. “I dreamed up Halloween on an airplane,” he told the New York Times in 1981. “I was coming back from a film festival in Milan, and ...

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3. www.latimes.com › archives › la-xpm-2005-nov-12-meFor Arabs, a Man of Renown in Hollywood - Los Angeles Times

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   Nov 12, 2005 · Irwin Yablans, who partnered with Akkad on “The Message” and “Halloween,” said they worked well together, despite having widely different backgrounds. “Here was a Jew and an Arab, and we ...

4. www.okgazette.com › arts-culture › the-man-whoThe Man Who Created Halloween — Irwin Yablans

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   Oct 26, 2012 · This self-published paperback is his story — emphasis on The Man, not Halloween. The making of that 1978 now-classic movie is only a small part...

5. www.nytimes.com › 2018/10/11 › movies‘Halloween’ at 40: Their ‘Horrible Idea’ Became a Horror Classic

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   Oct 11, 2018 · Forty years later, that movie — “ Halloween ” — continues to spawn sequels, remakes and reboots. The latest, also titled “Halloween” and opening Oct. 19, brings back Laurie Strode ...

6. www.imdb.com › name › nm0944748Irwin Yablans - IMDb

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   Yablans pre-sold it into Kansas City where Halloween premiered and became very popular, ranking it the top grossing independent motion picture of the 1970s. Halloween seemed to boost Yablans' reputation, but only little success came when making low budget films for Compass International, including "Tourist Trap", "Nocturna" and the Linda Blair films Roller Boogie (1979) and Hell Night (1981) .

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7. www.flickeringmyth.com › halloween-at-45Halloween at 45: Revisiting John Carpenter’s Iconic Horror ...

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   Oct 25, 2023 · Yablans then suggested Donald Pleasence, who agreed to star because his daughter Lucy, a guitarist, had enjoyed Assault on Precinct 13 for Carpenter’s score. Jamie Lee Curtis was a relative ...

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   Did Akkad and Irwin Yablans work together?

   • Irwin Yablans, who partnered with Akkad on “The Message” and “Halloween,” said they worked well together, despite having widely different backgrounds. “Here was a Jew and an Arab, and we had tremendous success,” Yablans said. Akkad was steeped in Middle Eastern history but was not involved in politics or deeply religious, Yablans and others said.

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   Did Irwin Yablans Dream Up Halloween on an airplane?

   • Not too shabby for a bunch of hippies making an exploitation movie about a babysitter killer. At least, that was the movie Irwin Yablans saw in his head. “I dreamed up Halloween on an airplane,” he told the New York Times in 1981.

   The Story Behind the Original Halloween - Vulture

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   Why did Yablans and Akkad finance Halloween?

   • Yablans and Akkad had financed Halloween in the hopes of a “negative pick-up” — put simply, a major studio/distributor would buy the film from them outright to market and release, while the producers would immediately recoup their investment. And it seemed, to them, a highly commercial product.

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   How much did Yablans make in 1979?

   • In March of 1979, five months after its bow, Yablans was in Variety predicting a $20 million gross and prepping for a “major drive-in burst for July through August.” (In what must’ve been a juicy bit of reconsideration for the producer, Warner Brothers eventually picked up the film for European distribution.)

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   Why did Yablans work backwards?

   • Yablans (sensibly) wanted to get it into the theaters in time for the title holiday, so the entire production was working backwards from that deadline.

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   Did Yablans buy 'assault on Precinct 13'?

   • Yablans had acquired Carpenter’s 1976 urban western Assault on Precinct 13, a gripping, tightly wound action picture that failed to find an audience anywhere but in Britain (where it was successfully distributed by Miracle Films, headed up by a kindly gent named Michael Myers).

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9. www.pressreader.com › usa › new-york-postTHE MAN BEHIND ‘HALLOWEEN’ - PressReader

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   Oct 19, 2018 · The son of a New York cab driver, Yablans, now 84, graduated from Boys HS in Bedford-Stuyvesant and enlisted in the Army at 19 along with his brother, Frank. Later, they both moved to Hollywood, Yablans making his way into a managerial position at Paramount. But what he really wanted to do was produce his own movies.