Veteran producer Julie Corman has produced over 25 films ranging from horror and fantasy through science fiction, drama, family, and comedy. She has hired such noted talents as Martin Scorsese, Jonathan Demme, John Sayles, Monte Hellman, Martin Sheen, Charles Grodin, Ray Walston, Diane Ladd, Phil Hartman, Jon Lovitz, Jonathan Kaplan, Jason Priestly, Barbara Hershey and Mario van Peebles. All her films have the remarkable distinction of having made a profit.In 1970 Corman co-founded New World Pictures, which soon became one of the most successful independent production and distribution companies in the film industry. The company produced and distributed over 200 feature films, in addition to distributing a prestigious slate of international films by such acclaimed directors as Francois Truffaut, Ingmar Bergman, Volker Schlondorff (whose "Tin Drum" won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film), Federico Fellini and Akira Kurosawa.
