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Legendary low-budget movie producer Roger Corman is dead at 98.
Corman died at his home on May 9th, reports Variety. From the 1950s on, he produced (and sometimes directed) a long string of influential indie movies like Little Shop of Horrors (1960), Death Race 2000 (1975), and Piranha (1978).
He’s also been credited for launching or revitalizing several Holywood careers, including those of directors Francis Ford Coppola and Martin Scorcese, and actors Dennis Hopper, Vincent Price, and Sandra Bullock.
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