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New World Pictures
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Foundation date 1 january 1970
New World Pictures (also known as New World Communications Group, Inc. and founded as New World Pictures, Ltd., then renamed New World Entertainment) was an American independent production and (in its final years as an autonomous entity) multimedia company. It was founded in 1970 as a producer and distributor of motion pictures, later expanding into television production in 1984. New World eventually expanded into broadcasting with the acquisition of seven television stations in 1993, with the broadcasting unit expanding through additional purchases made during 1994.
20th Century Fox (then owned by News Corporation), controlled by Rupert Murdoch, became a major investor in 1994 and purchased the company outright in 1997; the alliance with Murdoch, particularly through a group affiliation agreement with New World reached between the two companies in May 1994, helped to cement the Fox network as the fourth major U.S. television network.
Although effectively defunct, it, along with various regional subsidiaries (i.e. "New World Communications of Tampa"), continues to exist as holding companies within the complex 21st Century Fox corporate structure.
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Filmography of New World Pictures (227 films)
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Grand Theft Auto (1977)
, 1h24Directed by Ron Howard
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Comedy thriller, Romantic comedy, Action, Adventure, Crime, Romance
Themes Transport films, Films about automobiles, Road movies, Chase films
Actors Nancy Morgan, Peter Isacksen, Jack Perkins, Clint Howard, Elizabeth Rogers, Ron Howard
Two young lovers, Sam Freeman (Ron Howard) and Paula Powers (Nancy Morgan), want to get married in Las Vegas. When Paula introduces Sam to her parents they dispute their daughter's decision: they see Collins Hedgeworth (Paul Linke), the son of a wealthy family in the area, as her fiancée. Paula's parents are rich as well and her father, Bigby Powers (Barry Cahill), is planning to run for governor. They think Sam is marrying Paula for the money and call him a fortune hunter, which Paula fiercely disputes.
God Told Me To (1976)
, 1h30Directed by Larry Cohen
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Horror, Crime
Themes Films about religion
Actors Tony Lo Bianco, Deborah Raffin, Sandy Dennis, Sylvia Sidney, Sam Levene, Robert Drivas
In New York City, a sniper perched on a water tower opens fire on the crowded streets below, killing fifteen pedestrians. Peter Nicholas (Tony Lo Bianco), a Catholic NYPD detective, arrives at the scene and approaches the sniper as police officers surround the building. Before jumping to his death, the sniper, Harold Gorman, tells Nicholas that God had told him to commit the murders. A traumatized Nicholas is left to wonder how Gorman could have aimed accurately at his distance with a mail order rifle.
Jackson County Jail (1976)
, 1h25Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Prison films, Films about sexuality, Rape in fiction, Erotic films, Sexploitation films, Women in prison films
Actors Yvette Mimieux, Tommy Lee Jones, Mary Woronov, Howard Hesseman, Nan Martin, Robert Carradine
Dinah Hunter (Mimieux) works for a Los Angeles advertising agency and has been involved in a two-year romantic relationship. After she catches the man being unfaithful to her, Dinah quits her job and drives to New York for a fresh start.
Cannonball (1976)
, 1h33Directed by Paul Bartel
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Comedy-drama, Action, Adventure
Themes Sports films, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Auto racing films, Road movies
Actors David Carradine, Bill McKinney, Veronica Hamel, Gerrit Graham, Robert Carradine, Sylvester Stallone
The Trans-America Grand Prix is an illegal race held every year between Los Angeles (Santa Monica Pier) and New York City. Recently released from jail, where he was serving a sentence for killing a girl while driving drunk, racing driver Coy "Cannonball" Buckman (David Carradine) hopes to win the race and get his career back on track. Racing team Modern Motors have promised a contract to either him or his arch-rival Cade Redman (Bill McKinney) who is also in the race - the contract will go to whichever of them wins. Coy is still on probation and when his parole officer, Linda Maxwell (Veronica Hamel), with whom he is having an elaborate affair, discovers he will be crossing state lines in violation of his parole, she attempts to stop him, only to have him force her to accompany him on the race.
Death Race 2000 (1975)
, 1h24Directed by Charles B. Griffith, Paul Bartel, Lewis Teague
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Action
Themes Sports films, Films about television, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Films set in the future, Auto racing films, La téléréalité, Political films, Road movies, Dystopian films
Actors David Carradine, Simone Griffeth McDonald, Sylvester Stallone, Louisa Moritz, Martin Kove, John Landis
In 2000, during the 20th annual race, a resistance group led by Thomasina Paine (Harriet Medin), a descendant of 1770s American Revolutionary Thomas Paine, plans to rebel against Mr. President's regime by sabotaging the race, killing most of the drivers, and taking Frankenstein hostage as leverage against the President. The group is assisted by Paine's great granddaughter Annie (Simone Griffeth), Frankenstein's latest navigator. She plans to lure him into an ambush to be replaced by a double. Despite a pirated national broadcast made by Ms. Paine herself, the resistance's disruption of the race is covered up by the government and instead blamed on the French, who are also blamed for ruining the country's economy and telephone system. The game has sadistic rules, where killing a baby and physically challenged people will give the player extra points. Machine Gun Joe (Sylvester Stallone) is the main opposition to Frankenstein.
Cover Girl Models (1975)
Directed by Cirio H. Santiago
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action
Actors Lindsay Bloom, Mary Woronov, Vic Díaz, Tony Ferrer, Joonee Gamboa, Ken Metcalfe
Three fashion models travel from Los Angeles to Hong Kong for a shoot. Barbara accidentally comes in possession of some microfilm and is chased by secret service agents. Claire tries to get a role in a film. Mandy tries to make it as a model and falls for their photographer.
The Student Teachers (1973)
, 1h30Directed by Jonathan Kaplan
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Comedy
Themes Films about education
Actors Susan Damante, Chuck Norris, Brooke Mills, Dick Miller, James Millhollin, Elyssa Davalos
Three new high school teachers use unconventional methods to get through to their students. Rachel teaches after-school sex education; Tracey gets involved with nude photography; Jody recruits a former drop out to help with a half-way house and gets involved with a drug ring.
Fly Me (1973)
, 1h11Directed by Cirio H. Santiago
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action
Themes Transport films, Aviation films
Actors Lenore Kasdorf, Richard Young, Naomi Stevens, Dick Miller, Ken Metcalfe, Vic Díaz
Three young flight attendants fly from Los Angeles, California to Hong Kong. Toby's mother has followed her on the plane and Toby tries to lose her so she can romance a doctor, David. Andrea's lover Donald has gone missing. Shelley is smuggling drugs and is kidnapped by a white slave ring.
Night Call Nurses (1972)
, 1h18Directed by Jonathan Kaplan
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Medical-themed films
Actors Alana Stewart, Felton Perry, Dennis Dugan, Dick Miller, Stack Pierce, Richard Young
Three young nurses work in a psych ward at a hospital. Barbara (Patty Byrne) comes under the influence of a charismatic sex therapist and is stalked by a mysterious nurse. Janis (Alana Hamilton) has an affair with a truck-driving patient who is addicted to drugs. Sandra (Mittie Lawrence) becomes politicised through an affair with a black militant and helps a prisoner escape from the hospital.
Night of the Cobra Woman (1972)
, 1h25Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror
Actors Marlene Clark, Vic Díaz, Vic Silayan, Rosemarie Gil
A beautiful woman turns into a cobra.
Angels Hard as They Come (1971)
Directed by Joe Viola
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action
Themes Transport films, Road movies
Actors Scott Glenn, Charles Dierkop, James Iglehart, Gary Busey, Larry Tucker
Bury Me an Angel (1971)
, 1h29Directed by Barbara Peeters
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action
Themes Transport films, Road movies
Actors Dan Haggerty, Joan Gerber
A female biker (Dixie Peabody) seeks to avenge the death of her brother.
Dinner at the Ritz (1937)
, 1h17Directed by Harold D. Schuster
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Crime, Romance
Actors Annabella, David Niven, Paul Lukas, Romney Brent, Francis L. Sullivan, Stewart Rome
The daughter of a murdered banker is traveling in disguise while she tracks those among her father's colleagues who looted his bank, and plotted against him by arranging his murder.
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OP Center (1995)
Directed by Lewis Teague
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action
Themes Spy films, Transport films, Political films, Road movies, Chase films
Actors Harry Hamlin, Kabir Bedi, Deidre Hall, Bo Hopkins, Ken Howard, John Savage
In post-Cold War Washington an inexperienced political appointee, Paul Hood (Hamlin), is to head the supposedly obsolete National Crisis Management Center (NCMC) - with an eye to downsizing it. No sooner is he introduced around by Deputy Director Gen. Mike Rodgers (Carl Weathers) than he's in the middle of a crisis: a rogue KGB unit hijacks three Ukrainian based nuclear warheads for sale to the Middle East. National Security Advisor Admiral Troy Davis (Brimley) orders Hood and the Op Center to locate the warheads, verify their location and prepare a viable recovery plan.
Killer Tomatoes Eat France! (1992)
, 1h34Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Horror comedy, Horror
Themes Comedy horror films
Actors John Astin, Marc Price, Angela Teamo Visser, Kevin West
Dr. Mortimer Gangreen (John Astin) escapes from prison and has set up a base at his assistant Igor's 'Really Big Castle' located outside Paris, France, and he is still bent on global domination. Using his Killer Tomatoes, Gangreen plans to stage a second French revolution according to an old prophecy written by Nicodemus, in which the king of France (Louis XVII) will return to claim the throne. The only image of Louis XVII shows that he bears a close resemblance to Igor (Steve Lundquist), and Gangreen plans to use this to his advantage to have Igor impersonate Louis XVII to claim the throne.