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  Troma Entertainment - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Many of Troma's films are well known in mainstream Hollywood circles, even though their films are not mainstream pictures.
Troma films are known for their shocking imagery; some would categorize them as "shock exploitation films".
Troma has had a keen eye for emerging talent, having produced or acquired early films with Kevin Costner, Samuel L. Jackson, Marisa Tomei, James Gunn, Trey Parker and Matt Stone.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Troma   (297 words)

  
 ShinyGun | Lloyd's World
All things have to begin somewhere, and as far as my love affair with independent Troma Entertainment goes, the opening salvo was fired then, as I pushed the case into my mother's hands and watched her brows furrow with concern.
The Troma website has a contact email address for him and he regularly publishes articles there on issues pertaining to free speech, globalization, and the monopolies on media and art that conglomerates are attempting to achieve, and he appears on most of the Troma's VHS and DVD releases.
Troma's films might be perverse, profane, violent, and filled with an obsessive, adolescent fixation on the female body -- but that is how they were intended.
www.shinygun.com /story.php?id=125   (1380 words)

  
 KOCH Entertainment Distribution B2B   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Troma acquired the catalog from Cary Roan, founder of the Roan Group and a film collector who has restored video masters from the original film elements for some of the finest classic DVDs on the market.
KOCH Entertainment is the leading and fastest-growing independent music and video company in the U.S. and its operations encompass record and video labels and distribution companies in the U.S. and Canada.
KOCH Entertainment is the market leader among independents in both the U.S. and Canada and its record labels had the largest number of Billboard charting albums among independents in 2003/2004.
www.kochb2b.com /Info/ReadPR.aspx?id=70   (662 words)

  
 Reel.com: Lloyd Kaufman
Today, Troma Entertainment is the oldest, independently run studio in the United States (and probably the world), relentlessly pushing the boundaries of artistic expression, paired with a sick sense of humor, a fair share of gore, and sleazy soft-core sex that could raise the blood pressure of even the most law-abiding goody-goody.
Troma has prospered by making movies on very small budgets, aiming at the college-age demographic and trying to make movies of the future; movies that have things and themes that people haven't seen before.
Perhaps Troma is that jalapeno pepper on the cultural pizza.
www.reel.com /reel.asp?node=features/interviews/troma   (1012 words)

  
 Troma International Sales | Company Information
In its thirty year history, Troma Entertainment has succeeded as one of the most active and fiercely independent film studios.
The Troma film library includes over eight-hundred company owned titles in an impressively eclectic span of genres ­ horror, action, sci-fi, comedy, drama, children's ­ and is growing constantly.
From Kevin Costner to Dustin Hoffman to Bela Lugosi to Toxie, stars abound in Troma movies, Troma continues to be a haven for independent filmmakers and new young talent and has clearly become the independents independent film studio.
international.tromamovies.com /info.html   (228 words)

  
 AgingHipsters.com :: View topic - Now Casting Troma's "Poultrygeist!"
Troma Entertainment, Inc. is now casting for its next 35mm feature "Poultrygeist: Attack of the Chicken Zombies!", to be directed by Lloyd Kaufman (The Toxic Avenger, Tromeo and Juliet, and Terror Firmer).
Celebrating its 30th Anniversary this year, Troma is considered the world’s oldest independent film studio.
Troma releases include the first works of Trey Parker, Kevin Costner, Samuel L. Jackson, and Billy Bob Thornton, among many others.
www.aginghipsters.com /phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=30&highlight=   (186 words)

  
 Movie Forums - Troma Entertainment   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
A few favorite Tromas: The Toxic Avenger (it's a classic), Tromeo and Juliet (has to be seen to be believed, and hey--Lemmy from Motorhead!), and of course, Cannibal!
Love 'em or hate 'em, you can't deny Troma movies are certainly entertaining in their own way.
Good for boozy nights in or just no brain entertainment that you don't need to concentrate on or think about.
www.movieforums.com /community/showthread.php?t=2738   (530 words)

  
 Totally Tromatic! A Visit to the Set of Citizen Toxie
And in a way it still is. Now, the crazies are working for Troma, the addicts and pushers there are only addicted to B-movies (and they'll try their mightiest to get you hooked too) and the whore is a man named Lloyd Kaufman.
Because of his drive and dedication, Troma is the oldest American independent film studio still in operation (and is also becoming a driving force on the Internet at Tromaville.com).
Best of all, the main office area showcases the many awards Lloyd and Troma have won for their work, proudly posted next to blow-ups of the many articles written about the company over the years.
www.thedigitalbits.com /articles/toxieiv/toxieivpage1.html   (1863 words)

  
 Troma job openings for Poultrygeist! - The CHUD.COM Message Boards
Troma Entertainment, creator of such classics as "The Toxic Avenger," "Class of Nuke' Em High," and "Tromeo and Juliet," currently has several positions available for its next film, "Poultrygeist: Attack of the Chicken Zombies!", to be directed by Lloyd Kaufman, president of Troma Entertainment and creator of The Toxic Avenger.
I was just wondering when Troma was going to start production on a new feature.
CHUD is a privately owned website that features a great deal of rumor and speculation, and must therefore be read as entertainment.
www.chud.com /forums/showthread.php?t=77915   (409 words)

  
 Troma Entertainment Provides DVD Movie Downloads Through EZTakes
Easthampton, MA (PRWEB via PR Web Direct) April 11, 2006 –; Troma Entertainment and EZTakes, Inc. have entered into an agreement under which EZTakes is selling Troma movies as downloads that consumers can burn to DVDs.
Starting now, hit Troma films, such as "The Toxic Avenger" series, are available for download at www.eztakes.com.
Lloyd Kaufman, President of Troma Entertainment and creator of the Toxic Avenger, who had to be forcibly ripped away from his TV, exclaimed, "EZTakes had me spellbound; it is the best invention since television and sugarless gum.
www.prweb.com /releases/2006/4/prweb370647.htm   (702 words)

  
 Salon.com Arts & Entertainment | "Blood, breasts and beasts"
Say what you like about Troma's movies (and some of them truly suck), the company has proved to be endlessly resourceful in getting them to audiences without surrendering its independence.
Troma now produces theatrical cuts of its movies with more gore and goo than ever, because the handful of urban art houses that still show them on the big screen like it that way and don't care about Motion Picture Association of America ratings.
I met him just after the prestigious Anthology Film Archives in New York held a Troma retrospective in December, but before he headed off to Park City, Utah, in January to host TromaDance, Troma's alternative to the much-mocked excesses of the Sundance Film Festival.
archive.salon.com /ent/movies/int/2001/01/26/kaufman   (1297 words)

  
 PRESS RELEASE NPOWR Digital Media's stimTVcinema Inks Deal With Troma Entertainment   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
In over 30 years Troma Entertainment has become one of the oldest and most active independent film studios, with films primarily aimed at the sixteen to thirty-five year old market.
"Troma has always been on the cutting edge of new technologies, and we're pleased to have this opportunity to tromatize stimTV," said Troma Entertainment's Vice President Michael Herz.
"The Toxic Avenger and the Troma Team never crush a head, crash a car, blow up a school or dismember a suburban housewife without first consulting our stimTV database," added Lloyd Kaufman, President of Troma Entertainment and Creator of the Toxic Avenger.
www.marketwire.com /mw/release_html_b1?release_id=105794   (638 words)

  
 Sawaru - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
And soon believes that after being "touched" by a corpse at the morgue -- she has been infected with death.
Sawaru will be released on DVD by Troma Entertainment in the Summer of 2006 as part of a boxed set that includes all the films made by Ruben Rodriguez (director)
This film includes an score by Stephen Bates.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sawaru   (169 words)

  
 The world's top troma entertainment websites
Troma is a film production company that, since 1974, has been producing low budget B-movies non-stop.
Troma's films have a solid cult following, and are unique in that they are well known in the mainstream Hollywood circles, even though their films are not mainstream pictures.
A number of their movies tend to be overtly sexual, with high amounts of violence, gore and nudity.
www.websbiggest.com /dir-wiki.cfm?cat=troma_entertainment&tab=discuss   (173 words)

  
 Technorati Tag: Troma   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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Troma Cult Movie DVDs at Low Prices We have great prices on many popular Troma Entertainment DVDs.
New Troma Movie It looks like everything I'd hope a zombie chicken movie from Troma called POULTRYGEIST would be.
technorati.com /tag/Troma   (351 words)

  
 Salt Lake City Weekly - Troma Center
Troma Entertainment’s alternative to Sundance, TromaDance, provides the ideal venue for filmmakers who consider themselves the true independents.
Lloyd Kaufman founded Troma Entertainment with Michael Herr, and 32 years later—after creating the Toxic Avenger franchise among other genre delights—it is the oldest continually operating independent film studio in the world.
Troma volunteer and past TromaDance director Jonathon Lees came across Texas Fortune on DVXuser.com, where the short won an award.
www.slweekly.com /article.cfm/tromacenter   (675 words)

  
 EI > Interviews > Lloyd Kaufman
Troma Films has spent the last 30 years entertaining the world with some of the best of the ‘worst’ in schlock movies.
Troma president Lloyd Kaufman has been responsible for such classics as “The Toxic Avenger,” “The Class of Nuke Em High” and “Def by Temptation.” Relying on low-budget production values, naked women, campy dialogue and outrageous scripts, Mr.
I'm only, Lloyd and Troma are only the Zamphyr the panpipe player of independent film.
einsiders.com /features/interviews/lloydkaufman.php   (1122 words)

  
 Movie Forums - Troma Entertainment   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Troma is great, IMO--Lloyd Kaufman knows exactly what he is and he has no shame.
08-07-2002 04:00 PM Love 'em or hate 'em, you can't deny Troma movies are certainly entertaining in their own way.
It was really bad, but I suppose that's what Troma does best....
www.movieforums.com /community/printthread.php?t=2738   (453 words)

  
 Troma Entertainment, Inc. information and related industry information from Hoover's
Troma Entertainment, Inc. information and related industry information from Hoover's
Troma Entertainment is an independent film company that produces and distributes low-budget movies.
Troma Entertainment was founded in 1974 by president Lloyd Kaufman and his friend Michael Hertz.
www.hoovers.com /troma/--ID__109119--/free-co-factsheet.xhtml   (319 words)

  
 ALL THE LOVE YOU CANNES (9046) from Troma Entertainment - Chumbo.com
For nearly 30 years, Lloyd Kaufman and the Troma Team have made their annual pilgrimage to this center of cinematic culture on a very low budget.
What was supposed to be a simple, straightforward educational exercise proved to be quite something else.
Watch the Troma team take on the elitist media conglomerates as the employees get punched out one night, then meet with big-time movie executives in suits the next day.
www.chumbo.com /Info.aspx?id=227665   (434 words)

  
 ToxicUniverse.com - Lloyd Kaufman, Troma Entertainment President - Blood, gore, big boobs, severed body parts, ...
President and co-founder of Troma Entertainment, Lloyd Kaufman was honored as the charter member of the International Horror & Sci-Fi Hall of Fame October 22, 2005 at its first annual film festival in Phoenix, Arizona.
That record may be in some jeopardy with his upcoming film Poultrygeist, which essentially takes the plot of Spielberg's Armistad and applies it to KFC with zombie chickens returning to seek vengeance.
Ever the businessman, he continually seeks filmmakers, scripts, and projects that fit into the Troma style of low budget work that contains a “commercial element” that appeals to the prime age group of 16 year olds to 30 year olds.
www.toxicuniverse.com /review.php?aid=1000485   (881 words)

  
 Pure Terror Goes Nation Wide
Columbus, OH (PRWEB) November 7, 2005 -- Cinema Lexzikon, a minority owned film company headquartered in Columbus, Ohio has announced that it and its partner, West Bridge Entertainment, have entered into an agreement with Troma Entertainment for domestic distribution of the post 9/11 movie: Pure Terror.
Getting a deal with a top grade distributor like Troma Entertainment let’s me know that those critics were wrong and I was right in pursuing this project.”
The story of a post 9/11 society that is obsessed with security, Pure Terror invokes images from other futuristic movies such as 1984.
www.emediawire.com /releases/2005/11/emw306400.htm   (451 words)

  
 Welcome to the Troma Archives | Troma Entertainment   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Sexy, shocking and senseless, "Beverly Kills" shows the sexual misadventures of a young gay couple who cross the path of Beverly Jackson, a sanity challenged, cross dressing terrorist cult leader with a screwball plot to blow up Hollywood.
New Media Entertainment is proud to present this Cannes screening.
All The Love You Cannes is the feature length documentary featuring the Troma Team at the Cannes Film Festival.
archives.troma.com /cannes2005   (337 words)

  
 Lloyd Kaufman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Terror Firmer - (Director / 1999 / Released / Troma Entertainment)
Terror Firmer - (Producer / 1999 / Released / Troma Entertainment)
Terror Firmer - (Larry Benjamin / 1999 / Released / Troma Entertainment)
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 Welcome to TOXICAVENGER.com! The Official Home of Toxie, the Toxic Avenger
Thanks for your support, and any inquiries or ideas should be sent to webmaster@toxicavenger.com!
April 10: Toxic Avenger the Novel is highly anticipated and Troma is gearing up for the big Toxie Release party!
Troma, Toxic Avenger, Toxic Crusaders and Toxie are trademarks and/or service marks which are the exclusive property of Troma Entertainment, Inc
www.toxicavenger.com   (115 words)

  
 Troma International Sales
TROMA ENTERTAINMENT, the oldest independent film studio in the world, has earned a global reputation as the standard bearer for truly independent cinema by making and distributing movies without compromise, without fear and without limits.
Many Troma classics are written, produced, and directed by the Troma Team, led by Troma co-founders Lloyd Kaufman and Michael Herz, including such films as TERROR FIRMER, TROMEO and JULIET, and the world famous TOXIC AVENGER series.
In addition, Troma acts as distributor for independent movies that larger studios would not handle without seriously compromising the film's integrity, such as Dario Argento's THE STENDHAL SYNDROME, and Trey Parker and Matt Stone's pre-South Park feature, CANNIBAL!
international.tromamovies.com /index2.html   (162 words)

  
 CITIZEN TOXIE (579235) from Troma Entertainment - Chumbo.com
CITIZEN TOXIE (579235) from Troma Entertainment - Chumbo.com
Citizen Toxie is TromaÆs most ambitious and successful movie.
Special introduction to the film by Lloyd Kaufman, President of Troma Entertainment and creator of the Toxic Avenger!
www.chumbo.com /Info.aspx?id=235386   (514 words)

  
 AnimeOnDVD.com >> Disc Reviews >> My Neighbor Totoro
Fox dubbed the Opening and Ending songs also, so there isn?t a trace of Japanese dialogue left.
This is the dub produced by Troma Pictures by Carl Macek.
The dialogue is clear, and the acting is quite good.
www.animeondvd.com /reviews2/disc_reviews/1811.php   (925 words)

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